Casa de Maryland is an ECBO

I bet you are saying, huh?

Yesterday I told you about Republican gubernatorial candidate  Bob Ehrlich’s wiggly position on public funding of Casa de Maryland, a supposed non-profit group in Maryland, which claims to be helping struggling Hispanic immigrants assimilate to life in America.   Ehrlich claimed that as long as that is all they are doing, it’s fine to give them your tax dollars.  I then said this at the end of my post:

Taxpayers of Maryland should be asking a more fundamental question:  No matter what the mission of Casa de Maryland, why are we using tax dollars to fund any quasi-non-profit group that takes funding from foreign enemies of the US and is busy lobbying against the interests and majority opinion of Maryland citizens?

Today I need to explain in more detail why I said that.  I think it’s important for readers to see the overarching strategy of ECBOs, like Casa, even if this gets a little wonkish.  In government lingo, ECBO stands for Ethnic Community Based Organization.   Think of ECBOs as mini-ACORNs.  You all know about ACORN by now—its a group whose strategy is to teach the supposedly underprivileged (society’s “have-nots”) how to tap into the welfare system (and get goodies from the “haves”), all the while doing political organizing as well (you know like Obama did with DEMOCRATIC voter registration etc. in Chicago).    The brains behind the original ACORN was ’60’s radical and friend of Bill Ayers, Wade Rathke, and others of his ilk.

Their basic concept (Alinsky, Rules for Radicals) is that in order to bring “change” one must keep communities in constant turmoil with the “have-nots” in a war with the “haves.”    Cloward and Piven also were in on the act with their promotion of the theory, which basically calls for overwhelming the welfare system by placing huge demands on cities and states thereby forcing the federal government to take greater and greater control of America’s welfare system (and us).   The ultimate aim of course is to take America to a socialist (some say communist) form of government.

I know it’s hard to wrap one’s mind around especially if you are a conservative.  They know that if we live in peaceful Norman Rockwell-like communities we aren’t going to be willing to accept change. Keeping us in turmoil and crisis is the goal.  Racial discord is something they seek.

My theory is that as more and more people in the 50’s and 60’s entered the middle class with kids off to college or military (and thus to patriotism), bought a home with two cars in the garage, they (the Alinskyites) were losing their so-called army of “poor people.”   Enter the immigrants.   The (legal and illegal) immigrants are the pawns in a larger game.   The Far Left wants a borderless world, they want reliable Democratic voters and ruling class Republicans want a large pool of cheap labor for their business friends.

If you are confused, as I was initially,  as to why big businesses should join the likes of church groups (see this list from last August) and other supposed grassroots human rights (Ha! Ha! note Casa is in this list) groups in support of amnesty, look to the labor issue.  Additionally, both Republican big businesses and Democratic ones have learned to use government to out-compete their competitors.  Jonah Goldberg writing in Liberal Fascism calls this “corporatism.“ These big businesses know that it’s no longer about a purely capitalist system, it’s about how to function within a socialist one, or more accurately a corporatist one.

Enough of that, back to ECBOs

If the government, both federal and state, were serious about taxpayer funding being needed to help new immigrants assimilate, this could all be done with multi-ethnic government offices in major areas where immigrants had concentrated.  (Remember the great waves of early 20th century immigrants to the US didn’t require assimilation funds or welfare for that matter. )

The Far Left and governments are funneling millions of your tax dollars to ECBOs—each one is as the name implies only for their own kind of people—there are Somali ECBOs, Hmong ECBOs, Bosnian ECBOs and like Casa de Maryland ones geared to Hispanic immigrants.   Each gets federal grants (and state grants) for the noble sounding goal of helping their people learn the language and find the “resources” they need in their respective cities.  Resources of course meaning what they are entitled to get from government (you).   Here is a list of ECBOs receiving funds from the Dept. of Health and Human Services, just as an example.  There are myriad other grants from places like the Justice Department (funny, isn’t that where Casa’s Perez went!).

By the way, although largely funded with your tax dollars, the ECBOs are non-profit groups and thus immune from any type of freedom of information request or state public information request.

When anything political occurs involving “their people” the ECBO serves as the voice of “their people” in the political arena.  Some, like Casa de Maryland then go on to lobby for “their rights” and more funding to continue asking for more stuff for “their people.”   They keep communities in crisis and discord between races and ethnic groups alive.

You are paying for not only their stuff (like Casa now wants rent controls in “their” neighborhoods) but political organizing against you.

And, then here is the kicker, it is all legal and politicians in the ruling class, like Bob Ehrlich, can get off the hook by saying, well, as long as it’s legal and Casa is doing the ‘noble’ work of assimilating “their people” he is o.k. with your money going to them.

It is a racket, pure and simple!  I’ll give Ehrlich the benefit of the doubt about whether he gets that or not.