I posted your quote.
There is no doubt to anyone that W was talking about the MMP....nonewhatsoever.
I bet if I mine carefully I can find where many here including maybe even you used W's remarks at that time to discredit the Minutemen.
There were some purges of some folks around here at that time. Several of whom a few years ago I viewed as alarmist .
Well, THEY WERE RIGHT. I WAS WRONG.
AND I APOLOGIZE FOR MY OWN VIEWS 4-6 years ago on this...if they are watching.
I can't speak for others poster
I will say .. when the project first started there were many concerns about the minuteman project because there were certain groups who wanted to get involved because they wanted to cause troubles ... there was talk about shooting illegals coming over the boarder
In fact .. AT THE TIME .. there were also a number of congresscritters who didn't jump on board right away because they too had concerns regarding this reports/stories
SINCE THAT TIME .. from what I've read ... the leaders of the Minutemen project have done the best they can to keep out the troublemakers and to make it a legit boarder watch
That was all my point was .. some here are mixing what happen then to what is happening now ..
Oh, they did. Right here on Free Republic. Posting about the Minuteman Project right up until the April 1 start date got a number of people banned. The Minuteman Project was attacked right here by people who used the President's statement against us. I am the one who started, carefully, posting about the Minuteman Project activities after the operation started and somehow I got away with it. A few others joined in, but they had to walk a thin line, because the President, the congressional Republicans, and the RNC were very negative or even openly hostile to the Minuteman Project.