Thread: Email sent from MMP to the FBI

-- Submitted to ALIPAC for reference purposes --

The following correspondence was mailed via U.S. Postal Service today to the FBI to

request help to preserve the civil rights of MMP volunteers and prospective volunteers:


TO:
FROM:

SQUAD 12
JAMES W. GILCHRIST

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 22 VISTA DEL VALLE

201 EAST INDIANOLA
ALISO VIEJO, CA. 92656

PHOENIX, AZ. 85012

March 25, 2005

Dear FBI,

I am one of the coordinators of the Minuteman Project, a grassroots organization of Americans who will assemble under the First Amendment in Cochise County, Arizona from April 1 through 30 to conduct a political protest and rally in support of the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. We will also spend much of that 30 day period observing, and reporting to the appropriate law enforcement agency, any suspected illegal activity where crossing over the U.S. international border into the United States is part of that illegal activity.


I am writing to complain that the ACLU has consistently attempted to interfere with the rights of the volunteers of the Minuteman Project to peaceably assemble in Arizona. Also, the ACLU has repeatedly used libelous and slanderous rhetoric to thwart the ability of U.S. citizens to assemble under the First Amendment, effectively dissuading some U.S. citizens from exercising their civil rights. With the express purpose of depriving U.S. citizens of the rights to assemble and speak under the First Amendment, I feel that the ACLU has maliciously engaged in consanguinity (aka "McCarthyism") by its pejorative references to volunteers for the Minuteman Project as "vigilantes" and as persons who are "taking the law into their own hands."

The ACLU's witch-hunt mentality has seriously eroded the ability of me, and several thousand other prospective participants, to freely assemble in Arizona under the First Amendment of the Constitution of The United States of America.

Through malicious harassment and intimidation, against U.S. citizens seeking to exercise their rights to freely assemble, including threats of arrest and law suits (for alleged acts that no one had committed, or intended to commit) the ACLU has effectively and illegally suppressed the civil rights of fellow citizens.

I am requesting that all legal remedies and protections available to preserve the civil rights under The Constitution of the United States of America to myself and those participating, or anticipating participation in, the Minuteman Project political rally and assembly, be provided.

Sincerely Yours,

James W. Gilchrist - The Minuteman Project [ Web site URL:
minutemanproject ]

cc: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano

Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain

Arizona U.S. Senator Jon Kyl

California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

California U.S. Representative Christopher Cox

United States Department of Justice

I received a copy of this e-mail earlier today. I sent and e-mail to Gilchrist and Simcox asking for a confirmation of authenticity before posting it to the home.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I received a copy of this e-mail earlier today. I sent and e-mail to Gilchrist and Simcox asking for a confirmation of authenticity before posting it to the home.

W

I received from James Chase (#2 or #3 man in the MMP), and received directly from him, so I assume it is athentic.

He is one of the 4 (or 5 if you are comms) persons who carry the "official" voice of MMP.

H.

Ive been requesting to be added to an MMP email update list. Still no luck there.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Ive been requesting to be added to an MMP email update list. Still no luck there.

W

I would vouch for you William, however, you are not a vetted MMP participant, and there are rules about who is put on the list.

Talk to any border jumper, and they will tell you rules suk. However, WE know why rules are needed, and that is one of the main reasons why a board like this is needed "To inform people what the RULES are, and try to get people to abide by them". The rules we are working with are far more serious than simple inclusion on an email list, however the principle is still the same.

However, I am sure that most "official" MMP correspondence (which can be released) does make it to your inbox, or the site. However, it does make it harder to vet out what is a real story, vs what is rumor and innuindo (sp). On my end also, it is sometimes hard to separate fact from "stretched" fact, from fiction.

H.

H:

Yea, if I am going to print something on the home it needs to come to me via a verified and direct source. I would accept something from you since you are a participant.

W

The news of this letter is spreading faster than the Boston Tea Party.