Get used to it, Prez. This patriotic group will continue to grow, and your false characterizations of them will only serve to strengthen their ranks.
He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law.
The Stupid Party strikes again. The RINO wing of the GOP - the establishment - appears utterly committed to a Hillary victory in '08.
"I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America," Mr. Bush said
Either the Prez doesn't know the meaning of the word 'vigilante' - a distinct possibility - or he's completely ignorant of the methods and stated goals of the MMP. The Minutemen aren't taking the law into their own hands, they're using the "weapons" of binoculars, cell phones, and walkie talkies to alert the Border Patrol to any suspicious activity (illegals crossing the border). That's not vigilantism.
"I'm for enforcing the law in a rational way."
Then why haven't you been doing it? Had you been doing so, there would be no need for the MMP.
The president's 2006 budget allows enough money to add only 210 agents for the U.S. borders
Yet the budget allows for untold U.S. taxpayer billions to nations that both despise us and turn a blind eye to terrorist organizations within their borders.
Absolutely correct. I (and the world) saw Bush and Fox
on Lou Dobbs last night when he called the Minutemen
"vigilantes". Another Bush malapropism! A vigilante is one
who takes the law into his own hands. Not only are they
not doing this but they are upholding a great American
tradition - the right to self-defense. Bush is the one
who has made our out-of-control border area LAWLESS!
He has decimated the border security guard force and is
encouraging what the illegals have brought to this nation:
bankrupt school districts, insolvent hospitals, and
higher taxes for social welfare services and prison
incarceration. And - a threat to national security. As
I have said many times, if terrorists come across the
border among the millions of illegals he will be CRIMINALLY
NEGLIGENT. He refuses to defend the borders of this
country against foreign invasion. So - when the Minutemen
try to protect their lives and property against anarchy
created by Bush they are doing what any American should
do -- defending themselves because the duly constituted
authorities have forfeited their responsibility to do
so.