- It sounded like a crackpot idea to the political and
cultural elite.
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- Hundreds of citizens, angry about the effects of illegal
immigration on our country, would travel down to the Mexican border and
do something about it.
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- The Minuteman Project would attract kooks, said the naysayers.
It would encourage racism, they moaned. It would be divisive, others whined.
It would provoke violence, some claimed. It would be vigilantism, cried
some, including the president of the United States.
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- Now that we've seen the Minuteman Project in action,
we all know it did none of those things.
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- What it did was shut down 27 miles of border that had
previously been used as a veritable freeway for illegal aliens and smugglers.
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- The Minutemen, about 1,000 strong, helped catch some
invaders. But their presence served as a major deterrent to many others,
who decided to wait until things calm down in Arizona.
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- I hope it never calms down.
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- I hope the Minuteman Project spreads like wildfire from
state to state so we can shut down the entire Mexican border with volunteers.
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- I hope the Minutemen show up the federal government,
which claims closing the porous border is just too big a job for all the
hundreds of billions we send to Washington.
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- I hope this movement serves to inspire tens of millions
of Americans to similar citizen action.
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- I hope this project is the final nail in the coffin of
President Bush's amnesty plans.
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- I hope this action brings so much attention to the border
that the federal government is literally forced, kicking and screaming,
to do its job and close down the border.
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- I hope when the American people see that all it takes
is will power, that they will demand Washington build an Israeli-style
security fence along all 2,000 miles of the border.
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- This was exactly the kind of citizen action I envisioned
when I wrote "Taking America Back" two years ago.
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- The Minutemen are showing us not only how to seal our
borders and protect our national security, they are demonstrating how we
can take back our country from the political establishment.
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- In just a few days, the Minutemen have put the national
spotlight on the border - even at a time when the world's attention has
been diverted by the deaths of Terri Schiavo and of Pope John Paul II.
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- I love it. I am so encouraged. The Minutemen are my heroes.
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- I wish I could be there with them.
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- These are extraordinary men and women who have taken
time away from their work and their families and their hobbies to do something
for their country. They deserve our praise, not our scorn. Bush should
be ashamed of himself. He will live to regret his castigation of these
fine people.
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- For those of us who don't go, we need to be supportive
of the Minutemen in any way we can. We need to pray for these fine Americans.
And we need to support them with financial assistance.
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- You can do that by visiting the Minuteman Project website.
http://www.minutemanproject.com/
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- Give generously. They are fighting the good fight for
all of us.
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- Those of us who have to stay home need to make as much
noise as possible about the border. We have to be outspoken in our support
of the Minutemen. We need to demand that Washington live up to its obligation
to secure our borders and make national security the No. 1 priority. Speak
out. Be silent no more.
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- I'm excited by what I see in Tombstone today. I'm re-energized
by it. I hope you are, too.
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