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He is talking about the right of self-governance.

Finally, someone gets it! What this issue is really about is very simple: Who gets to decide how we will deal with illegal immigration -- the people or the ruling elites? No other public policy issue demonstrates so clearly and so nakedly what is at stake here. This battle of the people against the politicians and their globalist minded handlers is about whether we still have a republican form of government in which the people are sovereign or whether we have a dictatorship of an oligarchic elite.

The minuteman phenomenon has the makings of a political movement with Gilchrist as its leader. When both major parties conspire against the will of the people, it is time for a major realignment of our political landscape. We desparately need a permanent political party in this country that understands and supports the political theory of republican self-government. Such a political movement will draw support from both parties and perhaps would displace one of the existing major political parties.

In the mid 1800's disagreement over the slavery issue birthed the Republican party and sunk the Whigs. Perhaps this fight over illegal immigrations will cause as profound a political realignment. It will certainly be a test of whether "we the people" care enough about our right to govern ourselves to actually organize and work to support a political movement to restore and defend these rights

Initially the "elites" are guiding this misguided policy of open borders. In time, it will be the "illegals" who will guide the policy.

The Minutemen are facing a profoundly disturbing coalition which is aligned against them, consisting of Republicans, Democrats, Businesses, and the MSM. These groups control the military, the monetary resources, and communications. I wonder who will blink first?

Who gets to decide how we will deal with illegal immigration -- the people or the ruling elites?

Prop 187--enough said.

The minuteman phenomenon has the makings of a political movement with Gilchrist as its leader.

Some would argue that it already is a movement--we just haven't realized it yet.

Perhaps this fight over illegal immigrations will cause as profound a political realignment.

In spite of what some on FR will say, I think you're on to something. Parties change. Some disappear and are replaced by others. When I hear Republicans employing the same tactics and arguments that liberal Democrats were using a decade or two earlier, it seems time for a little "realignment."