Nativists to 'Patriots'

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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1094

Nativist Vigilantes Adopt 'Patriot' Movement Ideas
By David Holthouse

Camp Vigilance, Calif. — A call to arms from ResistNet blares through this makeshift camp near the small community of Boulevard: "We all know what happens when you back an animal into a corner — it fights back. The way I see it, that's exactly the direction this country is heading. They're backing us into a corner. It's getting to be time to fight back."

Located two-and-a-half miles north of Mexico in the high, rugged desert of unincorporated eastern San Diego County, Camp Vigilance, known colloquially as "Camp V," is a sizable Minuteman border vigilante compound situated amidst 170 privately owned acres.

Adjacent to active human and narcotics smuggling corridors, Camp V consists of roughly 100 tent camping sites, a half dozen or so full RV docking bays, a bunkhouse, a radio communications center, a mess hall and meeting grounds, all within a gated and well-guarded security perimeter.

On this night in late May, a dozen or so Minutemen are checking their weapons, testing batteries in their night-vision goggles and thermal-vision scopes, donning body armor and making other preparations for sundown-to-sunup reconnaissance patrols. A public address system plugged into a massive RV amplifies ResistNet, an Internet radio program broadcast by the Patriot Network, which promotes conspiracy theories and right-wing antigovernment militancy. Since the beginning of this year, ResistNet and other Patriot Network programs have become quite popular at Camp V, as well as other remote Minuteman outposts in southern California and Arizona.

The broadcast continues: "I can see the true American patriots are being backed into a corner. They're getting ready to strike back at their captors, the greedy, evil vipers in the high offices of this land."

[The Magistrate]

1. A Clear Violation Of the Smith Act, Sir

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2. How exactly do these

idiots afford this kind of thing. They have all kinds of toys like bullet resistant vests and night vision goggles, they take a pile of time off and go "camping" while pretending to be a lot more important than their otherwise meaningless existence allows.

What do they do for a living and how in the hell can they coninually pull this off?

[moggie]

3. Makes you wonder about those "narcotics smuggling corridors", doesn't it? n/t

[sharp_stick]

4. Actually it does

I hadn't thought of that but it does kind of fit together nicely.