Thread: Update from Campo, CA

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MAD MAX TO THE RESUCE


A few weeks a go, Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project was acosted by open borders goonage. And who was there to help them get away and safely into a cab?Campo Minuteman Mad Max! He had returned east to follow the Paul Revere Riders. On MMP woman said " I have never been to happy to see the Campo Minuteman T Shirt"

Max hopes to return to Campo this weekend. He would like to stay at the border full time.

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UPDATE FROM CAMPO

This have been pretty active, with attempted crossings. They seem to be moving more toward Smith Canyon. Two guys with binoculars and cell phones were coming back and forth over the fence, seeming to for a good place to cross. The seemed older for coyotes. One guy was balding. Most coyotes tend to be in their 20's.

Two guys came to Kingfish's camp and asked for water.

People continue to surrender on site to Chicago. This weekend it was a guy who seemed to be in his 60's

Yesterday, there was some type of official tour of the border, on the US site, with the Border Patrol escorting men in suits.Later that afternoon, a Mexican Military helicopter was flying around.

No visible presence of the National Guard, but they seem to be doing some administrative work. When Kingfish called the Tacate Border Patrol last week, he referred to himself as a "civilian observer." They answering the phone. said, rather excitedly. "Who ARE you guys? Are you those Minutemen?"


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Well folks, arrived this afternoon on the "Line",and it hasn't
changed very much since the last time I was there about a month ago.
Met with Kingfish, talked with "36" by phone, and saw "Checkstand" in
person. The only National Guard on the California border at the
present time, that are actually DOING guard duty are 4 or 5 Guardsmen
near the Tecate, Mexico train tunnels! Yes you heard right. 5 or
6!! There are another 5 or 6 Engineers grading the Border Road, and
repairing old fence, and even starting to build a little NEW Fence,
but by and large, the National Guard promised by George Bush,
and "Ahnold" are nowhere to be seen!! This is late August, Folks!
Do you feel like you've been HAD with the politicos' lies? I sure
do. Is anybody out there really surprised? I'm down for a couple of
days from my job near Palm Springs. I guess the Campo MM have about
as many men on the Border as the National Guard does right now. Do
you feel safe? I don't. WHERE the HELL is the GUARD??
Several of us are planning (tentatively) on going to Texas as members
of the Campo MM, to assist Gilchrist's Group of MMP volunteers. We
are planning on flying, but getting firearms down there is a
nightmare, at best. Kingfish says that he may drive his van down,
just to alleviate that problem... Look out Texans! The Campo MM are
coming!...
Hope things are quiet on the line tonight,

J J

The seemed older for coyotes. One guy was balding. Most coyotes tend to be in their 20's.

Perhaps the young ones have all been arrested! Yeah, I know, a ridiculous thought.

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: Stars and nights....................

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I lay down in the prone position in the sandy dunes overlooking an illegal hotspot along the CA/MEX border. Doing this brings back vivid memories of a hard-nosed D.I. at a place called "Sand Hill", Ft. Benning, GA. I can still hear his husky voice:" Keep your butt down or it will get shot off someday. That day is now.

I long for those days, when our mission was well defined, immediate and honorable.

I click on my ancient PVS-5A's or Alphas as we called them back in the mid 80's. Ranger school is hard, but I somehow manage to complete my assigned tasks. I draw my strength and tenacity from my buddies, it is an understanding and brotherhood that is hard to define or even explain to "civilians".

Then, like a flash of light I glimpse towards the heavens, the PVS-5A's brilliantly illuminate every star that shines in the Milky Way, our galaxy, our home, for eons. I wonder if the Dinosaurs saw the same flashing constellations?

I peer back into my "night-finders", off in the distance they appear, like neon-green apparitions, groups of 5 to 6, men and women scurrying across the desert floor, What are they thinking?, Why do they continue to come?, I think to myself.

I glance at my watch, it's 02:30 in the morning or "zero-dark-one-hundred, as we used to say long ago, when I was a soldier. I long for those days, I miss my buds. I continue this non-sense for another hour or so, then I make the call, charlie-sierra-foxtrot, reporting another sighting, it's exciting, an overwhelming sense of patriotism beats like loud thunder in my heart.

I am just an American Patriot doing what he feels is right. What is truly the American thing to do................


TS77