racist fucks

So the Minutemen movement has spread and revealed its real roots.

(there used to be a picture here of skinheads doing a 'heil hitler' salute, but I had to take it down. Just loading the page and having it be there was creeping me out.)

A counter protester chronicled how the Save Our State/Minutemen displayed Hitler Youth flags along with Confederate and American flags at a protest at the Laguna Beach Day Laborer center on July 16, 2005. Indymedia has more pictures to document the link between these groups (who are syndicating all over the West, Pennslyvania, Ohio, and many other states) and racist organizations.

The governor? He has said that he supports their "anti-immigration" cause. Way to go Arnie.

The SOS website evokes violent languages and "calls to action" with slogans like "is your community becoming a third world country" and "Had enough?" These people are scary, racist thugs -- why have the mainstream media been painting them as cowboy-esque conservatives? Hate crimes against Latinos are up in California as well as crimes against African-Americans and Asians.

So scary what waves of extreme conservatism bring. Remember, it was during the Reagan/Bush Sr. years that Tom Metzger and the neo-nazi movement gained strength and renewed vigor. The end result, in some ways, was the Oklahoma City bombing after which the government started taking the threat of extreme right Christian Identity movement seriously. Of course, the harrassment of hard working immigrants and citizens should be enough to cause a political backlash. Anyone in Cali, Arizona, New Mexico or anywhere else these guys are trying to organize needs to be protesting and writing letters to the paper. Don't let them set the tone of the debate any longer.