Update: My good friend was also at at the May Day events and has some fantastic video footage, which you can find at The Silent Majority No More. The rest of her coverage can be found at her website as well. More video from the day’s festivities can be found on Youtube.

As promised, today I will present the conclusion to American Rattlesnake’s May Day coverage, including the robust, sustained-and to our country’s enemies, deeply irritating-counter-protest staged by this website’s editor-in-chief in collaboration with New York Ice.

As you can see by the photo above, our critics-in this case, the feral, reflexively violent antifa thugs who met us at Foley Square-were not eager to be photographed. Whether that was out of concern for being identified by NYPD officers the next time they attempt to assault a peaceful assembly of dissident voices, or out of respect for the hundreds of visitors who would be forced to look at their faces in the following days is something I’ll  let you decide.

Fortunately, there were a few “anti-fascists” who I was able to detain for a brief snapshot. This young woman, for example, evokes memories of a young Faye Dunaway, perhaps after being hit with a tire iron. An arresting image, nonetheless.

This zaftig Mexican girl below was particularly aggrieved by my unobtrusive photography that day, although I can’t for the life of me discern why. After bombarding me with some choice expletives for several minutes, she was gently escorted beyond police barricades by some NYPD officers and asked to remove her  jaunty black bandana/face-mask.

At this point, the street theater they were attempting-by ripping signs from the hands of counter-protesters, showering us with abuse, and generally acting like ignoramuses-descended into farce, as the well-fed IA began to weep like a  young child whose favorite plaything has been ripped from her arms.

Even though these photos might lead you to  believe there was a sarin or mustard gas attack upon Foley Square, the truth is that the nose-holding and face-covering is merely part of the theatrical element antifa crybabies brought to the fore during their ridiculous posturing that day. I think you can judge its effectiveness by the look on the face of the Muslim man pictured below.

As entertaining as the black-clad anarchists were, there was also much amusement to be found throughout the rally, including on stage. The African-American gentleman in the background is, ironically enough, named Clarence Thomas. Leader of the radical International Longshore & Warehouse Union-Local 10, he was joined on stage by the afternoon’s emcee, who spent the better part of two hours explaining why her organization had decided to hold two separate rallies which were both ended prematurely.

I AM ASKED WHY WE DECIDED TO HOLD TWO RALLIES, AND MY ANSWER IS…BECAUSE…!

The last declamation was followed in short order by a tangent having absolutely no bearing on the ostensible reason for staging this rally. In other words, even the people who organized this event had absolutely no clue why they were there in the first place. I wish I could say I was surprised by this revelation.

There were also some festive people in Indian, or as the politically correct stewards of speech would say “indigenous,” dress doing a rain dress which was strangely ineffective.

And of course, what illegal alien friendly event would be complete without someone spouting completely inaccurate, misleading statistics that are easily debunked?

Thankfully, on this day the masses of pro-amnesty, anti-American, revanchist reds were confronted by a group of Americans, some of them immigrants themselves, who saw the need to assert their views amidst the cacophony of stridently anti-American voices. Although initially outnumbered, we stood our ground and endured to the end, even outlasting the loud, obnoxious, but morally bankrupt forces that had tried to colonize Foley Square that afternoon.

My favorite part of the day, bar none, was when a group of hostile illegal aliens and socialists attempted to heckle us into submission but were silenced once we withdrew our driver’s licenses and photo identification. When we asked them where their papers were, accompanied by the chorus to the great 1980s Genesis tune, Illegal Alien, we were greeted with shame-faced silence and dumb stares. A small victory, it was nevertheless an  extremely gratifying moment.

Joanna Marzullo, president of New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement, expresses her point of view. You can find video coverage of her part in the counter-demonstration on Youtube.

Even in the Big Apple, there are people who stand with Arizona, as this past May Day demonstrated.

The lesson to be drawn from this event, IMO, is that no matter how outnumbered you might feel when fighting the hordes of radical, open borders crusaders, there are always people willing to stand by your side when you defend basic American values.

I just wanted to highlight some of the important news developments that have occurred over the course of the past month as the Senate debated the recently defeated DREAM Act.

First off, the Supreme Court-minus Justice Elana Kagan, who’s recused herself due to conflicts that might arise from her work as the Obama adminstration’s former Solicitor General-has taken up a case that challenges the Legal Arizona Workers Act. Having been implemented on the first day of 2008, and upheld on appeal, the law allows local prosecutors, after a formal, conclusive investigation, to charge any employer who knowingly employs illegal aliens under this statute.  If convicted, the employer is subjected to a series of penalties. That employer is also forced to use E-Verify to ensure that all of his or her employees are legally authorized to work there.

This case is crucial to our continuing struggle to end the flow of illegal immigration into the United States. Whereas detaining and deporting illegals at the border is a reactive policy, which does not prevent long term illegal migration and settlement in this country, interior enforcement that focuses on punishing those who profit from illegal immigration is a long term, proactive way of deterring further illegal immigration. Without access to jobs, or the money that those jobs create and which allows illegal immigrants to send remittances back to their home country-one of the largest sources of income for the Mexican government-the number of illegal aliens living in this country will decrease. That will in turn have a multiplier effect, as foreign nationals who were planning on comingCi this country reconsider their decision based upon the diminished number of job opportunities for them when they arrive in the United States. Regardless of how this case is ultimately decided, the fact that we will soon have a definitive decision governing how some unscrupulous employers in this country contract business is a step forward.

Another story that continues to grab headlines, but which unfortunately has not been connected to the anarchic situation unfolding on our southern border by our hopelessly biased press organs, is the escalating, narco-fueled violence taking place in Mexico. Perhaps nothing illustrates this wave of terror more than the recent milestone marked in Ciudad Juarez, which just recorded its three-thousandth homicide of 2010. To put this horrific number in perspective, consider for a moment that my own city of New York was thought “ungovernable” during the nadir of the Dinkins administration, which saw just over 2,000 homicides committed per annum. Despite the absurd assertions by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, no one living here is convinced that the border is secure, and the news from Juarez merely reinforces what everyone who is not an open borders zealot already knows.

Finally, in yet another example of judicial activism run amok, a federal judge has ruled that the ineffectual and ineffective former chief of ICE in the Bush administration, Julie Myers, can be sued for potentially infringing upon the constitutional rights of illegal aliens who were rounded up in a series of home raids in the city of New Haven, a santuary city. This is yet another demonstration of judicial excess which needs to be corrected. One of the chief reasons that illegal aliens have been allowed to live and thrive in the United States is the continued support they receive from our federal judiciary, whether it comes in the form of allowing illegals to pursue their education on the taxpayer’s dime, or-as in this case-forcing federal immigration enforcement agencies to not do their job. This is one area that needs to be addressed if we are ever to hope for any sustained immigration enforcement in this country.