Posted: 5/4/2006 2:54:58 PM EDT
| What is the general thoughts on the Minute Men? Who is a member? Curious how many are out there an belong to forums like this one. Talked to them at a local gun show a month or so back and it seems they have a very good idea and point. |
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I am with a number of different Minutemen groups. The main group I am active with (having been on the actual border near Fabens, Texas for two seperate week long periods in October 2005 and April 2006) is the Texas Minutemen. (there are quite a few different groups, loosely connected to not connected at all). What do you want to know? Doing the right thing is a lonely road full of insults and jeers (though some good pats on the back, as well). Others can say what they want, but if they don't want to even entertain some of the facts about those people and groups that are, or pretend to be, behind the open borders lobby, then that's unfortunate for us all. Tomorrow, we are actually having a protest outside of Bush's ranch in Crawford. We'll see what kind of media attention we get. We usually don't get much, and that usually pretty negative. Never thought as a conservative I'd be protesting a sitting Republican president. |
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Maybe that's because Bush is not really a conservative. HR
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On that point we both agree. I was specifically drawing a distinction between conservativism and Republicanism in how I wrote that. I haven't been under the impression that being a Republican meant being a conservative since Reagan (and even he signed an amnesty bill in 86). |
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Spain has a similar problem with illegal immigration... I recently returned from Barcelona. They've already passed TWO amnesties and are considering a third. Each time it quells the immediate problem, but it continues to resurface. Aside from a high muslim immigration, they also have high South American latino immigration. I have a lot of LEGAL immigrant friends who are furious over this issue, and more upset still at the protests/demonstrations. I know some of them have felt so passionately they joined the MinuteMan project (at least in California/Nevada). At the same time I must note that I don't personally know any illegals... as they tend to keep away from me once discovering I speak Spanish. |