I will be shutting down this page as of 9/6/06. Many of you already know that I have been doing this for free since April when I created this site. I didnt mind doing it for free, since I firmly believe that closing our borders is the only way to save this country, but now things have changed. Over the last few months I have begun to loose faith, not in Jim Gilchrist, but in those that work under him that have forgotten the cause. Despite my loss of faith in the Project, I continued to run this page out of loyalty to all of you. However, now my husband is being slandered by certain members of the Minuteman Project who have also shown callousness in the injuries of our members and SOS members at the Maywood rally. Therefore I am starting a new page, where I can refer you all to EVERY rally that is happening, not just MMP rallies. This new site will be called Blue Collar Conservatives and can be found at [link to www.myspace.com]

Blue Collar Conservatives will deal with all of the issues important to the working man; illegal immigration, gun control, eminent domain, Jessicas Law, taxes, unions, wildlife and recreation, etc. I will no longer be censored, and we can now talk about candidates that are running on these issues that are close to our hearts. I encourage you all to join, and to continue to visit the main page for Minuteman Project at www.minutemanproject.com or to join the Minuteman Project support groups here on myspace.

Thank you all for your support over the last few months. I appreciate you all!

DJ Williams

Soon to no longer be the Myspace Site Manager for The Minuteman Project

Reasons fully explained:

Dear friends,

As many of you know I had resigned from the Minuteman Project just after the Minuteman Caravan in May. For the good of the cause, and a deep admiration for Mr. Jim Gilchrist, I kept my reasons for leaving quiet. I still believe that Jim Gilchrist is our best hope to bringing awareness and positive change to the Illegal immigration issue, but he must remove certain petty, greedy and childish members of the board of directors or he risks the survival of the project.

The Minuteman Project has become guilty of many of the same sins it has accused the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps of these many months.

It has withdrawn support from candidates like Tony Dolz and his assembly campaign because Tony attended MCDC events. Tony is running for Assembly because Jim asked him to.

It charges a registration/background check to participate in their border watch program. As of this date, no background checks have been performed on anyone except MMP political enemies. Many people that had paid their membership fee months ago have not received confirmation as of this date.

It has sacrificed the money for border watches on sending board members on the lecture/convention circuit. It also distastefully used ground zero as a location to sell Jims book.

It has not made its financial records public nor will it.

It is overly controlled by a traditional values Board of directors with unexplained ties to The Council of Concerned Citizens and other questionable groups. (google C of CC)

After putting many people of color on the board to deflect charges of racism, they absorb a Political Action Committee that includes Glenn Spencers American Border Patrol. (see wikipedia: Glenn Spencer)

It does not have non-profit status yet and no one can give a straight answer why not.

The majority of these bad decisions have been made by The Political Director, Deborah Courtney and the 19 year old Media Director, Tim Bueler. Deborah is notorious in The Orange County Republican Party for her schizophrenic behavior. Many Republican Party leaders and Minuteman friendly candidates have felt her knife in their back. Now that I no longer have any reason not to, I will be cooperating with these Victims and provide them the information they have requested.

Tim Bueler made a name for himself in high school by starting a Christian Conservative Club. If you do a web search for Tim you will find his quotes on killing Muslims, hate speech towards Gays and inflammatory statements about Latinos. You will also find a photo of Mr. Bueler with a shaved head and an anti gay t-shirt at a rally designed to harass and intimidate a campus minority club. Although Tim brags about enforcing the rule of law, it hasnt stopped his underage drinking in public or Deborah Courtney from buying him alcohol.

Deborah often uses Chris Simcoxs concealed weapons conviction as a reason MCDC cannot be trusted. This is hypocritical when you conceder that she was arrested for felony DUI and multiple concealed weapons charges. She got the most serious charges dropped after calling in a favor from a powerful member of the party (name withheld). Less than a year later Deborah was organizing a rumor campaign to unseat her benefactor from his elected position. Why would she turn on someone that saved her from a prison stay and a felony record? He suggested that she get some help regarding her self destructive behavior. In fact, all of her former allies (including myself) have that in common.

The split between the Gilchrist and Simcox was orchestrated by Ms. Peterson (Deborahs real last name) so that she could attempt to control this movement. I know because I was the one that did her work for her. Many of you will not believe that she is the mastermind behind the MMP, but it is a fact. She recruited all of the board of directors including the Executive Director. Because they all owe their positions to her, no one will speak against her. They are also well aware of what happens to people that cross Deborah.

Jim Gilchrist is one of the finest men I have ever met. The hours we spent together on the caravan, the first protest in Washington and the policy conference in Nevada are times I will always remember as some of the best of my life. However, he and his Executive Director need make Minuteman Project decisions based on the cause, not fear of Deborahs retribution.

It is time to weed out the dead wood in all of the organizations, come together to settle our differences and emerge as one powerful (National) movement. However, this cannot be accomplished with the current Minuteman Project board of directors in place. They will pull support from any organization or political candidate they cannot brand with their logo.

The Minuteman Project has gone as far as distributing third party literature on the Republican Party Convention floor two years in a row. This year they accepted Dick Montjoys generous offer to use his table to sell Jims book. While Mr. Gilchrist signed books, his supporters passed out fliers for Art Olivier, the Libertarian candidate for Governor. Meanwhile, MMP Political Director Deborah Courtney made sure she had a picture of her taken giving a signed copy of Jims book to Governor Schwarzenegger.

The next day the project released a press statement endorsing Olivier. You have to admire the audacity, but when they started getting heat from their remaining Republican friends they retracted the statement. They claim to have been misquoted, but it was forwarded by Board of Directors member, Barbara Coe to all CCIR subscribers.

Ultimately, Its not the mistakes or high school drama that makes organizational change necessary, its the fact everything is done so half-assed. They have trouble organizing and publicizing events, keeping staff, implementing border watches or even answering the phone. They are making an event out of a border watch lasting a few weeks and covering a few dozen miles, when they could have covered the entire border 24/7 by now. The project has been run like a fly by night travel agency.

If you want to purchase Jims book, buy it from Amazon, not the online book club. This way the proceeds will go directly to Jim and his wife who have sacrificed both financially and emotionally to this cause. Jim is the victim in this mess and deservers our respect, help and support.

For this letter I will be labeled a traitor, but its not what they say behind your back that counts; its what they say to your face you must answer. I can prove my accusations. The treachery here is from those will to trade the cause for influence and money.

I will no longer be checking my email address at minuteman project.com or using the Minuteman USA phone. Answers to specific questions will be provided to the press via email at www.myspace.com/bluecollarconservatives



-Edwin R Williams

Vice-Chairman, The 55th Republican Assembly District Committee

Elected member of the LA County Central Committee

Co-founder of Blue Collar Conservatives