Minutemen Turn Anger From Illegals to Vandals

The Outraged Patriots typically direct their anger at illegal immigrants and the political forces that refuse to deport them by the millions. This week, though, they’re directing their outrage at a group of Topeka vandals.

Last Thursday, the anti-illegal-immigration group based in Nebraska erected a 55-foot billboard just east of the Fairlawn exit on Interstate 470 in Topeka. Previously displayed in Little Rock, Arkansas, the sign included a cartoon image of a Revolutionary War minuteman next to a pole flying a Mexican flag and an upside-down American flag. The group listed its Web site and phone number beneath the question “Had Enough?”

Less than 24 hours after it had been mounted, though, the billboard was vandalized by some high-flying graffiti artists.