← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Howard Campbell, Jr.
Thread ID: 17625 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-04-03
2005-04-03 20:27 | User Profile
minuteman project already successful in directing nationââ¬â¢s attention to serious gap in national security
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Veteran, Bob Park stands next to his signs erected on highway 80 North of Tombstone. The signs herald the voice of Americans fed up with the hypocrisy of the Bush administrations failed homeland security policies. The signs will welcome hundreds of Minuteman volunteers, supporters and members of the national and international media as they converge upon Tombstone for Fridayââ¬â¢s registration and orientation meetings. The signs are set to appear in the Sunday edition of the New York Times among other national media publications.
Great to see the good guys winning a round against the Thirdworldization parasites...
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2005-04-03 21:23 | User Profile
MEXICO [url]http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11291805.htm[/url]
Playing with fire on the border
BY MARY SANCHEZ
[email]msanchez@kcstar.com[/email]
The battle lines are forming for an unfortunate showdown at the U.S./Mexico border.
A retired California accountant began this fiasco-in-the-making by organizing The Minuteman Project. James Gilchrist envisioned a month-long publicity stunt. He asked people to patrol for illegal immigrants during April, near Tombstone, Ariz.
Now a very vocal response to Gilchrist is organizing, as well. Armando Navarro, a University of California at Riverside ethnic studies professor, recently announced plans for counter demonstrations at the border.
Gilchrist's goal was to bring needed attention to the cost of illegal immigration, the problem of migrants trekking across private land, the medical expenses they tally and fears of terrorists slipping in along with the Mexicans searching for work. Gilchrist insists that his more than 1,000 volunteers will only monitor the migrants, like a neighborhood watch. He says that he is not encouraging violence.
But by recruiting people through the Internet using war terms, that may be exactly what he is courting.
Gilchrist is especially interested in pilots with their own aircraft, law-enforcement and military veterans with reconnaissance backgrounds.
As a reply, Navarro states, ``For every action, there is a reaction.''
OK. But what is not needed is a reaction that buys into the fervor that Gilchrist created. Even worse is a reaction that ratchets the situation up another notch.
Navarro, just by showing up, may provide the unneeded tinder. Navarro long has been the scourge of Minuteman supporters. He has organized protests in the past against citizen patrols at the border.
Gilchrist's plot is nothing new. It just involves more people than past efforts.
Navarro's tone and word choices often make him an easy target. The professor's fervent stands to organize Latinos politically are often misconstrued as separatist. Navarro wants Latinos to gain the power and influence that their numbers demand. He understands that the present is a critical juncture for Latinos, accurately noting there are too few true national leaders for Latinos.
Many of Navarro's prolific writings deal with the history of Latino political leadership; how efforts have been undermined.
The irony is that Gilchrist and Navarro actually have some things in common. Both men right to blame the continuing problems of illegal immigration on U.S. and Mexican governments. Both men are being threatened for their beliefs.
Gilchrist said that he has received threats from some of the drug dealers who see the border as their turf.
Navarro is also receiving threats through e-mails and phone calls, but from supporters of the Minutemen. One group of protesters even showed up at the university demanding the University of California system fire Navarro.
And both men are lashing out in part because of frustration. People protest when they feel that there is no other choice, when they feel pitted against a rock and a hard place.
Remember, trapped animals bite.
Both Gilchrist and Navarro at times fit this scenario. Gilchrist says that he has tried to strip the trigger-happy sorts out of his volunteers, some of whom will be armed. And Navarro says that none of his followers, which include people from both sides of the border, will be armed. Both men say they are limiting their numbers, an attempt to keep some sort of control.
But hotheads can be hard to detect.
And the pack journalism congregating at the border won't help. People on both sides will be tempted to play to the cameras like children acting out when guests arrive.
Gilchrist feels that he stands for the rights of North Americans. Navarro doesn't want the migrants to be scapegoats.
Both men make valid points. But both are also playing incendiary roles in what could easily turn into a horrific international incident.
**Bring it on, Bush--Bring it on, Fox! No Thirdworld Squalor for America's Kids!
Screw the Cheap Labor Plutocracy!!**
2005-04-03 22:11 | User Profile
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2005-04-03 22:59 | User Profile
This was published in the main section of the Houston Chronicle, today. ABC Nightly news had a video segment on the 5:00pm news this evening. I wasn't paying very close attention, but they did show some of the organizers. They also showed some pickup trucks full of people on the other side of the border. There was a video photographer on the Mexican side taping the Minutemen.
1 posted on 04/03/2005 3:43:44 PM PDT by texaspirate [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]
To: texaspirate What and how exactly do they not understand Keep out you are NOT wanted here!
2 posted on 04/03/2005 3:52:06 PM PDT by Fast1
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