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Unrepentant Fenian Donating Member (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:13 PM
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The "Minutemen" are in a melt down !!!!!!!
It looks like the self proclaimed border guards are melting down BIG time. They're accusing other members of being terrorists! See the link below (Moon bat site)

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=551718
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:17 PM
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1. Use their full name: The North American Minuteman Border Legionnaires Association (NAMBLA)
Edited on Fri Mar-02-07 01:20 PM by IanDB1
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:22 PM
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14. LOL!!
good thing my boss stepped out for a minute!
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:26 PM
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2. This is funny
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=551718

we are being watched.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x324026


I post this for informational purposes, I don't think a board war is anyone's interest.

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jumpoffdaplanet Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:07 PM
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13. Watching them be the idiots we all know and love!
Is that what they mean?

Because anyone could have told them that this would happen.

Did they really think a wall would be built?


Haters usually screw over their own. Just didn't think it would happen quite so soon.

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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:35 PM
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15. I, OTOH, am surprised they lasted this long.
The only organizations more prone to implosion than RW radical groups are LW radical groups.

Ideology is a hard row to hoe, particularly when money is involved.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:30 PM
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3. I would hope the guy that made this comment is a plant...
but, somehow I doubt that.

"Isn;t some of the things they are doing a felony?? Hacking is I think If the use the stationary faulsly it is !"


:rofl:
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Unrepentant Fenian Donating Member (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:32 PM
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4. North American Minuteman Border Legionnaires Association (NAMBLA)
Now THAT's funny!!!!!!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:07 PM
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12. Maybe they're drunk posting...
God Almighty... you gotta hope they're either drunk or a plant... cause DAMN!
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RedStateShame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:33 PM
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5. This has to be the biggest blow to the Minutemen since....
...they ran out of beer while spending 3 hours staring at a border fence through binoculars and/or the scope of an empty gun!
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:36 PM
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6. How come a google search for "Orange County Times" and/or
"Jennifer Dilson" come up empty? I wouln't mind reading the article referred to.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:38 PM
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7. Oh, oh. They are on to us:
"we are being watched.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x324026


I post this for informational purposes, I don't think a board war is anyone's interest."
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:40 PM
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8. So, who's gonna get the robes, pointy hats, 'fedrut flags, and the beer?
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 01:40 PM
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9. couldn't happen to a nicer group of fellows
Edited on Fri Mar-02-07 01:40 PM by proud patriot
:sarcasm:
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jumpoffdaplanet Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:02 PM
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10. hahahahahahaha!
karma bites them in the ass
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:05 PM
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11. From what I can see...
I didn't bother took look too much stuff up, but one guy says the "Minuteman Project" is Gilchrist's personal politcal organization, while some other Minuteman organization is the one that puts up those "border guards."

Anyway, Gilchrist claims that his not-for-profit Delaware corporation that solicits money dosn't have to have a board of directors? Hard time believing that. And some members who claim they're on the "board" allege he stole a whole bunch of money and so got their hands on the checkbook? Woo-hoo! Fun times there.

Should be a whole pile of lawsuits unless the players in this think what they're doing is illegal, or at least very smelly, from the getgo. Should be even more investigations of this mess.

Bye-bye Minutemen.







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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 02:38 PM
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16. BwahaHAH!!1 The Doofus (doofi?) Chronicles continue!!1
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...

*******QUOTE*******
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589

Broken 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=6

Border 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 [email protected])


http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2006/08/moons-paper-and-minutemen.html

Wonkette: 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=635

Anti-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=PF

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

Pro-MM / LoneWacko: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/004214.html

WashPost MM-Go-Home editorial: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111200954.html

Slave flags: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for-extremists_08.html


Austin councilman Go Back to MX resolution opposing MM: http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/12/17minutemen.html

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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 03:44 PM
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17. Stick a fork in them, they are done. nt
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