At border, Minutemen keep low profile, protesters don't

[Eugene]

At border, Minutemen keep low profile, protesters don't

DERBY LINE, Vt. (AP) _ Members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
were out patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border on Saturday but they were
looking to keep a low profile.

Much more out in the open were the roughly three dozen protesters who
turned out near the border station separating Derby Line from Stansted,
Quebec, to voice their opposition to the Minutemen in a driving rain.

"We don't like the idea of the militia on our border," said one member
of the Raging Grannies, a singing group comprising mostly elderly women
from the Montpelier and Plainfield areas. The Grannies are a common
feature at Vermont protests.

The protesters were there to criticize the Minutemen, a citizens'
militia made up of members who believe the government isn't doing
enough to defend the nation's borders.

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More: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--minutemanprotest1015oct15,0,4860254.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[TaleWgnDg]

1. Go, Raging Grannies, Go! And G'bless Vermont! n/t

[itzamirakul]

2. The Minutemen are really the Ku Klux Klan under a different name. n/t