Thread: ‘Immigrants in! Minutemen out!’

http://www.workers.org/2006/us/minutemen-0810/

Anti-racists tell bigots:
‘Immigrants in! Minutemen out!’
By Heather Cottin
New York

Published Aug 1, 2006 10:38 PM
On July 26, a militant pro-immigrant rights picket line, organized by the May 1 Coalition and others, confronted the presence of the Minutemen in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero.


The Minutemen is the name of a two-year-old racist group that has organized armed, terrorist, anti-immigrant vigilantes on the northern and southern borders of the United States.

“We are calling on all supporters of immigrants rights to help us send a clear message to the Minutemen: Get out of our city!” said May 1 Coalition member Teresa Gutiérrez, who, along with two other organizers, was harassed with hate calls and threats by the vigilantes in the days before the protest.

One Minuteman told Gutiérrez that their meeting was to be a “prayer meeting,” in front of Ground Zero, but instead the event was organized to promote a book by Jim Gilchrist, the Minutemen’s fascistic founder.

Gilchrist works with the Nazi-affiliated Council of Conservative Citizens. Some Minutemen are with the National Alliance. Some wear Nazi swastikas. Before the July 26 protest, one of the Minutemen gave the Nazi salute to the anti-racist protesters.

Over 200 protesters drowned out Gilchrist’s speech, chanting, “Racists go home!” Their signs read, “The Minute/Klan are not welcome in New York.”

The demonstrators reject the Minutemen’s opposition to what they call, “illegal immigration.” “No human being is illegal,” shouted a woman who sneaked into the Minuteman rally. She quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who stated, “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

Coalition member Larry Holmes noted, “This protest is follow-up to the recent protest at CNN headquarters against racist TV personality Lou Dobbs. Dobbs’ show promotes the same racist attitudes as the Minutemen.”

Filipina activist Berna Ellorin, who is a Bayan representative to the May 1 Coalition, said, “The Minutemen are simply using the congressional debate [about legalization of immigrants] in Washington, D.C. right now as a pretext and platform to push their agenda of hate politics that espouses total state repression and a hierarchy of human beings based on race and citizenship. They will simply fail in every attempt.”

Scores of demonstrators broke through their police-pen and surged across the street toward the 30 Minutemen, who were visibly shaken. The police, the armed protectors of the Minutemen, forced the protesters back.

“If it wasn’t for the cops, you wouldn’t stand a chance!” chanted the demonstrators. With drums beating and whistles blowing, they shouted, “Immigrants workers built this town. Racists, fascists, get out! Get down!”

The demonstrators reject the Minutemen’s opposition to what they call, “illegal immigration.” “No human being is illegal,” shouted a woman who sneaked into the Minuteman rally. She quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who stated, “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

I'm really tired of being compared with Nazi Germany. Why are we considered Nazi's simply because we want to enforce our laws and protect our country?
Wow the ignorance never ceases to amaze me. Illegals will grasp anything they think will serve their cause, whether they know it or not.
I have very little patience for stupid people.
If my history serves correct, the Nazi's were the aggressors. So would the illegal immigrant movement more fit this description? What an outrage!!!

That story reminds me of typical communist party propaganda, back in the Cold War days. Black is white, wrong is right and illegal is legal.

I'm stunned by this article. Nazi salutes from the Minutemen?? That is a bald-faced lie. There's no way the Minutemen would do that.

The entire article is a pack of lies. It's disgusting.

Originally Posted by americangirl

I'm stunned by this article. Nazi salutes from the Minutemen?? That is a bald-faced lie. There's no way the Minutemen would do that.

The entire article is a pack of lies. It's disgusting.

I wouldn't say it is entirely full of lies. I do believe the last few paragraphs touch on the truth, and show these thugs wouldn't hesitate to use violence against a group they oppose.

Scores of demonstrators broke through their police-pen and surged across the street toward the 30 Minutemen, who were visibly shaken. The police, the armed protectors of the Minutemen, forced the protesters back.

“If it wasn’t for the cops, you wouldn’t stand a chance!” chanted the demonstrators. With drums beating and whistles blowing, they shouted, “Immigrants workers built this town. Racists, fascists, get out! Get down!”

Whenever I read these articles I crack up. Everything is Nazi, bigot, racist and fascist. Whatever. I feel sorry for the goons that actually believe all this.

If we really were the Nazis, there wouldn't be anyone complaining because they would all be gone already.

I think they do it to incite thier own.
They forget the over 300 illegal aliens that have been helped and probably kept from dying at the border by the MM.
The MM also have been cleaning up the tons of garbage left by the illegals as they sneak like thieves into this country for the reconquista.

Leslie Feinberg, a well-known transgender author and activist and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.

Quote from their website.

It seems they are confused about a LOT of things. If you want to see every anti-American and anti-decent activity lauded, go read some of the articles. The word Wacko comes to mind...

Too bad Ms. Cottin didn't share her contact info with us.