President Bush assumes the position on border security once again!
You missed all the fun. See this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369694/posts
Stupid move Mr President. Get a new researcher on this - these people are not vigillantes, they are only their to "spot" illegal immigrants for the authorities.
BUSH STAFFER PING. This is his weakest point. He promised to up border security - the citizens wouldn't be down there if the Feds were taking care of business.
If AQ slips through Mexico and launches a successful attack, there will be hell to pay.
You got that right. If the cops are not around to protect my house, I and Ruger will do it.
No, Mr. President. There is nothing rational about an approach that utterly fails, and had been failing now for decades.
The Minuteman Project was born from the perception that our government has utterly failed in one of the primary functions of any State: to protect our borders.
Misusing the word "Vigilante" by applying it to peaceful observation, simply corrupts logic and reinforces the impression that you just don't get it.
"I am against vigilantes in the united States of America," Bush said at a joint press conference.
Just think of them as "undocumented Border Patrol officers".
U.S. News] Washington, Mar 24 : President George W Bush has decried efforts by armed private groups to act as self-appointed policemen to bar illegal Mexican immigrants coming into the United States
Chapter and verse please.
He's right:
Main Entry: vig·i·lan·te
Pronunciation: "vi-j&-'lan-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
That definition seems appropriate. They are vigilantes.
Perhaps Bush has been bought out by Mexican corruption.
Bush, in fact the whole clan are done - this is it - I am sick and tired of them. I will work for anyone to get in office, yes even Hitlery, over these F'n back stabbing elitist RINOs. At least with Hitlery you know your enemy and we may get a congress that will unite to grow some balls.
Bush is way out in left (literally) field on this issue. I can't recall him ever saying anything quite so direct about the people from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc. who are routinely breaking our immigration laws with the full knowledge and complicity of the Mexican government and Bush's "buddy" Vicente Fox. Furthermore, the Mexican government employs the Mexican military to enforce its own immigration laws on the Mexico-Guatemala border; isn't that a bit of irony?
His neighbors suffer repeated trespasses, yet he denies them.
The law says no trespassing, but he does not enforce the law.
Take his ranch, put it on the border - directly alongside the neighbors who are suffering, and Bush would have his security stop tresspassers onto his land and call that "rational" ... while accusing his neighbors who do the exact same thing, as being "irrantional" and "vigilantes."
NOTE: A vigilante is a person who exacts punishment. Bush's description of his neighbors, does not apply.
Vigilantes CREATED the united States of America. And may yet save it.
"I am for enforcing the law in a rational way
Then DO IT, El Presidente!!
interesting.... i was wondering how W would LABEL these Patriots.. and now i know. and he was NOT being complementry.
W was in the oil business in Midland and Odesa Tx during one the biggest Tax and Big Gvt revolts this country has ever seen. and it happened right there. there were Patriot men buying local TV time to go on air and give their views of what they saw as a tax-crazed and rule/regulation passing Fed Gvt gone mad.
they had some excellent points and had many local LE on their side in this...
but then the feds sicced the IRS on the Patriots with orders to make examples out of them. with the help of Judges - they did just that. many went to prison...
W was there during this period.... and i have wondered how this effected his politics... and just who's side he chose.... well, now i know.
surprise surprise.... they're all the same. he sounds no better ... no more Constitutionally Educated than Janet Reno.
If the Minutemen are vigilantes, then GW Bush is Fox/Mexico's whore.
I heard some of he "volunteers" they stated that they are not going to shoot anyone, they are going to bring them to the authorities. they are not vigilantes
President Bush assumes the position on border security once again!