In the links at the bottom of this, the good people of Vermont ran the ijits out of a town and the Minutemen got lost in the woods and inadvertantly became illegal aliens themselves when they stumbled across the U.S./Canadian border. They were up there (all FOUR of them) to demonstrate that they were NOT being discriminatory JUST for the SOUTHERN border (yeah, right).
Then, their doofiness continued. They were building a 10-miles fence in AZ on private property. Univision had cameras there, did the news professional gig of interviewing the token Hispanic leader of the MM (Al GARZA), and then the camera panned over to a stack of concrete mix, the bags all showing the logo, "MEZLA CONCRETO MEXICANO"!!!1 That was PRICELESS!!1
As I say, they would be funny, but...
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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589Broken Record
Lou Dobbs' daily 'Broken Borders' CNN segment has focused on immigration for years.
But there's one issue Dobbs just won't take on.
By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok
.... For more than two years now, Dobbs has served up a populist approach to immigration on nightly segments of his newscast entitled "Broken Borders." He has relentlessly covered the issue, although hardly from a traditional news perspective -- Dobbs favors clamping down on illegal immigration, and his "reporting" never fails to make that clear. He has covered the same issues, and the same anti-immigration leaders, time after time after time. In recent months,
Dobbs has run countless upbeat reports on the "citizen border patrols" that have sprung up around the country since last April's Minuteman Project, a paramilitary effort to seal the Arizona border.
But there's one thing Lou Dobbs won't do. No matter what others report about the movement,
Dobbs has failed to present mounting and persistent
evidence of anti-Hispanic racism in anti-immigration groups and citizen border patrols. ....
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17104568&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6Border Patrol chief doesn’t want Minutemen near agents (Laredo, Texas)
LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 08/24/2006 | MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV
The head of the Border Patrol said Wednesday he
doesn’t want members of the Minuteman Project working near his agents when they come to the Laredo area next month. The civilian group, which reports illegal immigrants to immigration authorities, is expected to start patrolling the border in the Laredo area on Sept. 11 and continue through Nov. 7.
Acting Chief Patrol Agent Reynaldo Garza of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Laredo Sector said he can’t prevent the civilians from coming to Laredo, but said
they won’t be allowed to interfere with official business. ....
Esquivel said that
if U.S. citizens should have any trouble with a member of the Minuteman Project, he or she should call the sheriff’s department or other law enforcement authority.
State Rep. Richard Raymond deplored the group’s plan to come to Laredo.
“They don’t have anything to do with this community,” Raymond said. “Here,
we reject the racism they practice.” ....
(Miguel Timoshenkov may be reached at (956) 728-2583 or by e-mail at timo1@lmtonline.com)
http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2006/08/moons-paper-and-minutemen.htmlWonkette: if the Border Patrol is short handed, why not call out the Minutemen? You know, the more-bark-than-bite nationalist
“movement” that, according to the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Jerry Seper and the Washington Times
largely invented out of the ether? Mind you, we’re not complaining. We’re big fans of making mountains out of molehills...
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=635Anti-Immigration Movement
Newspapers Inflated Minuteman Numbers
, Report Finds
Moon's paper and the Minutemen
The report,
"Creating the Minutemen," is based on an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) analysis of 581 articles and editorials printed in major U.S. newspapers between January 2005 and February 2006. The ACLU has been highly critical of the Minutemen, and ACLU volunteers closely monitored the group.
The first of those articles, "Volunteers Set to Monitor Border Crossings," by
Jerry Seper of the hard-right
Washington Times, reported that
240 volunteers had signed up. By early March, Seper was reporting that the number of volunteers had "
more than tripled," came from every state, and
included 16 pilots with aircraft.
During the last two weeks of March 2005, the media hype shifted into overdrive. Fifteen journalists reported the Minuteman Project had signed up "at least
1,000 volunteers." The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ran a March 23, 2005, article headlined "
2,000 volunteers expected for Minuteman Project."
BoingBoing MM-"Wetbacks"
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/15/snapshots_of_volunte.html(direct to wetback:
Boston Globe/Vermont:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2005/10/16/volunteers_get_cold_reception_in_vermont?mode=PFWashPost/Hate-State:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000822.htmlPro-MM / LoneWacko:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/004214.htmlWashPost MM-Go-Home editorial:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111200954.htmlSlave flags:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for-extremists_08.html Austin councilman Go Back to MX resolution opposing MM:
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