The Minuteman's Soul

This interesting story on the founder of the Minuteman, Chris Simox, is from NewsMax:

The Southern Poverty Law Center once described controversial Minuteman Civil Defense Corps founder, Chris Simcox, 45, as "a relentless self aggrandizer who comes across with a smug egotism and fiery conviction of a former nobody."
But after a couple of up-close-and-personal sessions with the man whose "Minuteman Movement" has spawned 34 chapters in 30 states, a political action committee, and what Simcox sees as the basis and impetus for a national third party, NewsMax found that the only two words in that line of vitriol that truly apply to the soft-spoken man are "relentless" and "conviction."
That relentless conviction has deep and abiding roots that Simcox stated came to crystallization when he was privileged to know U.S. Park Ranger Kris Eggle, who served at southern Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
A hero to all who believe that securing the borders is critical to national security, Eggle was shot and killed in the line of duty on Aug. 9, 2002 while pursuing – in tandem with the U.S. Border Patrol - members of a drug cartel hit squad that fled into the United States after committing a string of murders in Mexico.
It was Eggle who most inspired Simcox when he was still struggling to define the best way he could serve his country in the post-9/11 war on terrorism.