| We are on the threshold of what will be the outbreak of the most abominable human hunting season known among the history of men on the face of the earth: the pompously named “Minuteman Project.” This project intends to seal the border of the United States with Mexico through the illegal patrolling of civilians armed to the teeth. These civilians, assembled by the “patriot” James Gilchrist and others of his stripe, say they are tired of the federal government not controlling the flow of migration. Because of this, they have decided to take the matter into their own hands. The illegal activity of the aforementioned vigilante border project comes with the tacit support of the federal government, of the state, and of Cochise County, which Tombstone, the land of Wyatt Earp and O.K. Corral, belong to, where it seems that firearms are the only reasoning that can be wielded to settle differences. We Mexicans substitute the Clantons, the vigilantes are in place of Earp, O.K. Corral is enlarged, and revolvers have been exchanged for more lethal military paraphernalia in the hands of crazy racists obsessed with racial purity. Unlike the original militiamen of old, however, these modern “patriots” don’t go to battle with stones and sticks, nor do they respond to the call of their country for the defense of national sovereignty. No. These Jesse James copycats come from families of rancid ancestry. These are people that can have the luxury of not working a month or more, spending thousands of dollars for a human hunting expedition and even financially support a movement that says it is voluntary. These “underprivileged” and “poor” “Americans” aren’t going to sell off their houses or sell any of their own territory to undertake the defense of their country; they aren’t going to seek their livelihoods in an alien land; they haven’t felt the misfortune of seeing their sons die of hunger; they haven’t felt any sort of regret when the “illegals” contracted to work in their mansions haven’t been paid. The Minuteman Project and similar groups are nothing more than the hysterical and racist representation of a xenophobic minority. The cause they seek isn’t just, or noble, or patriotic. They aren’t even Zorro or the Lone Ranger. They are merely and simply lawbreakers. Common felons. Criminals. http://gringounleashed.typepad.com/gringo_unleashed/2005/03/the_pompously_n.html
lawbreakers? Common felons? Criminals? |