Guard the Borders Blogburst

As of tomorrow, we are less secure. As of tomorrow, our national security is once again left solely in the incapable hands of our federal government. Do you know why?Because as of tomorrow, the Minutemen border watch concludes for the month of October. And once again, illegal aliens will be free to pour across our borders with little but an understaffed, overworked, hamstrung Border Patrol to stem the tide.

I, for one, thank the Minutemen for their vigilance.

In their honor, for this week's Guard the Borders Blogburst I present a speech from Minuteman Tim Donnelly (reproduced with permission) that was delivered on Oct 1st, 2005 in the O'Neill Valley on the border.

Who are the Minutemen?

By Minuteman Tim Donnelly

Who are the Minutemen? That was the burning question in my mind as I drove down for opening day in Tombstone this past April 1st and that same thought is with me today.

If you read the papers this past April, they got it wrong when they claimed we are:

Middle aged

Balding

Overweight

White

Racist

Vigilantes.

And that was just one newspaper.

Let's not forget what other newspapers have added to the mix:

Wild-eyed, armed 'migrant' hunters.

I have never seen such a lack of curiosity among those paid to be curious. I wish just once they would tell the world who we really are with the same sympathy they use in covering those who support illegal immigration.

Minutemen:

You have answered the call of your nation. You have shown courage and commitment and gone where others fear to tread.

You understand that while our elected government has failed us, our form of government has not. We are a self-governing people. You can see today that many who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution have failed not only this generation, but they have failed those brave few who 230 years ago pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in defense of an idea:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

There are those who claim that WE seek to deny these same rights to those who illegally cross our borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. Men of great courage in America in the not so distant past rejected the notion that any man could be less than equal. Yet what those who OPPOSE us are really saying it is okay to have a sub-class of people with no legal status, second-class non-citizens, who can never hope to be more than indentured servants to the slavers who bring them here.

We Minutemen are not content with a solution that rewards those who capitalize on the misery of others. But the status quo is good enough for the so-called "human rights activists" who are not offended when people are treated no better than chattel.

When Minutemen stand against the open borders coalition, we stand against systematic rape, abuse and exploitation of our fellow human beings. We bring water and food to those who are dying in the desert. We did not invite them, others did; but we will not abandon them to die as their enslavers do.

The status quo is 455 deaths this year, up from over 330 last year. Some say that is just the cost of doing business, as they count their profits. I say if we think that is acceptable in the United States of America in 2005, then we have failed not only our Founding Fathers, but we have failed all of mankind.

They say we are spreading a message of hate. If you read on in the Declaration of Independence, it says:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…"

The idea that governments are answerable to the people seems to me to be a message of hope, not hate.

Just as the French lent us the ideas that eventually became the founding principles of this Republic, so should we lend our voices and our ideas to our neighbors to the south that they could throw off their own shackles of tyranny. We could start by sending them a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

President Bush earlier this year went on national TV and called the Minutemen 'vigilantes' just before I left for Tombstone. If you take the "e" off vigilante, what do you have? Vigilant. And isn't "vigilant" what the President asked us to be after 9/11? We are answering the President's call.

Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution says this:

"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion…"

Wouldn't it be great if the President executed his duty so well that Vicente Fox called HIM a vigilante?

On April 19th, 1775, Minutemen rallied against "Taxation without Representation" and rejected the tyranny of foreign rule. On April 1st 2005, Minutemen again rallied against "Taxation without Representation" and we stand here today in defense of self-governance. We stand for liberty and justice for ALL, not just those who can afford a Congressman.

We are not here to deny anyone the American dream, but what the Tories of our day are selling is not a dream, American or otherwise. It is a mirage. It is a fraud. If America were to open her doors to ALL who would wish to come here, the world would tilt on its axis and the American dream would be lost for EVERYONE.

In the sea of exploited humanity that moves across our open borders every day in pursuit of a false promise, all sorts of ugly things can and do hide. Terrorists who wish to convert by tyranny all who oppose their warped and radical version of Islam are free today to walk across the border unchecked with chemical, biological and even nuclear materials. This is an unacceptable level of national security risk in a post-9/11 world.

In 2005 what we need is "a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life," as John F. Kennedy stated. I think President Kennedy would be proud to see all the Minutemen standing here on this line today and on lines all across this great nation.

We are a nation of Minutemen. We just need to wake up the other 299 million of us who have forgotten. Let the call arise and resound until the alert is heard in Washington:

"The Minutemen are coming! The Minutemen are coming!"

Let it begin here today.

As men and women of a proud Minuteman tradition, let us ponder what may have happened if those few had not stood against tyranny in the colonial America. This nation, conceived in liberty, would not stand as it does today, a beacon to the world and the last best hope for human freedom and liberty on Earth. Consider what the world would look like now, and what would even have been the result of two World Wars or even if there would have been only two.

There will always be those who do nothing, as there were during those days a few Americans struck a mortal blow against tyranny on our shores. Yet we as Americans must remember, as Edmund Burke once said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

I say to my fellow Minutemen here today that if America is to fall prey to terrorists and those who would undermine her sovereignty: LET IT NOT BE ON OUR WATCH!

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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we're going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to kit.jarrell at gmail dot com.

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