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April 19, 2005

Minutemen Part 5

It sounds like we have not seen the last of the Minutemen. Even though their current action seems to be over they are planning an even bigger operation in the fall that will try to cover the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

Minuteman Project organizers yesterday declared victory after shutting down a 20-mile stretch of the Arizona border to illegal aliens, but promised to rally "tens of thousands" of new volunteers for a blockade this fall on the U.S.-Mexico border from California to Texas.

For all their faults it seems like the Minutemen are getting results on an issue that has been left unsolved for over a decade.
I still remember the protests against California proposition 187 from when I was in highschool. These were some of the dumbest protest ever as they usually involved getting a bunch of highschool students to skip school or walk out of class, which is not a good way to protest a law whose effect is to kick some of these same students out of school.

The other big problem with those protests was the prominence of Mexican flags. The early protesters had prominently displayed Mexican flags and usually no U.S. flags, which is not a good way to build opposition to a law that is designed to punish citizens of another country who are in this country illegally. The high point of the demonstrations was when a group of young communists thugs wearing red shirts beat up a bunch of old people supporting proposition 187. If I remember correctly this happened on the Forth of July and the old people were even waving U.S. flags. As the election drew nearer and the proposition was getting more popular the protest organizers figured out that it would be better politically for them to have protesters waving U.S. flags and that commie thugs were not the way to win an election, even in California.

The protest at my high school consisted of a bunch of students skipping class and hoisting a big Mexican flag in the middle of campus on a school sign. Many of the protestors banged on classroom doors and yelled at and even threatened students who later had to walk by the protest as it wore on. I had several friends who said they could care less about proposition 187 until some protestor threatened them while standing before a big Mexican flag, which made them quick supporters of the proposition.

In related news the Immigration Blog has an unconfirmed report of an ACLU member assaulting a minuteman (who did not fight back).

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Posted by Pete at April 19, 2005 05:09 PM

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Posted by: Dangerous Dan at April 20, 2005 01:31 AM