Today's Minuteman Minute

Today's Minuteman Minute

Roundup from the international incident waiting to happen:

LA Weekly: "The Minutemen were basically a flop. Despite organizers’ claims that 450 people showed up the first day (befittingly on April Fools’ Day), reporters visibly equaled or outnumbered the actual participants. At no point could any reporter see evidence of more than 150 Minutemen gathered in one place — even though the first two days of activities were all about concentrating their forces in a pair of protest rallies. But the bulk of the coverage continued to play along with the fiction that a mass of American citizens had come down here to stand against the immigrant hordes."

Amanda at Pandagon makes a headline reference to some better Minutemen and points us to the Southern Poverty Law Center: "Numerous white supremacists have claimed in online postings to be registered as Minuteman volunteers. One who posted to the Minuteman Project forum on the major white power website Stormfront wrote: 'While this project is not a White racialist event, per se, it's a project that deserves backing from the White Nationalist community in general.'"

She ends with:

I figure this will end one of four ways:

1. A Minuteman gets trigger-happy and shoots an alien

2. Someone who makes money moving illegal aliens shoots a Minuteman.

3. A Minuteman gets trigger-happy and shoots a Border Patrol agent.

4. A Minuteman gets trigger-happy and shoots another Minuteman.

My money's on the last one, but I'm taking bets.

And Matthew Gross is unlinkable in re-design but writes: "Who is a bigger threat to America, a Hispanic with a muscle-powered shovel or Wal-Mart with a petroleum-dependent outsourced supply chain?"

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