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Minutemen once again set out to fight tyran..... Oh wait, I mean illegal aliens

SUNDAY APRIL 3 2005 10:05 AM

Submitted by Bastardo. Edited By Sean.

A group of concerned Americans, recruited over the internet, will be patrolling a stretch of the US/Mexico border.

Hundreds of self-styled ''minutemen" from across the country converged on this historic town of the Old West yesterday to begin a monthlong citizen effort to stem the flood of undocumented immigrants pouring across the Arizona border from Mexico.

Recruited largely over the Internet, the volunteers will fan out along 23 miles beginning Monday to ''observation posts" about a quarter-mile apart. The volunteers hope to bolster what they consider woefully the undermanned federal effort to prevent hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and potential terrorists who cross clandestinely from Mexico each year.

Does this sound inherently dangerous and irresponsible? Don't worry, they'll all be packing.

Many of the volunteers are expected to carry guns, as they are permitted to do under Arizona's ''open carry" law, according to project cofounder Jim Gilchrist. ''That's a way of life here," said the retired accountant from California.

Once in place, the volunteers will stand watch around the clock in shifts and have been instructed to report any bands of undocumented immigrants to the Border Patrol, which will be given the geographic coordinates of the suspects. Organizers have told the volunteers not to confront the suspects, many of whom are transported into the country by armed smugglers, and to stay at least 300 yards away.

''There are no rules of engagement because there will be no engagement," Gilchrist said.

I'm sure that if you recruit some upstanding citizen over the internet, and tell them you will be patrolling the border in an effort to stop illegal aliens, and O wait, bring your guns too, just in case nothing bad will happen. Cuz according to Gilchrist it's the aliens you'll have to worry about.

Although organizers have downplayed the potential for violence, the risk of danger is on the minds of many volunteers. Donnelly, for one, said he will carry his Colt .45 handgun when he takes a turn on night patrol. In Gilchrist's view, any violence will be initiated by smugglers of immigrants or drugs. As the project was being publicized over the last few months, Gilchrist said he received more than 400 ''death wishes" from groups such as MS-13, a Salvadoran gang that uses the sparsely populated border to funnel drugs into the United States.

Best quote;

'Take the 'e' off 'vigilante,' and what have you got?" Donnelly asked. ''It's vigilant."

Best Idea:

However, one observer from Colorado, who had taken a road trip to see the commotion firsthand, expressed nervousness about the guns that many were believed to have brought with them.

''These guys walking around packing guns, who the hell are they?" said Gene, who asked that his last name not be used. ''First time I see something going on, I'm out of here."

So I'm going out in a rowboat off of Cape Cod, to protect America from Russians. Anyone wanna come?

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Anonym

Sarnia, ON

January 2005

APR 03, 2005 10:12 AM

'Take the 'e' off 'vigilante,' and what have you got?" Donnelly asked. ''It's vigilant."

These are the kind of guys who put the f-u-n in funeral. This is fucked up.

Dead_Ringer

I'm lost

September 2004

APR 03, 2005 10:14 AM

Yes, it's a fine idea for untrained and unqualified armed vigilante groups to patrol our borders an attempt to "enforce" our nations' very complex and ever changing immigration laws.

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

APR 03, 2005 10:20 AM

I've just set up my gun turret on Ocean Beach to protect from the Japanese.

Oh, and the Australians. FUCK Australia.

Dead_Ringer

I'm lost

September 2004

APR 03, 2005 10:22 AM

Subrosa said:
I've just set up my gun turret on Ocean Beach to protect from the Japanese.

Oh, and the Australians. FUCK Australia.

You, sir, are a true patriot. I can only hope that you are armed AND hammered.

EvanX

Grand Rapids, MI

June 2003

APR 03, 2005 10:22 AM

I thought this was going to be about Mike Watt.

weirdomanson

Las Vegas, NV

August 2004

APR 03, 2005 10:22 AM

yeah this whole thing makes me mad.. yeah probably because im hispanic. i just hope they dont hurt anyone. a lot of the people that cross the borders have children with them or older people.. i dont see how the gov. is allowing this to happen. its like me saying theres way too much crime going on in the city so i think ill follow cops and carry a gun just to 'help" them out.. and i bet a good part of those people out there are racist... just pisses me off

Snottlebocket

Netherlands

March 2004

APR 03, 2005 10:29 AM

the land of hope and freedom where upstanding vigilantes are waiting for you at the border with guns.

MajorTomias

Richmond, VA

December 2003

APR 03, 2005 10:51 AM

This is kind of too much. But if Bush would just put the kind of boarder patrols that are needed then we wouldn't have this problem. He won't do that though, big business needs the illegal aliens to work for next to nothing so they can grow even richer.

HenryTMensch

New York, NY

December 2004

APR 03, 2005 11:00 AM

Where are all the conbots hiding on this one?

Dead_Ringer

I'm lost

September 2004

APR 03, 2005 11:07 AM

HenryTMensch said:
Where are all the conbots hiding on this one?

For real. I thought we'd be hearing rhetoric, made up facts, and slurs about the "Mexican hordes" by now.

[Edited on Apr 03, 2005 by dead_ringer]

FreakPirate

Calgary, AB

November 2002

APR 03, 2005 11:10 AM

HenryTMensch said:
Where are all the conbots hiding on this one?

At their watch stations.

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

APR 03, 2005 11:11 AM

What kind of person joins the minuteman project? Th organisers seem to want to emphasise the part where they don't do anything, they just report stuff to local law enforcement, but why are there going to be people with guns there?

Snottlebocket

Netherlands

March 2004

APR 03, 2005 11:13 AM

the border patrol doesn't even want the idiots in the first place, can't they just break them up and prevent them from doing that stupid shit for something along the line of breaking the public peace of breaking some kind of gathering or lingering law?

68stretch

Portland, OR

March 2003

APR 03, 2005 11:16 AM

As an actual enforcement group, I think the minutemen are a bunch of xenophobic idiots who have already bagged every legal animal under the sky, and probably a few illegal ones. Hoever, as a marketing ploy, it shines a bright light on the Bush administrations failure to secure our southern border. Not all of it is the Bush administrations fault though. Senators from the likes of wyoming have ensured that they get a huge chunk of homeland security dollars even though they have very little need. This is at the expense of states truely on the front line of the fight to protect our borders.