"Save Our State" / "Minutemen" Issue City Threats?

by Fredric L. Rice Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2005 at 6:26 AM
frice@skeptictank.org

"I would love for them to arrest me,' SOS Executive Director Joseph Turner said Monday. "I am looking to inflict all the pain I can on Baldwin Park."

http://www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,205~12220~2930770,00.html

The right-wing San Gabriel Valley Tribune contains a brief article covering the anti-hate rally scheduled this June 25'th in Baldwin Park, California(see http://www.thedarkwind.org/june25.htm for details and directions) and once again the paper gets it wrong.

It appears to me that this SOSMM individual has issued what looks to me to be what amounts to a threat against the City of Baldwin Park once again, but the article mistakenly suggests that there's only two groups and that the good guys have acquired the permit while the bad guys have refused to.

Not so. There are going to be dozens of different groups there participating in opposing race hatred and bigotry, and one small group of the usual suspects whose numbers wouldn't qualify it to require such a permit in the first place.

At the same time the "The Committee to Defend Danzas Indigenas" is probably mistaken in thinking they'll have 500 in their group alone. I'm left wondering if they've outrageously taken it upon themselves to gather all dozens of diverse anti hate groups under a single umbrella.

My opinions only, of course. Reading the SOSMM people's statements, web sites, and discussion forums, I get the impression we're looking at another 1960's Alabama.

http://www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,205~12220~2930770,00.html