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Until someone can actually document a connection between the minutemen and racist groups, linking the two is really no more than a slur.
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While formal institutional connections may not exist, their overlapping interests and agenda on this issue are mutually supporting.
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Highly publicized among right-wing extremists ranging from militia groups to white supremacist organizations, the Minuteman Project has attracted a variety of extremists and anti-immigration activists of all types. A number of neo-Nazi National Alliance members showed up for the first weekend of events.
Shawn Walker, spokesman for neo-Nazi National Alliance, earlier indicated that members of his group would take part in the project. "We're not going to show up as a group and say, 'Hi, we're the National Alliance….But we have members of ours that will participate," Walker said.
Before the project began, National Alliance fliers, describing illegal immigration as an "invasion" that will cause white people to be "a minority within the next 50 years," were circulated in several communities along the Arizona border, including Douglas, Nogales, Bisbee, Tucson, Tombstone, and Yuma. Similar fliers have also been distributed in Phoenix and Mesa.
National Alliance chairman Erich Gliebe said that local members distributed the fliers to help the Minuteman Project. "We have found that a lot of people in the area are sympathetic to our message, but won't admit it," Gliebe said.
The Minuteman Project has been advertised on various extremist Web sites. For example, an Aryan Nation Web site links to the Minuteman Project, proclaiming "a call for action on part of ALL ARYAN SOLDIERS."
http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_i...ntes_40705.htm
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The ignornance and vitriolic gross mischaracterizations of those here who couch their intolerance in the "save America from the illegals" rhetoric sickens me as well.
Illegal immigration is an issue we must address as a nation. I only hope reasonable minds prevail and that it is done in a rational manner with respect for human dignity and the core values of our nation. I further hope that your American never becomes my America.