A watcher sees across the divide

A great insight on Minutemen "guarding" the US Mexican border. Anyone who wants to understand the broader implications of this story should see the brilliant narrative film "Fast-food Nation"


A watcher sees across the divide

By Christopher Goffard, Times Staff Writer

June 23, 2007

Campo, Calif. — HE senses them out there in the dark, making their
moves, trying to outsmart him. He's planted on a hill in the cab of his
mud-splattered, jacked-up truck, a greenish 1976 Silverado with
roof-mounted motion sensors, holes in the floorboard and a "Don't Tread
on Me" sticker in the window. From the cab, he studies the valley below
with night-vision goggles, Ruger revolver strapped to his ribs.



"I own the night, brother," says Max Kennedy, a lanky, sunburned man
with a scraggly goatee and a voice like a fistful of desert gravel. >>>more