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JUST A MINUTE Minutemen Project dangerous but puts focus on immigration policy
Houston Chronicle ^ | April 7, 2005, 8:26PM | Editorial

Posted on 04/09/2005 7:03:51 AM PDT by harrowup

A Houstonian armed to the teeth stands atop his pickup truck in the Arizona desert. He wishes to deter illegal immigrants from Mexico, but he and his confederates will fail. Border Patrol officials said some civilian observers set off motion detectors, complicating rather than aiding the agency's mission.

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To: Spiff
Because the 'dog and pony show' organizers claimed at first to have had 2000 volunteers and by the time the registrations began, they said 500 then 400 then registering ten at a time and when the count was finally made you had less than 100 the first weekend...and then continued to restate the actual start date...and forgot to mention the twelve people who showed up for Babe Buchanan's Blatant Biddy Bitch session.

Of course I am trying to find fault with the project. It is a joke. A dangerous joke. That is my opinion. You have a different opinion, and your asides do not do anything to increase my interest in trying to believe you are either sincere or objective.

61 posted on 04/09/2005 1:16:06 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: harrowup
Because the 'dog and pony show' organizers claimed at first to have had 2000 volunteers and by the time the registrations began, they said 500 then 400 then registering ten at a time and when the count was finally made you had less than 100 the first weekend...and then continued to restate the actual start date...and forgot to mention the twelve people who showed up for Babe Buchanan's Blatant Biddy Bitch session.

I hope some of the folks from the border gang were better at estimating the night club girls weight than they are at counting heads that reported for duty.

62 posted on 04/09/2005 1:17:58 PM PDT by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: harrowup
Because the 'dog and pony show' organizers claimed at first to have had 2000 volunteers and by the time the registrations began, they said 500 then 400 then registering ten at a time and when the count was finally made you had less than 100 the first weekend...and then continued to restate the actual start date...and forgot to mention the twelve people who showed up for Babe Buchanan's Blatant Biddy Bitch session.

You're spreading more lies.

The truth:
No one every claimed 2000 volunteers.

There have been over 450 people already involved in the MMP in the first week alone.

I helped register the MMP volunteers and there were well over 100 registered in the first few hours.

The start dates never slipped. Everything has been occuring on schedule.

The orientation session wherein Bay Buchanan, Tom Tancredo, and others spoke had to be held three times. The room it was held in could only seat about 90 people. Each session was full. Do the math. And don't try to say it was media packing the sessions as very few media were allowed in and certainly weren't allowed to sit in the seats meant for the volunteers.

Bay Buchanan is not a b***h and you have a foul mouth.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

It is understandable that you disagree with the intent of the project and its operation. You are free to do so. However, the constant lying, namecalling, and such is not doing your side any favors. Of course, that's really all you have to go on.

63 posted on 04/09/2005 1:25:27 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: mthom
...Do you support any limitation on immigration? Any border security? Youre not really in the ACLU are you?

Fair questions all to which the answer is yes, of course. I am also a Democrat who just doesn't like what has happened to my party and the racial hatred it encourages with the likes of Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton among others.

The Republican Party used to be the party of Lincoln. The way Tancredo and his ilk go on about the U.S.A./Mexico Border almost makes me ill.

The problem of illegals in this country is not limited to migrant workers from Mexico...or even the killers and drug dealers from Mexico there are thousands of Chinese, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Korean, Vietnamese and Irish illegals and practically every damn student visa jerk from the UK and Africa is going to cheat and become an illegal...

Here is the bottom line for me:
A couple of yahoos from California
who go to Arizona/Mexico Border
to bitch about illegal immigration
who are mainly Buchanalites
confirms for me
that this is a racist campaign against Mexico

64 posted on 04/09/2005 1:26:36 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: Spiff
You have no idea what you're talking about.

Because it had to be repeated. In bold.

65 posted on 04/09/2005 1:26:40 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Spiff

You have lost my respect for your temperance.


66 posted on 04/09/2005 1:29:10 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: harrowup
You have lost my respect for your temperance.

Whatever. I told the truth, you lied. You called Bay Buchanan a b***h. I didn't call you a traitor or agent of the Mexican government, I didn't call you names, I didn't even hit the abuse button over your obscenity. I'm not trying to earn your respect but trying to counter the lies and such coming from you and your ilk.

67 posted on 04/09/2005 1:33:21 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: ClintonBeGone; Spiff
What I find really interesting is that Spiffy seems to be having a heart attack because I'm on his threads like a MMK is on a Mexican, yet he has the gal to come pollute your own thread. From Tancredo on down, I really think the other side has no concept of hypocracy.

I had originally thought that Spiff was at least a level headed honest observer. I was wrong.

Spiff?

This is only a courtesy ping since I am confirming that unless you change your tone with me you are going to be ignored.

68 posted on 04/09/2005 1:33:37 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: harrowup
Well now; for starters, anytime I hear a French speaker on the street or in a bar, I ask to see their papers

Oh, so you hang out with the French. That explains everything about you....and why your so pathetic.

69 posted on 04/09/2005 1:39:21 PM PDT by Bommer
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To: harrowup
MMP

Here's the problem. Instead of the "Minute Man Project," it should have been called the "Million Man Project." Then the media could have reported that hundreds of thousands were involved.

70 posted on 04/09/2005 1:39:23 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: harrowup
that this is a racist campaign against Mexico

And that is what is all boils down to. You think we're all a bunch of racist yahoos.

For one, we're not.

Secondly, what "race" would we be "racist" against if we were to engage in a "racist" campaign against Mexico. What "race" is represented by Mexico, exactly?

Let see, most in Mexico are of Spanish descent. What "race" are the Spanish? Oh, they're European. Hmmm...Spanish is an ethnicity like Italian or French - not a race. Mexican? No, that's a nationality, not a race. Indian? Let's explore that a bit. Many in Mexico are a mix of Spanish and Indian and, you know what, the wealthy elite hate the Indians and anyone of their descent. If anything, the wealthy elite of Mexico are the racists, not the people who want to uphold the laws and secure our borders in a post 9/11 world during a time of war against terrorism. So, your charges of racism are ridiculous at best.

And, to put it bluntly, are you calling ME a racist?

71 posted on 04/09/2005 1:41:46 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: Ben Ficklin; ClintonBeGone
Geesh;

These guys have no decency what-so-ever.

I wrote to Spiff who misrepresented my statements to call me a liar so that he could object to my namecalling...which he created:

harrowup wrote:.."You have lost my respect for your temperance."

to which Spiff replied:... Whatever. I told the truth, you lied. You called Bay Buchanan a b***h.

Lie; I have a much better term for Pat's sister. But I didn't call her a bitch. I said she had a Biddy Bitch session. I guess ol' Spiff never has been in the service and doesn't know what a bitch session is.

I didn't call you a traitor or agent of the Mexican government, I didn't call you names, I didn't even hit the abuse button over your obscenity. I'm not trying to earn your respect but trying to counter the lies and such coming from you and your ilk."

I told him I was pleased he had never called me such which was why I respected his reports. He has now called me a liar so many times I won't count, and won't bother to read his crap anymore...and a bitch session isn't an obscenity.

72 posted on 04/09/2005 1:46:10 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: harrowup
Border Patrol officials said some civilian observers set off motion detectors, complicating rather than aiding the agency's mission.

This is stupid. So how do they distinguish against things like wild animals (e.g. deer, elk, wild pigs, etc?) - that's a straw man. If the motion detectors only set up to detect vehicles then the motion detectors are pretty much useless for people who choose a stealthier method.

73 posted on 04/09/2005 1:46:29 PM PDT by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: Bommer
...why your so pathetic.

No, that is why you're so pathetic.

Tea he

74 posted on 04/09/2005 1:50:49 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: harrowup

Come on Harrowup those who are concerned about illegal immigration give most attention to the southern border because the vast majority of illigal aliens come into the country from there. If between 250-500 thousand canadians were coming into this country illegaly every year there would be a Minuteman like group on the norther border. Hell, if illegal Canadians were coming in in those numbers, ID be there myself.


75 posted on 04/09/2005 1:53:33 PM PDT by mthom
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To: mthom

But maybe thats just me. Canadian socialism is far more vociferous than Mexican socialism.


76 posted on 04/09/2005 1:55:06 PM PDT by mthom
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To: harrowup
On one point you are correct that there are millions of illegal immigrants who are overstayed their visas and many of them are from Europe. For example there are tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Ireland who live in Boston.

Anti-Mexican racism is playing a huge part in the miserable failing attempt that some groups like MMP and others are trying to stir against illegal immigration from Mexico. Soon enough they will find out that they are less significant than a fart in a storm.

On the other hand are you really a member of the ACLU? If so how can you belong to this most anti-Christian organization in the country? The ACLU is a very destructive organization and it can do thousands of time more harm than the MMP because they have a vast power of influence in the out of control judicial branch.

77 posted on 04/09/2005 2:01:36 PM PDT by jveritas
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To: mthom
There are far more illegals in this country who were admitted as legals and many of them come in from Canada and Miami and Newark and Los Angeles and SeaTac.

Do you have any idea how many illegal 'legal' temporary Polish ladies there are in Chicago doing housework?

This vigilante activity on the Arizona/Mexico border is blatant bigotry.

78 posted on 04/09/2005 2:01:47 PM PDT by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: mthom

The Candians and Western Europeans can come here legally because they do not need a visa, but they stay and work here "illegaly".


79 posted on 04/09/2005 2:05:25 PM PDT by jveritas
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To: mthom

" Canadian socialism is far more vociferous than Mexican socialism"

It's apparent that you nothing about Mexico, their system of government borders on communism and makes Canada look like pikers!


80 posted on 04/09/2005 2:05:50 PM PDT by dalereed
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