Thread: POLL: Do you consider this Gilchrist MMP Move a Scam?

Friends of ALIPAC,

Tomorrow, I am doing a show about the many things I consider to be problematic or destructive actions by Jim Gilchrist and what little remains of his MMP or Minuteman Project (Not to be confused with Minuteman PAC, MCDC, or the many other Minutemen groups).

Here is one of the many things we will be discussing on the show.

Please review 1. This original article from the New York Times. 2. This e-mail blast that Jim Gilchrist sent out to thousands of people attempting to raise funds.

Please compare the two items carefully and then vote in the poll above this thread.

Please note that Jeff Schwilk and his lawyer Howard Kaloogian were working for San Diego Minutemen (SDMM) which is completely separate from Minuteman Project (MMP). In fact, Jeff Schwilk already would not work with MMP in any way at the time of this article and fund raising email.

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Item 1: Original Article from New York Times

TEXT ALTERED OR REMOVED BY GILCHRIST AND MMP IN BOLD

[quote]Minutemen Fight Change in Highway Cleanup Site

Published: February 20, 2008

SAN DIEGO — When California awarded the San Diego Minutemen, a group well known for its border monitoring in search of illegal immigrants, a permit last Nov. 21 to clean a stretch of highway including the Border Patrol checkpoint at San Onofre, complaints from immigrant advocacy groups and Hispanic lawmakers were swift and strong.

Opponents said they feared violent confrontations between the Minutemen and immigrants, and in January, the state agreed. It rescinded the group’s Adopt-a-Highway assignment along two miles of Interstate 5 and offered an alternative in eastern San Diego County.

But the founder of the San Diego Minutemen, Jeff Schwilk, was not to be moved. The group filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month arguing that the decision violated its constitutional rights to free speech, due process and equal protection under the law. The Minutemen are asking for permission to work at the original site, as well as for the payment of legal fees and $50,000. A hearing is scheduled for March 14 in the United States District Court in San Diego.

A lawyer for the Minutemen, Howard Kaloogian, a former Republican state assemblyman who represented north San Diego County, said that in removing the group and its sign from I-5, the State Department of Transportation gave in to the opposition and granted a “heckler’s veto,â€

More votes needed folks!

Feel free to comment here if you like.

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Done!

Done

How do you feel about this MMP Fund Raising Email?
Highly Dishonest
83% [ 10 ]
Slightly Dishonest
0% [ 0 ]
No Big Deal to Me
8% [ 1 ]
It's fine to do this.
8% [ 1 ]
Undecided
0% [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 12

I have too many things I monitor, they are not one.

Done.

This altered text is a good example of why we check and re-check the written word. Too easy to change.

Also beware that video is coming right along and is next on the distrust scale. It's getting increasingly easier to alter video.

How do you feel about this MMP Fund Raising Email?
Highly Dishonest
81%
81% [ 13 ]
Slightly Dishonest
0%
0% [ 0 ]
No Big Deal to Me
12%
12% [ 2 ]
It's fine to do this.
6%
6% [ 1 ]
Undecided
0%
0% [ 0 ]
Total Votes : 16

Done!


How do you feel about this MMP Fund Raising Email?
Highly Dishonest
77% [ 14 ]
Slightly Dishonest
0% [ 0 ]
No Big Deal to Me
16% [ 3 ]
It's fine to do this.
5% [ 1 ]
Undecided
0% [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 18

I have been reading the ALIPAC boards for many years. I wanted to weigh in on this and vote. This stuff Jim Gilchrist and MMP are doing is outlandish and needs to be stopped.