Posted on 07/27/2005 8:04:42 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
WESLACO Minutemen may face more opposition in South Texas. Members of the Brown Berets were in town Wednesday to spread a message.
The group of militant Chicanos popular back in the 1960s said their group is still active in the Rio Grande Valley, addressing perceived threats to the Mexican-American community...
Members of Hidalgo Countys Democratic Party who also oppose the Minuteman Project welcomed the Brown Berets with open arms.
"They communicated to me there sincere intent in organized confrontation a physical confrontation against the minutemen,' said the county's Democratic party chairman Juan Maldonado.
[important note: from the video, here's the exact quote: "They have communicated with me their sincere interest in organizing a confrontation... a physical confrontation against the minutemen"]
Beret leader Delgado said the group does not get physical unless it have to -- but he has been shot twice. That, he said, is the reason members no longer wear the famed berets...
(Excerpt) Read more at krgv.com ...
No surprise to me. A lot of the elite would love to have one of these projects fail due to a violent confrontation. They desparately tried to stoke the MS-13 here in Arizona, for example. Then there were those whackos with the site we freeped who were teaching people how to sabotage the individual minutemen.
On another note...it appears as if this gang is openly racist in nature. The cynic in me thinks that if another ethnic group tried to pull this off, they would be dogged by the press and probably harassed by the Feds as well.
This ought to play rather well against the earlier anti-MMP article suggesting racist tendencies within the Texas chapter, a claim that I believe to largely be poppycock. At minimum, it shows that there are nuts on both sides.
You're right, though. The Texas Dems will try and clarify but will not back down. They think (wrongly) that this is the ticket to the so-called Hispanic vote. I think this is the wrong approach, and it disappoints me to to end to see various GOP elements going this route as well.
Possible Ping. Looks like MS-13 in AZ redux to me, though.
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A racist message.
That needs to be REPEATED!
He WELCOMES "phyical threat" against the MinuteMen and yet the MinuteMen have not posed a "physical threat" to anyone.
I hope everyone remembers the guy's statements, his name and that he's encouraging threatening behavior to and about American citizens, and for racial characteristics (against everyone who is NOT "Hispanic" and/or "brown", I guess the point is).
People like this in elected office...very grim statement about whoever it is who voted them into office.
However, border security is, for the umpteenth time stated here, about securing our borders on behalf of citizens against invading forces. It's not about policing the U.S. for racial characteristics that fail to fit into foreign interests' ideas as to who "should" be in the U.S.
Citizenship and defending citizens is what our border security is supposed to be all about. Anyone -- and that includes "brown" people (their word, not mine) -- who thinks it's fine and dandy to exercise physical threats against citizens is a problem.
Yeah, you are so right about that!
I'm always curious why "Hispanics" aren't reminded, generally and specifically, just WHY they left, or thier ancestors left, wherever they originated.
Those from Mexico, distantly and nearly, as have those from Central and South America, left those areas because of bad conditions, governments who were not reliable, lack of general opportunties, social conditions run amok, abuse of natural resources, lack of decent housing, limited resources across the board.
And then, ask them what it is that is worth defending about where they are now, when compared with where they originated, or their ancestors did.
And then ask, why in the world would ANYone want to malign ANYone who wants to protect where they are now?
Were they not maligned and often attacked without reliable law enforcement and governmental representation/recourse in the locations where they originated?
And, why would they want to defend or even accommodate anyone who would try to replicate those conditions in the U.S.?
IF they don't want to recreate, even allow the idea of recreating, in the U.S. the conditions -- socially and materially -- that they left behind, then don't allow these sort of bandito-level hostilities to reoccur here.
Protecting and defending our borders is everyone's responsibility and is no more irresponsible than is not doing so. Illegal immigration hurts everyone.
We need pictures of the "famed" Brown (star) Berets.
So, this is what the Mexicans want huh?
Well, Well,...We the People need to let THEM and GEORGE BUSH know who exactly this Country belongs to.
Here in Texas there are lines you just don't cross..and people you just don't want to "call out".
Hang 'em High!
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Because even in the southwestern desert blood is thicker than water, at least to these guys. I always get a good chuckle when people talk about the great american "melting pot".
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