The person arrested and on a warrant from Maryland for apparently failing to appear at a court hearing there. He spent about six months in jail. The individual was not arrested for anything to do with the Minuteman Project debacle. No criminal charges were ever filed against anyone involved, although I did file a complaint with the local Sheriff’s Dept.
Jim GIlchrist, President, The Minuteman Project

Yes, the desperate propagandist and charlatan of “investigative” journalism, David Holthouse, is a conniving manipulator and a pathological liar. That is what a “dirty” journalist does. Not much difference between Holthouse and a corrupt politician, drug-dealing cop, or a pedophile priest. They are all “dirty.”

As a former newspaper reporter I could teach Holthouse some very basic standards of professional journalism: Tell the truth if you want any credibility in the media business, else your audience can never know if you’ve ever told the truth.

The very first task I would give Holthouse is to read the court documents confirming my uninterrupted position as president of the Minuteman Project. Any real “investigative” reporter would have done that before embarking on the critical mission of enlightening the public with something that appears to be newsworthy. If Holthouse deliberately lied to your radio audience, and his readership audience, about who I really am and what I really do, then what else has he lied about in his past writings or speakings?

Holthouse did the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) a respectable favor when he no longer wrote articles for them. Perhaps he was dismissed by SPLC for using propaganda tactics in lieu of truthfulness for the basis of his articles. But, in all fairness, let me confront Holthouse on the air with such assumptions so that he can explain why he no longer is a writer for the SPLC.

I think a fair and better presentation for 92.5FM KYHY would have included me in the discussion with Holthouse. But, alas, that would have given me the opportunity to pick apart and refute all the hyperbole Holthouse relies upon to market his propaganda.

Invite me as a guest on your program. I will openly discuss every errant claim made by your delusional guest, David Holthouse, including the bogus accusations about financial fraud in the Minuteman Project and how I brought both civil and criminal charges against those persons responsible for that elaborately planned, but failed, corporate piracy cabal and propaganda campaign. One of them was arrested and sent to prison for six months. You owe that to your audience. And your audience deserves to hear something other than a weak and poorly contrived manifesto of a mostly irrelevant journalistic novice.

Sincerely Yours,

Jim Gilchrist, President (really, honestly, it’s even in the court records), The Minuteman Project