Posted on 05/25/2005 7:12:16 PM PDT by jdluntjr
Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen by SWARM the Minutemen Tuesday May 24, 2005 at 12:57 PM
SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit. // SWARM the Minutemen Invita gente desde todo el mundo quien estan contra la violencia racista a una el accion de Electronic Disturbance Theatre en el 27, 28 y 29 de Mayo, 2005 para un "virtual sit-in" el el sitio de web de los MinuteMen durante sus conferencia de "Unate para Pelear".
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SWARM the Minuntemen invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Read on for the Electronic Disturbance Theatre call to action.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
- “The New Colossus,” by the nineteenth-century American poet Emma Lazarus inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Dear sisters and brothers,
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) in solidarity with Swarm The MinuteMen action will hold a 3 Day Virtual Sit-In starting on May 27th to May 29th (2005) on the MinuteMen Project. We call on all you to join us and let the MinuteMen Project know that hard borders are alien in an age of global interdependence and to the ideals of liberty as a “golden door” that is open to all. An ideal that so many have died trying to reach.
To Join The Virtual Sit-In On Starting on May 27th Click: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Why we must swarm the MinuteMen:
For Víctor Nicolás Sánchez, Adolfo Pérez Hernández, Daniel Barrientos, Santos Orozco Aguilar, Raúl Hernández Soria, Sandra Edna Durán, Jesús Medina Contreras, Edgar Venegas Brambila, José Gutiérrez, Melquíades Gómez Baca, Martha Rivera García...
Myth Number 1: Immigrants take jobs away from Americans. Myth Number 2: Most immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy or treasury Myth Number 3: America is being overrun by immigrants. Myth Number 4: Immigrants aren’t really interested in becoming part of American society. Myth Number 5: Immigrants contribute little to American society.
Facts to dispel to these myths from the American Immigration Lawyers Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142
We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and children who have died crossing into “The Land of Liberty” since 1994 to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.
Who are the MinuteMen:
The MinuteMen are a non-governmental group of people vowing to patrol the US/Mexico border with guns in order to stop migrant people from crossing the border. They represent an intensification of the trend of violence towards migrant people and people of color that has increased since 9/11/2001. While they claim that they are not violent, their very use and display of deadly weapons is a violent act in itself. How can guns be used to detain people without being violent? Already there have been numerous reports of people being forced to lie on the ground by the MinuteMen and being forced to have their pictures taken with MinuteMen volunteers, recalling Abu Ghraib style dehumanization.
SWARM the MinuteMen Group Statement:
http://swarmtheminutemen.com/
While the MinuteMen publicly claim to be non-violent, we here at SWARM know a different face of the MinuteMen. We've received numerous death threats and threats of violence filled with racial slurs. We plan to publicly release these soon to let everyone know the exact kind of hatred the MinuteMen are acting as a lightning rod for, attracting it and focusing it towards migrant people.
Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration.
We are intervening into and dancing with the communication systems of the MinuteMen because along with the physical violence they are creating, they are extremely conscious of the violent power their messages have and they had any measure of success thanks to the complicity the corporate media. Their communications are a critical part of their mission to send a message to legislators that more militarization of the border is necessary. Their images and words can't be separated from the violence of their guns, and both must be stopped.
We refuse to support the United States government's attempts to find a scapegoat to blame this country's problems on while it bankrupts our social services, wages wars on the world, sends our brothers, sisters, friends and neighbors to die and profits off of the whole plan. Who stands to profit from a more militarized border? Will the same corporations that made billions in government contracts off of the war in Iraq like Halliburton and CACI be the same ones to profit from the war on the border?
We must stand together now to say that this country is made up of millions of people of many different ethnicities and cultures and that is due to migration. Migrant people have human rights, regardless of the government's and the racist's attempts to deny that fact. Until the United States has a sane immigration policy that allows people to move as freely as capital and goods do, we will continue to struggle.
Why should you join the Virtual Sit-In On May 27th 2005:
For Benito González Cruz, Benito González Serrano, Javier Rojas Bracamonte, Juan José Romo Zetina, José Luis Garza, Roberto Acegueda López, Román Robles Rojas, Reynaldo González Corona and the thousands of other people who have been murdered for simply trying to cross the border into what is now the United States and which was once Mexico.
Contact:
For any questions on the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s action in solidarity with SWARM the MinuteMen contact
Ricardo Dominguez (co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater) at rdom@thing.net
Electronic Disturbance Theater http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
See our site for more info: http://swarmtheminutemen.com or our mirror: http://www.autistici.org/swarmtheminutemen/
See our mirror sites to read our original content which our domain registrar forced us to remove: http://swarm.mahost.org/ http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/swarm/index.php
Have a virtual I give a crap?
These a**holes are going to cause some problems for the Minutemen. I wouldn't put it past them to set our guys up.
That, for starters, might be an idea.
Who in Hell are these nuts? Every deranged Leftist with a computer can start a "movement". I'm a heck of a lot more comfortable with the Minutemen than I am with the nuts from SWARM.
SWARM is the new intafada.
"racist violence"... these leftist nutjobs have lost it. "Violent" minutemen armed with cel phones and binoculars.
MINUTEMEN = PATRIOTS.
The operative word here is DOOR.
It does NOT say: "I lift my lamp beside the golden place where a wall used to be."
I agree .. these people are really scary.
Sounds like a veiled invitation to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) site cracker/hacker attack to me.
And the Left has just the kind of script kiddies to jump at the chance, from all over the globe.
Minutemen, get in touch with Steve Gibson, Gibson Research Corporation.
http://grc.com/default.htm
Yes...LEGALLY! Under RULES. And then MELT, DAMMIT!
SWARM them back. There're a heck of a lot more of us than there are of them.
Truth Number 1: Illegal Immigrants broke the law.
Truth Number 2: Every country on earth has control of its borders.
Truth Number 3: Illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens make up almost 50% of the grade school child population.
Truth Number 4: Illegal aliens make up as much as 25% of the prison population in California.
Truth Number 5: Illegal aliens have cost the the state of California billions of dollars in medical costs.
Truth Number 6: Illegal aliens have crowed the streets and highways.
Truth Number 7: Money, sent by illegal aliens to Mexico is now the largest source of revenue to Mexico.
Truth Number 8: Illegal Aliens have taken the majority of formerly union labor jobs.
Truth Number 9: Illegal aliens have lowered wages for the middle class in California
Truth Number 10: No emloyers hiring illegal aliens have been prosecuted in California in more than 5 years.
Man, I hope they bring some virtual weed.
illegal alien ping
If SWARM is a "new intifada" they would be well advised to stay out of Texas and the border areas in general. Somehow I think Americans living there are not too tolerant of being "SWARMED" by anyone; let alone by pro-illegal immigration activists.
The old Commie agitprop gambit. They need a good slogan. How about this? "The Minutemen must be destroyed as a class!"
"Just as important though, the MinuteMen are a clear result of the violent, us-versus-them mentality promoted by the Bush administration"
WTF?
Sounds like the Minutemen should have photo ID badges or the like so these scum can't infiltrate them on the border or pose as Minutemen to the press.
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