Minutmen Forced Out Of Vermont Town - Get Lost Trying To Find Canada

[matcom]

:rofl:

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NEWPORT, Vt. -- It's hard to save the United States from illegal immigrants when you can't find the border.

At noon yesterday, some volunteers in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps were in this bucolic town in northern Vermont, trying to do both.

Eleven members of this citizens group had come to the Vermont-Canada border to patrol for illegal immigrants. They had intended to station themselves in Derby Line, a quaint village that straddles the border.

But these Minutemen were forced out of town by a larger crowd of protesters, who denounced their opposition to illegal immigration as a front for racism.

So the volunteers set off to watch a stretch of border on a bike path that runs along Lake Memphremagog.

Only they got lost.

Some of the men stood at a break in the path, which is crossed by the Canadian border close to where they stood. But the group's leader, Bob Casimiro of Weymouth, Mass., was not sure which way to send them.

He pointed down the path toward a footbridge. The Minutemen started walking.

''Stay within sight," he told them. Within minutes, they were out of sight.

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2005/10/16/volunteers_get_cold_reception_in_vermont?mode=PF

[tularetom]

1. I know you've included a link but

somehow you have maade this up right?

[matcom]

2. nope

read on :D

[henslee]

3. "hard to save U.S.from illegal immigrants when you can't find the border"

hysterical first sentence.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Translation for non-Yankees

(Minute man Casimiro of Weymouth, Mass...)

Local comment:
''They are outsiders, and we don't want them here," said David Van Deusen of Moretown, Vt., who helped to organize the protest. ''We don't want their racist policies in Vermont."

Translation: "Massholes, go home !" }(

[SillyGoose]

5. I didn't get past the first sentence...

It's hard to save the United States from illegal immigrants when you can't find the border.

:rofl:

You just cannot make this sh* up!

[tularetom]

6. Somebody needs to make a movie based on this

Sorry, I was wrong. Nobody could possibly make up shit like this.:rofl:

[havocmom]

18. Go rent Canadian Bacon

It's a hoot and was prescient about the mind set of too many Americans.

[realFedUp]

7. thank god the original Minute Men had a sense of direction...nt

:-)

[Catch22Dem]

8. I didn't realize they cared about the Canadian border...

I mean, they're not brown over there. Or are they afraid there might be some illegal French *GASP* immigrants. HAHA

[FreedomAngel82]

17. Oh of course

No to the French. :eyes:

[havocmom]

19. They're using Canada as a beard to hide their bare faced racism

[Maestro]

9. Oh crap!

I'm dying :rofl: I wonder if they needed to use of that manly survivor skills in the Vermont forests.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. "Back on the bike path, the three Minutemen trudged on in the rain.

Back on the bike path, the three Minutemen trudged on in the rain. Finally, they knocked on Amy Audet's door to ask directions.

The border, she told them, was in the opposite direction."

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[McKenzie]

11. hynaaahaaahaaa!

oh maaan....that was so bloody funny.

Still laughing as I type.

[oneighty]

12. Oh Canada

Where you at?

180

[GOPisEvil]

13. Mix in a map, you racist idiots!

:rofl:

[Callalily]

14. Leaf-peeping Minutemen

''This is really nice," said Weymouth police officer Bob Johnson. ''We get a foliage tour thrown in for no extra cost."
Well, I would suspect the US/Canada border MUST be patrolled. After all, we don't want to be forced to eat le fromage et pane avec le vin rouge.

[leveymg]

15. I hope they get picked up by Canada Immigration as illegal border-crossers

"Just shutup and get in the back of the van. Tell it to the Immigration Judge when we get to Ottawa."

"Baloney sandwiches, boys? It's a long ride."

That'll show them. :bounce:

[Tsiyu]

32. Except the arresting officers will ONLY speak French to them

and feed them Blood Sausage.

:rofl:

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Hilarious

These people are ridiculous.

[havocmom]

20. Hmm, they left AZ when summer hit and came back in Oct. Go to Vermont

during the autumn foliage show... Sounds like vacations to me. Guess they won't be coming to the border near me until spring. :evilgrin:

[belle]

25. No, no. Vermont NEEDS them during the winter. That's when all the

sneaky Canucks try to sneak oot, don't you know. Seriously, let's all write back and tell them. January-February, really could use your help up here...

[havocmom]

27. Ya may need them in winter, but I doubt they will be out patrolling then

in Vermont OR Montana ;). They seem to be fair-weather defenders of the national borders! :evilgrin:

[flamingyouth]

21. Didn't they get lost trying to find Texas a while back?

Does anyone else remember this story? They got messed up trying to get from New Mexico to Texas or something. :D

[Fenris]

22. LOL

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

24. I thought that was Jim Rob's freeper caravan to the anti-Cindy thing?

Unless more than one group of wingnuts managed to misplace Texas, which wouldn't surprise me.

[flamingyouth]

26. Oh, I think you're right!

But hell, either way... :rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. Excuse my ignorance but

I didn't realize there was a border problem in Vermont. Are there large groups of illegal Canadian immigrants crossing the border ? :)

[atommom]

28. I thought the Canadians were too smart to sneak over here!

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Last time I checked

there was still a huge aisle of Mexican food at my HyVee and no Canadian foods. :)

[tanyev]

38. These days it's more likely that Americans will be trying to sneak into

Canada. The private militia in Sinclair Lewis's book It Can't Happen Here that kept people from doing that was called.......the Minutemen! Eerie.

[imouttahere]

39. Why would Canadians want to come here now?

people from other countries are leaving in droves. These racists are just taking vacations at their supporters expense.

[miss_kitty]

29. They're guarding the Washington State border too

they weren't marched outta town, but there were protests, and no one wants their RV camp up there either.

[applegrove]

31. That part of the world has really big mountains - not hills. I think they

should patrol the moutain peakes & valleys. And walk up and down and up and down. You never know when you might catch some illegals "von trapping".:sarcasm:

[matcom]

33. kick

:kick:

&

:rofl:

[CHIMO]

34. Similar Article

From the Toronto Star

Minutemen border on invisible
U.S. `vigilantes' fizzle out in rain

MARTIN PATRIQUIN
SPECIAL TO THE STAR

"It's kind of stupid that they'd come here," he said. "I mean, what are they doing up there? They'd be lucky if they see a moose."

Wardle was one of about 30 or so rain-soaked activists who staged a protest in this quaint American border town about 170 kilometres southeast of Montreal. The Americans and their Canadian compatriots across the way, in the equally quaint town of Stanstead, Que., brought banners, noise-makers and their fair share of righteous anger to this sleepy crossing, in hopes of confronting the Minutemen, a group they consider racist and above the law.

So they went ahead and protested anyway, with a raucous march to the border, where they met up with the Canadians. They sang the same cheers, waved to one another and even staged an impromptu game of cross-border soccer over the Tomifobia River Bridge dividing the two countries — which went well, until a Vermont state trooper confiscated the ball.

The only place to find them, it seems, is at the gas station 200 metres from the protest site. It is where A. Robert Casimiro, a wiry 67-year-old Minuteman, has come to get coffee and find a decent map of the area — if only to figure out where, exactly, the border is. Some of the Minutemen were in the forest, he said, but most were watching the bicycle path outside of town — the one that goes over the border.

Casimiro patrolled Arizona last summer. "It's like night and day," he says of the two borders. "In Arizona you know there's a border there. There's five rows of razor wire. Here, we don't know where the border is. It would be embarrassing for us to go over the border and not know it. Then we would be illegal."

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1129413010491&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes

[tuvor]

35. Keystone Kops n/t

[Jose Diablo]

36. Is Newport around the town of Redbud? n/t

[matcom]

37. one more for the weekday crowd

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