[wolfcreek]

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.

[cripplecreek]

I remember at the very start of the civilian patrol movement that there were some “neonazis” who went to the SPLC and announced that they were with the minutemen. That was such a pathetic attempt that the media didn’t even bother to give it much more than a cursory mention.

The ACLU even said that they would attempt to infiltrate the minutemen for the purpose of discrediting them.

[1rudeboy]

Yes, and that is to be expected of the SPLC--but that was a subsequent event. I'll wager that Forde also had a website with a "Donate Now" button.

In any case, I was pleased to see AP include the following:

"Some are using the movement to promote their own bigoted, racist ideology," said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "But I want to be clear: That's not everyone in the movement, and it poses a real problem."