The world according to Riff.

  A noisy group described as 'fascists' managed to interrupt a speech by Minuteman Civil Defense Project founder Chris Simcox at UTSA, but they were quickly ushered out of the auditorium and, unlike Simcox's last appearance at UTSA, the controversial border security advocate was able to continue his remarks.

  The protesters, several of whom were wearing t-shirts honoring the anarchist butcher Che Guevara, stood up about five minutes into Simcox's remarks and started yelling, 'Minutemen, Nazis, KKK, racist Fascists go away!'   Many shouted obscenities as they were led out of the room by uniformed police, prompting Young Conservatives of Texas President Laura Elizabeth Morales to say mockingly, 'Have a nice night!'

  Outside the auditorium, one protester said the Minutemen have 'ties to the National Alliance and other Neo-Nazi organizations.'

  "This is a racist organization and has no business on our college campus," said the protester, who declined to say his name.

  Simcox said the protesters are violating the very same laws that attract the immigrants they claim to speak for.

  "The immigrants come here to live free and live by that framework of an ordered society," Simcox said, adding that the protesters are seeking to deny the rights of free speech to those with whom they disagree.

  "I think this shows there is a disturbing militant fascist wing on college campuses," Simcox said.  One student in the audience compared the protesters with the Nazi 'brownshirts' who similarly disrupted the political meetings of opponents in Germany in the early 1930s.

  Simcox said his message at UTSA and at other universities is that border security would be beneficial to the immigrants as well as to the nation the immigrants want to become a part of.

  He says until the border is secured, illegal immigrants will continue to 'die in the desert or be exploited by employers,' and he asked out loud where that's what the demonstrators support.

  "It's easy to apply for citizenship," Simcox said.  "Why aren't people doing it?"

  He says the Minutemen have been '100 percent successful' in achieving their goal of drawing attention to the lack of security along the US Mexico border.

  "Today this is the key issue in the Presidential campaign," Simcox said.  "Before we began our activities, many Americans didn't know we had a porous border.  Now, I don't think there is a single person in the United States who hasn't heard about the problems we have along our border."

Sounds to me that the "minutemen" have struck a tender nerve......as ive always maintained, I love the southwest culture, its attitude, its food, and I have no problem with legal immigrants. In fact I wish there were more as long as they were the hard working honest, industrious type. But we don't need the ones that sneak here and then fly their flag like a explorer staking his claim, "I claim this land in the name of......" and demanding others already here learn to speak their language and not the other way around. Im proud of my german heritage, but I dont go around flying the german flag, and demand more people sprechen deutch. As one of my more "outspoken " freinds is fond of saying.....This is America biotch......you better learn to check the fricken map!!....lol.......riff