What happened to the Minutemen?\xa0
A refresher: the Minutemen were the group that\xa0whipped up American conservatives into\xa0hysterics around the supposed issue of\xa0"border security" a few years back. They called themselves "a citizens' Neighborhood Watch on our border," and organized press stunts in which armed white people would tromp around the border with Mexico and argue that they weren't racist.\xa0
You don't hear from them so much anymore. Partly, that's because their positions\u2014and many of their former members\u2014moved on to the Tea Party. But partly that's because of the story you'll hear in this episode. A story of cold-blooded murder.
The journalist David Neiwert researched the tale for\xa0his new book,\xa0And Hell Followed With Her.\xa0And he joined us at the Netroots Nation conference in San Jose to tell the story on-air.
If you want to understand the politics and the personalities of the hardcore right-wing end of the U.S. immigration debate\u2014or if you just like a rivetingly blood-soaked story of zealotry, xenophobia, and bad ideas gone even worse, don't miss this episode of\xa0The Flaming Sword of Justice.