MINUTEMAN PROJECT HOLDS SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
DRY RUN WITH 30 NEW VOLUNTEERS NETS 39 ILLEGALS AND VAN USED FOR SMUGGLING

Minuteman volunteer “The Chase’ stands next to van used by smugglers to import potential terrorists. Chase worked with CHD volunteers to catch the driver of the van in the act of picking up 9 illegals early Saturday morning. A Hunter UAV helped Border Patrol agents find 8 of the 10 hiding in the bush not far away.

Friday night Minuteman volunteers guided by CHD, assisted Border Patrol in nabbing a group of 26 illegals near Hereford Road and Highway 92.

  Sunday night, MMP and CHD volunteers took over the job President Bush and Congress are just too lazy to do. A group of six illegals were found cold and thirsty near Sierra Vista. Volunteers provided the group with water.
   Two men in the group were too weak to stand; another rescue, especially of the women, who may have been sexually abused by the coyote seen here on the right.

Fellow Minutemen continue the fight in Long Island, N.Y.
Keep up the fight brothers!

THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF UNCONTROLLED MULTICULTURALISM

By Russell Sias
In the United States, the issue of multiculturalism has been largely ignored. At the very least, it has either been inappropriately represented or misunderstood for years, perhaps both. As citizen, we have allowed ourselves to be convinced that diversity is a good thing for those within (and without) our country. In some instances, encouraging diversity is a correct and appropriate position for the citizens of our country to adopt, in others, it is not.
Where multiculturalism causes a division with the country, it is detrimental. Division is created when a specific group refuses to speak the commonly accepted language and resists becoming part of the culture by refusing, for example, to recognize the same holidays and demanding recognition of their own. These and similar practices cause community isolationism, narrowly define markets by cultural or geographic areas, or otherwise separate people into many distinct groups. Such multiculturalism will be devastating to any country because it boldly stands as an obstacle in the way of developing or sustaining common goals and national bonds.
Knowing a second language is one thing. Teaching our children the culture of our grandparents is a worthwhile endeavor. However, forcing one’s culture on a section of our society and isolating that segment from the general population is quite another. It is absolutely necessary that we recognize the hazards that we bring upon ourselves when we allow multiculturalism to dominate our communities or overwhelm our nation. Do we want to live in a country where, when we travel from one community to another, we need to speak different languages, where some communities are likely to be resentful of “outsiders,” where cultures do not mix, are not shared, and where people have nothing in common? Do we want to allow multiculturalism to segregate our country and then wonder if it will literally come apart as the Soviet Union has done? If the answer to these questions is no, then we must address the many issues caused by our present attitude towards multiculturalism.
There are fundamental characteristics that differentiate one country from another. Certain characteristics define our country as a distinct group of unique people, determine our national individuality, and establish our very identity within the world community. Left unchecked, multiculturalism will ultimately lead to a loss of the very culture that defines our country as a separate and distinct entity from other nations of the world. Multiculturalism is a quiet invasion that allow a takeover by a foreign power, just as surely as if we were taken over by violence and force.
Successive waves of immigrants have made our country what it is today. It is fitting that we encourage legal immigration within the bounds established by our laws. Immigration laws set limits that allow for assimilation of the newly immigrated population. Without these laws, there will be a general fracture in our society and we will cease to be a united country. In the first 150 years of this country’s existence, immigrants came with a desire to become Americans and to support America. Today under the guise of multiculturalism, many immigrants come with far different goals.
During the 2004 Utah legislature a group of Hispanics watched as it became apparent that a bill addressing immigration issues would not be brought to the floor for discussion. In support of Mexican immigrants, a group gathered in the rotunda of the capitol building and chanted “Viva Mexico” for several minutes. These people clearly have missed out on the opportunity to be true Americans. They do not know the importance of joining with other Americans to be patriots within this great country. They have yet to understand the necessary lessons our immigrant forefathers learned as they strove to become an integral part of these United States.
One of the results of multiculturalism is that modern day immigrants are attempting to bring their culture and ways into this country. Hence, they have yet to transfer their allegiance to America, their new home. They deprive themselves of the very essence of what it means to be an American. Those who strive to impose their culture and their ways upon their new neighbors deprive themselves of many of the benefits they seek by immigrating.
Immigrants coming to the United States normally come from less prosperous nations. This is, after all, a major reason for their move in the first place. No one disrupts their family or contemplates a significant life style change without good cause. People migrate from other countries because first they are dissatisfied with their present situation and they believe that the new location will be a better environment in which to raise their family. They hope to have a better life for themselves and their loved ones.
Unfortunately multiculturalism often support, within the new culture, many of the very negative cultural characteristics which immigrants are attempting to flee. Immigrants recognize that the country they have deserted is less able to serve them, which is why they are striking out to better themselves, but via multiculturalism, they blindly insist on perpetuating many of the problems that caused them to leave in the first place. The immigrants who bring their failed cultures with them may restructure their new environment to be identical to the one that failed them and from which they are attempting to flee
Abraham Lincoln said: A nation divided cannot stand. Insofar as multiculturalism divides our nation, our country is weakened. Today we see the insidious signs of multiculturalism everywhere. Unless we want a fractured and divided country where different languages are spoken, where anarchy reigns supreme, where people are pitted against anyone form a different segment of the population, where we cannot feel free or safe to come and go to other parts of the country or even to parts or our own towns, then we must recognize the danger of multiculturalism and make the necessary changes. Either we do this, or we will continue down the path to more and more separate and individual societies, instead of building a single and solid, united American society.
Our community leaders, whether mayors, city council members, state legislators, congress, yes, even the President, must look at each and every proposed ordinance, code, and law, to ascertain that it does not promote multiculturalism. Furthermore, we must begin to strike down those codes and laws that presently encourage the negative aspects of multiculturalism which will weaken, and could ultimately destroy, this great country.

MEXICAN ARMY RAIDS TOP SECUTIRY PRISON

By JOHN RICE, Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY - More than 750 troops and police officers took over the nation’s top security prison on Friday after officials repeated warnings that two of hemisphere’s most notorious alleged drug bosses had joined forces behind bars.
The federal Public Security Department said the operation at La Palma came after prison authorities “declared a state of alert because of grave risks to ... some inmates and the possibility of an escape” at the facility west of Mexico City.
   Two recent killings at the prison, where inmates are supposed to be monitored by frequent guard visits and closed-circuit television, created a national scandal and led officials to oust prison administrators.
On Thursday, the top organized-crime fighter at the Attorney General’s Office told reporters that two inmates held at La Palma, Osiel Cardenas and Benjamin Arellano Felix, had joined forces to battle another drug gang.
Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos said the two were uniting because the Juarez Cartel has been trying to take over areas once dominated by Arellano Felix Tijuana-based operatives and others loyal to Cardenas’ Gulf cartel.
The newspaper La Jornada quoted attorneys as saying Cardenas and Arellano Felix were on a hunger strike at the prison to protest tightened security. Officials denied the report.
Santiago Vasconcelos said the control of the Juarez Cartel has shifted away from Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, whose brother, Amado, ran the group until his death in 1997.
It is now led by five men with close ties to cocaine producers in Colombia, including Juan Jose Esparragoza, also known as “El Azul,” Santiago Vasconcelos said.
He said the most powerful of those are Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Ismael Zambada, alias “El Mayo.” Guzman himself had escaped from a similar top security prison near Guadalajara in 2001.
In November, U.S. authorities offered a $5 million reward for Esparragoza’s capture. About a month later, they announced a similar reward for information leading to the apprehension of Guzman. Zambada has been a wanted U.S. fugitive with a $2 million price on his head since 2003.
On Dec. 31, a fellow inmate at La Palma shot and killed Guzman’s brother, Arturo, who was held there. Another associate of Guzman had been shot to death inside La Palma on Oct. 6.
The head of Mexico’s federal prison guard force, Carlos Tornero, said earlier this month that either guards or trusted suppliers must have been corrupted to allow the guns into the prison. That was especially alarming because the La Palma guards were supposed to be an honest elite force.
Tornero said there would be “complete and absolute” changes in the prison administration.
Federal Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha had said last year that officials were investigating reports of an escape plot at La Palma and he acknowledged the problems of holding wealthy, ruthless and powerful drug bosses.
“Some inmates, because of the economic power and organizational strength of their gangs, put prisons under a great deal of pressure,” Macedo de la Concha said.

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