Minuteman Project in Leadership Blowup (AP)

[Eugene]

Minuteman Project in Leadership Blowup

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

(02-27) 16:43 PST Santa Ana, Calif. (AP) --

A slow-burning leadership struggle within the Minuteman Project has flared
into a full-blown court fight that threatens the 2-year-old anti-illegal
immigration group's influence, if not its survival.

Ousted Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist sued the group's board of directors
last week for control of the organization after he was fired and accused of
embezzling $400,000 in donations.

Board members, who also fired the group's executive director, also allege
Gilchrist used $13,000 of the organization's money for his own legal fees.
And they recently filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service,
saying Gilchrist illegally received a nonprofit postal discount.

On Tuesday, a judge set a March 21 hearing to decide whether to intervene
in the dispute, which had been building for more than a year, according to
court papers.

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Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/27/national/a164341S34.DTL

[donco6]

1. Typical RW a-holes, can't keep their hands off the $$$.

Duh.

[BayCityProgressive]

3. These people

and the abortion bombers are the militant "death squad" wing of the Republican Party. I cannot believe our government allows this. Hopefully the Dem congress tries to do something about this group.

[Rage for Order]

2. Sounds like a catfight between Hitler and Mussolini n/t

[Cobalt-60]

5. there was at least one

The first time Adolf tried to annex Austria Benito said no - and threated to back it up.

[UTUSN]

4. BwahahahaHAH!!1 Well, these doofi (doofusses?) WOULD be funny if they weren't so hateful

For the Lou DOBBS fans, who are NOT, I repeat, NOT, racists, but who DO hold views on immigration and the border that are ALL shared by the Minutement, here's a fond look back:


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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589

Broken Record
Lou Dobbs' daily 'Broken Borders' CNN segment has focused on immigration for years.

But there's one issue Dobbs just won't take on.

By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok

.... For more than two years now, Dobbs has served up a populist approach to immigration on nightly segments of his newscast entitled "Broken Borders." He has relentlessly covered the issue, although hardly from a traditional news perspective -- Dobbs favors clamping down on illegal immigration, and his "reporting" never fails to make that clear. He has covered the same issues, and the same anti-immigration leaders, time after time after time. In recent months, Dobbs has run countless upbeat reports on the "citizen border patrols" that have sprung up around the country since last April's Minuteman Project, a paramilitary effort to seal the Arizona border.

But there's one thing Lou Dobbs won't do. No matter what others report about the movement, Dobbs has failed to present mounting and persistent evidence of anti-Hispanic racism in anti-immigration groups and citizen border patrols. ....


http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17104568&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6

Border Patrol chief doesn’t want Minutemen near agents (Laredo, Texas)

LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 08/24/2006 | MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV

The head of the Border Patrol said Wednesday he doesn’t want members of the Minuteman Project working near his agents when they come to the Laredo area next month. The civilian group, which reports illegal immigrants to immigration authorities, is expected to start patrolling the border in the Laredo area on Sept. 11 and continue through Nov. 7.

Acting Chief Patrol Agent Reynaldo Garza of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Laredo Sector said he can’t prevent the civilians from coming to Laredo, but said they won’t be allowed to interfere with official business. ....

Esquivel said that if U.S. citizens should have any trouble with a member of the Minuteman Project, he or she should call the sheriff’s department or other law enforcement authority.

State Rep. Richard Raymond deplored the group’s plan to come to Laredo.

“They don’t have anything to do with this community,” Raymond said. “Here, we reject the racism they practice.” ....


(Miguel Timoshenkov may be reached at [phone] or by e-mail at [e-mail])


http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2006/08/moons-paper-and-minutemen.html

Wonkette: if the Border Patrol is short handed, why not call out the Minutemen? You know, the more-bark-than-bite nationalist “movement” that, according to the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Jerry Seper and the Washington Times largely invented out of the ether? Mind you, we’re not complaining. We’re big fans of making mountains out of molehills...

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=635

Anti-Immigration Movement

Newspapers Inflated Minuteman Numbers

, Report Finds

Moon's paper and the Minutemen

The report, "Creating the Minutemen," is based on an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) analysis of 581 articles and editorials printed in major U.S. newspapers between January 2005 and February 2006. The ACLU has been highly critical of the Minutemen, and ACLU volunteers closely monitored the group.

The first of those articles, "Volunteers Set to Monitor Border Crossings," by Jerry Seper of the hard-right Washington Times, reported that 240 volunteers had signed up. By early March, Seper was reporting that the number of volunteers had "more than tripled," came from every state, and included 16 pilots with aircraft.

During the last two weeks of March 2005, the media hype shifted into overdrive. Fifteen journalists reported the Minuteman Project had signed up "at least 1,000 volunteers." The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ran a March 23, 2005, article headlined "2,000 volunteers expected for Minuteman Project."


BoingBoing MM-"Wetbacks" http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/15/snapshots_of_volunte.html


(direct to wetback:

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

WashPost/Hate-State: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000822.html

Pro-MM / LoneWacko: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/004214.html

WashPost MM-Go-Home editorial: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111200954.html

Slave flags: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/08/minutemen-home-for-extremists_08.html


Austin councilman Go Back to MX resolution opposing MM: http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/12/17minutemen.html

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[muntrv]

6. Typical right wingnuts always meltdown over money. Pass the popcorn.

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: