Minuteman furor puts border woes in spotlight

Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | December 21, 2005

[SwinneySwitch]

"But he also concedes that there are members who are extremist neither in their views nor their actions."

Who would have thought it?(/S)

[Fenris6]

The presence along the U.S. border of uninvited volunteer monitors inspires misgivings - and underlines a crisis.

Sure, thats my hot-button issue. All those pesky Americans wandering around the national border... if we don't do something soon the illegals might stop invading our country and then what?

[Fenris6]

One observer, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, suggests "there are real strains of racism and anti-Semitism in this movement."

Oh bull. I could just as easily say that "there are real strains of bestiality and necrophila in Mark Potok's closet". Nice reporting, shill.

[DumpsterDiver]

(More than mildly worrisome, however, is the fact that some - not all - of the volunteers pack firearms.)

To date, there have been no instances of Minuteman volunteers touching off bloody altercations along the border. But their interventions remain an irritant to drug and alien smugglers.

One biased observer, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, suggests "there are real strains of racism and anti-Semitism in this movement."

For some actual "strains of racism and anti-Semitism", please see aztlan.net.

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What a load of tripe!

[gubamyster]

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[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!

[Salgak]

Gee, they're an IRRITANT.

I forgot, where exactly does the Right to Not Be Irritated come from ???

[SwinneySwitch]

Minuteman Ping!

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[Texas WOP]

Ahhhh.... My city fishwrap.

[msnimje]

The Minutemen are doing exactly what they wanted to do, shine a spotlight in the border crisis.

[janetgreen]

(More than mildly worrisome, however, is the fact that some - not all - of the volunteers pack firearms.)

The REAL worrisome fact is that drug smugglers and human smugglers are also packing firearms, and so are the Mexican military, and they don't hesitate to use them!

I guess they want us disarmed to make this invasion even easier for them.

Mexico is making America sick.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

They took that quote from a recent AP article called "Vigilante Anti-Immigration Group Gaining".

[chicagolady]

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[sean327]

One observer, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, suggests "there are real strains of racism and anti-Semitism in this movement."

What the hell? Are we being over run by Mexican Israelies?
I had no clue that the coyotes spoke Yiddish. Mr Potok needs to quit looking for the boggeyman amoung the Minute Man Project, and start looking in his own Socialist/Progressive/Communist circle.

[ROTB]

Up to now, we've muddled along, looking the other way as illegal aliens arrive to take the low-paying, back-breaking jobs the vast majority of American citizens neither want nor will take.


Teenagers used to do this very work as a rite of passage into adulthood. *Now* what?

[muawiyah]

How is it out of state "civil libertarians" and out of country "Hispanic activists" have an "interest" but the American citizens working with the Minuteman movement are "uninvited" to come near their own national borders?

Without reading the rest of the article I get the idea the writer is a pantload. Was I wrong?

[TLI]

inspires misgivings - and underlines a crisis.

Minuteman activists have no business shouldering their way into an extremely sensitive mission.

More than mildly worrisome, however, is the fact that some - not all - of the volunteers pack firearms

But their interventions remain an irritant

driven by a xenophobic mentality

strains of racism and anti-Semitism

the enormous cost of bringing those borders under control

jobs the vast majority of American citizens neither want nor will take

we can't, and shouldn't, look to the Minuteman Project

All the sniffling runny-nose wimp bogeyman buzzwords and catch-phrases one has become accustomed to from anything from the communist agenda liberals. The Minuteman Project model works very well and is EXACTLY where we should be looking.

[DuncanWaring]

The presence along the U.S. border of uninvited volunteer monitors inspires misgivings -...

But somehow they've got no complaints about "uninvited volunteer border-crossers".

[SwinneySwitch]

In South Texas, the Minutemen were invited there by the ranchers whose private lands are being monitored.

On the other hand, the thousands of illegal aliens who march across these same lands were not invited and are illegal trespassers. Too bad if they are "irritated" by the Minutemen.

I do think a little bias leaked out into the print. One thing I don't understand is how the Minutemen could organize "impromptu" border monitoring operations?!;^)