[Wikipedia-l] Minutemen (vigilantes) article

Christopher Larberg christopherlarberg at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 02:59:54 UTC 2005


On Apr 3, 2005 7:52 PM, Robert Brockway <rbrockway at opentrend.net> wrote:
> I think the term "Minutemen (vigilantes)" is POV as the term vigilantes
> has negative overtones in English.  I think it would be better to list the
> article under the title "The MinuteMan Project".
> 
> Thoughts, comments, flames?
> 
> Rob
> 

I agree completely. I wasn't aware of this before, but I'll "be bold"
and make some changes. Since they claim to be engaging in nothing
other than observing and making reports to the Border Patrol,
characterizing them as "vigilantes" is biased.

--Slowking Man



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