The AP offers us "Minutemen not so welcome in Texas" (azcentral . com/news/articles/0601az-border-volunteer01-ON.html), which contains some less-than-brilliant thoughts from state Democrats.

First up is state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, who sponsored an anti-Minuteman resolution (michellemalkin . com/immigration/2005/05/24/04:37.pm). He opines:

"I don't think that there's any doubt that there's a tinge of racism beneath the surface in their attempt to try to stop immigrants from Mexico," Hinojosa said. "Why don't they do that in Canada?"

Well, first of all, they do intend to patrol the Canadian border. And, secondly, while I haven't been following the news reports that closely, I believe there's an ever so slight difference between the numbers of people who stream over our southern border and those who come from the north. That number is just ever so slight, so I certainly can't blame Chuy for not being aware of a numerical difference. Say, why is Hinojosa more or less supporting the importation of millions of people who are of the same ethnicity as he is? Anyone have a clue why he might do that?

Next up is the always entertaining U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston:

She wrote an amendment to a Homeland Security budget bill that blocks funding to "any border patrol activities that are unauthorized by law."

She said the Minuteman Project was "an appropriate wake-up call for the United States" about the need to better fund border security. But, she said, it has completed its mission and needs to disband because of potential for violence.

"The California event wound up in almost hand-to-hand combat. The meeting in Las Vegas also produced violent reaction. What can we expect at the border?" she said. "The Minutemen are as bad for the southern border as the Ku Klux Klan was for the South."

I've seen some really far-out-to-space comments from our political class, but that has got to be one of the most brain-dead statements I've ever seen.

The Freedom Riders encouraged violence from the Klan. Does SJL think they should have been stopped? The Klan in the current case is not the MMP, it's the Commie-agitated anti-American racists who violently oppose the MMP. Perhaps SJL should consider supporting the rights of Americans to peacefully assemble and protest without having soda cans or water bottles thrown their way. What an absolute idiot.

I believe SJL's comments can be explained using the usual formula: up is down, down is up.