"I'm absolutely stunned that so many are still buying it, in spite of the fact that there is no corroborating evidince other than some paranoid rambling."
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Well, all we have are competing testimonies to what you term an "extroardinary event."
That aside, the fact that so many believe it...so many who voted FOR Bush in both elections, shows you how much trust has been lost by the Bush administration with its core supporters on the issue of illegal immigration.
If it had been a story about how Bush is giving aid to Al Queda....then the outcome of that would have been completely different. The story likely would have been laughed off of FR instread creating the frenzy that the Minuteman story created.
People ought never become so emotionally invested in an issue that they throw aside common sense. :(