Thread: Protesters outnumber Minutemen

http://www.workers.org/2005/us/minutemen-0922/

LONG ISLAND, N.Y.
Protesters outnumber Minutemen
By Heather Cottin
Long Island, N.Y.
Published Sep 17, 2005 10:24 AM

“Minutemen, racist, KKK, fascists out of the USA!� chanted a crowd of more than 100 protesters outside the American Legion Hall in Babylon, N.Y., on Sept. 10. The local Immigrant Rights Committee of the Troops Out Now Coalition organized the demonstration with several Long Island activist groups.

Outside the American Legion Hall
in Babylon, N.Y., on Sept. 10.
Photo: Workplace Project

Anti-fascist organizations from New Jersey and from New York City came out to castigate the Legionnaires for inviting Minutemen founder Chris Simcox to Suffolk County. Simcox is organizing vigilantes to keep immigrants from crossing the border.

In Babylon, the local reactionaries who attended were far outnumbered by their opponents. Students skateboarding at the high school across the street joined the mostly youthful and multi-national pro test ers. Together they chanted, “No human being is illegal!� and “El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido� (the people united will never be defeated).

The right wingers screamed homophobic and racist epithets at demonstrators. When one Legionnaire asked, “Where are your American flags?� an African American demonstrator responded, “Where are your people of color?�

When Simcox arrived, he scuttled inside where he was joined by the local founder of Farmingville’s anti-immigrant group called “Sachem Quality of Life,� Margaret Bianculli-Dyber; Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, who supports “secure borders�; and a local businessman who wants to start a Minutemen group in Suffolk County. John Clark, a member of both California Citizens for Immigration Reform and the American Immigration Control Foundation, was present. So was Ron Bass, a New Jersey organizer for the ultra-right United Patriots of America. Bass is trying to bring the Minuteman Project to the Garden State.

The Minutemen chose Long Island to launch their neo-Nazi campaign against immigrants because recent arrests, police harassment, evictions and official sanctions against Mexican day laborers residing in Farmingville have encouraged reactionaries to believe that a Minuteman pre sence could be established in the area.

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The police are hugely outnumbered, but still try to uphold the law.

Who is going to listen to the lawbreakers?

Stop calling them illegals and call them what they are, FELONS!

This on Long Island. The people there love it they have cheap labor to build houses they are making a fortune on. This is largely the character of this group of people. There is nothing for it but applying the law. That is why bush has to go. He will never apply the law, in so many ways. Money is the motivator and his constituency is all powerful here.

Apparently no one has the sand to do it.

If I were a terrorist, I would gloat over so hapless a Nation. cheers glenn

Seeing the source of the article is Workers World makes me wonder how much of what is written is fiction.

Great avatar naturalglen....can't say one good word about that article, tho. Those of us who want our laws upheld are neo-nazi's?? wow...I guess that means that 86% of the American people are wrong...and a handful of protesters illegally here are (felons) are RIGHT? No...they merely want to fulfill their hopes and dreams by distroying ours. There can't be two Americas...there has never been, nor shall there ever be, more than one.

RR

Originally Posted by Brian503a

Seeing the source of the article is Workers World makes me wonder how much of what is written is fiction.

That is the same thought in my head when i read where the source was from.

Groups looking to negate the existing immigration laws are organizing people for the purpose of protest. These 100 or so that protested the Mnutemen aren't your neighborhood types, they are more organized than that, so I wouldn't bet on the sincerety of this protest. I betcha that one could trace these types of organizations all the way to the White House.

I don't believe anything a Communist group puts on their website.

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Oh yeah, I totally believe that MM were screaming homophobic epitets.

Give be a break.


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Yeah this is an actionable "journalism" piece--this is libel. Does anyone Know Simcox's e-mail address? I would like to contact him and get him in touch with a really nasty libel lawyer named Lin Wood out of Atlanta.

It's one thing to say you disagree with the MM project but when you say they are neo-nazis, then it's time to make a move on the detractors and get some money. Free Speech ends when you libel people. It's time to send a message

Here is a link to Lin Wood's contact info of anyone can get it to Simcox. Lin Wood represented the Ramseys in the infamous Jonbenet Ramsey murder case and got them tons of money.
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1262204_1