A Look Inside the Minuteman Project: “It’s Just Like Hunting”
July 2nd, 2009

This week, The New York Times (NYT) delved into the Minutemen Project and Shawna Forde, former head  of the Minutemen American Defense.  Forde was recently arrested for the murder of nine-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul.  The murder happened during an inconceivable attempt to steal money for the development of an underground militia targeting undocumented immigrants.

NYT quoted former Minutemen American Defense member Merrill Metzger saying, "I had to take an oath, and part of the oath was that I couldn't eat Mexican food.  That's when red flags went up all over for me.  That seemed like prejudice."

Another former member, Chuck Stonex, said Forde had talked about buying a ranch near Arivaca, AZ and building a compound.  According to NYT, Stonex said that he took an excursion in October into the desert with Forde, where, wearing camouflage and carrying handguns and rifles, they searched for illegal immigrants.

"It's just like hunting," Stonex said, describing the tracking skills the group used.  "If you're going out hunting deer, you want to scout around and get an idea what their pattern is, what trails they use."

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