These guys, have gotten me shaking in my boots. I break into a nervous sweat just contemplating them, and I'm losing sleep over them . I'm convinced they're trying to control my life.

Where do I sign up?

A little over the top but this group has had it with out borders being wide open. You would think with all the terrorisim in the world we would want to secure our borders but apparently the goverment does not see this as a issue.

Bizzaro-Harriet Tubmans, sending people back south to the socialist slave states they ran away from.

Not only are they not dangerous to America- they want to do what your precious government refuses to do- guard the borders from illegals. Washington pretends to care about immigration while privately looks the other way while cheap labor streams into this nation. . .follow the money trail, kids, it's not hard to figure out who's looking the other way and why. . .

I have the sneaking suspicion that Immigration--an issue that currently BOTH major United States political parties are weak on--will become the hot-button issue in the 2008 election. I support these efforts of these citizens who are working to enforce the law when the government won't.

I've always wondered where all the backwoods warriors in those militia movements ended up going, and here's the answer: they pooled their beer money, sent away for some snappy new letterhead, and appropriated the monicker of Minutemen (a term that sullies the memories of our Colonial fighters, and more than likely describes this current incarnation's prowess in the sack). The loosest of confederations, the besotted brethren of this organization will roam the vast expanses of remote mountain and desert regions in the United States, looking to nab the masses who insist upon filling the jobs we refuse to do (hey, and maybe even catch a terrorist, too!). Oh, the concept plays well (especially on Fox News teleprompters), but for that one nagging caveat: zero accountability. When someone bothers to dig through the doings in a couple of years, they'll find members who had their OWN agendas (the anti-choice movement, anarchists, drug smugglers, human trafficking, wildlife poaching, etc.) that were clandestinely blended in with these freedom volunteers. And how will the Minutemen deal with these miscreants? A stern lecturing, no doubt (something like y'ought not be doin' things like that, man, or we spot yer pick-up in these parts again, yer in fer an ass-whuppin'). It's that type of oversight that affords me the sleep of angels! Call me concerned, but I'd rather see my tax dollars better-spent in allotted areas (a dream, I'm well-aware of, but one that will become a reality through repeated tragedy). Mark my words, any one of three things WILL happen with civilian border patrols: 1) they'll pop some 6-year-old in the back, the public will turn on them, and they'll disband; 2) some half-crocked Moose Lodger with an over-and-under shotgun will trip up an Egyptian whose '77 Chevy Vega was loaded down with explosives, become a lionized hero, and lend instant sheen to the movement; 3) they'll continue on as background noise (occasionally surfacing as OxyContin runners and sex-worker suppliers) that the Feds'll have to plow millions into for surveillance purposes. A licensed, bonded, and accountable national security firm with corporate shareholder backing would make more sense.

Not dangerous to the US in the least. In fact, they are performing a public service. And I don't mean making it more difficult for border jumpers (which is a good thing to do). The really laudable thing they are doing is demonstrating that people should not stand around waiting for government to solve their problems. The Minutemen have seen a need and have gone out and addressed it ... Republican and Democratic elected officials be damned! To me that is vastly preferable to people standing around at election time whining about how the government needs to provide health care, day care centers for children, social security, etc.