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Title: Anti-[illegal]Immigration Groups Head to Interior
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Published: Jul 18, 2005
Author: AP
Post Date: 2005-07-18 11:57:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Ping List: *The Border*
Keywords: Anti-[illegal]Immigration, Interior, Groups
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July 17, 2005 6:39 PM EDT MORRISTOWN, Tenn. - A volunteer movement that vows to guard America from a wave of illegal immigration has spread from the dusty U.S.-Mexican border to the verdant hollows of Appalachia. At least 40 anti-immigration groups have popped up nationally, inspired by the Minuteman Project that rallied hundreds this year to patrol the Mexican border in Arizona. "It's like O'Leary's cow has kicked over the lantern. The fire has just started now," said Carl "Two Feathers" Whitaker, an American Indian activist and perennial gubernatorial candidate who runs the Tennessee Volunteer Minutemen, aimed at exposing those who employ illegals. Critics call the movement vigilantism, and some hear in the words of the Minutemen a vitriol similar to what hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan used against Southern blacks in the 1960s. The Minuteman Project has generated chapters in 18 states - from California to states far from Mexico, like Utah, Minnesota and Maine. The Tennessee group and others like it have no direct affiliation, but share a common goal. "I struck the mother lode of patriotism or nationalism or whatever you want to call it," said Jim Gilchrist, a Vietnam veteran and retired CPA who co-founded the Minuteman Project 10 months ago. "That common nerve that was bothering a lot of people, but due to politically correct paralysis ... everyone was afraid to bring up - the lack of law enforcement." At the Department of Homeland Security, whose authority includes patrolling borders and enforcing immigration laws, response to Minuteman-type activism is guarded. "Homeland security is a shared responsibility, and the department believes the American public plays a critical role in helping to defend the homeland," agency spokesman Jarrod Agen said from Washington. "But as far doing an investigation or anything beyond giving us a heads-up, that should be handled by trained law enforcement." A group leading patrols of the California border raised concerns from the U.S. Border Patrol last week when they urged volunteers to bring baseball bats, mace, pepper spray and machetes to patrol the border. They backed off the recommendation, but insisted on another weapon when they started patrols Saturday: guns. "The guns are for one reason - to keep my people alive," said Jim Chase, a former Arizona Minuteman volunteer who is leading the effort. Gilchrist said people from across the country have been sending him dirt on companies that hire illegal immigrants. "It is a rampant problem. It is happening in Chicago and Portland, Maine. And Milwaukee and Montana and Idaho. And these people want the government to do something," he said. The Southeast has the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic population. In Tennessee, the Hispanic population nearly tripled in the last decade. The Tennessee Minutemen, which plans rallies in Memphis and Nashville and reputedly has heard from at least 120 potential members statewide, insist they are not vigilantes or racists. "We don't want to project it as a hate group. We don't hate anybody or anything. But there are legal immigrants and illegal," Whitaker said. In Morristown, a Southern industrial town of 25,000 with a small but burgeoning population of Latinos, some see the Volunteer Minutemen's spiel as race baiting. "The same sort of dogmatism that racists used against blacks in lower Alabama and across the South, I am seeing the same patterns here," said Thom Robinson, who heads the area's Chamber of Commerce. "They are using it as a racially divisive thing." Santos Aguilar, executive director with Alianza del Pueblo, a regional Hispanic support group in Knoxville, said he fears the volunteers are "spreading a lot of misinformation and are terrorizing the ethnic community in the area." Members of the Hamblen County Commission recently suggested that Hispanic immigrants were to blame if property taxes have to be raised next year - though commissioners insisted they were talking only about illegal immigrants. County Commissioner Tom Lowe, who says "we do not want (all) Hispanics stereotyped as illegal," estimates as many as 85 percent of Hamblen's Hispanics are - and he fears they carry drug-resistant disease. "We could be two or three aliens away from an epidemic that would sweep through our county and state," the retired pharmacist said. Hamblen County Mayor David Purkey said, like Lowe, he supports immigration laws, but finds such comments disturbing. "I think you have to be careful when you are expressing your opinion on that, that you don't appear as if you are against diversity as a whole," he said. Guatemala native Noel Montepeque, who owns a company that provides a variety of blue-collar jobs to Hispanics, said the tone has changed since the first migrant farm workers passed through the area in the 1990s. "Now they are getting afraid of the many Hispanic folks coming in," Montepeque said. "And we are coming to stay." --- On the Net: U.S. Customs and Border Protection: http://www.cbp.gov/ Tennessee Minutemen: http://www.tennesseevolunteerminutemen.com/
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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut, *The Border*, Zipporah, 1776, Eoghan, Dakmar, Jethro Tull, lodwick (#0)
Thread on LP with e-mail from Jim Gilchrist: Reinforcements needed in Campo, California Subject: BULLETIN! Reinforcements needed in Campo, Ca. From James Gilchrist Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:26 PM -- PLEASE FORWARD -- Dear Americans, Reinforcements are needed in Campo, Ca. immediately to support Jim Chase's California Minutemen, who have deployed for border observation and reporting activities from July 16 through at least August 7 (and beyond). I visited Jim Chase's group, accompanied with a California state senator and his aides, last Saturday. We witnessed the literal seige of VFW Post #2080 by about 60 belligerant, death-threatening anti-Americans twice during that day. The hate-spewing members of the racist, American-hating organization known as the Mexican brown berets, stormed the VFW Lodge, damaging signs and other property. They were eventually repelled by the late-arriving San Diego County Sheriff's Dept. No arrests were made. The California state senator and his aides took serious note of the hostilities and violence conducted by the Nazi-like, anarchist brown berets. Americans...these goons are incurably evil and have a history of routinely suppressing the First Amendment rights of Americans through acts of violence and threats of death. Our First Amendment rights of freedom to peacefully assemble and speak are in serious jeopardy, and it is time a stand is taken to preserve these rights. The rampage was orchestrated by Armando Navarro, a known anti-American racist, who holds a comfortable, taxpayer funded, tenured position as a professor (of hate and blood-letting?) at the University of California - Riverside, Ca., and who has devoted his life to promoting the Mexican conquest of the seven southwestern US states. He calls for the conquest to be carried out by force, if necessary. Navarro, and his minions whose combined IQ was that of a dead house plant, all appeared to be under the influence of drugs. One California Minuteman volunteer, Jim Woods, was physically assaulted by a gang of ten of Navarro's thugs as he sat in his car alone at a border outpost. He was physically restrained in his car seat by the brown berets, who threatened to kill him. They stole his keys from the ignition and left him stranded without food or water for several hours. When Jim Woods identified two of the gang members to the Sheriff's Dept. and asked for an arrest, no action was taken by the Sheriff's deputies. One deputy just responded to Mr. Wood's plea for help with "Oh, you just lost your keys," despite repeated pleas to the contrary from Mr. Woods. I am returning to Campo this week. Volunteers from anywhere in the United States are welcome to join me as soon as possible. Two minuteman groups from Texas have already committed to arrive this week. I am also requesting reinforcements from Chris Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Tombstone, Az. and from select members of another well-known California border watch group that operates independently from The Minuteman Project. Navarro's anarchist's attempted to shut down, and trash, the VFW lodge because the lodge allowed thirsty and hungry California Minutemen volunteers to purchase food and water from its restaurant. Their attempts to bring down the U.S. flag were thwarted by Jim Chase's California Minutemen. Our goals here are twofold: 1. Protect the rights of ALL Americans to freely and peacefully assemble without being physically assaulted, or threatened with violence to maim or kill them by the mindless minions of the Univ. of California's "Professor of Hate", Armando Navarro. 2. Protect America's war veterans at VFW Lodge 2080, in Campo, Ca. from being battered by literal thugs with clubs and to protect the property of that lodge from being destroyed. 3. Simultaneously, volunteers are forming to protest at the Univ. of Ca. - Riverside, demanding the ouster of Navarro from his department at a state funded institution, which Navarro has selfishly turned into a department of tyranny. Americans, saddle up! Let's Roll! Contact California Minutemen in Campo, Ca. at 760-272-0525...asap. The VFW lodge address is 301 Sheridan in Campo, Ca. Ca. Minuteman Web Site: http://www.californiaminutemen.com Be warned that the roving gangs of adversaries engaging the California Minutemen WILL physically attack you if they outnumber you. I repeat, they WILL physically attack you. Stay in groups, and stay LEGALLY armed with pepper spray...tasers...etc. Sidearms are legal in certain areas in Campo. Confer with Jim Chase on the issue of sidearms. I am remaining unarmed, but will have legally armed body guards with me while I am in Campo. Remember, remain passive. However, that does not mean you cannot defend yourself against threats to your safety by incoherrent mobs of gangsters who are determined to do you physical harm. It truly is a sad day in America when the First Amendment rights are preserved only for those who carry the biggest stick. The alternative is to remain a cringing little mouse and forever relinquish your unalienable rights to peacefully speak or assemble. Good Luck, Americans. May God, patriotism, and country be with you. See you in Campo. Jim Gilchrist, Founder - The Minuteman Project - Americans doing the jobs Congress won't do. http://www.minutemanproject.com Operating within the law to support enforcement of the law.
Looks like we're finally going to get that race war that everybody's been so anxious to see.
We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army. - Col Kurtz
Truth is like sunshine, people use to think it was good for them - Nancy Gribble
Hillary Gets Standing O at La Raza Convention commentary by Ben Vinyard The spectacle is sickening. Politicians, like teeming maggots, crawling all over themselves to pick at the dying, decaying corpse of America. Earlier this month it was former President Bill Clinton and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee speaking at the National LULAC Convention along with a bagful of Arkansas political hopefuls on hands and knees pleading, “Por favor, senor.” They have all the grace and dignity of a Tijuana beggar tugging at shirttails to sell a box of Chiclets. A couple of weeks later presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton drops all pretenses of patriotism and presents the illegal invaders with an offer they can’t refuse, receiving a standing ovation at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza. La Raza means “The Race.” Their motto is “For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.” I don’t have to explain to you the ruckus that would be raised if a presidential candidate were to speak at a gathering of White folks who held the same motto. Those organizations would not be referred to as “a civil rights group” in McCall’s. These politicos are not courting the votes of their fellow countrymen; they are courting the vote of the criminals who are invading our land. The battle for our sovereignty has become one big Mexican bullfight. Sooner or later every American citizen will be forced into the bloody arena. The toreador has a decision to make: he will either be pulled in kicking and screaming, or with head bowed and eyes lowered like the “I’m not a racist, but…” crowd; or he can march in under his own volition with shoulders squared and head held high. The difference might not seem significant—they will be fighting the bull no matter what—but it is the choice that makes all the difference in the world.
The Holocaust Historiography Project
Colorful writing! The toreador/bullfight analogy is perfect. Let's stick it to this bull.....
I hope these brave folks get some help. Damn if they haven't got guts. God bless them.
Sounds good to me, Col.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
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The spectacle is sickening. Politicians, like teeming maggots, crawling all over themselves to pick at the dying, decaying corpse of America.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
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We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army. - Col Kurtz
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