Holy cow! Is this for real?

'In an online recruiting effort that would impress Joe Trippi, approximately 500 well-armed individuals known as The Minutemen, have come together in hopes they can guard the vast expanse of the US-Mexican border out in Arizona. Their mission: Deter illegal immigrants and protect these great United States of America. Taking their name from the hand-picked forces from the 17th and 18th Century American militias that were selected "to fight at a minute's notice"--the 21st century Minutemen come from all over the US, and have congregated in Arizona where they plan to act out their wildest Wyatt Earp fantasies. With their shotguns and egos fully loaded, the militia has set up camps up and down the border in Cochise County, Arizona, the supposed epicenter of illegal immigration into the U.S. "People have this impression we [are] a paramilitary group coming here to stir up trouble. It's so hard to convince them that ... we're peaceful," Joel Segal, a young member of the Minutemen told the Arizona Republic. "Obviously, we're armed, but that's just a part of us being out here. That doesn't mean that we're aggressive. That doesn't mean that we're violent." Yeah right. Then what the hell are the guns for? Gopher hunting?' Read on. What next? Will a militia storm the Capitol and put our politicians under house arrest until they've solved our medical costs crisis?