Minuteman Project founder on the attack against Harvard undergrad and immigrant activist after having a much anticipated invitation to speak at Harvard symposium rescinded. Hate speech is not Free speech, something these vigilante leaders can't understand
For months, Jim Gilchrist, founder of the original border vigilante group, the Minutemen, looked forward to his invitation to speak at a Public Interest and Law Conference hosted by The Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC).
Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and it was decided that Gilchrist’s participation in the conference on the behalf of the Minutemen Project was not compatible with providing an environment for civil, educational, and productive discourse on immigration, and HULC decided they couldnot host him at that time.
And they were correct. Wherever Gilchrist appears, it is to rant about spew misinformation about illegal immigrants, border security and his utopian vision of a world without immigrants.
Kyle de Beausset, an undergraduate student and migrant advocate, and publisher of the esteemed site CITIZEN ORANGE,was one of the original Harvard protesters seeking to have Gilchrist invitation rescinded.
“It’s a victory for people who are trying to get hate out of the immigration debate. There’s a difference between having views, and hate speech.”……Kyle de Beausset
After de Beausset appeared on the O’Reilly factor, Gilchrist singled him out for his most scathing rebuke and thinly veiled threats.
In once statement, Gilchrist makes a thinly veiled reference to violence by bringing the second amendment into the debate.
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As we posted yesterday, Jim Gilchrist, founder of the border vigilante group Minuteman Project, finds himself in the center of a firestorm of protests against his invitation to participate in a debate at University of Reno-Nevada.
As Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project continues to scurry around, denying and defending the indefensible, our friends at 
