Minutemen turn out to be a couple of hundred pot-bellied retirees

[NNN0LHI]

US has no time for Minutemen on Mexican border

They Touted themselves as fearless patriots standing up for the defence of the homeland. Their enemies painted them as dangerous vigilantes who threatened to create a bloodbath on the US-Mexican border. In the end, the so-called Minuteman Project ­ a private, month-long initiative to patrol the southern Arizona border and fend off illegal immigrants ­ has turned out to be little more than an April Fool's joke.

For weeks, the US media has been intrigued by the possibility of a major stand-off in the Sonoran desert, envisioning armies of white supremacists armed with Uzis and Kalashnikovs, gunning down Mexican immigrants trying to make the dash across the sand and brush to a brighter economic future.

The American Civil Liberties Union sent in its own army of legal observers. Local politicians and residents alternately bristled at the prospect of these uninvited out-of-town enforcers, or else welcomed them as a much-needed counterweight to the heavily Latino local establishment.

As the call to arms began over the weekend, satellite trucks and television equipment vans lined the streets of Tombstone, the tourist town made famous by Wyatt Earp and his shoot-out at the OK Corral. Anticipation was at fever pitch. But the supposedly redoubtable army of right-minded citizens, stepping in where the federal government fears to tread, turned out to be no more than a couple of hundred pot-bellied retirees.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=626132

[xultar]

1. Well who else could it haave been? A bunch of fit fine athletic types?

buhwaaaaaaaa!

[Dharma_Bum]

2. Dorks!

What a Joke!

[Redstone]

3. Be careful, they're going to come after you for posting this;

I have been utterly astonished at the racist, xenophobic venom that's been splattered in LBN tonight in the threads about this subject.

There's even a disturbing trend in these threads for people to say "bush doesn't like the vigilantes, and you don't like the vigilantes, so you're just as bad as bush, and when did you turn republican" and on and on.

I thought I'd gone to FR by mistake.

They'll probably notice your post soon, and then you're in for it. I'll cover your back for as long as I stay up tonight, which won't be much longer.

Redstone

[NNN0LHI]

4. Thank you very much for the warning Redstone but bring them on

Fuck them and the horses they rode in on.

Don

[Redstone]

5. Now THAT's the spirit!

You mow 'em down, I'll stack 'em up.

Though I'm only going to be up for a little while more.

Redstone

PS: You did mean to say the HORSES they rode in on, right? No matter, if they ride on on hoses, we'll beat the crap out of the hoses too. (Uh-oh, I'm getting tired and punchy.)

[NNN0LHI]

7. Line up them hoSes. Heh, heh. I think we are all nuts around here

See ya later and take care.

Don

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Listen, pal, every one of these patriots...

...tried to enlist in the Army to fight in Iraq against the Sept. 11th hijackers but the goddamn liberal commie pinko gays in the military blocked them! And they blocked their equally patriotic children as well! The Lie-beral Media is preventing the story from getting out.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I gotcha. I will be more careful next time...maybe. Good post too n/t

[lonestarnot]

9. Yes they are a comical looking bunch... I really don't know what their

real intentions are after seeing them. I had hoped it would be something in line with LEGAL immigration.

[Maestro]

10. They are idiots

I suppose they are doing this to call attention to the problem or do they really think they can solve the problem? I work with immigrants everyday and hate to tell them this, but a big part of the problem is fellow Americans willing to give them work at crap wages instead of employing Americans. They will keep coming because there is work here among other things. Don't blame the immigrants.