Aren't many of the Minutemen connected to white supremacist organizations?

Question

Some of the leadership in particular appears to have come from the ranks of the KKK and neonazi groups.

You wanted some sources regarding these allegations, so here you go:
http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/26771.php

http://www.alternet.org/story/34650/

http://indymedia.us/en/2005/01/7776.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minuteman_Project_Inc.

http://www.alternet.org/story/32644/

Answer 1

Those are some very interesting articles...thanks for the link....

When minutemen came to our border city, they were asked to leave by the city counsel.....What does that tell you?

Answer 2

I have no solid facts upon which to base my opinion at the moment but pictures say a thousand words. Just look at the way they dress and behave while being interviewed.

I've seen photographs of Minutemen holding their surveillance equipment but unwittingly including the 4X4 with the shotgun and riffle hanging in the rear window. Are they really photographing illegals in an attempt to aid the National Guard or are they hoping for an armed confrontation?

The idea that they need high power riffles, side arms, and bowie knives for protection against women, children, and men seeking a better life in our great country is preposterous.

Answer 3

united statesa. nevertheless is, at this factor, a loose united states, meaning human beings's beliefs won't be able to be used to exclude them from volunteer events. Black supremacist organizations or racist Reverend Wright or racist Farrakhan are also loose to patrol the border in the journey that they so pick. My experience is that the Minutemen who patrol the border would not welcome White Supremacists to go back and connect them, because that they're sparkling that their company isn't racist. they do no longer welcome racists. (See Jim Gilchrist's blurb). they do no longer want to be considered as racist, because what they think in isn't racist. they think in the U. S. implementing the regulation on border get admission to, both, for absolutely everyone of all races. that is to the Minutemen's earnings that they no longer be considered as racists. regrettably for the Minutemen, they could't end any White Supremacist company from going and doing their own patrol. human beings opposing unlawful immigration are literally not unavoidably racist because they oppose unlawful immigration, yet at the same time, their competition of such does no longer mean that they are not racist. White Supremacists might want to have an pastime in holding nonwhites abroad. They lend a nasty call to just about all of those who've an issue with the thousands and thousands of illegals making get admission to to our united states, yet who're no longer racist and who would fairly like most of the marvelous, warmth, sweet Hispanic those who come over. yet like I say that is a loose united states and we won't be able to save human beings from doing volunteer artwork, basically because of their beliefs. i in my opinion might want to rather have the White Supremacists patrol the border, it quite is a helpful pastime, than have them do hate rallies and marches or commit violence, which they might do in the journey that they have got nowhere else to channel their energies.

Answer 4

You can keep calling them racist to your heart's content, I understand that the Minutemen have hispanics and other ethicities in their ranks, and while that by itself doesn't completely free them of accusations of racism, I don't think it's really a matter of race, it's more like a citizen's group that's become concerned with the growth of gangs from Mexico and central america, as well as other negative aspects of illegal immigration.

Seeing as how their most vocal opponents are supporters of illegal immigration and likely socialists as well, I think they've helped the debate quite a bit by getting their critics to show their true colors, which unfortunately are not red, white, and blue, but rather red, white, and green, and in some cases, just plain red.

Mexico's in turmoil right now, and they have a lot of social problems, and since we're neighbors with Mexico, we get to share in the 'fun'. Personally, I think a border fence is color-blind, and the sooner we get one built, the sooner we'll go back to being good neighbors with Mexico. I also fully believe that immigration laws as they're written today need to be enforced to the fullest extent possible, and those that advocate illegal immigration, not only from Mexico, but from anywhere in the world, need to be fined heavily. This issue is a Biggie, don't know where you stand on it, I would assume in favor of illegal immigration, but the bottom line is thus: We taxpayers, regardless of ethnic makeup, will end up financing half of Mexico and god only knows who else unless we have our boundaries, and in this case, the boundary in question is the US border.
Other nations need to support their own people, and not try to bum-rush the gates. In the event that they DO try, the logical response is to prevent them from entering our country en masse.
Legal immigration, a regulated, monitored, cross-checked process, is a positive influence on the country. Leaving the gates wide open isn't such a hot idea. I mean, make your own choices, here, but my take is that tolerating illegal immigration is basically tantamount to saying our laws are unenforceable, and that we'll tolerate ANY amount of violations regardless. When your first act in the country is to break the law, what lies in the future? I think being an illegal alien in the United States should lead to deportation and a 10-year bar on trying to emigrate legally, and on second offense it should represent prison time, IN the country you came from. That'd be a hard agreement to write, but either we have an understanding with other countries, or we have a situation where the only real answer is to start closing off the borders.

What worked in 1880, or in 1920, will not work well today. But, even then there was some regulation, but in today's world which has swollen, population-wise 6 times over since those years, some hard questions must be asked, and given frank and effective answers. But hey, it's your future, vote how you want...myself, I support legal immigration ONLY, and enforcement efforts to stop anything else.

Answer 5

That is like asking if Latino support groups are connected to La Razza, or other similar groups. Completely ignorant. How is it racist to want to have the laws of your country enforced? Last time I checked, the issues is illegal aliens, not non-white illegal aliens..... Get off the racism issue already, it is non-existent.

Bubba- Surely they don't need protection from them, they need it for the "coyotes" and drug smugglers. Get a clue chump.

You can't judge an entire group by the actions of a few.

Angela- That tells me they support illegal aliens.....

Answer 6

I read that they are trying to infiltrate the border patrols and Minuteman .

Answer 7

So because someone is white and wants to stop illegals from crossing our borders, you believe they have to be connected to a racist group? You my friend are the racist......

Answer 8

no...They are connected to America...as in American citizens...And they tried patrolling the border above us and guess what? No one was coming in...They were all going out.

Answer 9

that is a bad assumption, would be like saying most coloreds are connected with the black panthers.

Answer 10

I hadn't heard anything like that. How do they "appear" to have come from those groups? Don't judge a book....