Houston, we have a problem. Jim Gilchrist has wriggled his way into the hearts and minds of the whole anti-immigration movement, taken at face value. No conservative organization has even bothered to investigate him. We are giving this patriotic song and dance, but never bother comparing his record or delving into the fact that his flip-flopping makes John Kerry look like an amature. He has been blessed by the ‘conservative’ establishment, never mind that he is a died in the wool socialist. The RINO conservativement movement are even considering a presidental run for him. There is quite a bit of material about him out on the web. These are the highlights.
He has become the darling of the Bush-bashing conservative world of no quarter for anyone who may be ‘illegal’. Maybe we should reverse the roll and give him no quarter for his lies, prevarications, cannards, and outright misleading self-promotion.
In an interview with Orange County Register
October 24, 2005, Gilchrist, bastion of conservative salvation explained his tax position. “Yeah, I like Peter[Green Party candidate for governor of CA],” Gilchrist goes on to say. “I don’t like all of his positions, but the one about putting more of a tax burden on the ultra-wealthy and relieving the lower and middle class of that tax burden … I like that.” Yes, this is the same Jim Gilchrist who led the Minuteman citizen border patrol project. The member of the American Independent Party, which is anti-abortion rights and small government and, well, just about the exact opposite of the Green Party. You’ll recall that Gilchrist told the Buzz, before deciding to get in the race, “I’m for taxing the ultra-rich more.” Once he threw his hat in the ring, he said he actually favored replacing the income tax with a national sales tax.”
Gilchrist and the Neo-Nazi connection – thanks to the SPLC.
No honor among thieves or James Chase exposes Minutemen ties to Nazis and where is their money going?
On the site The Truth about Gilchrist, check out this transcript nof an interview about Green Party socialist Peter Camejo.
And his bright reply after his socialist leanings were exposed? “I told him what he wanted to hear, just to tug his chain,” Gilchrist said. “Since I declared (candidacy), I’ve been for Reaganomics.” (Orange County Register, 10-24-05)” Yes, you read this correctly. He was for Reagonomics after he was against it.
Then, he came up with these excuses. ““I deliberately lied to him…um…and the reason was…I just did not want to deal with these Green Party anarchists anymore. My experience with them was that they are domestic terrorists; sorry I have to say that; but when you have five members of your crowd…uh…engaged in brutal combat to prevent other people from exercising their rights to the first amendment, meaning myself and 400 people who were assembling to listen to me, I think your party has a problem and you have to be accountable for it…” (Bruce Elliot Show, 10-27-05)“Um and the reason I did it was to…well…I knew that he was tied in with this domestic terrorist type of group…um…and I really didn’t feel like I wanted to tell him how I really felt, so I just told what he thought he wanted to hear…um…but after…um…about 10 minutes into the interview I realized this guy is not playing with a full deck. He reminds of John Hinckley, the guy who shot Reagan. So I broke off the interview after probably about a half hour.” (Kevin James Show, 10-28-05)
“Gilchrist Lies About Knowledge of Being Recorded During Interview with John Earl –States He Did Not Know Earl was Recording Him.“What I didn’t know is that he was recording this, so he’s asking me all these questions about the Green Party and I said ah yea I’m for the Green Party, ah yea…um…the Green Party is good all this…whatever…stuff like that.” (Kevin James Show, 10-28-05)
The Interviewer Couldn’t Handle the Truth! “I deliberately lied to him…um…and the reason was that some people can’t handle the truth…” (Bruce Elliot Show, 10-27-05)
He was against the American Independent Party after he was for it. “Gilchrist the American Independent Supports the Party
“I like the independent party too. I found the people in the independent party are disgruntled Republicans. They’re your Reagan Republicans who were so disappointed in the mid 90’s like I was that they…they felt like they were abandoned by their own party so they decided to register under a different party to show their…um…to take their support away.” (Kevin James Show, 11-1-05)
“I am not apologizing for running under a different ticket, even though I am a Reagan Republican. Um…I moved into the independent side…oh…out of disgust with…uh…certain Republicans that I felt they needed to be…uh…have a message sent.” (David Allen Show, 10-11-05)
Distances Himself from the Party
“Uh…I’m a Reagan Republican, uhh… umm…thank you. I could not run as a Republican due to the law that says you can not change parties for one year prior to an election. The Governor conveniently made that election 49 days out. I was stuck in the uhh…um…no I can’t say stuck…I was umm…forced to run under the independent ticket.” (John & Ken Show Candidate Forum, 10-3-05)
They know I am Republican in policy, they just no I am in this…this…[pause]….outside party.” (David Allen Show, 10-11-05)
And the Hugh Hewitt interview that exposes John Gilchrist, Minuteman protector of American borders as a socialist open border kind of guy, before he was against closing the borders! “–Interview with Hugh Hewitt, 11-3-05
Hewitt: So you don’t support the World Trade Organization protestors?
Gilchrist: They have a right to protest…
Hewitt: No, I know that. But you don’t agree with them?
Gilchrist: No, I don’t agree with their policy. But I don’t, I also don’t agree in converting the world to government by some world global economic power. Hewitt: Is that happening?
Gilchrist: It’s possible.
Hewitt: But I mean, do you see any evidence of that right now?
Gilchrist: Well, with the…first thing you do is eliminate the borders, and then you eliminate the power of the workers, and then, yeah. Eventually, you have a global environment…economic regions instead of countries.”
You can’t make this stuff up folks. This man lies so much he makes John Kerry the picture of pure veracity.
Chuck Currie has done some excellent work on his blog, exposing Gilchrist’s Nazi connections. “Neo-Nazis volunteered for Jim Gilchrist’s recent congressional campaign and distributed racist propaganda at Gilchrist rallies with the full knowledge of the Minuteman Project co-founder and his campaign managers, according to a former Gilchrist campaign volunteer whose account is supported by photographs, video footage and postings on the white supremacist Web site Stormfront.”
And we go right back to the SPLC. “Neo-Nazis volunteered for Jim Gilchrist’s recent congressional campaign and distributed racist propaganda at Gilchrist rallies with the full knowledge of the Minuteman Project co-founder and his campaign managers, according to a former Gilchrist campaign volunteer whose account is supported by photographs, video footage and postings on the white supremacist Web site Stormfront.
“They were basically allowing Skinheads and white nationalists to work the phone banks and do IT [computer work] and distribute National Alliance fliers targeting non-whites,” Cliff May, a dance instructor in Orange County, Calif., told the Intelligence Report. “When I told Mary [Gilchrist's finance manager] and Eldon [Gilchrist's grassroots coordinator] that I didn’t want to work for a campaign that was tainted by white supremacy in any way, they told me not to cause a stir.
“When I kept bringing it up, they kicked me out.”
From Indymedia:”Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist gets furious when anyone suggests that his group is racist or linked with racist groups. But former Gilchrist staff member Cliff May claims that Gilchrist was aware that Neo-Nazis were working for his recent failed campaign to represent the 48th Congressional District. May says that his complaints were were ignored at first, but that after his persistence led to the Neo-Nazis’ dismissal, he was also fired. May was interviewed by John Earl of www.ocorganizer.com last February. Click the camera icon below to watch the video. A broadband internet connection may be necessary for viewing purposes. Shorter, faster downloading segments of the interview will be uploaded over the next several days.”
Photographs taken at an Oct. 29 Gilchrist rally in Sacramento show a man outfitted like a Nazi Skinhead distributing propaganda from the neo-Nazi National Alliance. “I talked with Gilchrist about it and he said they’d decided to, in his words, ‘let it go,’” May said. Three weeks later, May says he spotted two neo-Nazis among a crowd of Gilchrist campaign volunteers at a City Council meeting in Lake Forest, Calif. May recognized the young man and woman from photographs of neo-Nazis giving seig-heil salutes in front of swastika banners at an anti-immigration protest in Laguna Beach four months earlier, in July. May said he videotaped the neo-Nazis at the November meeting in Lake Forest and immediately afterward played the footage on a big screen television at Gilchrist’s campaign headquarters.”
Duane Roberts is very upfront and helpful with the work he is doing with Indy Media. In a sidebar, this is what he said about the ‘Nazi’ connection to Gilchrist:
“I’m of the opinion that Cliff May is telling the truth
when he claims that several local neo-Nazis ended up
doing volunteer work for Minuteman founder Jim
Gilchrist’s campaign for the 48th Congressional
District.
Shortly after Gilchrist announced his candidacy, a
flurry of cryptic messages started popping up on the
Stormfront White Nationalist Community website
suggesting that he was getting some kind of support
from them.”
The Orange County Register is doing yoeman’s work on Gilchrist and his associates. Unfortunately, because it is ‘liberal’ and may favor the ‘enemy’ Hispanic side of things, ‘conservative’ sources are ignoring it. I think they do so at their own risk. Their interview with Gilchrist shows just how shallow, ill-considered, and just plain not too bright he actually is.
And in Feb, in DC, at a rally where both Gilchrist and TT were featured speakers, the Washington Post reports, “The fervor subsided only when two men dressed in brown and wearing swastikas goose-stepped toward the Minutemen and gave a Nazi salute. The men, straight out of “The Producers,” handed out fliers encouraging the Minutemen to “end your alliance with the Republicans!!!” — and join the American Nazi Party. Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist called for an intermission “to resolve this situation.”
Fire Dog Lake may be liberal, but it definately has THE BEST expose of Jim Gilchrist!
And over at Orcinus there is a masterful expose of the whole minuteman thingie.
And over at Wake Up America, Gilchrist is on their board.
The gang-busters Minuteman Caravan pulled into DC today with maybe 50 cars. Here is one account. Evidently the press contengent was larger than the entire collection of Minuteman and protesters. Looks like fewer than 100 people showed up for this much promoted fiasco.
There was no rally in Memphis – they had no permit.
The Greensboro rally was canceled.
100 were at the Atlanta rally.
I can find nothing about the Montgomery rally.
This gives us a total rally head count of eleven hundred and ninty people – how many were duplicates? This is hardly the earth shattering turnout heralded for the past week or so on World Net Daily, and several other sites and blogs. You may have been following WND’s breathless coverage, leaving out the actual numbers of people who DID NOT show up.
Unfortunately Bill Berkowitz is ‘liberal’ so his opinion doesn’t count with RINO conservative pundits and talk show hosts. To compound the problem, he is a critic of conservativeism. Unfortunatly, conservatives no longer police themselves, so someone needs to do it. Like Berkowitz says, they take Gilchrist at face value, never bothering to even investigate his associates. The give him a free pass, which is unfortunate. He did an excellent piece about the Minutemen and the media, exposing the adulation heeped upon undeserving people like Simcox and Gilchrist.
Mark Potok: As a general matter, the media did an exceedingly poor job of covering the Minuteman Project. The organizers said they were bringing in excess of 1,300 volunteers to Arizona, but brought significantly fewer than 300. They claimed the volunteers were being vetted for possible white supremacists by the FBI — only to have the FBI completely deny that this was the case. They said the only people who would carry guns would be those with conceal-carry permits. In fact, almost no one was checked for permits. Almost none of this was noted in most mainstream press accounts — accounts that in many cases were completely uncritical, even adulatory, in their treatment of the Minutemen.
Most important of all, the organizers of the Minuteman Project claimed that they would be keeping out white supremacists and other racists through their vetting process. In fact, there were at least six men participating who were members of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group whose members have been involved in crimes including assassination, shootouts with police, the machine-gun murder of a Jewish talk show host, bank robberies, plots to bomb Disney World and more. At least two of these men actually discussed setting up sniper positions along the border sometime in the near future. In addition, there was at least one member of the Aryan Nations, another major neo-Nazi group, participating in the Minuteman Project. No mainstream press account mentioned any of this.
“Mark Potok: As a general matter, the media did an exceedingly poor job of covering the Minuteman Project. The organizers said they were bringing in excess of 1,300 volunteers to Arizona, but brought significantly fewer than 300. They claimed the volunteers were being vetted for possible white supremacists by the FBI — only to have the FBI completely deny that this was the case. They said the only people who would carry guns would be those with conceal-carry permits. In fact, almost no one was checked for permits. Almost none of this was noted in most mainstream press accounts — accounts that in many cases were completely uncritical, even adulatory, in their treatment of the Minutemen.
Most important of all, the organizers of the Minuteman Project claimed that they would be keeping out white supremacists and other racists through their vetting process. In fact, there were at least six men participating who were members of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group… In addition, there was at least one member of the Aryan Nations, another major neo-Nazi group, participating in the Minuteman Project. No mainstream press account mentioned any of this.”
And in the Sierra Vista Herald, Casey Nethercott, no strange to the extremem right, accuses both Simcox and Gilchrist of pandering to the neo-Nazi bunch. “Gilchrist said he hasn’t stopped laughing about Nethercott’s comments that the project is being infiltrated by white supremacists. “It’s people like Nethercott we don’t want,” Gilchrist said, adding the Arizona Guard leader did not apply.Nethercott isn’t shy about sharing his views on the Minuteman Project.”James Gilchrist is swinging the door open for every wacko, and wackos are the bad percentage of white supremacists, white power,” Nethercott said. “They’re racists he cannot control.”Sitting in an office on about a 100-acre ranch, the southern boundary of which is 30 feet from the border, the 37-year-old militia leader said that while he supports Tombstone newspaper owner and Civil Homeland Defense founder Simcox, he believes Simcox has made a bad deal with Gilchrist. Both Minuteman Project leaders have lost control of the people who are volunteering, Nethercott said. White supremacists bother him.”If I see Nazi armbands and skinheads and neo-Nazis ‘sieg heiling’ and marching down Puzzi Ranch Road, I’ll make one call to the sheriff’s department,” Nethercott said. Then he said he would arrest them for trespassing on private property because half of the road is ranch land. And Nethercott doesn’t hide the possibility he will counter armed volunteers of the Minuteman Project with his own “special forces trained soldiers.”"If I catch 10 skinheads with guns walking on my property, honestly they will probably be so afraid of what they will see they will probably surrender on the spot. They have no integrity. They’re not soldiers. They’re cowards,” he said.“
On the ‘Say Anything blog” there is a discussion of Gilchrist and his flip-flopping.
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