Associated Press did not create the group and give it a name that looks like Simcox's. She named her group of brigands Minutemen American Defense. The fact that this woman is a mercenary makes no difference: she made the link.
"We knew that Shawna Forde was not just an unsavory character but pretty unbalanced as well," said Chris Simcox, the founder of one of the original border watch groups, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
This chick did.
“Heidi Beirich, research director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.
“We figured for a long time that we were going to get violence out of this movement,” she said.”
All the same to her.