In a series of newscasts, ABC’s San Diego station takes aim at a local Minutemen group inferring they are dangerous and hateful. The repeated stories offer no proof or legal cases that substantiate their claim.
The recent segments only offer conjecture and speculation regarding the San Diego Minutemen who just won a large settlement from CalTrans in a discrimination lawsuit over the adopt-a-highway program.
Instead of covering the resolution of this national Constitutional case, Channel 10 News quoted two local illegal immigrant activists and used their old, baseless allegations.
In an “I-Team Investigation” on supposed hate groups located in San Diego which ran the evening of Aug 14. Channel 10 News claimed to have evidence of increased hate crimes and hate groups in San Diego County. They showed a black man whose van was allegedly graffitied by a white teenager. No other evidence is given of any “hate crimes.”
The continued bias comes from Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attorney James McElroy. In the August 14th TV report McElroy says, “In my opinion Jeff Schwilk is a dangerous fellow and any group he is associated with should be considered a hate group.”
“Such blatant media smear campaigns on political activists are seen in third-world dictatorships and their state-run media, but we’ve never seen anything quite this bad on an American newscast,” says Jeff Schwilk, who has guided the SDMM to many successes fighting illegal immigration in San Diego in the past four years.
“The radical alien activists have a long history of smearing American activists, but we’ve never been called ‘dangerous’ or accused of being associated with white supremacists before,” Schwilk explains. “That is a new low for local media. It appears the pro-Mexico agents are getting desperate.”
Schwilk has good reason to be angry at Channel 10’s smear campaign. He served honorably in the Marine Corps for 21 years and is also part Hispanic.
“My great-grandparents emigrated legally from Spain. They came to America, learned the language and respected their new country – something today’s illegal aliens seem unwilling to do.”
In the past four years, Schwilk along with the group’s hundreds of SDMM members have had no incidents with law enforcement. However, there have been 28 attacks on them via their website by pro-alien forces.
Legal immigrant from Mexico and member of the San Diego Minutemen, Francisca Galvan says she has never heard Schwilk speak vulgarly toward anyone. “He has been nothing but great. He is just doing what any citizen does to protect their country from corruption.”
When the topic steers to local Mexican activist Enrique Morones, Galvan says “without a doubt he works for the Mexican government as part of an active cell in San Diego. The only racial slurs I’ve heard come from Morones and El Grupo when they are calling me a traitor to my former country.”
Not to worry, Galvan refuses to back down and continues to fight for the country she now calls home - America.
The problem secure border activists have with the continued defamation reports on ABC is that La Raza organizations continue to post these propaganda stories across the internet trying to smear and discredit the Minutemen with even bigger lies.
When the producer of the ABC TV segments, J.W. August was contacted via email regarding the dubious reports he claimed, “I normally don’t reveal details about the broadcasts.”
August also told another critic in a separate email, “We don’t provide equal time in regards to a story that our news department has produced.” The recent segments made that point clear.
Several attempts to reach McElroy proved fruitless and he apparently does not want to comment on his reckless statements about Schwilk and the SDMM.
The SPLC has a long history of attacking pro-American Patriot activist groups and trying to tie them to hate and supremacist groups.
Another staffer of the SPLC, Mark Potok, contends, “Patriot groups will result in a terrorist attack like Waco or Oklahoma City.”
Again the left-wing organization has no proof to back up these wild accusations and Secretary of Department of Homeland Security denounced the recent Right-Wing Extremist report that was published earlier this year.
In another unrelated ABC incident, the broadcasting company had no problem airing an hour-long infomercial on President Barrack Obama’s health care bill, but would not allow any opposition groups to air commercials during the broadcast.
To link to the San Diego Minutemen site;www.SanDiegoMinutemen.com
For more stories; www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner
Comments
It sure looks as if we are seeing the same ol' same ol' from the MSM and org's like the SPLC and La Raza: attack the messenger and not the message, which appears to be occuring since they are desperate.
Rather than ABC, SPLC and La Raza defending just why they support illegal immigration, they engage in baseless personal attacks against those (like the Minutemen) who are opposed to illegal immigration.
Legal immigration is one thing, illegal immigration is another.
No one should ever support illegal immigration.
Kimberly, you really need to understand the difference between KGTV, which is owned by McGraw Hill Broadcasting, and ABC, which is owned by Disney.
The network has no control over or responsibility for local news produced by a local affiliate the network doesn't own.
If it's on ABC news I take it as fact. They are a good source for news.
And too think I thought minutemen were patriotic like Shawna Forde.
This is the last straw for me. I'll never watch that commie, Obama/La Raza-loving network again.
Keep fighting Minutemen, you are doing a great job! You are my favorite Patriots!
That James McElroy jerk looks like Satan. I've seen that newscast on Youtube and his lips are quivering as he spews his hate and lies against Jeff Schwilk and the Minutemen. The SPLC is obviously getting very desperate as Conservative Americans take back America from the left-wing idiots.
This crap makes me sick!
That James McElroy jerk looks like Satan. I've seen that newscast on Youtube and his lips are quivering as he spews his hate and lies against Jeff Schwilk and the Minutemen. The SPLC is obviously getting very desperate as Conservative Americans take back America from the left-wing idiots.
This crap makes me sick!
Wow, great piece. Finally someone exposes the far left SPLC and their cozy relationship with American media. J.W. August should be fired! No problem with the boycott, I already hate ABC and their biased coverage.
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If defending your border is terrorism, then we as a whole are in trouble. Oh Yea we are. Lets see Alien illegal type comes to US with his friends. Rapes 12 yr old little girl runs home. Friend comes over steal from stores and robs people goes home. Next comes over a kidnaps little girl for sex trade runs home to Mexico. I think I see a terrorist cell
Hey, leave my amigos at ch 10 / ch 15 Azteca alone. they are helping me with my Mexican takeover of San Diego.
You stupid gringos believe anything we tell you. Thanks to my friends Jim McElroy and Daniel Gilleon and J.W. We could never spread our mexican propaganda this without gringo whores like you!
They are not attacking "groups." They are attacking one group and their leader.
I support the Minutemen, but Schwilk is a mean spirited and angry little self-promoter.
I've been a member of SDMM for over 3 years. La Raza hates us because we cleared out Enrique's 400 countrymen in McGonigle Canyon, closed down Friendship Park, and have increased deportations in SD Co. ten fold. Jeff Schwilk is calm and reasoned and professional in his dedication to his country. He's neither mean, nor angry. I've seen him show compassion to illegal aliens who are used by criminal employers and the Mexican activists as pawns in their Mexican open borders agenda.
Thanks Kimberly for your great article exposing the SPLC and the media who supports them. I've seen a few of these stories on 10 News and wondered where they got their "facts". Now I see it is just a big smear campaign. Looks like it backfired.
SPLC and La Raza are racist... Ever since the SPLC won $12.5 million in damages against Tom Metzger and his White Aryan Resistance I started feeling they were just targeting us decent white folks.
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