re: #508 albusteve

of course…anyone wanting the border closed is a racist…the Minutemen were therefore supreme racists

I just learning the difference between the different minutemen groups. Here’s the one started by Chris Simcox and James Gilchrist (not involved in the murder story I posted)….
Jim Gilchrist

According to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Gilchrist willingly allowed members of the National Alliance, one of the United States’ largest neo-Nazi organizations, to help with his 2005 House run. Gilchrist has claimed that he refuses to work with white supremacists, but the SPLC report questioned his sincerity. The report interviewed a former volunteer in Gilchrist’s campaign who said that “they were basically allowing Nazi skinheads and white nationalists to work the phone banks and do IT and distribute National Alliance fliers targeting non-whites,” and that “[when I told them] that didn’t want to work for a campaign that was tainted by white supremacy in any way, they told me not to cause a stir.”[11] Gilchrist has denied allowing racist individuals in the project.[12]

In October 2006, Gilchrist appeared on Democracy Now and abruptly ended the interview after Karina Garcia started accusing him of being a murderer and said that he has ties to the National Alliance.[13]

In a March 2006, interview with the Orange County Register, Gilchrist stopped just short of calling for his followers to pick up their guns: “I’m not going to promote insurrection, but if it happens, it will be on the conscience of the members of Congress who are doing this,” he said. “I will not promote violence in resolving this, but I will not stop others who might pursue that.”[14]

He doesn’t seem very nice either.