Yesterday the ACLU and other groups reiterated their plans to monitor the activities of the California Minutemen and the Friends of the Border Patrol when they start their patrols on the California border in September. From this biased report:

...The "San Diego Legal Observer Coalition" is a joint project of the American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Lawyers Association, La Raza Lawyers of San Diego and National Lawyers Guild of San Diego...

...The opposing factions got into a series of heated shouting matches and scuffles while camping out in the rugged terrain surrounding the international boundary last month.

There were reports of shots fired, but no serious injuries.

Civil rights groups have decried the California Minutemen and Friends of the Border Patrol as armed and dangerous reactionaries with grudges against Latino immigrants...

The shots were reportedly fired at the California Minutemen; if they had been fired at the other side, don't you think the report would have included that information? For more, here's a transcript of a CNN report:

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Outnumbering the minutemen, a group of aggressive protesters who tried to drive the civilian volunteers away. They included anarchists, communists and advocates of returning the southwest to Mexico... This local rancher had to be rescued by sheriff's deputies after protesters surrounded his motorcycle. One minuteman did leave his post, but most others stood their ground. This state senator was also harassed by the mob while touring the minuteman outposts... Well, it's amazing. There were a wide range of groups. Most of them advocating just completely disassembling the borders, doing away with the borders... I mean, we talk about the open borders crowd on this program. This really was the open borders crowd. They're talking about there should be no border here.

The earlier post "How much more can the ACLU discredit itself?" has more on the groups with which the American Civil Liberties Union is associating itself. Especially see this link: tinyurl.com/8jz8v. Compare, for instance, the "progressive-revolutionary perspective" quote at that link, and the use of the term "reactionaries" in the article. And, note that back in July the San Diego County Democratic Party printed an announcement from the Legal Observer Coalition. Just how "progressive" are these organizations that the Dems and the ACLU are involved with?