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Monday, 11 April 2005
Oh, Brother - What A Bunch Of Whiners!

I'm sure you've met someone who always looks at the dark side of things - the kind of person that complains if life is good, and complains if things go wrong. These folks can always be depended upon to find a problem with every solution.

The Tuscon Citizen is just such an entity. Eager to print disparaging stories about the Minuteman Project's month-long border-watch in the Arizona desert, Claudine LoMonaco, a reporter-cum-opinion-maker, has created a "hit piece" on the detrimental economic effects of right wing hatred that masks itself as "patriotism," and has quoted such unbiased sources as a university professor and an allegedly-legal Mexican citizen, who openly calls the Minutemen "immigrant hunters" and associates them with the numerous lawless criminals who populate, and indeed, govern his third-world paradise that so many are trying to flee from.

Now, the project's been going on for 10 days, and the only reported incident that the press has felt the need to report involved an illegal who was fed by the Minutemen and let go - of course, this poor undocumented worker complained about his detainment - who knows, maybe the milk in his cereal wasn't cold enough. In a fit of political correctness, the Minutemen Project canned the volunteer because of his violation of the No-Contact Rule.

"The volunteer's actions were admirable, justified and undeniably humane," Chris Simcox, a project official, said in a news release, "but unfortunately they jeopardized our established procedures and overall purpose of passively monitoring the border.

"It's unfortunate, but we had to dismiss him from further participation," Simcox said. "Our adversaries will take even the most benign event and try to develop it into an international incident. We cannot allow any digression from our established policies and procedures."

It's ironic that, since there's no bad news to report, the Tuscon Citizen feels compelled to create some. Yet another example of left-biased opinion-making masking itself as "journalism." 

posted by: underwhelmed at April 11, 2005 10:35 | link | comments (4) |


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#1  11 April 2005 - 13:13
 
It's about time we have some good news coming from our borders, rather than having the same old that so many illegals got in today.

Normally I agree with President Bush. On this issue I don't agree with him. He is wrong, the Minutemen are not vigilantes, they are shedding light on a problem neither candidate or neither party will even discuss. It's a huge problem and we want something done about it. I don't want to see anymore stories of LA hospitals closing because there are too many uninsured illegals that they can't afford to stay open anymore.

Let's hear it for the Minutemen!
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#2  11 April 2005 - 14:34
 
What is up with the hospital thing, anyway? I have heard that the illegal population views it as the method by which to get their (free) healthcare, so they just appear in the emergency rooms, with everything from colds to gunshot wounds - and pregnancies, the result of which produces new American citizens and closed hospitals.
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#3  14 April 2005 - 22:40
 
Yeah, well, when the dishwashers in your favorite restaurants, or the nannies of guys like Bernie Kerrick, or the people who pick the strawberries that you buy in the supermarket, or the men that wait on streetcorners to be picked up by contractors as day laborers break a leg they decide that maybe the hospital would be a better place to go than to the KFC for a bucket.

There is a natural flow of illegal immigrants based on economic weather patterns. It is obvious that the tide will not be stopped until the underlying reasons are taken care of. It's a two-way street. If there were nobody hiring them, it wouldn't take long for the illegal immigration to dry up.

What are the Minutemen doing about solving the greater issue?
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#4  15 April 2005 - 09:01
 
Economic weather patterns be is right; there's indeed another side to this criminal activity - the incentive to hire cheap labor, being given by greedy corporations unwilling to pay a decent wage, and a government that encourages illicit behavior on both illegals and corporations by failing to prosecute them.

Either way, it's going to end up with Al Qaida sneaking in a pathogen that kills 10 million Americans.

The Minutemen should also BOLO (be on the lookout) for illegals working for various companies, reporting these "employers" to the state labor boards, and going to the media about this issue. As has been proven on the so-called "War On Drugs" numerous times, you can't stop supply when there's ample demand.

Prosecuting companies that knowingly break the law by hiring illegals will kill the immigration issue, and while we'll always still have to watch the border, the problem will not be a serious one.
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