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Minutemen Car Hits 5 Protestors - 8 Felony Charges

by Chicomozteca
Chican@ protestors + allies show fierce determination in the face of attempted murder by Minutemen and brutal suppression by police.
Minutemen Car Hits 5 Protestors - 8 Felony Charges

By Chicomozteca


This is serious.

This is not an "objective" report - but a sketchy, ground eye view of
what occurred from someone bent on organizing - not reporting.

But I am writing from a place of rage tempered by a steely
determination. What I am writing is the truth.

It is important to note here that the LA Times story tonight is a
complete fabrication, and a transparent and racist attempt to
completely invert the story, so that Mexican-hunting Minutemen
vigilantes look like normal citizens and their crimes look like
frustrated outrage at Chican@ protestor's supposed excesses.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

---

We need to look this situation right in the eye.

The Minutemen are bloodthirsty fascist thugs and racists - potential
stormtroopers who are backed by the State and its police, and are an
important part of the growing Christian Fascist apparatus. What we saw
tonite was an effort at the outright brutal suppression of the Chican@
People - up to and including attempted murder.

What unfolded tonight amply demonstrates that point.

A Minuteman supporter was able to walk free for almost three quarters
of an hour after what some termed an attempted murder of protestors,
while innocent people on the other side of the line were snatched up
in brutal surgical police strikes.

But for hours, the people didn't bend an inch. They only gave ground
when met with overwhelming force - and even then, they held the line
until having their ranks cut in two twice by baton wielding rioters in
uniform.

Three hundred protestors - overwhelmingly young and Chican@ (again,
like in Baldwin Park, our white Left "allies" were in scant supply) -
gathered tonite in Garden Grove determined to take on the Minutemen.

We outnumbered the racist vigilante wannabes three to one.

Not the ten to one we had in Baldwin Park to shut down the Save Our
State fascists ten days ago, but not bad. Especially not bad for a
protest behind the Orange Curtain.

Police had cordoned off the entire area - leaving only one driveway
open for cars manned by the Terminator's "exemplary citizens" to enter
the compound where the gun toting Mexican-hunter Jim Gilchrist was to
speak.

Early in the evening - contrary to the LA Times "report," which set
the event at the end of the evening, hours after it occured - and
which claimed protestors had, in effect, provoked being run over by
trying to stop cars leaving the event, protestors were marching across
that driveway when, just before dusk, a Minutemen supporter wheeled in
from the street without stopping - striking at least five people, two
of who were taken to the hospital.

The driver struck the people with a dark green Dodge Caravan, license
plate number 4KVE303.

Intitially - for a period of some 45 minutes - NO ONE WAS ARRESTED for
this crime, while paramedics bent over the two who remained down. One
man had blood on his clothing, but apparently was later released from
the hospital.

A young Asian woman said that what shocked her was the absolute force
of the vehicle as it blew her to the ground. She and a friend were hit
by the side of the vehicle - which did not stop. She said she yelled
to her friend to move his feet, and that the rear wheels missed
running over their feet by mere inches.

A visibly shaken white woman - a member of Global Women's Strike -
later filed charges against the driver for striking her with the car,
as protestors gathered outside the police station to demand the
release of those arrested. One policeman was overheard trying to
convince her that the incident might have been an "accident."

National Lawyer's Guild observers took statements from many witnesses.

Protestors chanted "Arrest the racists, not the people! and "Arrest
the driver." After word spread that the driver had at last been taken
into custody - only to be charged mere assault and battery - a
misdemeanor, protestors chanted "Assault with a deadly weapon!"

Nothing could quiet the righteous sense of outrage and determination
of the protestors in the face of such intense violence and smug and
filthy indifference to justice.

After it became clear that we weren't backing down an inch the police
told a National Lawyer's Guild observer that the driver would be
charged with assault with a deadly weapon, after all. That remains, of
course, to be seen. One thing's for sure - you won't see any headlines
about Minutemen "terrorists."

A handful of the racist stormtrooper wannabes stood behind the police
lines taunting and mocking the protestors even as their comrades lay
stricken on the concrete, waving an American flag and doing their best
to act jaunty and smug. One of these clowns - something of a Gilchrist
look alike - wore an oversized black cowboy hat and an amazingly gaudy
American flag tie with a black leather cowboy vest. Media interviewed
him while our camaradas lay on the ground.

In the meantime, Garden Grove Police showed no such slowness in
arresting protestors. One Chicano man - a MEChA leader - was standing
with his back to the police and among the peaceful protestors during a
momentary lull in the events, when an arm suddenly shot out from
behind him in the crowd, grabbing and pulling him back across the
police line, where he disappeared from sight until he was later seen
cuffed and being shoved into a police van in a nearby parking lot.
This man was charged, according to a police sargent, with a felony, as
were seven others being held.

In another brutal strike riot pigs swept in from behind the crowd,
swinging batons beating him and threatening the crowd with pepper
spray, to sieze a single man - apparently an anarchist, who had been
doing nothing at all, according to several witnesses. Beautifully,
many of those around him stepped forward, not back and away from the
batons and spray, to defend him, one woman reaching for him from
behind a cop and from between his feet.

By the time the Nazi-fest was over, protestors blocked both exits,
ready for what might come. Only when protestors were forced back by a
line of helmeted cops on horseback were the MinuteNazis able to exit,
after a delay of some 15 minutes or more.

However its reported, tonight was a victory for the Chican@ People and
our brave Asian and white allies. The Minutemen showed the desparation
and tactical stupidity that underlies their empty bravado and swaggering.

The police, while surprising no one, made it abundantly clear that
their allegiance and service lies with the neo-Nazis in the White
House and the Governor's Mansion and with the Minutemen.

And our People made it clear that we will not go quietly - that we
will fight with complete determination to drive the fascists out, and
back, no matter what it takes.







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by deanosor (deanosor [at] comcast.net)
Now that we know how violent the Minutemen are, and how the cops will only protect them, the question is what happens the next time they show their ugly heads in California. Will their be overwhemlming numbers from up and down our state and beyond? And will we be able to actually stop them? And will white people and others join Chicanos in helping to do so?
by history buff
http://www.radio4all.org/aia/sec_cointelpro.html

(snip)

Covert aid to right-wing vigilantes

In the guise of a COINTELPRO against "white hate groups," the FBI subsidized, armed, directed and protected the Ku Klux Klan and other right-wing groups, including a "Secret Army Organization" of California ex-Minutemen who beat up Chicano activists, tore apart the offices of the San Diego Street Journal and the Movement for a Democratic Military, and tried to kill a prominent anti-war organizer. Puerto Rican activists suffered similar terrorist assaults from anti-Castro Cuban groups organized and funded by the CIA.

Defectors from a band of Chicago-based vigilantes known as the "Legion of Justice" disclosed that the funds and arms they used to destroy bookstores, film studios, and other centers of opposition had secretly been supplied by members of the Army's 113th Military Intelligence Group.

(snip)
§;
by ;
i will help fight vigilantes.i will act covertly.
by .
i have printed this info before ,but here we go again.IN BELLINGHAM WA< < A BLACK MAN WAS RUN OVER AND KILLED BY A WHITE MAN WHO WAS SHOUTING ""DAMN NIGGERS""">THE POLICE CHIEF <RANDY CARROLL, SAID THIS WAS NOT A ''HATE CRIME''.!!! bellingham police dept. adress is 505 grand ave. bellingham wa..i posted this in caps because i dont want anyone to overlook this incident.the police are on attack mode since 911.we will fight to the end.as in a boxing match , we afe in the 12 th round.we MUST resist.
by Sludge
LA Indymedia froze at about 2:30 while I was accessing the Violent Minutemen reports, anyone else note this prob?

I don't want to jump to conclusions..

Are there other links to the most recent postings other then LA Indy?

Solidatity
Sludge
by bent_rider
Know very well that anyone who wants to commit murder, just has to use a car as the murder weapon. And walk free.
Just don't flee afterwords, or have been drinking. Just claim that the sun was in your eyes.
by too true...
You can even kill the cyclist, be convicted of committing assault with a deadly weapon (as a misdemeanor of course), and walk in 8 months with your license intact.

I hope they throw the book at the Minutemen.
by from la indy
n a phone call I just made to Garden Grove police,
they have confirmed a rumor a CNN reporter passed on
to me a couple of minutes ago that Hal Netkin was
released from jail early this morning and will *not*
face criminal charges for running his minivan into
four people at the protest against Minuteman founder
Jim Gilchrist.

Sincerely,

Duane J. Roberts
duaneroberts92804 [at] yahoo.com

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127270.php
by Unbiased_Va
I know from personal witnesses that this report is completely fabricated! Hal Netkin's car was being attacked, his car wipers were torn off and his windows were being pounded on. His car was surrounded by yelling and some violent protestors...so in fear of not being taken out of his car as in previous riots. Hal Netkin slowly tried moving away. All injuries were exaggerated and nothing was serious. The reason he was not charged is because he did nothing wrong. He was a scared old man. The protest was out of hand... it is a shame that those who were hurt because they couldn't protest peacefully. If your car was surrounded and people yelling and beating down on your windows... I ask you, what would you do?
by Calling it like it is
Wow... in this article the author has no problem calling white people nazis, racists and all the other buzzwords to promote hate. Yet, they had "a MEChA leader" in attendance and the author doesn't believe that's a problem.

Isn't it true that "MEChA" is the hispanic KKK?

The funny part, the hispanic kkk is protesting what they believe is hate.
by R L
>>>By the time the Nazi-fest was over, protestors blocked both exits, ready for what might come.

I dont get why protesters were trying to block these exits? This sounds like pure provocation to me. Their cause may be just, but their actions are dishonorable.
by a US citizen
Thumbs up to those Minutemen. I support them one hundred percent.
Illegals OUT
by shut the fuck up
go back to your Fox news brainwashing you racist coward
by ME
FUCK YOU TOO! HIPPIE!!
by to ME
your post is perfect evidence of your ignorance. Try learning to read, think critically and analyze before you come back---right now you are a disgrace to humanity.
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