In an interview with Breitbart Texas, Staysi Barth, organizer of “Shut Down All Ports of Entry”, said militia groups are not welcome at the national event planned for this weekend across the southern border of the United States. “Only peaceful protesters are coming,” Barth said.
After fighting with the problem of the open border for years and the negative impact she claimed illegal immigration is having on her home state of California, it was Mexico’s imprisonment of Marine Corps Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi that moved her to take this step of shutting down the international bridges. “Tahmooressi served our country and our leaders are just leaving him behind,” she said. “By blocking these bridges we can cause economic disruption that can force the government to take action.”
Her organization’s website boldly puts forward a travel advisory: “Please be aware that traveling across the US/Mexico border will be impeded, beginning on September 20, 2014, with no designated end date.”
Tahmooressi deserves defending. I am embarrassed it has taken so long for American citizens to rally, raise hell and protest Mexico AND Obama.
The media is not billing this as having anything to do with Tahmooressi, but rather making militia action at bridges look like bafoonery and hostile to order. Is this the fault of the organizers not getting the word out, or the media for ignoring the Tahmooressi angle?