(Hurley, Watt, D. Boon, sullied by association with the gentleman below)
Minutemen Project founder Jim Gilchrist defends his organization against the “bogus name-calling” of CNN’s Ruben Navarette Jr.
Navarrette is a clever wordsmith. Under the penumbra of supporting free speech, he creates a wholly fictitious connection between The Minuteman Project and the Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois, in the late 1970s, leading his uncritical readers to false assumptions and conclusions. Navarrette calls The Minuteman Project viewpoint “offensive speech” and says the project promotes inaccuracy, intolerance and idiocy.
Navarrette insults Minuteman Project volunteers by calling them a posse who “prowl the U.S.-Mexico border chasing Mexicans — admittedly not an easy thing to do when you’re carrying a lawn-chair and a cooler of beer.” He claims minutemen and women are “hooligans,” “yahoos” and “wannabes who play cop.”
In fact, Minuteman volunteers only observe and report; they do not chase or confront and they do not drink on duty. There has never been a violent incident initiated by volunteers. By contrast, in the past 18 months, nonviolent Minuteman volunteers nationwide have been victims of more than 50 acts of violence against their property and persons by deviants opposed to freedom of speech. Much of this violence is encouraged by propagandist journalists like Navarrette, whose words inflame readers and foster hostility.
Navarrette implies racism, but never says exactly which of The Minuteman Project volunteers is racist. Could it be the African-American members? Or the Asians or Hispanics? Perhaps he refers to the Native American Indian members? Maybe Navarrette means the Jewish members of The Minuteman Project?
Of course, there are European-Caucasian members. Ah-hah! In the twisted perception of the propagandist journalist, any organization with at least one white person must be, ipso facto, a racist organization.
Well, yeah. I’m cool with that. And any organization of beer-cooler toting, wannabe border police might be repeatedly labelled as such until they serve up some evidence of all the white people they’ve kept out of America.
As one of the MCDC I have first hand experience with protecting our borders. Unfortunately we don’t have a cooler of beer, darn…. but we do have lots of water and Gator-Aid to keep us cool, and sunscreen and a nice lawn chair to watch what is going on! A FAR cry from being a “Vigilante”, and absolutely no Racism is tolerated……… Unlike Mr. Navarrette’s groups and personal comments………
Maybe he just needs a little better research, or maybe some first hand experience doing what we do 🙂
Ken
Ken,
here’s a popular definition of “vigilante” :
“a member of a self-appointed groups of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, often because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.”
What part of the above would you say is incorrect?
I’m glad to hear that no racism is tolerated. At the same time, I’ll reiterate my earlier point. A self-appointed group such as the Minutemen Project can look forward to repeatedly being called racists unless and until they demonstrate they’re equally adept at keeping all kinds of people out of America. The MCDC website gleefully serves up snapshots of grinning white fellas preparing to do their patriotic best, coupled with no shortage of jpgs of (shock-surprise) people who aren’t European Americans being rounded up like POW’s. Perhaps Navarette’s research is lacking. And perhaps your own organization trades in imagery that if not racist, is really fucking predictable.
Have you ever noticed that the open border pay a small fine Amnesty suporters never use the rule of law or the correct terms in their debates over the (illegal alien) so called immigration debate! Now their begining to understand the fact that lawful citizens are not buying their propaganda any more! So they have to change the whole debate to a false term of racism instead. They know now they can never win on the rule of law-because they know the truth of our real immigration laws will not suport them at all! My question is what race is an illegal alien any way?