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US Flag Flies Over Camp Vigilance
First it was “right wing extremists” and now any Patriotic American who doesn’t buy off on the left’s view of things may find themselves lumped in with Tmothy Mcveigh in this new SPLC Intelligence Report.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, fierce protector of all things left, has published an August 2009 special report entitled “The Second Wave---Return Of The Militia’s." In it are “documented” cases of how right wing fanatics are again on the loose wreaking havoc across America and endangering the common welfare of us all. Though the report cites seventy-five incidents since 1995 in a piece called “Terror From The Right”, the real point of the special report is to highlight the right’s reportedly racist reaction to our country’s first Black President.
In the midst of all the bombings and train derailments by the KKK, White Supremacists and Unibomber wannabees is an article called “Nativists to Patriots” about a dangerous bunch in San Diego’s East County.
The author, David Holthouse, has a promising career as a writer of fiction. Mr. Holthouse, an “undercover investigator” for the Intelligence Report tells of his covert visit to Camp Vigilance in May of this year.
“As evidence of a militia resurgence mounts, nativist vigilantes are increasingly adopting the ideas of the ‘Patriot’ movement.”
Camp Vigilance is the home of the Minuteman Corps of CA (MCCI) and the non-political Border Patrol Auxiliary (BPAUX). It is located in the high desert of east San Diego County and is adjacent to public campgrounds where visitors routinely walk through camp to see the 1856 Stagecoach Depot on the property. It was the site of the 2009 July 4th patriotic celebration and BBQ attended by some 450 local radicals and dastardly devils like former Congressman and Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, the nation’s most decorated military hero USMC Sergeant Major (RET) “Iron Mike” Mervosh, Civil Rights activist Ted Hayes and former border agent Nacho Ramos of Ramos & Compean fame. A dangerous bunch to be sure, that is if you're drug smugglers or border invaders.
David must be awfully good at this covert stuff or he wandered over with the tourists. No one ever remembers him being there. Some do remember an odd looking guy asking a lot of questions a few months back but the description does not match his photo. Wouldn't be the first time an undercover agent of whatever came to camp. It is pretty much an open book though when David says he was on the property neither MCCI or BPAUX were. Let’s not take minor details though and ruin the story. We're just getting warmed up.
As any good writer of fiction knows your story becomes most believable when you combine fact with fiction. I like to call it “faction”. The faction writers like Dan Brown of Davinci Code fame for example, take a real location, a thread of evidence, a sinister plot and develop each into a compellingly story.
Here is where Holthouse excels and why I think he is wasting his talents working for the SPLC. He took a real place like Camp Vigilance, did some interesting research on the web, maybe even drove by it and then created a fictional militia training camp. Does that sound cool or what? I mean there were no fences of concertina wire or guard towers on the corners of the property, which would have added to the story but he did mention it had a well- guarded security perimeter. I will have to remember to ask the Sheriff and Border Patrol, who have unfettered access to the property, to assess the perimeter and make sure it is up to their standards.
Does training occur there? Yes it does. In fact it better. The Minutemen wouldn’t want anyone going into the field that hadn’t been properly trained. Here they have a record of nearly one million man hours of volunteer border watch duty without a single injury or incident. Are there a communication center and camping spots? Another direct hit. This guy is good. But then, just as the story was getting juicy, his political left-leaning train runs right off the track.
“A public address system plugged into a massive RV amplifies ResistNet, an Internet radio program broadcast by the Patriot Network, which promotes conspiracy theories and right-wing antigovernment militancy”.
For a moment there I had a vision of Tokyo Rose. Bit of a stretch David. Didn’t know there was a public address system at Camp Vigilance (there isn’t) and no one I have spoke with even knew what Resistnet Radio was. The thin plot starts to unravel. He goes on to describe statements that people made but never quite got around to saying who made them. The inconsistencies in his story are remarkable. They are a combination of left-wing looney scare tactics and frenzied descriptions of the mysterious cultish type behaviors of the right-wing, unwashed masses.
The truly disturbing part of all of this is not his factional visit to camp but that the Government actually relies on the SPLC for intelligence on right wing “subversive” activities. So does the media. It appears there is truly no room these days for factual information from credible non-partisan sources.
In the introduction of this fantasy liberal bedtime story, "Intelligence Report" Editor Mark Potok references the:
“virulently antigovernment “Patriot” movement, made up of paramilitary militias, tax defiers and so-called “sovereign citizens.”
"Oh better watch them “sovereign citizens” Mark. I hear through the grapevine they whisper “prohibited“ things in the dark about the Illuminati and the evil Federal Reserve. Best to call in the thought police. This bunch might get wild and start calling liberal politicians’ nasty names. In fact, I’ve seen them do it!
Mark uses historical data of the myriad of domestic terrorist activities to set the stage for his grand finale. When comparing this right revolt against the last time a Democrat held the White House, Potok says:
“A key difference this time is that the federal government —the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man. {Noooo. Not a black man} That, coupled with high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the percentage of whites overall in America, has helped to racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate.”
That the “Secure Borders” movement was formed while the current President was still a “community organizer” and the country was governed by a white Republican man from the second most heavily minority populated state in the country is well, I don’t know…maybe too factual and certainly not melodramatic enough for this story. It detracts from the socialist fervor of his allegory.
Nor should we consider other facts like the Minuteman group that uses Camp Vigilance was founded by a man whose wife is Asian and his children are bi-racial. That the Northern California Chapter was founded by a man, John Clark, who’s wife is a LEGAL Latina immigrant from Chile and a victim of illegal alien crime herself, is probably not good for the racist part of the story either. That the group is made up of people from all races and several ethnicities doesn’t bode well for the factional division they seek to spread. I’ll bet it riles up the lefties though.
Despite the broad brush, Caucasian pink, “right wing extremist” paint job the SPLC has done on the Minuteman Movement it is surprising that on it’s own website there is one word curiously absent from its list of “hate groups” across the US. Want to guess which one that is?
Despite 599 SPLC intelligence Reports on their activities and the methodical nature in which they categorize the 926 “registered racist hate groups” in the United States, the term “Minuteman” is nowhere to be found on the "Hate Group" map.
It is obviously more fun and perhaps more effective in a smear campaign to create a bogeyman in the crucible of literary fiction than to factually report on one. I hear there’s an alleged terrorist compound in Islamberg New York and I did also notice they haven’t had a single SPLC “Intelligence Report” written about them. Not one. Fertile territory for someone seeking to expose radical militia's. Pack your bags David. Better bring the long johns. It’s cold in them thar hills. Be safe. I hear those boys “play for keeps.”
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Comments
John Clark is a member of the American Immigration Control Foundation, whose founder is a white supremacist that is a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens. He is also a member of California Citizens for Immigration Reform, whose members have associated with not only the C of CC, but Klan members. SPLC lists both organizations as hate groups, and before you start questioning their credibility, you had best come up with a hell of a lot more than the flimsy defense you tried to make here. Oh, and Minuteman might not be mentioned because the Minutemen fell to pieces for the most part. They will soon enough considering a few of their number might be on their way to death row for killing a Mexican father and his 9-year-old daughter.
Decorated military heroes aren't exempt from extremism - just look at Bo Gritz.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone espousing Nativist arguments should back up and move back to their ancestral "Old Country" - unless, of course, they are Native Americans.
"Decorated military heroes aren't exempt from extremism - just look at Bo Gritz."
What makes you think Bo Gritz is an extremist? He renounces racism, so what's your beef? The fact that he exercises his Second Amendment rights? Maybe YOU'RE the "extremist."
DLJ. DO YOUR RESEARCH. WRONG JOHN CLARK bubba. He's talking about the one who's wife had her legs chopped off by a three time illegal alien DWI deportee.
If the Minutemen are so insignificant then why is the SPLC writing about them? The only flimsy argument is your retort. You guys see KKK shadows in the closet at night while you sleep. Pathetic. Mr. Braun. GREAT article. Keep on exposing these morons for what they are.
Patriots??? Patriots???? You call Shawna Forde, the minuteman murderer of 9 year old Brisenia Flores, a patriot?
You call Carmen Mercer, the President of Chris Simcox Minutemen MCDC a patriot? She has just been charged with stealing millions in a Tax Cut Scam to scam the American public. You call these thieves and scoundrels Patriots!
HOW UNPATRIOTIC!!
If you go to their web site - Southern Poverty Law Center - you can see what hypocrites they are.
They are so concerned about the poor immigrants in the southwest, but these "immigrants" are illegal
and are draining the country of much-needed resources. Also they are hypocrites because they don't
have any stories published about the black man, Kenneth Gladney, who was pummeled by white house thugs while peacefully protesting at a town hall meeting. I wrote on their web site and told them so.
I plan to write them a letter and send a copy of it to the stupid media who also fails to report these
incidents while claiming to be concerned with people's civil rights.
These guy are leftists first and their concern for minorities is only to the extent they can use it to bash the so-called "right."
Janet Nipples did the same thing bashing veterans and the military. Wake up America - the race card is being played every day but most people can see through it.
Minutemen hate sleazy open borders goons like Dee.
Adios Dee, you lost.
Dee points out that Minutemen hate Shawna Forde, yet DLJ, another leftist nutcase, claims that Forde is one of them.
I would advise the leftist goons to work together and agree on their talking points, that way your buffoonery might not be quite so obvious.
That place is off SR 2 in east San Diego County. I go jeeping out there all the time. It's a tourist spot with old wagons and a campground and store. Nice folks, never saw anything out of miss there. If the Southern Wealthy Law Center has a problem with tourists in the desert, maybe they should stay in Alabama. Just go down SR 2 another 10 miles and you will find a border patrol check point manned with patriotic and friendly officers.
I have no fear of Americans out in the desert target shooting or anything else. I do fear running across mexican illegals, drug runners and their smugglers, they shoot to kill. That is the real threat down there, something the Wealthy Center ignores.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group and is listed as such by several organizations that track hate groups in the United States.
DLJ says:
"Oh, and Minuteman might not be mentioned because the Minutemen fell to pieces for the most part. They will soon enough considering a few of their number might be on their way to death row for killing a Mexican father and his 9-year-old daughter."
The people who were indicted for those murders did NOT belong to the national organization called The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Instead, they belonged to a splinter group called Minuteman American Defense, which has NO connection with the national Minutemen organization.
I've read in hundreds of places that the Southern Poverty Law Center is an anti-white radical group, hiding under the "civil rights" banner.
Dee is an "open borders" patriot.
Hooah says:
"As far as I'm concerned, anyone espousing Nativist arguments should back up and move back to their ancestral "Old Country" - unless, of course, they are Native Americans."
Perhaps all Mexicans who aren't 100% Native American should head back to their ancestral "Old Country", that being Spain.
Dee says:
"You call Carmen Mercer, the President of Chris Simcox Minutemen MCDC a patriot? She has just been charged with stealing millions in a Tax Cut Scam to scam the American public. You call these thieves and scoundrels Patriots!"
With her credentials, Carmen Mercer ought to make a run for a seat in Congress. If elected, she would join hundreds of other thieves and scoundrels who masquerade as politicians.
SPLC = Slimy Putrid Lowlife Charlatans
Everyone thinks because you are against 'Illegal Migration'
you are racist, nativist, extemest, or KKK. What ignorace!
Those who use those names to decimate the numbers of people
who defend this nation are:Pure idiots, racist themselves,
or are descendants of illegal aliens themselves! There are
illegal aliens from all over the world, not just from Mexico.
Being against illegal aliens invading this country is heroic!
How are you called when you defend your home from invaders?
I was born in Mexico, came to this country through the front
door (legal immigration), I became an American Citizen and I
consider this my home, my country, my right to defend it was
given to me when I signed the oath of allegiance to the USA!
So stop calling those of us who defend our Nation those stupid
names. The great majority of people are waking up and don't
believe your name calling SPC, you are corrupt to the core &
have no credibility. You are only in this for the grants from
Obama
My father immigrated from Mexico--legally. 95% of my extended family (all of which are of Mexican descent) want the borders closed to illegal immigration. My wife is an immigrant and a Muslim. And I am a Minuteman. Am I a racist? Nope! Am I a nativist extremist? Doesn't fit. Xenophobe? Apparently not, but SPLC is a place for dopes who want to spew childish lies.
My father immigrated from Mexico--legally. 95% of my extended family (all of which are of Mexican descent) want the borders closed to illegal immigration. My wife is an immigrant and a Muslim. And I am a Minuteman. Am I a racist? Nope! Am I a nativist extremist? Doesn't fit. Xenophobe? Apparently not, but SPLC is a place for dopes who want to spew childish lies.
Greetings to all in that mighty name of "Jesus":
Each Christian of whom know him in the power of His resurrection...or, maybe I should say...those who are well acquainted with the fact, that He truly did come back from the dead...also appeared to His disciples.
Thomas was invited by Jesus to feel the nail prints within His hands. So, those who also have been convinced by only having His spirit to convince them, having never had the opportunity to feel the nail prints in his hands, as did Thomas: Jesus said blessed are those who have seen and then believed, but greater are the blessings that rest upon those who have never seen, but still believe.
I am a full time writer and an ordained minister. I have written three books so far. My first book: Reviving the dead church, by reminiscing the day of Pentecost. The second one is: Beyond the Golden Sunset and by the Crystal Sea. My third book: Off to visit the Prophet Elijah, on this one, the contract to publish has been completed and
I remember hearing Carl brag about slashing water jigs at a road side water station set up for emergenices. What a hypocrit.
I saw Carl slash aid station water jugs and laugh like an 8 year old about how Mexicans would die of thirst because of it. BPAux trained Shawna Forde and this Christie Czkawsoki or whatever her name is who just got arrested for child abuse.
Funny Carl must not realize that BPAux is all over the resistnet site. Here's the proof.
Google resistnet bpaux and see.
THE SPLC IS A HATE GROUP ENGAGED IN FRAUD AND RACKETEERING.
SPLC has a good scam going--any group that is patriotic and cares about this country is labelled a hate group.
But what most gullible suckers do not understand that the SPLC does not have any special authority or right to do that, more than any other guy on the street.
If a bum on the street told you the earth is flat, does that make the earth flat? Similarly, if a nutcase like Dees tells the left wing media that so-and-so is a hate group, it does NOT make it a fact. It just shows Morris Dees is a nutcase--that's all.
The gullible American public views SPLC's senseless rantings as if it were a fact--they are not!!
The libbarbarian media is hand-in-glove with this scammer. For them, it is just a good scam to carry out anti-American and anti-human propaganda to repeat his lies. There have been exposes of SPLC's scams many times.
SPLC's scam is just to make money and carry out libbarbarian propaganda.
He wants to destroy America and is anti-social psychopath--in my opinion. And a hate group, as it hates America, humans, citizens, patriots and things civilized. And this opinion of mine is worth as much or as little as SPLC's opinion that so-and-so is a hate group.
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