I Say ‘God-Damn!’

God damn, god damn, god damn.

But not all of them are focused on bor­der con­cerns. If you talk to the Minutemen long enough, the sub­ject of immi­gra­tion inevitably floats to the surface.

“I see the nation descend­ing into poverty, philo­soph­i­cally, and part of it is ille­gal immi­gra­tion, a big part of it,” says a twen­tysome­thing young man named Eric, who declines to give his last name. “It’s also out­sourc­ing, increas­ing cor­po­rate power, exces­sive cor­po­rate power, that kind of stuff. What I can do here, since I’m so close to the bor­der, is help out with the immi­gra­tion issue.” His fiancée, he says, can’t under­stand why does it. David Niewert, Borderline Personalities

So this par­tic­u­lar Minuteman is con­cerned about the glob­al­iza­tion of cap­i­tal, and the “we all see it but pre­tend it isn’t star­ing us in the face” future eco­nomic down­turn in the U.S., and he chooses to do his part by stomp­ing on brown people.

God damn, if that isn’t the stu­pid­est thing I’ve ever heard. Way stu­pider than heal­ing crys­tals and intel­le­gent design.

The alter­na­tive is the stuff about cor­po­rate power was thrown in there because more peo­ple care about out-of-control, legally un-accountable cor­po­ra­tions than they do brown peo­ple, and “Eric” is sim­ply talk­ing up the same bait-and-switch that got the word “Socialist” stuck in the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party”.