Minuteman Day 1

[brooklynite]

The Arizona Republic

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps reported hundreds of sightings of illegal immigrants and rescued seven people Sunday as the armed volunteers started their first day of patrols along the Arizona-Mexico border.

The anti-illegal immigration group worked in an area between Nogales and the Tohono O'odham Reservation near Arizona 286.

"We've found them in groups of 20, 30 and 40," Minuteman leader Chris Simcox said.

The monthlong citizens patrol, which is not endorsed by the U.S. Border Patrol, will involve as many as 3,500 volunteers stationed along the border in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and Washington state.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0402minutemanblomo0402.html

I, for one, will sleep more soundly tonight, knowing that these eagle eyes of liberty are ever vigilant...




...I just hope the beer holds out.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I'll bet every store in the area is cleaned out of Doritos and beer

After a month of those morans chugging and crunching.

[realisticphish]

2. wow, thank god they

...you know... saw them. That sure helped, thanks!

[blondeatlast]

3. They get mighty persnickety when the brewskis are gone and the nearest town

is Nogales (snicker), at least half a tank away.

[la la]

4. From The Orange County Register

this morning.---sorry, having trouble getting a link--

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:53 a.m. April 1, 2007

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – About 10 members of the Ku Klux Klan crashed a rally organized by the anti-illegal immigration group the Minuteman Project Saturday, police said.
Wearing black T-shirts with the KKK insignia, their faces covered with bandanas and sunglasses, the group chanted and waved American flags.

Minuteman Project spokesman Raymond Herrera said his group of about 40 decided to leave when the Klan members showed up. He said the group did not invite the racist organization to join the rally and would no longer post the dates of its rallies on the Web.
“We dont approve of standing anywhere near the KKK – theyre not with us,” said Herrera, a Mexican-American from Victorville. “Were a multiethnic group. We dont believe in racism, and when the Nazis show up we cancel the rallies immediately. We do not intermingle and we do not believe in their philosophy.” More than 100 day laborers held a counter-protest nearby.

Police monitored the dueling protests but made no arrests.

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verrrrrrrrrry innnnnnnnnnteresting, huh? :wtf:

[UTUSN]

6. Yip, they avoid the OFFICIAL kkk (as opposed to their UNofficial members). They're getting slicker

at p.r. Just as the Swiftbots would tell their members to wear coats and ties and NOT scrungy fatigues and camoflage. But here are memories of their past rallies:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for-extremists_08.html

[UTUSN]

5. They would be funny if they weren't such bozos

Besides becoming illegals at the Northern border in the link, there was also the time last year when they were building a 10 mile fence in AZ. Univision duly interviewed their token Hispanic then president at the site. The camera panned over to a stack of concrete mix bags, each sporting the HUGH!!1 logo: "Mezcla Concreto MEXICANO"!!1

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2005/10/16/volunteers_get_cold_reception_in_vermont?mode=PF

Volunteers get cold reception in Vermont

They run into protest and walk through wild to watch Canada border
By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff | October 16, 2005

NEWPORT, Vt. -- It's hard to save the United States from illegal immigrants when you can't find the border. ....

But these Minutemen were forced out of town by a larger crowd of protesters, who denounced their opposition to illegal immigration as a front for racism. ....

Back on the bike path, the three Minutemen trudged on in the rain. Finally, they knocked on Amy Audet's door to ask directions.

The border, she told them, was in the opposite direction.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000822.html

On Patrol in Vt., Minutemen Are the Outsiders

Along the Border, Group Targets Illegal Immigrants

By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 31, 2005; Page A02

.... They began scouting out potential sites several weeks ago, poking around this hamlet with a downtown almost directly on the border. It was in Derby Line that they had their first problem with the elusive border. On one scouting expedition, member Bob Casimiro said they became, for a moment, illegal visitors in Canada.

Then came their first official patrol two weekends ago, which was dogged by protesters who assembled downtown and shouted slogans such as "Take your hate out of our state." The Minutemen had to patrol a bike path away from town, and then -- as the Boston Globe reported -- got lost and had to ask a local for directions. ....

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[blondeatlast]

7. Well, they wanted quality for that fence, and the frontera makes some fine brick! LOL!

I had some lovely pavers at my old house, but I digress...

But of course, they bought the stuff from the north side--of course they did. :rofl: