Keeping the trust is the first order (Minutemen-Simcox)

Jewish World Review ^ | July 28, 2006 | Wesley Pruden

[Anti-Bubba182]

The first thing a Minuteman has to learn is to keep his powder dry. The bigger the powder magazine, the bigger the risk of getting it all wet.

This is the lesson that Chris Simcox, the president of the volunteers on the border, who have almost single-handedly aroused the nation's conscience about the tide of illegal immigration, seems to have missed in basic training.

The "powder" is the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Americans have contributed to the Minutemen, who have been exceedingly helpful to the U.S. Border Patrol. The careful, rigorous reporting of Jerry Seper in The Washington Times reveals that the Minutemen management has not made its records of fundraising and finances public in more than a year, raising the hackles and suspicions of several top Simcox aides. Some of them have resigned, protesting the loose management of the money...."[snip]

"... All the more reason that Chris Simcox and his lieutenants must account for the money and explain what the Declaration Alliance, the grandly named political public-relations firm in Herndon, has done with the money it has collected and disbursed in the name of the Minutemen. The Declaration Alliance is the creation of Alan Keyes, the smooth-talking conservative activist and sometime pol, and is meant to provide mass mailings, public relations and "a fully accredited and independent audit." So far no one in the Minutemen management has said how much has been paid to the Declaration Alliance, and what the Minutemen got for the money...."

[EternalVigilance]

Hey now! You already anointed me Oz! :-)

[MikefromOhio]

Bull$hit. You would love to see them crumble.

You know, I've made 27,701 comments (27,702 responding to your latest allegation that you won't be able to prove) in my time here on FR, yet you won't find ONE comment where I say I want the MinuteMen to "crumble". Funny how you would then accuse me of something that is shown to NOT be in existance.

[Torie]

Wow, you are getting just so much attention these days. I'm jealous. I hope this finds you well. No, I don't know about anything of this, and have no opinion about any of it, other than I think it was clear you worked on the Gilchrist campaign.

[EternalVigilance]

Heh...

Yep, I was a lowly volunteer.

[Torie]

A rather busy one. :)

[EternalVigilance]

Some volunteers give it their all. ;-)

[axes_of_weezles]

http://www.americanpatrol.com/ABP/PHOTO-OF-THE-DAY/060930.html


http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/delivery.php

http://www.borderfenceproject.com/funds.shtml

[EternalVigilance]

The battles will continue, on many fronts, until the border is secure.

Defeating the enemies within will take much longer...