Minuteman program cut illegal border crossings by 50 percent, Border Patrol says

Story dated 25 April 2005

Project Minuteman is actually having an effect, despite its critics saying that it would not have a positive impact. I wonder why this isn't a national front-page headline: "Private Citizens Make a Difference." I guess it isn't in the government's (and its supporter's) best interests for the word to get out that, if the government fails you, you can do it on your own. Imagine how dangerous that would be to the livelihood of all those parasites in government who depend on the perceived helplessness of the American people. Project Minuteman exposes this lie: here is a group of citizens who are fed up with government ineptitude and are doing something about it in a positive, non-violent way. I am encouraged.

The Minutemen are now trying to turn their successes into political clout to push our government to act. Spokesmen state that the Minutemen will continue to do their "civic duty until relieved by the National Guard or the U.S. military." Another lie that this exercise has exposed is the lie that the Mexican government lacks the resources to control its side of the border. They clearly can, and have, in reaction to the Minutemen; "Mexican police, humanitarian workers and military personnel intercepted northbound migrants south of Minuteman observation posts, warning that "armed vigilantes" were waiting to hurt them. The Mexican government transported the would-be border crossers to Aqua Prieta, 25 miles east, and Nogales, 80 miles west, where illegal-alien totals later skyrocketed."
---------'Minutemen' to push Congress

posted by The Sovereign Editor | 4:55 AM

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