It’s important to point out that Shawna Forde wasn’t a "lone wolf" or "just a nut." She was a prominent leader of the Minutemen Movement who shared the stage with Jim Gilchrist, the group’s founder — along with three GOP presidential candidates — at a 2007 "Conservative event" in Washington state.
On June 30, Jim Gilchrist, one of America’s top opponents of Illegal Alien Amnesty will highlight the 2007 Washington State Illegal Immigration Summit in Everett.The Summit should be the pinnacle Conservative event of 2007.
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Wait ‘til you hear what he has to say. We can unite and win.
In addition the event is co-hosted by Minutemen American Defense, a Washington state-wide American citizen defense coalition headed by Shawna Forde, a re-born Rock promoter from the days of the music world-shaking Seattle Rock explosion. Shawna will speak.
Representatives (or the actual candidates) will appear from Presidential campaigns for TOM TANCREDO, DUNCAN HUNTER and FRED THOMPSON.
Maybe someone should ask Tancredo, Hunter and Thompson what they think of the Minutemen now. Remember, Mike Huckabee proudly accepted Jim Gilchrist’s endorsement. And Forde was Gilchrist’s protege.
You’d think this would be the end of the mainstream GOP’s flirting with these dangerous vigilantes, but don’t expect right-wing bloggers like the Anchor Baby to stop writing love letters to the Minutemen any time soon.



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Thank God Obama’s keeping the terrorists out of the U.S.
Thanks B.T. Tancredo, hunter and Thompson need to be confronted about this.
Tell me did Shawna Forde kill people and steal to fund the Minute Men I know that is what she was claiming but did she actually use the cash to further her Minute Man activities?
Because Unions get investigated all the time by the Feds when Mob activity is suspected by some of its members.
I want the Minute Men’s finances investigated taxes after all is how they got Al Capone.
It’s going to fall to the liberal blogs to press the issue. The significance of the connections in this here trail of bigots will go unnoticed by the DNC, DSCC and the of course the MSM.
The Democrats are as stupid as Republicans if they think they can afford to shit on latinos.
She promoted Rock Shows? Or is this resume padding?
All of these wingnut whackos known exactly what they are doing, but as long as they are not caught actually pulling the trigger, they feel that they can deny all and fall back on “political persecution” as the reason people are speaking against them.
Thanks, BT. I live in WA and hadn’t heard about this. Not a lot of M$M coverage? And I watch very little local news.
I’m ashamed to be from the same state as this disgusting criminal.
How is it defending anything to go armed into a family’s home–while they’re there? The guy who actually did the deed is a murdering SOB, and the GOP deserves to have this kind of terrorism hung around their necks for years to come.
DIS.Gusting
FunnyWheelieDiva
I wonder if Banjo Boy will return any campaign cash he got from the Minute Men if its found out that yes some members of the group were killing people to provide funds for the Minute Men.
Prolife My %^&*
Be fair, though. The mainstream Minutemen organization–Minutemen for Civil Defense or some such–kicked this woman out years ago.
Of course, it’s interesting to ask why you never hear about extremists who were kicked out of leftist organizations going out and killing people.
Don’t be just make fun of them like John Belushi did in the Blues Brothers and the Illinois Nazi’s:). Or you could just laugh at them.
Some wag put me on the Minutemen’s mailing list, and I now get Action Alert emails from them regularly. All the bs you would expect and then some.
Lou Dobbs will be hosting a defense fundraiser
Where’s your bipartisanship?
Dare’s no liberal America and no conservative America. There’s a United States of America. God Bless America!
- President Barry Warren Prejean
There’s an Idiot America.
- Charles Pierce
Kicked out or encouraged to leave and do things the Parent Organization the Minute Men want done but must have plausible deniability on for liability reasons.
Where did this Prejean thing come from? I can’t wait to hear the tenuous connection between Obama and a beauty queen.
Devil’s Dictionary?
Huh? This event was in 2007.
from link:
It must just be something about the name.
Pallin around with Terrorists :) Now we just need a picture of Sarah standing next to any two of these guys.
Heck any pictures of GOPers standing next to Shawna Forde will be Gold on the net.
Saw it at David Eherenstein’s Fablog. Barack is like Prejean because he’s been beating gays over the head with a rubber mallet ever since they helped elect him.
Hmmm, good point. Are you sure she was at the 2007 thing, though? I could have sworn they got rid of her before then.
OoooooooooooooK.
as always, Niewert is a treasure trove of info and research:
Blue Tex – fyi and thanks for the link
found here: The Mainstream Embrace
I saw a framed “art” poster of Barack Obama at the local K Mart’s going out of business sale. This was the caption on the poster:
“There’s no liberal America and no conservative America. There’s a United States of America.”
- President Barack Obama
Charles Pierce’s latest book is entitled “Idiot America”.
(Green Day has an album that is several years old now entitled: “American Idiot”.)
We was beating gays over the head well before they helped elect him. So the ones who jumped on the Obama bandwagon like a bunch of sheep during the nomination can just STFU.
OT Senator Ensign from Nevada stepped down over cheating on his wife? I think there may be more to it when was the last time a Senator stepped down over that?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..16842.html
From the SPLC Intelligence Report on Shawna Forde:
What a piece of work.
Bierce! Ambrose Bierce not Pierce my bad.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/
Still it did sound like something he would write.
only stepped away from his leadership position (4th in line) did not resign his seat
So brown folks can’t read books? What are they afraid we will check out the latest Harry Potter and never return it?
Off on the business of the Queen. See all later.
Thanks for the correction my bad.
might not have been Forde’s first involvement with home invasion:
linky
no worries – no one steps down unless they embrace climate change or single payer :D
Did Hillary show any signs that she would have done any better?
That’s good, it’ll give him more time to
boink staffersspend with his wife.Does he have a trophy wife
Sure, she was there pretending to smile while he apologized. Their marriage is stronger now, you know. And if it isn’t, she’ll cut his balls off.
You decide
Gee she could be if she dyed her hair blond./s
Just think, a few more numbers and we could have Thompson as our president….never mind that he really does not want to work that hard…
Has any president yet had a cot in the Oval Office?
The same news media people that went out of their ways to spam right-wing talking points garbage about Ward Churchill’s and Bill Ayres’ alleged evil and alleged close ties to prominent Democrats are quite silent when confronted by hard evidence tying right-wingers to murderers and terrorists.
A cot in the office would send the Republics and their cohorts in the media into an amazing frenzy.
Gosh rethugs think people in the oval office shouldn’t take their jackets off.
While they are in their birthday suits with members of the staff. nice
That is kind of a Newt Gingrich thing
Jane Hamsher is upstairs!
Healthcare: Hagan, Bingaman Holding Up Public Plan in HELP Commitee
I actually know a few of these types. Most of them are harmless, mostly. But what passes for their ideology is ALL plausible deniability for crimes committed or contemplated. They really lack any real political sense or motivation. In this case, robbing “drug dealers” and “illegal aliens” is the way to raise money for a get-rich-quick business based on a movie (seen “Proof of Life”?). In almost all cases, the ideology is a rationalization of the real reason that they own guns: they like (or think they’d like) killing people, but don’t want to feel guilty for it.
In a sense, Wingnutdom is thus quite correct about the non-political, criminal nature of each group or individual that gets caught. They just don’t explain that the MinuteAryans are different only to the extent that they are the low-profit, blue-collar side of the overall criminal enterprise.