If anyone were to still try to tell us that the Minuteklan Project was not a racist group, we might have to slap that person around just on the principle (figuratively speaking). If they do still think they are fooling people, this DVD is not helping matters much. There's this guy from LA now living in Utah named Byron Jost, who produced a documentary called The Line in the Sand. Basically it is the Triumph of the Will for the Minuteklan Project, and we are not pushing the envelope when we say that. It not only prominently features the two Minuteklan founders Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist, but also three well-known white supremacists giving commentary as well.

Since the group’s inception earlier this year, the Minuteman Project has tried to paint itself as a non-racist organization, emphatically denying any association with racist activists. This denial always seems to come with a wink and a nod as it become more and more apparent that this is not the case. There is Joe McCrutchen, a Minuteman from Arkansas who is a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens, and whose reports from working with the Minutemen would appear on the website of Billy Roper’s group, White Revolution. There is anti-Hispanic activist Glenn Spencer of Voices of Citizens Together (VCT), who has spoken at many Council of Conservative Citizens events. There are the two National Alliance members that the Southern Poverty Law Center found working with the Minutemen. There is also John Clark from Florida, a member of two hate groups, California Citizens for Immigration Reform (CCIR) and the American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF), who was a keynote speaker at a meeting in Bridgewater, NJ on June 25. California saw neo-Nazis demonstrating openly with the Minutemen, complete with swastika flags. Minutemen leaders in Texas resign because of the rampant racism that no one would do anything about.

If the Minutemen thought that even with all of this they will somehow beat the charge of being a racist crowd, along comes something that might suggest otherwise. Touted as the first and only feature-length documentary about the Minuteman Project, The Line in the Sand is a DVD recently produced by Byron Jost, an independent filmmaker from Torrey, Utah with ties to the white supremacist Vanguard News Network (VNN). Featured prominently in the documentary are Gilchrist, his fellow Minuteman Project founder Chris Simcox and anti-immigrant congressman Tom Tancredo along with Glenn Spencer, VNN webmaster Alex Linder and Dr. Kevin MacDonald, a Professor of Psychology at California State University-Long Beach who has claimed Jews are responsible for a "breeding program" to conquer other "races." In the documentary Dr. MacDonald has a rather lengthy segment where he blames the Jews for the current immigration situation.