Is the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps doomed to extinction?
Is the Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps doomed to extinction? A
footnote, a memory, laudable ambitions for
In October 2002, (according to Wikipedia) Chris Simcox (co-founder of MCDC) issued a public call to arms, inviting readers of his newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to join a "Citizens Border Patrol Militia" whose function, Simcox said, would be to "shame the government into doing its job" of controlling the United State’s border with Mexico.
“He founded “Civil Homeland Defense” next, a group
which patrolled the border. In October
2004 Simcox and Jim Gillcrest (Minuteman Project) merged their groups into
“MinutemanHQ”. That Marriage ended in
divorce after only
six months when Gillcrest founded his Minuteman
Project and Chris Simcox went forward with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Inc. Both groups are still active.
There are many orginazations with the name Minuteman this or Minuteman that some are better organized then others and in every orginanization polosopies may differ but intent seems to be “secure the United States borders and coastal boundaries against unlawful and unauthorized entry of all individuals, contraband, and foreign military”.
Even in our Heart of
America Chapter,
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In July 2009 Congress
approved the completion of the southern border fence with
The existing fence that
juts into the Pacific Ocean (a few feet) on
the beach at San Diego California is
changing the dynamics of the coyote, drug smuggler and it would seem gun
runners heading the other way (south).
We’re all aware of the
stereo-typed illegal alien crossing our southern border in the dead of night
following the coyote
Resignation today of Ed
Hayes as Director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Heart of America
Chapter,
(From Email to members today Hayes wrote in part)
“If you were
at the last MCDC meeting at Creekside you were probably aware that this
was coming. Read my resignation from the MCDC management team and you
will know why if you did not already. I feel strongly enough about this
to step back and simply be a volunteer and I may not do that”.
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As
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published:
(photo)
Chris Salerno, a cadet on the Coast Guard cutter Petrel, was in the control
room on a patrol — for smugglers of drugs and people — off the coast of
A crew
preparing to dock the Coast Guard cutter Petrel at a base in
Photo: Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times
The monitoring of the seas falls mainly to the Coast Guard and the Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security. Cutters like the Petrel, aircraft and a few small high-speed boats are used for patrols. The authorities have noted that an increase in maritime drug seizures coincides with the near completion of new border fencing and other equipment along a 14-mile stretch from the ocean inland.
Photo: Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times
An armed guardsman stood guard as the Petrel approached a suspicious boat. In the fiscal year that ended Oct. 30, the authorities arrested 136 illegal immigrants sneaking in by sea, double the 66 marine arrests in 2007. The seizure of drugs has also similarly increased.
Photo: Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times
Jessica Galli, a coast guardswoman, helped to guide a speed boat onto the Petrel. The speed boat was used for an inspection of a boat for contraband. Authorities say that the shift to smuggling on the sea demonstrates the resolve of smugglers to exploit the vastness of the sea, the difficulty in monitoring it and the desperation of migrants willing to risk crossing it.
Crew members on the Petrel prepared after they received word of a suspicious boat.
Border Patrol agents off
Along beaches north of here, the migrants
from
As the land border with
Law enforcement authorities in the
“It’s like spillover from a dam,” said Cmdr. Guy Pearce, who
oversees the ant smuggling effort for the Coast Guard in
For generations, people have tried to swim, surf and ride
boats, sometimes carrying contraband, into the
But Commander Pearce and other officials in the Department of Homeland Security say those sporadic efforts have accelerated to unprecedented levels recently — a doubling in the number of illegal immigrants — more than 300 in the last two years — caught on boats or beaches and a sevenfold increase in maritime drug seizures, principally several thousand pounds of marijuana.
The authorities have taken note that the increase coincides with the near completion of new, more fortified border fencing along a 14-mile stretch from the ocean inland.
New smuggling rings have also emerged, operating out of beach towns south of the border and islands off the Mexican coast, convincing migrants that the passage is safe and the ocean too wide open for maritime law enforcement to catch them.
A recent patrol with the Coast Guard showed they may have a point.
All night and into the morning, the Coast Guard cutter Petrel dashed across the seas looking for suspect boats. A tip that a suspect boat was due to pass miles off the coast around 1 a.m. sent the cutter, nearly all of its lights off to avoid detection, searching by the faint glow of a half moon. The boat was not found.
Later, just after
As the roaring engines sent the cutter crashing over swells for more than 20 minutes after the boats were first noticed, the crew could see the boats speeding without their lights on.
A boarding team mobilized with body armor and rifles and raced in a small craft from the cutter to check out the boats. Just early-morning fishing, said the people on the boats, who insisted they did not realize their lights were off. With no evidence of contraband, they were let go.
But Chief Petty Officer Gary Auslam,
in charge on this watch, had his doubts as he watched the boats quickly motor
on. Gunrunners bringing weapons from the
“Boy, they got out of here pretty quick, didn’t they?” Chief Auslam said, gazing out the bridge.
It falls mainly to the Coast Guard and the Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security to patrol the seas with a mix of cutters, aircraft and a few small high-speed boats.
The authorities arrested 136 illegal immigrants sneaking in
by sea in the fiscal year that ended Oct. 30, double the 66 marine arrests in
2007. Since October, more than 100 illegal immigrants have been arrested,
bringing the marine arrests of illegal immigrants in the past couple of years
to unprecedented levels, said Michael Carney, the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agent in
The seizure of drugs, principally marijuana, has similarly skyrocketed. In the fiscal year that ended in October, the authorities seized 6,300 pounds of marijuana in the coastal waters north of the border, a sevenfold increase from the 906 pounds confiscated in 2007. This fiscal year, 6,100 pounds have been found.
“This is somewhat of an alarming trend,” Mr. Carney said. “It has opened our eyes. There is still a lot we need to learn about how these organizations operate.”
The Department of Homeland Security is responding to this surge with orders for more boats and equipment.
Generally, the flow of migrants north has slowed as the
economy here has withered and the
Victor Clark Alfaro, director of the
“It’s always,” Mr. Clark Alfaro said, “a fight between technology and the ingenuity of smugglers.”
Coast Guard officials said they knew of no boats that had sunk but they worry about that prospect. In March they seized a 25-foot boat with 22 people aboard.
The biggest adversary at times, though, is the darkness.
Petty Officer First Class Pablo Mendoza picked up night-vision binoculars and scanned the horizon. When it was suggested that the equipment might offer an advantage, Petty Officer Mendoza replied, “Yeah, the problem is they have these, too.”
Crew members said they did not believe the guard or Customs and Border Protection had enough fast boats to get to suspected smuggling boats in time, though the agencies, as well as the Navy and civilian law enforcement, are making an effort to coordinate their patrols.
In the end, said Petty Officer First Class Jason Tessier, another supervisor on the Petrel, “it is a matter of being in the right place at the right time.”
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Investigators battle giant coke operation
http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/1330866.html
By TODD
Associated Press Writer
In this Midwestern town 1,500 miles from
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In October 2004, Simcox
merged his group with Jim Gilchrist's to form the short-lived MinutemanHQ. The merger barely lasted through the first
Minuteman maneuvers in April 2005. On
http://www.longislandwins.com/blog/in_the_news/weird_rebuttal_of_minuteman_to.php
Weird Rebuttal of Minuteman to Media
By Patrick Young, Esq.
CARECEN
Carmen Mercer, President
of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, has issued a statement taking the media
to task for "their ridiculous reporting that [the killing of 9 year old Brisenia Flores and her father] is a Minuteman crime."
The killing of the two Latinos for which the head of Minuteman American Defense
and two of her associates, has been in the headlines
for the last week. I can understand that Mercer wants to distance herself from
the killings. But her own press statement indicates that this is a crime with
which the name "Minuteman" is fairly invoked by the media.
There are 192 members of
the United Nations (however,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVvIL6vX5kM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
CBS News with Katie Couric & Bill Whitaker CBS News – Michael Fisher, Chief
Patrol Agent, San Diego Sector.
A "Yes" vote for
the amendment supports the completion of 700 miles of fencing along the
southwest border. (670 Miles)
In October 2002, Simcox issued a public call to arms, inviting readers of his newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to join a "Citizens Border Patrol Militia" whose function, Simcox said, would be to "shame the government into doing its job" of controlling the United States's border with Mexico.
He founded Civil Homeland Defense, a group which patrolled the border, and within the next two and a half years sought to assist the United States Border Patrol.
In December 2004, Simcox
teamed with James Gilchrist to organize the Minuteman Project, which brought
nationwide attention to the southern border. While some have accused the Minuteman
members of being vigilantes, supporters claim that there has never been a case
of a member of The Minuteman Project physically harming anyone.
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Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
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Not to be
confused with Minuteman Project.
The Minuteman Civil Defense
Corps is a volunteer group headed by Chris
Simcox and dedicated to preventing illegal crossings of the United
States border. Arguing that the government is insufficiently concerned with
securing the U.S. border,[1]
they have organized several state chapters, with the intention of providing law
enforcement agencies with evidence of immigration law violations.[2]
Simcox states that the group merely reports incidents to law enforcement, and
does not directly confront immigrants. There is a standard operating procedure
(SOP) that must be followed by Minutemen volunteers. Rules include not speaking
to, approaching, gesturing towards or having physical contact in any way with
any suspected border crossers they may see.[3]
The organization has been criticized as being a right-wing militia.[4]
The MCDC is often confused with or thought to be affiliated with the The Minuteman Project Inc., but the two
groups are wholly distinct.[5]
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http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/aboutus.php
About us,
written by Chris Simcox
Sincerely,
Chris Simcox
President, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Simcox
Chris Simcox
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Chris Simcox (born 1961) is the American
co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC)
and the project's main spokesperson. He was formerly a kindergarten
teacher at the Wildwood School in Los Angeles, California,
where he taught for thirteen years. [1]
In October 2002, Simcox issued a
public call to arms, inviting readers of his newspaper,
the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to join a "Citizens Border Patrol
Militia" whose function, Simcox said, would be to "shame the
government into doing its job" of controlling the United
States's border with Mexico.
He founded Civil Homeland
Defense, a group which patrolled the border, and within the next two and a half
years sought to assist the United States Border Patrol.
Simcox's practice of reporting
illegal immigrants attempting to enter the country has been controversial, and
questions concerning its legality have been raised. When the Civil Homeland
Defense was first formed, Simcox's opponents claimed that it is illegal for a
normal citizen who is in no way affiliated with law enforcement to detain
people in the United States. Simcox claimed at that time that these detentions
were justified under a "citizen's
arrest" policy.[2]
Since the inception of the MCDC, however, their "Standard Operating
Procedure" (SOP) states that "Minutemen Observe, Report, Record, and
Direct Border Patrol or other appropriate emergency or law enforcement agencies
to suspected Illegal Aliens or Illegal Activities."[3]
In December 2004, Simcox teamed
with James
Gilchrist to organize the Minuteman
Project, which brought nationwide attention to the southern border. While
some have accused the Minuteman members of being vigilantes,
supporters claim that there has never been a case of a member of The Minuteman
Project physically harming anyone.
Simcox was interviewed for the
2005 independent documentary
Wetback: The Undocumented
Documentary. Simcox also appeared in a 2006 documentary by Joseph
Matthew and Dan DeVivo called "Crossing Arizona," and a 2007
documentary by Chris Burgard called "Border". He has been featured as
a guest on The Political Cesspool.
On April 21, 2006, Simcox sent a
message to President George W. Bush asking him to send National Guard troops to guard the
border or the "Minutemen" would begin construction of a wall along
the border, built on private property.
Simcox has stated he does not
receive a salary from Minutemen, and earns income via honoraria and fees
received for speaking engagements. He claims to have sold his life story for a
film that will soon go into production. [4]
Simcox is stepping down from MCDC
to challenge in the 2010 Republican primary
the renomination of U.S. Senator John S. McCain III of Arizona, the party's 2008
presidential nominee.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Wagner, Dennis
(2006-05-25). "Minuteman's goal: To shame feds into action". http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-24-minuteman-goals_x.htm.
- ^ Max Blumenthal, "Vigilante injustice", Salon,
May 22, 2005. Accessed January 13, 2008.
- ^ "Standard
Operating Procedure for Minuteman Civil Defense Corps",
retrieved January 13, 2008.
- ^ Seper, Jerry
(2006-07-20). "Minutemen not watching over funds". http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060719-091346-2988r.htm.
- ^ Smith, Ben (2009-04-21).
"McCain Facing 2010 Primary". http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/McCain_facing_2010_primary.html?showall.
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Al Garza
Founder/ Executive Director
http://www.patriotscoalition.com/
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Early
life
Gilchrist holds a B.A.
in newspaper journalism from the University of Rhode Island, a B.S. in business administration from California State Polytechnic
University, and an MBA in taxation from Golden Gate University. He is a former
newspaper reporter and a retired California CPA (Certified Public Accountant).
Gilchrist is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and recipient of the Purple
Heart award for wounds sustained while serving with an infantry unit in
Vietnam, 1967 - 1969.
He currently resides in Aliso Viejo, California.
[edit] Minuteman Project
firing
As former head of the Minuteman
Project, Gilchrist advocated increased border enforcement and apprehension of
illegal immigrants. Gilchrist split with fellow founder Chris Simcox, who
founded the similarly named Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in
December 2005. In February 2007, a bitter feud over leadership of the Minuteman
Project began. Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist filed a lawsuit in Orange
County, California, against the group's board of directors, Marvin Stewart,
Deborah Courtney and, Barbara Coe, after they fired him over allegations of
fraud, failure to secure nonprofit status, mismanagement and falsifying
documents.[1]
A partial injunction was issued preventing the board members from using the
preprinted fundraising letter head with Jim Gilchrist signature on it and from
dissappating funds. The Board of Directors are still in control of the name of
the "Minuteman Project, Inc.", and Jim Gilchrist was ordered to post
a $15,000 bond to continue his efforts to regain control, but a final ruling
was not yet made.[2]
When faced with the MMP, Inc. being put into receivership, a position the Board
of Directors had favored and requested, Gilchrist decided to dismiss his own
law suit against the Board Members. The Board of Directors asked the Court not
to dismiss the case, yet the plaintiff retained the sole right to dismiss the
case. The Board of Directors of MMP, Inc. then sued Jim Gilchrist for fraud and
the successor case is still being litigated. Then Gilchrist formed a new
non-profit 501(c)4 corporation in Delaware named Jim Gilchrist's Minuteman
Project, Inc (JGMMP) on April 20, 2007 which, he is the Sole Director of, and
claims to have transferred the assets from MMP, Inc. to JGMMP, Inc. without
board approval. Then JGMMP, Inc. sued the Board of Directors Members again and
added a few names. As if to pile on, Gilchrist sued the Board Members and
others for Defamation, and with the same law firm and attorney, Mark S. Brown
of Brown Law Group LLC, that Gilchrist's associate Stephen J. Eichler also used
to sue the Board Members and others for defamation and "false light"
causes of action.
Both the Gilchrist and Eichler
defamation lawsuits were stricken by MMP, Inc.'s Board Members Stewart and
Courtney's new Attorney Daniel F. Lula's "Special Motion to Strike"
the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), as per the
California Anti-SLAP legislation and both Gilchrist[3]
and his associate Eichler[4]
are subject to paying legal fees and costs of the defendants. Former MMP, Inc.
Board Member Barbara Coe, leader of California Coalition For Immigration Reform
(CCIR.net) was awarded attorney fees of over $9,000.00 against Jim Gilchrist.
[edit] 2005 election bid
Main article: California's
48th congressional district special election, 2005
Gilchrist unsuccessfully ran as
an American Independent Party candidate for
the United States House of
Representatives representing California's 48th Congressional District to
replace Republican Chris Cox,
who resigned to become Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission.
In the low-turnout open primary
for Cox's seat held on October 4, 2005, Gilchrist finished behind two
Republicans but ahead of all other candidates, including Democrats. He received
14.8% of the vote (a total of 13,423 votes). He was the only one running under
his party, and therefore automatically advanced into the run-off.
Gilchrist lost to Republican
state Senator John Campbell in the December 6 general
election, receiving 25.5% (26,507) of the vote. Campbell received 44.4%
(46,184), Steve
Young (Democrat) 27.8% (28,853), Bea Tiritilli (Green) 1.4% (1,430),
Bruce Cohen (Libertarian) 0.9% (974).
Gilchrist has provided
conservative opinions on various issues but emphasized that immigration and the
border is the primary issue from which the others flow.
He has stated that he would
consider a presidential run in 2008 with the Constitution Party, should the
two major parties offer candidates with no proactive history on the issue of
illegal immigration.[6]
He stated "If John McCain enters the race for president I will
definitely run. John McCain should have forfeited his right to run for
president on the Republican Party the moment he put his name on immigration
legislation with Sen. Ted Kennedy." However, McCain did enter the race,
but Gilchrist later withdrew his intention to run, citing concerns about
viability in third parties.
[edit] Political views
Gilchrist holds conservative
views on education,
health
care, and taxes. Gilchrist was registered with the American Independent Party, the
California affiliate of the Constitution Party, but has
since re-registered as a Republican,[7]
and is an adamant immigration enforcement, law enforcement and military
advocate. Despite all this, he has announced his endorsement of Mike Huckabee for President
in December 2007.[8]
The endorsement of Huckabee by Gilchrist met with strong criticism from other
minutemen and anti-illegal immigration activists.[9][10]
It should also be noted that this was a personal, individual endorsement by
Gilchrist, not an endorsement by any minuteman organization.[9]
[edit] Criticism
According to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Gilchrist willingly
allowed members of the National Alliance, one of the
United States' largest neo-Nazi organizations, to help with his 2005 House run.
Gilchrist has claimed that he refuses to work with white
supremacists, but the SPLC report questioned his sincerity. The report
interviewed a former volunteer in Gilchrist's campaign who said that "they
were basically allowing Nazi skinheads and white nationalists to work the phone banks and
do IT and distribute National Alliance fliers
targeting non-whites," and that "[when I told them] that
didn't want to work for a campaign that was tainted by white supremacy in any
way, they told me not to cause a stir."[11]
Gilchrist has denied allowing racist individuals in the project.[12]
In October 2006, Gilchrist
appeared on Democracy Now and abruptly ended the interview after
Karina Garcia started accusing him of being a murderer and said that he has
ties to the National Alliance.[13]
In a March 2006, interview with
the Orange County Register, Gilchrist stopped
just short of calling for his followers to pick up their
guns: "I'm not going to promote insurrection, but if it happens, it
will be on the conscience of the members of Congress who are doing this,"
he said. "I will not promote violence in resolving this, but I will not
stop others who might pursue that."[14]
[edit] Books
- Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's
Borders, by Jim
Gilchrist, Jerome R. Corsi, and Tom
Tancredo. Los Angeles: World Ahead Publishing (2006). ISBN
0-9778984-1-5.
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Apparently Stephen J. Eichler and Jim Gilchrist share the same attorney Mark S. Brown of the Brown Law Firm. This makes two stinging court losses with monetary damages where Mark Brown and the Brown Law Firm failed to even file a opposition to the Anti-SLAPP Special Motions to Strike. Both Eichler and Gilchrist have tried to silence public criticism with law suits and threats of more law suits. It seems that the Eichler and Gilchrist put a non-profit, sole director, twist on the William S. Reed APG, Inc. sham. Steve Eichler, who claims to have a law degree, certainly has got himself and his associate Jim Gilchrist into a great deal of unsuccessful litigation.
MMP IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Gilchrist Camp Looses 2nd Case in 1 week to Deborah Courtney & Paul Sielski in Gilchrist v Stewart
News from the MINUTEMAN PROJECT
www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=7050
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:Marvin L. Stewart
President
(562) 221-1820
Daniel F. Lula, Esq.
(949) 851-1100
Second Frivolous Defamation Suit Against Patriots Deborah Courtney, Marvin Stewart and Paul Sielski Stricken; Jim Gilchrist’s Suit Follows the Same Path As That Of His Associate Stephen Eichler
Santa Ana, Calif. – July 29, 2008 – Judge Randell Wilkinson of the Orange County Superior Court today struck Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist’s defamation suit against Minutemen Deborah Courtney, Marvin Stewart and Paul Sielski as a “strategic lawsuit against public participation.” Gilchrist’s suit against Barbara Coe, head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, was also stricken on the same basis.
Marvin Stewart and Deborah Courtney are members of the board of directors of Minuteman Project, Inc., and Paul Sielski is executive director of the corporation. Both have been embroiled in a dispute with Gilchrist regarding alleged financial irregularities within this high-profile nonprofit corporation.
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Under the relevant law, defendants Stewart, Courtney and Sielski are entitled to an award of the attorneys’ fees and costs they incurred in defending themselves against Gilchrist’s meritless suit. Gilchrist has already been ordered by the Court to reimburse Ms. Coe over $9,100 in attorneys’ fees.
Gilchrist’s frivolous suit against fellow anti-illegal immigration activists is the second in less than a week to be dismissed. Last week, Gilchrist’s associate, Stephen Eichler, suffered the same ruling from Judge Kirk Nakamura. Eichler had filed a virtually identical defamation suit against the same defendants.
The vindictive and retributive behavior against fellow patriots by Gilchrist and Eichler is deeply disturbing to many in the anti-illegal immigration movement. Today’s ruling should be heeded by them as a warning to engage others on the issues, not attempt to use litigation to squelch freedom and dissent.
The Minuteman Project was founded in early 2005 to secure
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