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Here is an open letter sent to the FBI in Phoenix.

The following correspondence was mailed via U.S. Postal Service today to the FBI to
request help to preserve the civil rights of MMP volunteers and prospective volunteers:

TO: FROM:

SQUAD 12 JAMES W. GILCHRIST

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 22 VISTA DEL VALLE

201 EAST INDIANOLA ALISO VIEJO, CA. 92656

PHOENIX, AZ. 85012

March 25, 2005

Dear FBI,

I am one of the coordinators of the Minuteman Project, a grassroots organization of Americans who will assemble under the First Amendment in Cochise County, Arizona from April 1 through 30 to conduct a political protest and rally in support of the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. We will also spend much of that 30 day period observing, and reporting to the appropriate law enforcement agency, any suspected illegal activity where crossing over the U.S. international border into the United States is part of that illegal activity.

I am writing to complain that the ACLU has consistently attempted to interfere with the rights of the volunteers of the Minuteman Project to peaceably assemble in Arizona. Also, the ACLU has repeatedly used libelous and slanderous rhetoric to thwart the ability of U.S. citizens to assemble under the First Amendment, effectively dissuading some U.S. citizens from exercising their civil rights.

With the express purpose of depriving U.S. citizens of the rights to assemble and speak underthe First Amendment, I feel that the ACLU has maliciously engaged in consanguinity

(aka "McCarthyism") by its pejorative references to volunteers for the Minuteman Project

as "vigilantes" and as persons who are "taking the law into their own hands."

The ACLU's witch-hunt mentality has seriously eroded the ability of me, and several thousand other prospective participants, to freely assemble in Arizona under the First Amendment of the Constitution of The United States of America.

Through malicious harassment and intimidation, against U.S. citizens seeking to exercise their rights to freely assemble, including threats of arrest and law suits (for alleged acts that no one had committed, or intended to commit) the ACLU has effectively and illegally suppressed the civil rights of fellow citizens.

I am requesting that all legal remedies and protections available to preserve the civil rights under The Constitution of the United States of America to myself and those participating, or anticipating participation in, the Minuteman Project political rally and assembly, be provided.

Sincerely Yours,

James W. Gilchrist - The Minuteman Project [ Web site URL: www.minutemanproject.com ]

cc: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano

Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain

Arizona U.S. Senator Jon Kyl

California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

California U.S. Representative Christopher Cox

United States Department of Justice

thanks for posting that.

>>>as "vigilantes" and as persons who are "taking the law into their own hands." <<<

umm... is this not verbatim what Bush remarked the other day about them?

Thanks for posting that letter. The DOJ could bring RICO to bear on the ACLU for their activities in a number of areas IMHO.

Also, the ACLU has repeatedly used libelous and slanderous rhetoric to thwart the ability of U.S. citizens to assemble under the First Amendment, effectively dissuading some U.S. citizens from exercising their civil rights.

Ironic this militia group is complaining to the government (that it feels is failing its members) that the ACLU, in exercising its first amendment rights, is somehow infringing on theirs.