Front Range group grabs Western Colo. Minutemen monikers

(Robb's note: :rofl: )

Front Range group grabs Western Colo. Minutemen monikers

DENVER -- Shortly after the leader of a Western Slope anti-illegal immigration group said he would like to rethink the Minutemen’s public image, a Front Range group registered four versions of the local group’s name as a “trade name,” forcing the Western Colorado Minutemen to seek out a new name.

Under Colorado law, the group that was called the Western Colorado Minutemen was forced to change its name or face possible lawsuits from the name’s registered owner. Less than a week later, Dana Isham, leader of the then-Western Colorado Minutemen registered the group as the Rocky Mountain Minutemen.

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Copley said he registered the group names as a way to assert the primacy of his Front Range group over any other group that might claim to be the legitimate voice of the Minuteman movement.

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Copley said Isham had initially approached him to form the Western Colorado Minutemen as a branch of his Front Range group. But when Isham set off on his own and said the Colorado Minuteman Project was “too patriotic” in its presentation, he knew something had to be done.

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