Thread: Minutemen regroup after shootings

ALIPAC NOTE: We have warned all groups and individuals to stay away from Jim Gichrist and what little remains of his Minuteman Project MMP for the last two years now.

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Minutemen regroup after shootings

By Daniel Newhauser, www.gvnews.com
Published: Saturday, June 20, 2009 10:01 PM MDT


Two weeks after members of a fringe border-protection group were arrested in connection with a double homicide in Arivaca, Minuteman organizations are still scrambling to explain their dealings with the suspects while distancing themselves from the controversial Minutemen American Defense group.

Shawna Forde, MAD’s director and the one who authorities called the ringleader in a plot to rob and murder Arivaca drug dealer Raul Flores Jr. and his family, had ties to both Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project and the 12,000-member Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Jeff Schwilk, founder of San Diego Minutemen, an organization separate from the MCDC or Minuteman Project, said he warned other groups not to work with Forde after hearing her suspicious claims last year that she’d been raped and beaten by drug cartels in Washington state for investigating their operations.

“I could tell she was a danger to our movement,â€

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[b]“(Minutemen) have been inattentive to the issue that violence could spring forward in these groups,â€

[quote]Heidi Beirich, research director at the Southern Poverty Law Center... “(Minutemen) have been inattentive to the issue that violence could spring forward in these groups,â€