Friday, July 01, 2005

Well...

At first I thought maybe someone is getting a little paranoid, but upon reading the article:
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist believes a communist plot is bent on thwarting his anti-illegal-immigrant group. As evidence, he points to his May 25 speech at the Garden Grove Women's Civic Club, which erupted into a police riot when a Gilchrist supporter trying to leave the event nearly ran over a group of Latino protesters. He complained about the melee last week on KFI's John & Ken Show, saying fears of more violence forced a Republican group to cancel his upcoming appearance in San Diego.

"They're taking away our free-speech rights," Gilchrist declared. "I believe Duane Roberts is behind this." Gilchrist then called Roberts, an Anaheim community activist, a "communist" agitator.

"Yeah, I'm a Marxist," said Roberts, who lives at home with his mom and has no full-time job but lots of free time to cause trouble. But he denies he's the mastermind of the anti-anti-immigrant movement. "Jim Gilchrist is a racist," he said. "About 80 percent of the persons who attended the demonstration were of Mexican ancestry. I guess he thinks they're too stupid to organize it. The truth is, they organized this event and brought people to it. They don't need a white man to lead them."

Nonetheless, Roberts has a long history of causing trouble. Three years ago, he angered Orange County Democrats by tailing a liberal Anaheim school board member and his family with a video camera, proving the official lived in a luxury house in Corona Del Mar. Former friends took to calling him a "child molester," a "serial stalker" and an "undercover cop."
So maybe he's not paranoid, and maybe this Roberts guy is an asshole. I guess it's easy to stick to your Marxist ideals when you're stilling living off your mom.

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