Well it seems neo-nazis and racists are also interested in being minutemen as indicated by their posts in their web forums. I'm not sure how you advance the issue against illegal immigration which has merits in it's own right without attracting such detritus which has very different reasons for supporting it. How do you vett people?
I was just thinking that!
This is going to get much worse before it gets better.
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Yes. Even the Democratic party has had members who used to be Klan members. Sen Jim Byrd of West Virginia used to be a Klan Kleagle".
"Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white n*gger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.
"The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats."