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"Minutemen Are People, Too"
By
Chris Kelly
· May 19, 2005 04:08 PM
The Wall Street Journal has published several Open Borders editorials over the years. If any of them could be singled out as the low point, it might be the June 17, 2004 editorial "Borderline Republicans" which more or less endorsed U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT). This was two days after the Deseret News published "Illegal plea for illegals' cash?" ("As Rep. Chris Cannon sat by, one of his aides urged any illegal aliens listening to a Spanish-language radio talk show to funnel money into his campaign by giving it to U.S. citizens who could donate it legally...") That editorial is also discussed in "Post-Americans". More on Cannon starting here. Perhaps for some balance, or (much less likely) as indication of a sea change, today's WSJ has a guest editorial from Leo W. Banks entitled "Minutemen Are People, Too": ...In the view of most of the reporters who parachuted into Arizona for this story and, disturbingly, local ones as well, you'd get the distinct impression that the Minutemen are the problem along the border. That's right. America needn't worry about the thousands who bust into the country every night. No, the real danger are those yahoos who think calling the cops when they see somebody breaking the law is a good idea... |