when has the minutemen ever shooting ,beat or killed the illegals?
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The organization hasn't shot, beat, or killed anyone. Well, not yet. It's still a racist, nativist organization.
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Yes!!! Just read in the newspaper this morning, they're going to have a cross-country caravan. I'll share with you something I read:\n \n"Our power is not putting a million people on the street. Our power is putting 10 million people at the voting box. Their voice is accompanied by a lot of bodies, but our voice is accompanied by even more bodies who aren't going out in the street."\n\nPeople who says they're "vigilantes" just doesn't know what Minutemen people do! Try to observe with your own eyes, not only read or hear from those unpatriotic people! They care for the welfare of their fellow US citizens and in many ways, even wakes up the Congress about immigration and border issues.
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Its sad that the only defense those opposed to the minutemen project can come up with is foul racist claims that are simply untrue.  They stick with the media though and that helps the vast majority to distance themeselves from the minutemen.\n\n1)  Tell people the truth - they are not racist they are hispanics, blacks and rednecks that want to protect our border and have the rule of law enforced.\n\n2)  Tell them what happened in the 80's when 3 million illegal immigrants were given amnesty.  Now 20 years later 12 million are poised to get it.  Tell them no; tell them to vote against liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats that could give it up.  12 million this year means 40 million in 2025.  \n\n3)  Put up a yard sign, donate a little money, write letters to the editors and help any candidate in your area that opposes illegal immigration, that opposes amnesty, and will protect and secure our borders.
962523
They already are a hate group (anti-Hispanic) and they have no legal authority to act as they do. The fact that some law enforcement agencies may overlook their illegal activities does not change the issue: The Minutemen's goal is to instill fear into Hispanics/Mexicans (whether legal or illegal) through intimidation.\n\nRemember, the Ku Klux Klan started as a vigilante group whose stated purpose was to "enforce the  law of the land." Sympathetic law enforcement agencies overlooked their abominations as well.\n\nI don't doubt some of the things you've mentioned (murder and burying the evidence) have happened already.\n\nNationalist and Fascist extremism ALWAYS turns into a disaster for innocent and right-minded people. WWII was the result of the actions of people (German, Italian, and Japanese) who had virtually the same mind-set as the Minutemen.
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Don't know, but they shouldn't be- citizens have a right to protect their own country, whether illegal or not!  History will prove them right and their actions will be honored at a future time.  Americans are expected to be sensitive to everyone else yet, to add insult to injury, we're supposed to submit to the ridiculous whims of others.  What justification can an illegal immigrant bring for breaking the laws of other countries.- they have none b/c they have no standing to complain.  Why don't you ask mexico why they rape and pillage their southern border yet expect us to leave our southern border open.  On top of that, they want free healthcare and complain when we suggest that thats inappropriate- the rest of the world is laughing at us.  As long as american kids are deathly afraid of rotting in a mexican jail for littering or peeing in the street, we shouldn't even grant mexico an audience!  Even worse, now they're demanding that we hand deliver Dog the Bounty Hunter to them for capturing a habitual rapist that mexico wasn't even trying to capture!  Whatever- mexico should learn its place!
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Actually it's about the mass murder of native Americans by early settlers. \n\nTurkey anyone?
1085483
The game is hillarious.  You are so going to get hate mail on this one.  In case anybody doesn't know, Mexico does shoot when they catch illegals sneaking thru their country to get to ours.
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The Minutemen are patriots of the highest order, as are you and JD, and some others posting here! Banana Bean, laugh all you want - when the deportation starts, everybody can go cry on the shoulder of good ol' Vicente, right? We Americans need to act, and need to do it now! I applaud the Minutemen for bringing to light what the media has been reluctant to show. Americans must realize that our situation is growing more dire by the day. These invaders do not want to be Americans - they want us out of our own country, and we need to stop the inflow and take our country back! As Pancha so astutely points out, they aren't going to stop (you forgot to put the word ILLEGAL in front of immigrant again, Pancha) so they have to be stopped. If that makes the Minutemen vigilante's, oh well... I support them no matter what you want to call them - brief pause waiting for Pancha to call them racists... GOD BLESS THE US!!!\nYes, Banana Bean - they do want us out! I've seen the signs telling us "Go back to Europe", "This is our continent, not yours", etc. I'm wrong? I just took it wrong the same way I took it wrong when I saw all those Mexican flags flying at the rally's? Or I took it wrong when I saw the pic of the Mexican flag above an upside down American flag? Give it a break! We're not blind, and we're not stupid! You picked a fight with the wrong people - the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans wants illegals out! And although we might not get all of them, we'll at least keep the numbers way, way down - not out of control like it is now! Keep laughing...
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I would say they are still around. They have no need to arouse attention to themselves as most of them weren't so much anti-government as they were anti-democrat and apocolyptic. Quite a few of them I would wager are part of this new "minuteman" craze which is hell bent on securing the US borders from illegal immigrant attacks.\nBTW I believe they think they are fighting for the right...
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No. It's the present!\n\nThat article was written poorly!  After reading it three times, I still haven't figured out if it's the American police or Mexican police!   Anyways, it doesn't matter regarding your question.  It sounds like one criminal group is fighting another for an illegal smuggling route.  What does the immigration law have to do with that? \n\nBreaking the law is just that!  We are finally trying to enforce some of our immigration laws. Our Southern border is our weakest link in our national security. It's about time we're doing something about it!
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Where were the drunken rednecks with shotguns and lawn chairs when the parents and grandparents and great-grandparents of these minutemen were emigrating to America? The country would be better off without these hypocrites running around cloaking their racism in sanctimonious demogougery.
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Is it:\n\nhttp://www.minutemanproject.com/news/?p=5\n\nHope that's it.
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Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, issued the following statement on the passage today of an illegal alien amnesty bill by the U.S. Senate: \n\n"The vote to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens by the United States Senate today, should it pass into law, would ensure that the status quo is maintained: the borders would remain wide open and the attractive nuisance of endless welfare and social programs at the expense of the American taxpayer would remain. Those climbing over the backs of those waiting patiently to abide by our laws; and instead breaking the law, illegally entering this country, and committing document fraud; those not paying taxes; and those hiring illegally would be granted full amnesty. American citizens would, of course, still be subject to prosecution for document fraud and tax evasion. This sends the message that if you play by the rules, you suffer; if you enter the United States illegally, you are not subject to the rule of law.\n"The American people do not trust the government to grant amnesty now and secure the borders later. We already went down that road in 1986, and the borders remain wide open still today. \n\n"Their constituents are watching, and these Senators will pay the price come election time. We are now focusing our attention on the House of Representatives where we do not expect amnesty to pass. The House is more respectful of their voters, as they stand for re-election every two years. The arrogance and cavalier disregard of the will of the American people by this Senate will not be forgotten-there will be an accounting. The American people are still sovereign in this country, not a gaggle of politicians pandering to their special interest donors. \n\n"The existing border crisis is a dereliction of duty by those entrusted with this nation's security, sovereignty and prosperity. The U.S. Senate just left America vulnerable to a tsunami of migrants at the border, to terrorist infiltration and to an unprecedented crime wave by drug smugglers, thieves, rapists, human traffickers and murderers who cross our frontier at will-and whose bravado and aggression will now increase with the Senate's message of our apparent national weakness. \n\n"But the Minutemen will remain on patrol, at our posts-and continue to build border fencing and barriers on private land with private donations until the U.S. government performs its most basic constitutional duty to these United States, and safeguards the people and protects the territorial integrity of America."
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Absolutly making it worse!!!  Just like the terriorists are making it worse for Muslims.  They say all muslims aren't terriorists but all terriorists are muslim.  All Mexicans aren't members of the Atzlan/Reconquista crowd but all members are Mexican.  The legal families as well as illegal who do not agree with them are "collateral damage" in their broad scheme.  Why else would 2 non-english speaking students beat the crap out of another who did?  Why would a fellow Mexican get drug out of his car and beaten during a Mexican holiday for having an American flag on his car?  Why would another have scalding coffee thrown in his face because he was against amnesty?  Why do they make it a "race" thing when the head of the Minutemen in Il. is latino?  Other Minutemen are latino.  Where was the race card when 2 Mexican-American  border patrol agents are being unjustly punished for doing their job?  The American people are behind them.  They'll support Elvira who is breaking the law and leave their own out to dry for supporting the law.  They are playing the language card to further cause a rift and seperation of people.  Even when people who learn Spanish to try and communicate...it's not the "right" Spanish....it has to Mexican Spanish.  Anything and everything to push everyone who isn't Mexican out of the picture.  How well do you think a Korean-American is going do speaking the Mexican version of Spanish?  Sorry.....but no.....they are doing incrediable damage.  Their hate and their agenda is far louder and having more impact on the American people than anything.
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Just to put the record straight,the three "immigrants" in question had 36 convictions *between* them. Yes, they were given life sentences,but the judge ordered them to be deported after serving their sentence. \n\n**LONDON (Reuters) - Three members of a gang of armed robbers "addicted to violence" have been sentenced to life in jail after terrorising London streets.\nThe group, whom police described as one of the "most violent street robbery gangs to operate in London in recent years" subjected their victims to brutal attacks during a three-month campaign last year.\nThe gang would abduct strangers from the street before stealing their valuables and bank cards. Those who resisted revealing their PIN numbers were threatened with guns and knives and viciously beaten.\nOne suffered a fractured cheekbone, which required the insertion of a metal plate, while another is still receiving medical treatment after being repeatedly hit in the face.\nOn Monday, all four men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob at Wood Green Crown Court, north London, and were sentenced to a total of 45 years.\nUnemployed Robert Lincoln, 18, from Barking, was told he should serve at least 14 years, after which he should be deported to Jamaica.\nPedro Frota, 19, also unemployed from Barking, was told he should serve 12-1/2 years and be deported to Portugal.\nUnemployed Sofian Majera, 22, from Dagenham, was given 14 years and told he should be deported to Rwanda.\nThe only member of the gang to avoid a life sentence was Luis Frota, 23, also from Barking, who was sentenced to 4-1/2 years, after which the judge recommended he be deported to Portugal.\nDetective Inspector Lloyd Gardner, of London's crime squad, said: "This gang were one of the most violent street robbery gangs to operate in London in recent years.\n"They used extreme violence on their victims, who were put through a terrifying ordeal."\nThe gang carried out 24 attacks between September and December 2005, often targeting passengers as they left tube and train stations.\nJudge Witold Pawlak, passing sentence, said: "These men were addicted to violence and treated their victims like they were characters in an arcade game."**
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A group volunteers doing a great job, who are simply misunderstood by bleeding heart liberals who don't have a bloody clue about the real world.\n\nPatrolling the US / Mexican border is a bigger task than some people think, and the more help the authorities get to do so the better - remember it ain't just illegal workers potentially coming over that border, but also the potential threat of Al Queda linked terrorists & drug smugglers coming over that border too...... and with the Minutemen on the job, it means the border patrol aren't completely tied up dealing with the mexican illegals and can also deal with looking out for the Terrorists & Drug smugglers before they get over the border to fill your kids with bomb shrapnel, anthrax or cocaine.
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i'm assuming you mean illegals. You have to give the guys from central america credit. They were all willing to die trying to get here. Most of them ride on freight trains accross mexico to get to the border. Many are maimed and killed trying to jump on and off the trains. Gangs and marauders rob and kill them all the way up the track. How many of us would be willing to die just to live here? We are all decendants of immigrants. As long as they are not criminals, i don't have a problem with them trying to get a little piece of the american dream.....