IDS editorial unfair to Minuteman Project

"Disapproval for the Minuteman Project ranges from being a 'vigilante' group to having connections with white-supremacy organizations. While most would agree there needs to be a serious debate about undocumented immigrants, we are wary of the group's method."\nThe preceding excerpt from your recent editorial ("Let the (minute) man speak!," Jan. 23) certainly smacks of "profiling," There is no evidence that racial supremacists are involved in the Minuteman Project because, in fact, they are not. Statements of malicious defamation in your editorials put your newspaper into the same category as a xenophobe and challenges its credibility.\nWhile your editorial was generally well-presented, it fails to sincerely deal with the issue of free speech when you "cover yourself" by inserting comments hostile to the Minuteman Project.\nIn my opinion, the preponderance of editors deliberately inserted a pejorative comment about so-called "controversial" subjects because they are afraid of violent retribution against their persons or property by those aberrantly opposed to free speech.\nAs a former newspaper reporter, I give you a B for overall content and presentation of your editorial, but you get an F for subjugating the principles of responsible journalism to the whims of those who vehemently and literally hate the Minuteman Project or anyone else with whom they disagree.\nBy the way, I am open to an invitation to speak at your university anytime. After all, we are a nation governed under the reasonable rule of law in which every person has a voice, aren't we?\nJim Gilchrist\nFounder, the Minuteman Project