The maniac right make false, derogatory statements about the left and indies all the time, shouldn't we do a little better?

Yes, the minutemen are assholes, but they have not committed one violent act, and their (misguided, granted) purpose is to pressure the government to enforce immigration laws. I see all these stupid rumors on indymedia claiming that they "attack", "hunt", even "shoot" people, but none of those things have occurred. This is mostly a bunch of old farts sitting on lawnchairs with binoculars, cell-phoning the immigration authorities whenever they see someone coming across the border.

If you have to smear these nonviolent idiots with easily checkable lies, it just makes the real arguments against what they're doing look weak.

The minutejerks are non-violently calling for the government to enforce a crappy law - if you really want to oppose them, get the immigration laws changed, get some aid to uncodumented immigrants, don't have the usual partisan mud-slinging wankfest.

Unless, of course, you work for the other side and you're just planting lies on IMC so you can later point to them as evidence of bias...in that case, you're doing a bang-up job.

For your information, the whole granny with binocs and lawnchairs perspective shows you actually believe what you see on FAUX Newz.. In reality the Minutemen are tied to the White Nationalist Party, which by another name would have once been know as the KKK. Sortof the same racist idiot bullys the UK has in the BNP. This Minutemen project gives these closet racists an exuse to go out in the middle of the night with their 4 wheel vehicles, dawned in cammoflauge with night vision goggles and scopes on their rifles. I should point out they only work at night.. they may wander around the border durring the day for the press but they mostly "hunt" at night.. I was happy to find kids dissurpting these weekend warriors with their lights and boom boxes. And then appalled at the abuseive language shown by the Minutemen to the point they TERRORIZED the progressive kids with threats of violence and chased them off with their guns.

I would like to point out that if you had listened to the program you would have learned quite quickly the non-violent parties you are defending are the ones WITH THE GUNS. This program spolighted the efforts of local progressive protestors who counter these ignorant gun-toteing yahoos. The audio and video was taken from various San Diego indymedia sources.

And you called me dishonest.. that's your short comming. You might want to get yourself on those "easily checkable lies". One of the first reasons I formed my station was because of these so-called "Good Americans" like yourself who give a false impression of authority and information, and yet, like I've pointed out here.. don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. A good deal of America is acting much like the people of Germany circa 1939 and I don't like it.

Get with it or get out of the way.

I will be positing a new Mindwalk here every Sunday

here's the latest Mindwalk 12: Walking to New Orleans

 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6694.php

Much love..