Petition to U.S. Congress for Investigation of Minutemen

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FORMAL PETITION TO U.S. CONGRESS


TO THE DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

INTERNET MECHA formally requests a full-scale Congressional investigation into the overt and covert activities of the Minutemen and related vigilante groups in the United States of America including their overall involvement in the May 30, 2009 ‘home invasion’ resulting in the murders of Brisenia Flores, age 9 and her father Raul in Arivaca, Arizona.

INTERNET MECHA urges Congress to initiate this immediate investigation into the activities of these vigilante groups, and their relationships with government officials, in order to ensure Latinos in the U.S. that we are safe and secure in our homes, schools, communities and workplaces.

There are numerous Minutemen organizations across our nation actively and aggressively promoting racial hatred and hostilities if not outright violence against Latinos in the U.S. Several local, state and federal officials including former Representative Tom Tancredo have praised these armed and sometimes dangerous vigilantes whose primary mission seems to be to “kick Mexicans out of the U.S.”

Other Latinos are publicly attacked in similar fashion, as if all our People are “enemies” of the U.S. It was only a matter of time before some of these heavily armed groups and(or) individual Minutemen members would resort to “vigilante justice,” to the extent innocent Latinos would be murdered, as occurred in Arivaca, Arizona, May 30, 2009.

Despite ‘hate crime’ laws enacted across the nation, there are numerous cases where Mexicans and other Latinos were murdered and(or) brutally assaulted due to their heritage and(or)color of skin. INTERNET MECHA believes the Minutemen and their supporters in local, state and federal government are fomenting this violence and other crimes against Latinos in the U.S. by intent or design much like public officials used the KKK to keep freed African-Americans “in their place” in the South after the Civil War.

Today, Minutemen vigilantes and their affiliates are clearly targeting Latinos much like the KKK targeted African-Americans in the past. Shawna Forde, a Minutemen leader and two of her associates, Jason Bush and Albert Gaxiola, are accused of crossing state lines, to commit the heinous May 30 crimes in Arivaca, and perhaps other violent crimes along the way, according to Arizona detectives who claim there are still other suspects at-large.

The San Diego Minutemen claim Shawna Forde’s Washington organization is also supported by Jim Gilchrist of the National Minutemen Project. There was clearly a conspiracy to murder Raul Flores and his family in Arivaca, and there may well be a much larger conspiracy to murder more Latinos by these vigilantes and(or) their affiliates.

Please hold open hearings to shed more light on these vigilante groups as soon as possible.		Petition to U.S. Congress for Investigation of Minutemen

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  1. Sat., Feb. 6, 2010 11:08 AM    link sam d. | Bethel Park, PA

  2. Sun., Jan. 31, 2010 7:26 PM    link jazmin s. | Dallas, TX

  3. Sat., Jan. 30, 2010 8:34 PM    link patricia m. | Union City, CA

  4. Sat., Jan. 30, 2010 5:30 AM    link David M. | San Francisco, CA

    May the Lords will be done I will pray for the minutemen and for the victim but education is the right way to teach ignorance because evil hates what it cant understand.

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  6. Sat., Jan. 23, 2010 8:27 PM    link Jesus R. | Whittier, CA

    Equal protection under the law. Please do the right thing a convict these criminals.

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  8. Thu., Jan. 21, 2010 1:42 PM    link Sergio G F. | Kingwood, TX

  9. Wed., Jan. 20, 2010 7:08 PM    link margarita v. | South Gate, CA

  10. Fri., Jan. 15, 2010 11:49 AM    link Octavio P. | Chicago, IL

    We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity demand an Investigation against the minuteman

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  12. Thu., Jan. 14, 2010 2:19 PM    link Name not displayed | North Hills, CA

    If this was to happen again, I will take action into my own hands! Poor 8yr old girl. so sad so wrong!

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  14. Wed., Jan. 6, 2010 8:12 AM    link Walberto L. | Suffolk, VA

  15. Tue., Jan. 5, 2010 10:07 PM    link carlos f. | Kansas City, MO

  16. Tue., Jan. 5, 2010 4:22 PM    link craig d. | Cincinnati, OH

    This is a murder & should be prosecuted as such! A Latino child's life is just as precious as a caucasians. Do the right thing and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law!

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  18. Tue., Jan. 5, 2010 12:56 PM    link RICKY H. | Stratford, CA

    NO JUSTICE NO PEACE

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  21. Mon., Dec. 28, 2009 11:40 PM    link MARY M. | San Elizario, TX

    People like that should be disgusted of themselves. And if they think that breaking into homes like that is right. There wrong they just gave themselves another name for thives and murderers. GRACIAS DIOS MIO POR AVERME ECHO MEXICANA. QUE VIVA LA RAZA PINCHES GUEROS.!!!!!!

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  23. Mon., Dec. 28, 2009 5:34 PM    link Henry V. | Hayward, CA

    Mexicans are Native Americans! We can prove in federal court that Mexicans are Native Americans.

    By: Henry Guzman Villalobos (Aztec-Yaqui)

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  25. Sun., Dec. 27, 2009 8:05 PM    link Name not displayed | Lake City, FL

    This type of hate crime is widespread in this nation. The minutemen need to be banned from the border and a message sent to our society that we will not support racism and what they are doing. I have always been oppposed to their existence. They have their own agenda based on hate towards Mexicans. As long as our government allows their presence then they are aiding and abetting racism and showing no justice or sympathy towards the victims and the families of these victims of the many hate crimes they have committed (many I am sure we are unaware of) such as this one.

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  27. Sun., Dec. 27, 2009 4:20 PM    link Curtis K. | Detroit, MI

    I completely hate the minutemen organization. I believe they our racist aginst people of color and should be stopped by any means possible. My prayers go out to my latino family. As a black man I believe we should unite as one people and put a stop to this madness from the white community.

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  29. Mon., Dec. 21, 2009 11:16 AM    link Alex Z. | Denver, CO

  30. Thu., Dec. 10, 2009 12:32 AM    link Name not displayed | San Jose, CA

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