ANGRY MOB TO HUNT MEXICANS, MUSLIMS
'Minutemen' to Patrol Arizona Border

From ABC courtesy of Eschaton:

Intent on securing the vulnerable Arizona border from illegal immigrant crossings, U.S. officials are bracing for what they call a potential new threat this spring: the Minutemen. Nearly 500 volunteers have already joined the Minuteman Project, anointing themselves civilian border patrol agents determined to stop the immigration flow that routinely, and easily, seeps past federal authorities.

They plan to patrol a 40-mile stretch of the southeast Arizona border throughout April when the tide of immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border peaks.

"I felt the only way to get something done was to do it yourself," said Jim Gilchrist, a retired accountant and decorated Vietnam War veteran who is helping recruit Minutemen across the country.

"We've been repeatedly accused of being people who are taking the law into our own hands," said Gilchrist, 56, of Aliso Viejo, Calif. "That is an outright bogus statement. We are going down there to assist law enforcement."

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This sounds like trouble, if you ask me. There may very well need to be more patrols along this stretch of border in Arizona, but crazy xenophobic white people with guns is not at all a good solution. What we need is for some of that massive Iraq war budget to be sliced away to pay for some real counter-terrorism measures. Like more border guards. Trained border guards. With badges and stuff.

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