Is the founder of the Minutemen mentally stable?

Question

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=149

luv3dbb, I did a search and found conflicting info on who founded the Minutemen. Some said Gilchrist, some said Simcox, some called the co-founders.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45682

Answer 1

I don't think he carrying a full deck of cards. He and I share opposite views on the Preamble to the Constitution. He would have you believe that immigrants are our problem, legal or illegal. How he wants to treat the illegal immigrants will form a mindset in those who would be legal immigrants. Fewer of them would want to come here.
By the same token he would not be able to mention that people from our trading partners also died on 9/11. No to him and his kind they think the attacks were aimed specifically at Americans. And quite likely to have disregarded the full statements of fella's like Osama Bin Laden. Where he mentions the West as well as America along with our business partners. No, people like that are selfish.
As for the Preamble, it descibes the basic tenents as to how to approach the body of the document. Something I feel that Congress has overlooked more often than could be said. I feel that when an idea as well intended as our Constitution is taken apart and out of context, the continuity is thrown off kilter. How we present ourselves to the world has been blurred. When that happens The very next document of great importance to us, The Bill of Rights also suffers. there is only one document that seperates us from any part of the world, The Declaration of Independence. Whoever doubts this had better reread it. The Consitution describes shared powers. The Bill of Rights I descibe as a treatise with ourselves. It is all inclusive. It is humane. It is our equilibrium.
No I cannot accept these seperatists point of view.

I don't know, maybe I am walking around up here with this higher ideal of what it means to be American. One thing I do know, the full weight of American resillience is not up here with me.

Answer 2

I'm studying Clinical Diagnosis right now. It's a little diagnonsense, and a little true, but my prof says that there is something wrong with everyone! The trick is whether or not our "wrongness" keeps us from functioning in society. I don't really subscribe to that, but I'd thought I'd throw it out anyway. I'm good, though, and mentally stable for now. ;)

Answer 3

'"A Drastic, Dangerous Guy'
There's one trend that Simcox seems oblivious to -- the growing involvement of racists in the border vigilante movement. Despite the fact that white supremacist groups openly recruit for Minuteman patrols and that a handful of neo-Nazis from the National Alliance and Aryan Nations did sign up for the Minuteman Project in April, Simcox refuses to acknowledge that vigilante border patrols are potentially a magnet for violent racists. "

Vegas, did you read the whole article.

I said today that the Minutemen were a bunch of Morons. You all that are against, are full of crap.

"PROPAGANDA that people who are anti-American have put out. It doesn't state any proof just "

If we do not believe in this Moron we are " anti-American".People put on your boots. It is getting deep in here

Answer 4

Hi Vegas woman,

Jim Gilchrist is the minutemen founder and is a great guy. I have heard him personally speak and he has some good points.

Chris Simcox is the President I do not know much about him and this article is alarming. I disagree with a lot of things you say but I really really do appreciate the info I’ll be doing some more research on this. Thank you!!!!

Answer 5

The only reason we have minutemen is because of a border that is porous & mostly unprotected These men are fed up & very angry I haven't heard of the founder so I can't pass judgement even with a website. I hope the state will get off its butt or there will be war down there

Answer 6

No. But the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (by which the author of your linked article is employed), Morris Dees, IS mentally unstable.

In 1996 USA Today stated "... in a recent report on arsons at black churches in the South, his Klanwatch newsletter included five 1990 fires in Kentucky. The article doesn't mention they were set by a black man." The article reported Stephen Bright of the "Southern Center for Human Rights" stated that Dees "is a fraud who has milked a lot of very wonderful well-intentioned people. If it's got headlines, Morris is there."

Answer 7

Vegas you are doing what you say everybody must not do, here you are sitting back in judgment of another. You simply cannot properly diagnose anyone's mental condition based on heresay. You simply cannot try hold a trail over the internet.

Answer 8

Yes, on the same note is Hillary mentally stable.

Answer 9

Does it really matter? They are providing a needed service and require background checks to prevent members of hate groups from joining -- which is more than La Raza or MEChA do... But then, MEChA at very least IS a hate group.

The SPL has a respected past but I have lost my respect for their current incarnation. They have a 'hate group' list reminiscent of the Salem witch trial accusers. Under their own definition of a hate group, they are one.

Answer 10

Well, if the government isn't willing to protect our borders, SOMEONE has to. And, since it HAS fallen to the average guy next door, don't see how you can really complain about lack of screening.