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Being that this was posted as an open letter to the Minutemen, we''re sure they won''t mind us posting their statement in its entirety.

Anti-Immigrant Minutemen are Unwelcome in Vermont

An open letter to the Minutemen organization from the Second Vermont Republic and the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective. The Minutemen are a right-wing, anti-immigrant organization based outside of Vermont. They Currently plan on "patrolling" our northern boarder of Vermont at Derby Line on October 15th. We, the people of Vermont and allies, will be there to make sure they know they are not welcome.

On October 15th, come join people from across Vermont and beyond to to make sure your voice is heard! We will meet at the Town Common at 12 noon and will be prepared to stay till dusk.

For more information contact the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective at: greencollective@chek.com

October 12th, 2005

"I am a hardy mountaineer and scorn to be intimidated by threats."
-Ethan Allen

Minutemen,

Let it be known that you are not welcome in the Green Mountains of Vermont. You
are outsiders and you have not been invited. We have no interests in granting
authority to outsiders over the regulation of our northern lands!

Vermont’s northern boarder has a long history of openness and flux. Today, tens of thousands of Vermonters, especially in the north, trace their roots to ancestors who called themselves Quebecois and Abenaki. Those that decided to stay and make the Green Mountains their home decided to do so in the spirit of justice, fair mindedness and freedom. Exemplary of this sentiment was the establishment and maintenance of the Underground Railroad. Vermonters decided how to manage their border without allowing those with no ties to this land to alter our perceptions of how our land is to be used.

We Vermonters, who believe in our right to determine the policies and actions that will be pursued on our land, resent the encroachment on and usurpation of our democratic power by an overbearing federal government in their growing manipulation of its laws over our citizens, ie. checkpoints, not at international boarders but within our state. We same Vermonters recognize you, the Minutemen, as foot soldiers of the far right. We recognize your alliance with neo-nazi organizations such as the National Alliance and we will do what is necessary to uphold our long held view that Vermonters know what is best for Vermont and we do not accept the inclusion of your radical anti-immigrant ideology rooted in your racist world view in our Green Mountains. We the Vermonter; the Quebecois, the Abenaki and the sons and daughters of Ethan Allen, birthed in the spirit of self-determination, direct democracy, and self-governance have determined: We don’t want you and your ilk in our mountains.

Joint Statement of
Thomas H. Nylor, Founder of The Second Vermont Republic
and The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective, NEFAC

The Second Vermont Republic
P.O. Box 1093
Montpelier, VT 05601
info@vermontrepublic.org

The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective
GMAC
PO Box 76
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
Email: greencollective@chek.com

Once more, we''re not racists. We have nothing to do with neo-nazis or any other racist groups. But it suits the agenda of the radical left to lie about those who oppose their whackjob politics.

The anarchist-communists are free to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights and demonstrate to the public their support of an ideology that murdered over 100 million people in the 20th Century.

We''ll be standing up for the country that liberated hundreds of millions of people while we work to keep it secure by highlighting the need for heightened security on our borders.