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.
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.