Vermont shuns Minutemen
On Patrol in Vt., Minutemen Are the Outsiders
Vermont citizens offered visiting Minutemen volunteers no help this past weekend. While looking for the Canada/US border, the Minutemen instead were subject to protests and derision from an ill-informed Vermont public. Vermont protesters seemed to think that the Minutemen were a hate group of some kind. I would offer that, at the least, the Minutemen hate illegal immigration and have legitimate complaints about border security to which they are trying to draw some attention. But a hate group? A hate group? Geez, it's hard to believe that that part of the U.S. would simultaniously produce ultra-liberal Vermont, and live-free-or-die New Hampshire, where I'm sure the Minutemen would be welcomed as heroes and provided GPS coordinates to the border.
However, I also believe that the Washington Post reporter, David Fahrenthold, didn't try very hard to quote any Vermont citizens who agreed with the Minuntemen. After all, what kind of boring, non-controversial story would that have been? "Vermont Citizens bring out Welcome Wagon for Minutemen." Zzzzzz....."And then, some local restaurants brought us some coffee and bagels out on the border. They were soooooo nice..."
I for one am certain that there are more Vermont citizens that at least agree in principal with what the Minuteman Project is really about, which in my mind is our nation's safety and our dangerous over-dependence on cheap, illegal labor.
Vermont citizens offered visiting Minutemen volunteers no help this past weekend. While looking for the Canada/US border, the Minutemen instead were subject to protests and derision from an ill-informed Vermont public. Vermont protesters seemed to think that the Minutemen were a hate group of some kind. I would offer that, at the least, the Minutemen hate illegal immigration and have legitimate complaints about border security to which they are trying to draw some attention. But a hate group? A hate group? Geez, it's hard to believe that that part of the U.S. would simultaniously produce ultra-liberal Vermont, and live-free-or-die New Hampshire, where I'm sure the Minutemen would be welcomed as heroes and provided GPS coordinates to the border.
However, I also believe that the Washington Post reporter, David Fahrenthold, didn't try very hard to quote any Vermont citizens who agreed with the Minuntemen. After all, what kind of boring, non-controversial story would that have been? "Vermont Citizens bring out Welcome Wagon for Minutemen." Zzzzzz....."And then, some local restaurants brought us some coffee and bagels out on the border. They were soooooo nice..."
I for one am certain that there are more Vermont citizens that at least agree in principal with what the Minuteman Project is really about, which in my mind is our nation's safety and our dangerous over-dependence on cheap, illegal labor.
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