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Did "Hate Group" Write Immigration Law in Virginia?

The latest 9500 Liberty video examines an important question facing the residents of Prince William County, VA -- and, really, facing all Americans: How susceptible are our local governments to infiltration by Washington DC lobbying firms like Federation for American Immigration Reform ( FAIR)? FAIR is considered by many experts to be a hate group, so when it began to surface last year that lawyers from FAIR may have written the Immigration Resolution that created social unrest and now economic hardship in a once proud and prosperous county, many residents felt intruded upon.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbjrk0QWqw The video was shot primarily on Dec. 14th at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing where I testified to a link between FAIR and Help Save Manassas -- an assertion that was denied by Help Save Manassas President and Black Velvet Bruce Li operator Greg Leteicq. He was so angry and insistent that I had wronged him that I notified the Civil Rights Commission that my assertion was strongly disputed and I could not corroborate it at this time.

The next day we released our first Washington Post Outlook video, which we had been working on that week. We intended our second Washington Post video to look into the question of FAIR's link to Help Save Manassas. We did not release the video, "Anchor Baby" = Hate Speech, until Jan. 4, in part because we had been waiting for an interview with Dan Stein, the President of FAIR. As you can guess from the video above, we waited all afternoon into the evening on December 19th. We tried over the next few weeks to reschedule, but Mr. Stein was fully into Republican Primary mode (supporting Tancredo first and then Romney). When we did release the "Anchor Baby" = Hate Speech, video, we avoided showing or mentioning Mr. Stein and FAIR because we were still hoping to get an interview and didn't want to anger him as we had Mr. Letiecq. Although we have yet to interview Mr. Stein, we decided to release the video today because arguments over whether FAIR was indeed the author of the Resolution have been boiling over in the town square and on the internet with the rapid success of the new PWC-based blog AntiBVBL.net.

Looking back at my testimony, I must admit it was inaccurate to say that Help Save Manassas is a "local franchise" of FAIR. I take Mr. Hethmon's word that he only became involved after the group was started and the word "franchise" does not convey as much. I apologize for my mistake.

Finally, 9500 Liberty's YouTube channel has a Playlist with more from the Civil Rights Commission hearing from which this video derives.

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Eric Byler, filmmaker, director of "Charlotte Sometimes," "9500 Liberty," "Tre," and "Americanese"

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