Arizona Minutemen Driven Largely By Sense of Insecurity, Victimization

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=1692


The vigilantes patrolling the Mexico-US border have received lots of attention, but a closer look reveals complex, often contradictory motives and a cynical, almost desperate worldview you may find historically or even personally familiar.
In the second and final installment of this compelling series, to appear next week, correspondent Gabriel Thompson reports from the Mexican side of the border.

- A mile from the Mexican border, Jim Gilchrist strode through the makeshift headquarters of the controversial Minuteman Project. Located on the campus of the Miracle Valley Bible College, individuals wearing Minuteman nametags posted maps of the border terrain, fidgeted with electronic equipment, and installed numerous antennae on the roof, all under the watchful eye of Gilchrist, the Project’s primary organizer. Outside, a white flag fluttered in the wind, bearing the emblem of a coiled rattlesnake and two messages for visitors: "Don’t Tread on Me" and "Liberty or Death." As armed guards prepared to patrol the area, the church was beginning to resemble a military compound; volunteers suddenly referred to what was previously the cafeteria as the "mess hall"; the church grounds became "the perimeter."


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[democracyindanger]

1. nothing but bullies, probable racists and faketriots

If they were serious about it, they'd be protesting construction sites and farms, going after the employers.

[Frances]

2. Good Point

nt

[DinahMoeHum]

3. How about "teenie weenie" problems as well?

Big Guns, Tiny Dicks.

:evilfrown:

[beanball]

4. The Arizona border clowns

send the clowns home,in this part of the state most of us think they are a joke.PACK UP AND MOVE OUT,AND DON'T FORGET TO TAKE YOUR TRASH WITH YOU.Oh my,I forgot they are all trash.