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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 02:07 PM
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Here's some photos (Warning Graphic!) of Lou Dobbs real "Minutemen"
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Note the multiple participants defiantly enagaging in the Nazi salute and the clearly visible Confederate flag that, when flown in this context in California, is clearly a racist symbol. Note the men with shaved heads (skinheads). Although it is not clearly exposed in this photograph (it is in others below) the Nazi in the blue jacket is holding a Nazi flag with a swastika. The skinhead in the tanktop is also holding a Nazi flag (Hitler Youth reproduction).



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The guy in the camo shirt holding half the banner is an acknowledged Minuteman organizer. His friends in the image (note that he is willingly holding up a banner with one of them for the camera) are Neo Nazis.

Minutemen organizers have been photographed with people with open Neo Nazi affiliations, have solicited support from racist organizations who now regularly publicize Minuteman events so their membership can show up. Although the Minutemen routinely deny being racist or cooperating with racists since their inception they have willingly stood alongside Neo Nazis and they are not doing anything to meaningfully seperate their organization and actions from the Neo Nazi movement except to make very weak claims they're not in bed together. The Minutemen wouldn't be able to help it if Neo Nazi skinheads showed up to their protests unannounced and uninvited but they could then more strongly condemn Neo Nazis, elaborate on how their attitude toward immigration differs from the Neo Nazis, and refuse to stand alongside the Nazis at the protests. They have repeatedly failed to do so.
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