RELATED STORY: Minutemen brace for possible backlash

[underpants]

Source: Green Valley News and Sun (Green Valley AZ)

“I figured something like this was going to happen,” he said Friday after three people were arrested in connection with two murders in Arivaca. “We’re all going to be painted with the same broad brush.”

Anderson said he is pulling local Minuteman volunteers from the streets until about the end of the month to avoid potential confrontations.

Anybody joining the 12,000-member national Minuteman group must undergo a background check, an interview with a national officer and go through four to six hours of training, he said.

“Our rules are very strict,” he said. “We’re doing everything above-board according to the law.”

Read more: http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/06/13/breaking_news/01arivacasidebar614.txt

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“We worked with Ms. Forde briefly before dismissing her in 2005,” Garza said in an e-mail. “We conduct a very stringent vetting process before engaging in any long-term association with any person or group.”

Gene Cafarelli, former Arizona director for the MCDC, said it had an “arms-length relationship” with Forde, and “never shared any operation nor any intel” with her group.


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[BlooInBloo]

1. Overheard wondering to themselves: "What??? We just fucking hate brown people...

"what's wrong with that???"

:rofl:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Oh, 4-6 hours of training, huh?

well, then, they are extremely well-qualified, more so than those pesky feds who have like thousands of hours of training, I mean, hell, what can't you pick up in 4-6 hours?
Brown people, bad
White people, good

Brown people with money, okay
White people with money, friend.

there.

Done.

Can I join now?

[underpants]

4. step 3

stand there for a long time

[knowbody0]

3. four intense hours of training?

McDonald's gives an entire eight hour shift for training. holy crap!

[DRoseDARs]

5. “We’re all going to be painted with the same broad brush.”

Sorry, the irony was too good to pass up... ;)

[Fearless]

6. Oh, and what could that backlash POSSIBLY be for???

:eyes:

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Every time they kill, these right wing militants moan "Oh, the backlash!"

They portray all Muslims as terrorists and Mexicans as rapists and yet they believe that they deserve to be judged innocent until they commit one of the violent crimes that their group is forever advocating.

[KG]

8. time to add the minutemen to the list w/ OR and AoG as domestic terrorists.

[shadowknows69]

9. How about they have all their assets seized like we'd do with any terror org.

[DBoon]

15. what would the government do with all those lawn chairs?

nt

[4lbs]

10. So, they are afraid of being painted with the same broad brush? You mean the same brush they use

against Latinos?

[SkyDaddy7]

11. Exactly...

I could not help but laugh in disgust when I read that.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. any blacklash or brownlash won't be soon enough.

Minutemind's behavior and fear-mongering is pretty damn close to criminal.

[xchrom]

13. gee -- ya think? nt

[warrior1]

14. Does Lou Dobbs

have blood on his hands too?

[Solly Mack]

16. Snort