[lbo-talk] Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off Democracy Now!

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Michael:
"He's a coward. He is very tough when he has a shotgun and
he's in the middle of a desert intimidating defenseless immigrant
families, but when it comes to being challenged by peaceful protesters and
by people who understand this man and his organization for what they are,
he runs away, and I think that was evident right now."

[WS:] Personal invective against this guy does not quite cut it.  He is not
just a despicable human being who happened to get into the lime light. He is
the quintessential product and embodiment of what passes for "activism" in
the "heart of America" and the paranoid style that permeates it - an
ex-Marine, a small town journalist turned CPA turned politico, a "concerned
citizen" and a self-righteous defender of the "homeland" against "foreign
hordes."  Such "little guys," small town lawyers or businessmen and assorted
petit bourgeoisie have always been the main tenor in the US politics - even
though very different background voices could also be heard from time to
time.  

Wojtek