Brown Berets Get Ready to Harrass Minutemen

KGBT TV in Harlingen reports:

Those times are over. Minutemen stay away,' said Pablo Delgado, a spokesman for the Brown Berets, a group similar to the Black Panthers.

Delgado said that he's heading up the group here in Texas, just like he helped to do back in the mid-1960s when the once powerful militant group was first formed in East Los Angeles during the Chicano Liberation movement.

'At the time, we had racism and discrimination against the Mexican-American people, like the Ku Klux Klan. Now, (it's) the Minutemen.

The president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. of Texas, Al Garza, had this to say:

'We are not out there provoking anyone especially the Hispanic community. We are there to focus on the pipelines,' Garza said. 'If they have a problem with that to me that means that simply they are advocating illegal immigrants. I can only say that we are not going to confront anybody. We are working within the law and we are going to stick to it.'

Brown Beret Delgado remarks:

'And a message to Al Garza or Ed Garza, I don't know his name. I think that he does not know where he comes from,' Delgado said. 'We the Brown Beret organization do not recognize him as a Hispanic or as a Mexicano. To us, he is nothing.'

No racism here, folks. No, none at all.


UPDATE: See also previous related post Who's the Racist?