I have been following the progress of the Minuteman project. If you have not heard about them, they are a group of average Americans who are concerned about the number of illegal immigrants that are crossing our borders every day. The Minutemen do not actually attempt to stop the illegals, they simply report them to the Border Patrol and assist in detering them by simply being there.
This is very exciting to me. Here are every day Americans who have jobs, lives, and external pressures and yet they are sacrificing those primary concerns to fill a gap that they see needs to be filled. They are not relying upon the Federal Government to fill the void, but are instead doing it themselves.
What really intrigues me however, is how the Minutemen have been accepted by our Government. President Bush does not seem very pleased according to his last statement regarding the issue. "I do not agree with what they are doing, nor do I condone their actions" he states. Here is a group that is not looking for a handout, they are not looking for Federal funding, they simply want to keep our borders safe. They sound like fine Americans to me.
The real kicker is that they appear to be doing a better job than the Federal Government. So far, in the month of April, the Minutemen have successfully stopped more illegals than the Border Patrol did ALL of last year. Wow! Another point, the TSA is continuing to put tremendous pressure on General Aviation, a facet of society that is made up primarily of extremely Conservative Americans. The intent of the TSA is to not allow any non-citizens to obtain a pilots license that may be used to fly an aircraft into a building. Good intent, but where is our threat really coming from? I think that the evidence points not to General Aviation, but to our sieve like borders. Maybe we should try to stop the source rather than take away the freedoms of our fellow countymen.
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