{"article":{"id":212542,"heading":"The Minuteman Highway","author":"everardo carvajal","created":"2008-01-14 02:02:47","modified":"2013-11-11 00:52:26","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:52:26","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Minuteman Highway? <br><br> The Minutemen are &ldquo;benevolently&rdquo; giving back! So they think. According to LA Times&rsquo; Richard Marosi, the Minutemen were recently approved by the California Transportation Department to adopt a two mile stretch of the 5 Freeway near San Clemente, CA. As part of the program and agreement to collect rubbish within the specified area, Caltrans (State of California Transportation Department) has posted two signs along the freeway that read &ldquo;ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY- SAN DIEGO MINUTEMEN&rdquo;. (Although, there are female members, apparently there was no need to include the Minutewomen.) <br><br> According to the commentary LA Times public posts, (which happen to mostly sympathize for the Militia), some people think there is nothing wrong with this mix. However, such collaboration brings forth serious moral, social, and legal issues. Marosi claimed that approval of the collaboration was a direct violation of Caltrans&rsquo; own policy: <br><br> &ldquo;The Department will not discriminate against groups that otherwise meet the program criteria based on the fact that some members of the public might disagree with the particular group's agenda or reputation\" <br><br> Such is administrative and bureaucratic jargon under which the Minutemen were &ldquo;approved for adopting&rdquo;. However, most worrisome is the discretion of Caltrans to legitimize who is and who is not a group that can adopt a highway in exchange for publicity of a taxpayer purchased sign.  <br><br> The power of the agency to partner with such groups legitimizes the anti-immigrant cause. By including the group as part of the program, the MM become institutionalized and marks a symbol of nativist fear that get splashed across an otherwise drab green public sign.  The department has illustrated that it can determine which group gets what recognition. Congratulations Caltrans, you have officially become a fundraiser for the Minutmen, way to go! Now MM can point to the signs that read &ldquo;public property&rdquo; as they ask for more money to peddle their nativist nonsense. <br><br>  <br>  <br> Take a minute to right this. <br>  <br> EMAIL AND OR CALL CALTRANS RIGHT NOW! <br>  <br> It&rsquo;ll only take a minute. <br><br> Here are some numbers\/email addresses to the (also available at (<a href=\"http:\/\/adopt-a-highway.dot.ca.gov\/coordinators.htm\">http:\/\/adopt-a-highway.dot.ca.gov\/coordinators.htm<\/a>) <br><br> San Diego Adopt-a-Highway Contact <br>  <br> District 11 <br>  <br> 4050 Taylor Street, MS-220 <br>  <br> San Diego , CA   92110  <br>  <br> <a href=\"mailto:larry_wharton@dot.ca.gov\">larry_wharton@dot.ca.gov<\/a>  <br>  <br> (619) 688-3327  <br><br> Or, escalate your voice by contacting other officials at: <br>  <br> 866-810-6346 <a href=\"mailto:Olivia_Fonseca@dot.ca.gov\">Olivia_Fonseca@dot.ca.gov<\/a>    Caltrans &ldquo;Civil Rights Program&rdquo; <br>  <br> <a href=\"mailto:Caltrans.Director@dot.ca.gov\">Caltrans.Director@dot.ca.gov<\/a>   Will Kempton-Director, Caltrans <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"thepalabra@gmail.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The Minutemen are \u201cbenevolently\u201d giving back! So they think. According to LA Times\u2019 Richard Marosi, the Minutemen were recently approved by the California Transportation Department to adopt a two mile stretch of the 5 Freeway near San Clemente, CA","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/01\/212542.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":212573,"heading":"KKK did the same thing in the South","article":"More proof that the police state supports the minuteKlan.","author":"The sign kept disappearing :-)","parent_id":212542,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-01-15 05:18:57","modified":"2008-01-15 05:18:57","fileurl":""},{"id":212583,"heading":"This is fairly common","article":"Back when the KKK was trying to get its rights to spew hate and bigotry and the ACLU was defending them, the KKK, Aryan Nations, and other SOSMM-like-minded hate groups were on public relations efforts across the country trying to depict themselves as &quot;helpful&quot; and &quot;mainstream.&quot;\r\n\r\nIt's an amusment.  The Scientology crime syndicate does pretty much the same thing in the city of Clearwater, Florida which has been suffering from a depression since the organized crime syndicate snuck in to town and property values dropped to some 10% of what they were before the criminal enterprise moved in.\r\n\r\nHate groups, known white supremacists...  anybody can &quot;adopt a highway&quot; so long as their name isn't ruled sexually obscene.\r\n","author":"Fredric L. Rice","parent_id":212542,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-01-15 19:50:37","modified":"2008-01-15 19:50:37","fileurl":""},{"id":212586,"heading":"Need to verify this","article":"larry_wharton@dot.ca.gov \r\n\r\nI sent email to this individual asking if the rubor is true and hopefully he will confirm or deny this.\r\n\r\nThere's no freedom of speech issue involved here, it seems to me, and white supremacist groups don't have any legitimate right to get state-funded advertizing like this.\r\n\r\nThe ACLU might disagree, however.\r\n","author":"Fredric L. Rice","parent_id":212542,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-01-15 19:55:50","modified":"2008-01-15 19:55:50","fileurl":""}]}