RE: [Futurework] Minuteman Groups

[Cordell, Arthur: ECOM]

Harry   If a million Chinese landed on the beaches of BC, I bet the Prime Minister would have kittens – and so would everyone else.   Arthur   We would "re-discover" our "wonderful" friendship with the US as we yell:   Help......Do something.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Harry Pollard Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 3:30 PM To: 'Darryl and Natalia'; futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Subject: RE: [Futurework] Minuteman Groups Natalia   You trust your “local conservative news station”?   They don’t carry guns. If local people were concerned about those gun-toting women it must be because they too listen to their local conservative news station.   You should watch a “fair and balanced” station like Fox.   You talk of “the irrational fear they have of illegal immigrants”. That isn’t the problem as they see it. It is simply that millions of illegal immigrants have crossed the border and the flood continues.   If a million Chinese landed on the beaches of BC, I bet the Prime Minister would have kittens – and so would everyone else.   Harry   ******************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA 91042 818 352-4141 ********************************     From: Darryl and Natalia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Subject: Re: [Futurework] Minuteman Groups   Hi Harry,   Just recapping what I saw and heard on our local conservative news station. The US minuteman groups are not government sanctioned, and they do claim to tote guns, and even described the particulars of their weaponry. Now, you could say, they're bluffing, but given the irrational fear they have of illegal immigrants as compared with the seeming lack of concern for helping Bush to start up pre-emptive invasions over oil, I don't put it past them.     I don't doubt that they will inform the border patrol. But that doesn't preclude the absence of gun use. The reason it became news worthy was because of other citizens in the region being concerned about trigger-happy people frequenting recreational areas.    Natalia   All mail scanned by NAV ----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Pollard To: 'Darryl and Natalia' ; futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:04 PM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Minuteman Groups   Just a point.   “Ever desperate for an excuse to bear arms  .  .”   The people patrolling the Mexican border don’t have guns. When they find illegal entry, they inform the Border patrol.   Racism? – Someone must be kidding.   Harry   ******************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655  Tujunga  CA 91042 818 352-4141 ********************************   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darryl and Natalia Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:16 PM To: futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca Subject: [Futurework] Minuteman Groups   All mail scanned by NAV Ever desperate for an excuse to bear arms, new groups of US citizens have been not only congregating to discuss concerns about illegal immigrants crossing their borders, they are actually taking it upon themselves to patrol the borders. They say they are worried about drugs, and especially about terrorists. They have been guarding the Mexican border for a while now, and as can be expected, have been subject to accusations of racism. Now a group is prepared to do the same at the Washington border to Canada, and have already begun to wander the nearby woodlands looking for those possible twenty or so per annum that might sneak across that way. It’s a leisurely past-time, just them and their gun accomplishing very little, but walking off the pent up aggression over their loss of American Way of Life, which once included respect for Americans from Canada, I guess. Personally, I think they’d be far more effective if they were to patrol the White House or Dubya’s ranch for dangerous terrorists, but the collective hive mind cannot permit the possibility that the patriarchal hero of 9/11 has created for them the most dangerous time in America. They fail to grasp that the collective subconscious can only sustain an ego by projecting onto those who disagree with their warring minds the intent of harm. As was interestingly demonstrated by Prof. McMurtry of Guelph University Philosophy Department, the US tends to accuse other nations of evils that they themselves are currently or are about to unleash upon the accused. Best recent example is, of course, Iraq’s alleged intent to use WMD, and the resultant release of same by US forces upon the people of Iraq. Yesterday, London England was host to 60 countries for the biannual Defense Systems & Equipment International exhibition. A little one-stop shopping to help feed the $trillion plus per annum industry. Included guests were China, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Iraq, Israel...all of whom have questionable human rights records. (I believe this is the one Prince Andrew was involved with two years ago.) So here is Britain, sanctioning these events under the guise of counterterrorism and defense technologies for both governments and corporations, and crying horror and amazement over the recent bombings. Then we received the Ft.Worth Star Telegram report about US 2003 international arms sales, which stated that 20 out of the top 25 of the US best clients were either from undemocratic regimes or from governments with major human rights abuses. We all know the US leads in world arms sales. Can’t stop manufacturing WMD. Can’t find enough nations to accuse of building them either. If ever there was a nation so full of guilt, waiting to unload it onto others, it is America. The fear will only escalate if it continues to find profit in war. Deep down, they all know what these weapons do to others. At the moment, America’s only saving grace may be Katrina’s direct hit to the infrastructure. With it, the illusion of terrorism being the nation’s number one concern is exposed as little more than an excuse for profit for a few. Natalia Kuzmyn

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