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Anti-Immigration Movement Newspapers Inflated Minuteman Numbers, Report Finds
SPLC ^ | Summer 2006

Posted on 08/24/2006 2:01:33 PM PDT by PDR

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1 posted on 08/24/2006 2:01:34 PM PDT by PDR
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To: onyx; Howlin; nopardons; Rex Anderson; Ms. AntiFeminazi

I post this only to demonstrate how quickly the worm turns -- t his report gives Seper and the Washington Times a lot of credit for building up the idea of the Minutemen and MCDC -- so contrast that with the way certain people have turned on that same writer and paper once he wrote a few stories that raised questions about their practices and claims.

I think this adds some fuel to the fire.


2 posted on 08/24/2006 2:03:40 PM PDT by PDR
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To: PDR
ACLU volunteers closely monitored the group.

Are we sure they could count?

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3 posted on 08/24/2006 2:06:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: PDR

The word "illegal" appears nowhere in this propoganda.


4 posted on 08/24/2006 2:07:00 PM PDT by L98Fiero (Evil is an exact science)
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To: L98Fiero

It is from the Southern Propoganda Lie Center.


5 posted on 08/24/2006 2:07:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

Morris Dees is as Pro-American as Bin Laden and Ah-mamma-nutjob of iran .


6 posted on 08/24/2006 2:13:51 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: PDR

"The ACLU report shows how newspaper reporting that was either lazy or deliberately misleading helped transform a relatively small band of extremists into the armed vanguard of the anti-immigration movement."

How it should read:

The ACLU report shows how newspaper reporting -- that was either lazy or deliberately misleading -- helped transform a relatively small band of PATRIOTS into the armed vanguard of the anti-ILLEGAL-Immigration movement."



7 posted on 08/24/2006 2:20:35 PM PDT by siznartuf (If I Hear "Jobs Americans Won't Do" One More ^%&^%^%# Time)
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To: ohioman
Doesn't this support and bolster the 'argument' that we can secure our borders with no major input of manpower nor money?

That the few qualified are more than enough to control our border(s) ??

8 posted on 08/24/2006 2:44:06 PM PDT by knarf (Someone stole my tagline !! It was here a minute ago .. /8^( ...)
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To: PDR

Wow, posting SPLC articles. Your pro border-jumper proclivity must be intense.


9 posted on 08/24/2006 3:50:08 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead (Doing the jobs Americans won't do? Guess you haven't seen "Dirty Jobs")
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To: Texas_Jarhead
Wow, posting SPLC articles.

Why not? They've been mining them for talking points and reposting them to FR for years.

At least they're out of the closet now.

10 posted on 08/24/2006 4:05:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: PDR
The ACLU has been highly critical of the Minutemen, and ACLU volunteers closely monitored the group.

Now, there are the real vigilantes!

Armed to the teeth with loaded writs; and firing off full-auto subpoenas, and indiscriminately tossing armed injunctions at anything that moves!

11 posted on 08/24/2006 4:29:26 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: ohioman; cripplecreek

The investigations that should be on the front pages nationwide:

Morris Dees:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1809

Southern Poverty Law Center:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6989


12 posted on 08/24/2006 4:36:24 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

I remember a few years back when some SPLC bigwigs left the group and said that Dees was little more than a profiteer and a fraud.

When the minutemen started their patrols last year, after only a few days two "klansmen" showed up at an SPLC office claiming to have been working with the minutemen. That's Dees style.


13 posted on 08/24/2006 4:49:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Texas_Jarhead

go back and read why i posed the article please. then, feel free to make all the comments you want.


14 posted on 08/24/2006 6:02:31 PM PDT by PDR
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To: PDR

bttt


15 posted on 08/24/2006 7:05:54 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: PDR; nopardons

You know people can complain about the Souther Poverty Law center all they want. I filter what they say. However I will say this. If we conservatives would do a better job of making sure these extremist and hate groups didnt try to use us conservatives to legitimate themselves there really wouldnt be a need for them However sadly I dont see that. I mean Malkin has a link to Vdare on here site everyone does a big ywan. The Council of Conservative Citizens organizes anti immigration rallies in South Carolina and no one cares. Prominent people that are conservatives or promoted as such appear on that horrid political cesspool show and everyone ignores it.

So until we on the right have a conservative version of the SPLC to call out and expose the people who want to use us, then we will have to live with the SPLC


16 posted on 08/24/2006 11:51:22 PM PDT by catholicfreeper
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To: catholicfreeper

True....all too true.


17 posted on 08/25/2006 12:07:14 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: catholicfreeper

Your full of it. You do not see demon cats being defensive about the left-wing nuts in their party - and they have many more wing nuts than us on the right. There are no redeeming values of the SPLC.

You sound like a damn rhino to me.


18 posted on 08/25/2006 6:11:02 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: catholicfreeper
then we will have to live with the SPLC

we 'have' to live with them? Gimme a break - you & they share the same toothbrush.

19 posted on 08/25/2006 6:40:19 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: PDR; chicagolady; Leatherneck_MT; Spiff; EternalVigilance; Lurker; Paige; axes_of_weezles

So now you've been reduced to posting an article from the freakin' Southern Poverty Law Center citing a study by the ACLU. And you wonder why freepers think you're a leftist.


20 posted on 08/25/2006 10:32:12 AM PDT by jmc813 (.)(.)
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