Treason, Wetbacks, Citizenship, and Minutemen

According to a spokesman for the Minutemen, the ACLU is helping illegal aliens:

Grey Deacon told Joseph Farah's nationally syndicated "WorldNetDaily RadioActive" audience yesterday that ACLU monitors sent to the border to watch Minuteman activity and report civil-liberties abuses to authorities have begun flashing lights, sounding horns and warning off illegals and their "coyote" human smugglers from entering territory patrolled by the volunteers.

"They are actively engaging in criminal activity," said Deacon.

Deacon said the ACLU activists are resorting to new tactics because of the success the Minuteman Project is having in assisting the Border Patrol in spotting illegal aliens and in generating publicity about the insecure U.S.-Mexico border.

"The ACLU's position is that illegal aliens have a right to enter our border and stay in this country as long as they want," said Deacon. "That's what one of the leaders of the group told me personally."

This is putrid, treasonous behavior on the part of this leftist front group. How does aiding illegal aliens in evading apprehension fall under their purview? Do those four letters now stand for "Illegal Civil Liberties Union?" OK, it's the ICLU, then.

These people pose as defenders of freedom and champions of justice. In reality, they've done far more harm to this nation than good. The only freedom they defend is licentiousness, secularism, or treason. They do not champion justice, but leftist causes. As you can see, they've kicked it up a notch, and have no intention of stopping. I find them the most loathesome vandals of our society's mores working today. Like Huns pouring from the steppes, like barbarians clamoring at the gates, they're tearing down our country, one brick or fortress at a time.

As a brief aside, I want to address George W. Bush's characterization of the Minutemen as "vigilantes." This is poppycock. Our Founders formed this nation predicated upon the idea that it entails a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Is that what we see happening, today? This administration and its many cogs thumbs its nose at the desires of the American people, regarding border security and immigration control. It has absolutely no regard for the will of the people. I truly believe it will take another terrorist attack of equal or greater devastation to 9/11 to awaken our "leaders" to the realities and dangers of loose immigration policies. Even then, I won't be surprised if they do not take the proper curbing actions.

The information I've gleaned in researching the Minutemen is that they embody the ideals once held dear in our country's early years: citizenry is more than simply saying, "I'm an Amurricuhn." It's an act. They've addressed a problem that our government refuses to deal with--and quite effectively, considering their limited range and resources. They're acting like militia members on the frontier; and indeed, that is what the border region is: a frontier between civilization and chaos. It must be strengthened. It must be held. I commend them for their efforts.

If vigilantism is protecting your homeland from foreign invasion, while g-men pick their noses and hang Spanish signs in their windows, then I'm all for the concept. Is it vigilantism for me to form a neighborhood watch? Is it vigilantism for me to hold a man at gun-point, after catching him breaking into my neighbor's house, around midnight?

If the answer is yes, then we need more of it.