Minuteman Chris Simcox and the Triumph of the Will

[BurtWorm]

Arizona uber alles!



http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/11/minuteman/print.html

May 11, 2005 | PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- High drama suits Chris Simcox. You imagine that even when he's home alone talking to his cat, he acts as if he's addressing a sea of people. The hyperactive and bone-thin 43-year-old is the key organizer of and barker for the Minuteman Project, the citizen border patrol that in April sought with a single bold stroke to put a stop to illegal immigration along the Arizona-Mexico border. On the eighth day of the project, in the Arizona village of Palominas, Simcox is briefing 10 new recruits in a dirt lot near an oily little restaurant called the Trading Post. Several R.V. campers squat in the lot near a Port-O-San. Beyond is the empty scrub desert and two miles away the Mexican border.

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This is the new Chris Simcox, the politically correct, sanitized version. In January 2003, federal park rangers arrested Simcox after he wandered onto national parkland in search of illegal immigrants. In his possession was a loaded pistol, two walkie-talkies, a police scanner, a cellphone, a digital camera and what appeared to be a toy figurine of Wyatt Earp on a horse.

"This is the Boston tea party! We are reestablishing the can-do attitude! We're tough and tenacious but humane and civilized. We are the American spirit. We say no, we mean no. The word is "temerity" -- rock-solid character! We are challenging two governments. This is about will."

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Wow. Just Wow.

:eyes:

Where are the idiots defending him now?

[BurtWorm]

2. kick

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. kick for Burty

[BurtWorm]

4. Awww.

No one has ever called me Burty before...

:blush: