Heidi does Phoenix

Here's the latest indication that DC's oursourced Inquisition is expanding its power:

A Washington, D.C., advocacy group that pushes for less immigration - legal and illegal - wants to sit in on meetings with Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors and investigates hate activity across the U.S.

The Republic has reported Gordon is bringing the center's Heidi Beirich to help raise awareness about the presence of the state's hate groups, which the center says is on the rise. Beirich will meet with law-enforcement officials and the media Aug. 12-14.

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, wants his group to attend the meetings to "provide an alternative and more reliable analysis of the activities of those Americans who are fighting for stronger border controls," he wrote in a July 27 letter to Gordon.

The federation is one of the key immigration-reduction groups in the nation. The law center identifies it as a hate group, which Stein refutes.

Scott Phelps, the mayor's spokesman, said the federation, or anyone else for that matter, would not be allowed to sit in some briefings.

Stein should know better. Once the Inquisition secretly condemns someone as a heretic, there's no appeal. Further, the condemned are stripped of the right of participating in civic affairs. (One SPLC collaborator once proposed that SCV and UDC members should be prohibited from serving on juries.) And Stein wanted the opportunity to present his side? He doesn't have a "side"! Matters of politically correct doctrine are beyond reason and fact -- one does not "balance" the judgments of the enlightened elite with the ravings of an excommunicant.

Do you think Empress Heidi will alert the mayor about the threat posed by illegal immigrant gangs against blacks? Or are those radical extremists who want existing Federal immigration law enforced the real threat? The suspense is killing me.