Minutemen movement is mostly made up

Here's the thing, all you have to do is look around the mall or the kitchen of a restaurant to learn that there are an ass load of Mexicans in this country, most of whom are no better or worse then most people (only much shorter). But in order to gauge the progress of the minute (read: small) men you need to have cable TV and be able to endure Lou Dobbs for more than 30 minutes. It turns out the border patrol "movement" has been largely manufactured for media consumption by a group of angry white guys who are somehow really good at public relations.

A report from the Missouri Immigrant Action Network gives an alternative perspective that doesn't take the word of racist white guys as gospel truth - I know it's probably a biased source as well but that's why you read blogs . . . To decide for yourself.

Fifteen journalists reported the Minuteman Project had signed up "at least 1,000 volunteers." The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ran a March 23, 2005, article headlined "2,000 volunteers expected for Minuteman Project."

Vastly fewer actually showed up. During the first week of the project, The New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times all reported "between 100 and 200" volunteers (an Intelligence Report story estimated fewer than 150). Even Jerry Seper of The Washington Times, the Minuteman Project's most prolific cheerleader, reported just 100 volunteers in his April 3 article, "Border-vigil Volunteers Big in Spirit, Not Number."

The majority of those volunteers went home after the first weekend, and while others trickled in over the course of the month-long operation, the Minuteman Project never came close to matching its opening strength. "Yet, mysteriously, by the end of the month the Minutemen were claiming they had 857 volunteers," the ACLU study reports. Journalists reporting from their desks in faraway cities failed to challenge the increasingly outrageous claims of the project's organizers, often publicizing their numbers as simple fact, without attribution.

Here is the report in its entirety.

To be fair, a recent immigrant rally in D.C. didn't live up to expectations.

So it's clear and somewhat heartening that people would rather do anything but protest and be a general pain in the ass. Most people are looking for more leisure time and not a revolution . . . And that's one of the many reasons that so many people don't vote or get turned off by politics. Still, most of the MSM news agencies in town still unquestioningly report the local minute men PR rallies as gospel truth and misrepresent every Latino in this town as some kind of Commie activist . . . When, in fact, most people just want to earn a decent living, make a better future for their kids and possibly find a good looking white woman to make them chicken pot pies.