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Xipe Totec

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3. This is a different bunch of bad apples
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 12:32 PM
Aug 2013

From the article:

"There is no Minuteman Project anymore, nor anything I know of that exists like a minuteman movement."

Instead, there appear to be small groups that are trying to play a different role than previous organizations, which publicly distanced themselves from vigilantism.

The groups that camped in the desert with some fanfare eight years ago would frequently check in with law-enforcement dispatchers to share their locations and learn of any police operations going on in the area. Now, they want to be the police, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.

The worm has turned on Joe...

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