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JandP

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Yes, vigilantes

What is with the national media pontiffs who keep trying to canonize the "Minutemen" who have invaded Arizona's southern border? Minutemen, my foot. They are vigilantes. It is true that many are senior citizens parked on lawn chairs with their
binoculars and cell phones and glorying in the national and international attention they are getting. But as reported this week by Ray Ybarra who heads up the ACLU volunteers who monitor this explosive situation, others run around dressed in military fatigues and armed with pistols, talking on their radios as if they'd been transported back to the Vietnam war. The month-long, highly dangerous circus is about to end this weekend. But it is very easy to believe the vigilantes when they say they'll be right back. And they plan to spread the plague to other states. Arrrrghhhh!