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Did Levy Mobilize Suffolk Minutemen?

Posted June 26, 2009 by Patrick Young, Esq.

Steve Levy has been silent on the subject of the Minutemen armed militia in Suffolk County in its hour of need, but according to the group’s own web site, his administration mobilized them to support anti-immigrant legislation in the past. Under the heading ATTENTION MINUTEMEN the call for mobilization reads like this:
Suffolk Cty Exec Steve Levy is holding a meeting on August 22nd at 5:30 pm at the Caracappa Building, North Complex, 725 Vets Hwy in Hauppauge. This meeting is open to the public. He recently announced a plan to force county hired contractors to abide by immigration laws. 14 of the 18 legislature expressed support for this bill. As long as we are there to represent the law side of the argument, this bill should be passed. One of Levy’s top aides expressed great interest to our own Eastern Suffolk Cty director Ron Lewandowski about us coming. He needs us there to ensure passaged of this bill. Depending on how many people show, each person should get 5 or so minutes to speak.
WE NEED TO COME OUT IN NUMBERS FOR THIS
We will meet in the parking lot at 5pm to discuss strategy and see how many we are. Bring your flags and signs. Be smart though. Media will be there. No name calling, yelling or cursing. Signs should be short and to the point. Workplace Project will be there as well as other pro illegal groups. We need to be there in numbers to counter them.
These open border groups use tactics like bussing in illegals to swarm the meeting and prevent US citizens from attending the meeting due to fire codes and occupancy codes. They know every dirty trick in the book. Please come out for this meeting to show the media that US citizens are in control of this government and not illegal aliens and their masters.
Some have already responded they were coming, I need the rest of you to email me and let me know you are too.
Thank You,
Pete Lanteri
MCDCNY
Phone: 631-839-1861
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
I can’t tell for sure when this was posted, but from the circumstances, I would say it was 2006. Notice that the Minutemen were mobilizing in response to a specific request from the Levy administration. The author, Pete Lanteri says: “One of Levy’s top aides expressed great interest to our own Eastern Suffolk Cty director Ron Lewandowski about us coming. He needs us there to ensure passaged of this bill.” So the Minutemen beleived they were part of the strategy for passage of the bill.
If it was the Aug, 2006 legislative session, then I recall those events with sadness. My wife had just died a few weeks earlier and I had hoped to go into seclusion for a while. But, yet another “Summer Surprise” anti-immigrant bill was put forward by Levy and I had to check my sorrow for yet another fight against this man’s insatiable need to win the praise of Lou Dobbs.
I went to testify at the legislature and I was hooted at by the Minutemen, one of whom I had heard talking about setting machine guns to shoot “illegals”. I asked the legislators if they realized that Steve Levy’s vile pandering had unleashed an armed militia in Suffolk and that it was educating our young people in hatred. I was roundly booed by the beer-bloated “patriots”. They had apparently forgotten their leaders advice: “No name calling, yelling or cursing.”
Of course that advice was offered only because “media will be there”.
By, the way, check out the link to the Suffolk Minutemen soon, I’m sure it will be “scrubbed” by next week.
Read the police files on the Minuteman Murders
More Links to the Minuteman Murders
Since the police first revealed the Minuteman connection to the murders of ten year Brisenia Flores and her father Raul, Long Island Wins has provided intensive coverage of this story. Here is an index of the most important articles we’ve posted:
The Crime
The shocking murder of a little girl and her father focused our attention on recent Minuteman activities in Arizona.
The 911 call by a mother who had just seen her husband and child murdered.
Excepts from the police reports on the murder investigation.
Anti-Immigrant Groups Deny Ties To Shawna Forde, The Mastermind Of The Murders
Although Forde was a part of Minuteman from its early years, anti-immigrant groups around the country immediately branded her an insignificant figure, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
More on Shawna Forde’s extensive connections with anti-immigrant groups.
While the Minutemen depict her as a minor figure, their own web site described Shawna Forde as a person in the leadership.
Shawna Forde had close ties to Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen. Is Gilchrist an important figure in that movement?
Inside The Mind Of Shawna Forde
Video interview with Shawna Forde on “patrol” along the border.
Shawna Forde’s blog from the Tea Party a month before the killings.
The Glenn Spencer Connection
Glenn Spencer, one of the founders of the “border protection movement” and the man who inspired Suffolk’s anti-immigrant movement had ties to Shawna Forde. She was arrested nearly two weeks after the killings immediately after visiting him.
Glenn Spencer speaks out on the Minuteman murders.
The Minutemen Speak
The weird response of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps to the media coverage of the murders.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy And The Minutemen
Steve Levy’s endorsement in 2006 by the founder of the Minutemen.
Steve Levy and the Suffolk Minutemen.
The New York Times covers the Minuteman murders.