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You can wish it is true all you want, but I was there and there was no anemic turnout. As has been stated on FR before, the MMP never expected all 1,000 volunteers to show up on the first day. Over the length of the entire month there will be a total of 1,000 or more volunteers taking part in the project. It is nowhere close to coming to a standstill, but is proving to be successful (I know, you're deeply saddened over this) and will spawn a number of similar Minuteman Projects all along the border. Funny how you can look at the entire article which mentions the attention that the project is bringing to the border and all you can focus on is some lie about the "anemic" turnout. Do you hold Free Republic to the same standard? Have you attacked Free Republic and its efforts for the anemic turnout at March for Justice II and the utter lack of media coverage or even updates on FR? No, I didn't think so. Nor should Free Republic be attacked as any effort, no matter how small, to secure the country, defend our freedoms, etc. should be given the credit it deserves.

In the first place this is an Editorial in the Houston Chronicle to which I subscribe.

In the second place I know you have been on the border and I have been reading your reports and have treated them with as much respect as due. Your spin is not obnoxious or absurd in its bravado.

Finally, I have no problem with demonstrations of any kind provided they are without threat or intimidation. Armed vigilantes are not by any definition a demonstration. They are a threat and a nuisance. Your contrary opinion is valid. You have not to my reading called anyone opposed to your position either a traitor or agent of a foreign power. You have my appreciation for remaining civil.

What my opinion of fundraisers and demonstrations in D.C. have to do with this is beyond me...but trust me, I know what you would like to hear and you won't be satisfied in that regard.

You may, if you wish invite me to another thread which discusses your concerns about other venues.

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In the first place this is an Editorial in the Houston Chronicle to which I subscribe.

I understand that. But it was you that repeated a passage and highlighted the portion about the alleged "anemic" turnout. Why would you have done that if you weren't attempting to disparage the efforts the Minuteman Project volunteers by highlighting a report of an "anemic" turnout?