Has the World Gone MAD?

The N.Y. Times reports on the fears in a small town, Arivaca, Arizona, near the Mexican border due to a double homicide in a home invasion earlier this month. “The three people arrested in the crime include the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a Washington State-based offshoot of the Minutemen movement, in which citizens roam the border looking for people crossing into the country illegally. Former members describe the group’s leader, Shawna Forde, 41, as having anti-immigrant sentiments that are extreme, at times frightening, even to people accustomed to hard-line views on border policing. . . .  The authorities say that the three suspects were after money and drugs that they intended to use to finance vigilantism, and that members of the group may have been involved in at least one other home invasion, in California.”

According to the story, other Minutemen groups warned its members to stay away from Forde and Minutemen American Defense and have otherwise disassiciated themselves.

KJ