Just wait... There'll be more...

i hate to sit around like a cynic, waiting for bad things to happen... i also hate to constantly read negative things in to events... but, sure enough, i no more than finished my minuteman tirade yesterday when this appears... while it's relatively mild, it could be a bad sign of things to come... (shit, i just read over what i wrote... "MILD...????" since when is humiliation MILD...???? i guess i figured it was mild-"er" than someone being shot... anyway, that's my story and i'm stickin' to it...)

Minuteman Project Volunteers Face Probe

By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press Writer

TUCSON, Ariz. - Three volunteers patrolling the border for illegal immigrants were being investigated after a man told authorities he was held against his will and forced to pose for a picture holding a T-shirt with a mocking slogan.

The volunteers said they were members of the Minuteman Project — a monthlong effort that has people from around the country fanned out along the border to report undocumented migrants and smugglers. Law enforcement officials have said they fear the project will lead to vigilante violence.

Border Patrol agents called in deputies from the Cochise County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday afternoon to report that an immigrant was detained by three men who identified themselves as project volunteers.

Carol Capas, a sheriff's office spokeswoman, said the 26-year-old Mexican man told agents he was physically restrained and forced to hold a shirt while his picture was taken and he was videotaped.

The shirt read: "Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this T-shirt."

Barton is one of the three volunteers. He told agents that they waved the man over to them, offered him food and water, and gave him the T-shirt and money before the Border Patrol arrived.

"All they did was provide water and wait for the Border Patrol," Minuteman spokesman Grey Deacon said. "What's the big deal?"

Deacon said project organizers were told by sheriff's officials that the incident wasn't a problem. But Capas said the investigation was continuing and authorities were reviewing a videotape that Barton provided to deputies.

"We do not have the time nor the patience for anyone attempting to turn this situation into a three ring circus," Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever said in a statement.

i sure as hell wouldn't want to be in THAT sheriff's shoes...

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