Dangerous Levels of Overlap Between Xenophobic 'Minuteman' Movement and Tea Party

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151070/dangerous_levels_of_overlap_between_xenophobic_%27minuteman%27_movement_and_tea_party/

Glenn Spencer's land was once a meeting ground for anti-immigrant vigilantes. Now, with many of the same faces present, he hosts the Tea Party Nation.




Last August, more than 600 right-wing activists gathered for a Tea Party Nation rally on private land near the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County, Arizona. Fluttering in the desert breeze were hundreds of tiny American flags attached to a border fence of 15-foot-tall rusty poles.

Rally speakers included Tea Party candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as marquee names from Arizona's anti-immigration movement. The headliner was Maricopa County Sheriff (and Fox News favorite) Joe Arpaio, the swaggering lawman whose ski-masked deputies terrorize suspected "illegals" in controversial roundups, and whose idea of a good photo-op is the forced march of shackled Latino inmates down a city street.

Arpaio shared the stage with Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce, the chief architect of Arizona's infamous Senate Bill 1070.

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[Ship of Fools]

1. glad to see the factual connect,

but this does not surprise one bit.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Did someone not realize these were the same people?

[Kali]

3. my thought exactly

same idiots, duh

[The Magistrate]

5. Precisely, Sir

That these are identical groupings has been obvious from the start, and ought to have been the focus of news coverage; indeed, would be the focus of honest news coverage.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. as my baby brother would say "d'uh"