Posted on 04/07/2005 5:32:55 AM PDT by Kokojmudd
Illegal entrant taped holding 'caught' T-shirt By Michael Marizco ARIZONA DAILY STAR
PALOMINAS - Cochise County officials said they are investigating two Minuteman volunteers after an illegal entrant complained Wednesday to authorities that he was held against his will.
One of the men paid the illegal entrant $20 and gave him a T-shirt to hold up while he filmed the encounter. The T-shirt read: "Bryan Barton Caught an Illegal Alien and all I got was this T-shirt," said Carol Capas, spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department.
It's the first encounter where an illegal entrant has filed a complaint against Minuteman Project volunteers since the monthlong controversial protest started Friday. Volunteers have gathered in Southern Arizona to protest what they said is the federal government's inability to control the border.
Critics said the encounter is the first sign that the Minuteman Project is a "sham" meant to humiliate illegal entrants.
The incident started Wednesday afternoon when Barton, 24, and a second Minuteman volunteer encountered the illegal entrant on Arizona 92 near Palominas, Capas said.
Barton said he gave the man the T-shirt and $20 plus food and water. Then he filmed the man holding up the T-shirt.
The volunteers then called the Border Patrol, which sent agents to pick up the entrant. Once in custody, the entrant complained about being held by the volunteers.
"It was supposed to be funny," Barton said about the encounter.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever didn't think so.
"We have no time or patience for anyone attempting to turn this situation into a three-ring circus," he said.
The Cochise County Attorney's Office is also investigating the complaint.
Barton, who is running for Congress in San Diego on the Republican ticket, said he's not worried about charges being filed and that he never held the man against his will.
He said deputies seized the video for evidence. No arrests have been made in the incident.
"This shows what we've been saying all along," said Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Action Network.
"It was nothing but a media sham to mislead the public," she said. "Clearly they misrepresented the situation. They misrepresented themselves."
Minuteman Project organizers Chris Simcox and James Gilchrist could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
● Contact Michael Marizco at 573-4213 or mmarizco@azstarnet.com.
I think it's more important that they should investigate the 15? million illegal aliens in America than two Americans. Much ado about nothing.
How dare they hold a criminal against their will!
The Commies lost~!
So, how many divisions do the Commies in the universities have?
Stalin asked a similar question about the Catholic Church as a way to mock it as you try to mock me, but many who believed in communism weren't as stupid to believe that those in the Church weren't dangerous to their beliefs. Quite in fact they where, why else did it persecute the Church, infiltrate it along with other religions? I didn't see any divisions there either yet it was a danger to them. So are you saying that the the Marxists in our educational system present no threat to our society while they indoctrinate our kids and continue to destroy our value systems that so many parents try to instill them with? You should know better than that, so nice try. Your agreements are shallow. By the way are you going to deal with the list of countries that are socialist or are out right Marxist that I outlined or is that to much for you to handle and one sentence retorts are all that is left to you?
Even the Soviet Politburo knew that it had to hire and pay these guys like they were employees.
Ideology only goes so far you know.
The USSR was paying salaries to Communist organizers all over the world, even in the US.
So are you saying they payed all of them? I don't think so. Not even close. The money would have been better spent in other areas. Plus you have to take bureaucratic inefficiency and theft which was a very big problem under this type of system. Not to mention there simply would not have been enough funding to do it all. Many of these guys received their money through the support of universities and others who where rather wealthy and believed in that stuff with in their respective countries(now how they made their wealth is a different story and up to some discretionary thinking). The Soviets mainly saved their money for bribery, blackmail, extortion, propaganda ops, terrorism which was very big, the hippies of the 60's and the general like, green movements to an extent, supporting other countries operations to one extent or another, their own military, intelligence, and of course espionage. Even if we take the Narc trade they set up in the late 50's early 60's it still wouldn't be enough. The fact of the matter is that many of these Marxist movements would have to seek funding else where, and as it turns out here in the U.S. the best source of it was to have it voted to them via the public treasury. It didn't even have to go to them directly. All it had to do was support some form of socialism in order to weaken and open new doors(let it spread like its own independent(as possible) cancer). Of course if you’re the USSR or another Marxist governments this possibility to bilk your enemy out of their own money and use it to further your own gains would simply have been far to tempting to pass up. And as we know they didn’t pass it up, then again we didn’t seem to mind either which was just stupid thinking.
It was a business ~ !
A nasty, deadly business, but a business just the same.
Anyone who has ever worked in a large multi-thousand person company knows more about how Communism works than any student or analyst of the subject. The only big difference is that you have fewer killings at work ~ they still happen though. Sometimes the Corporate Jet crashes.
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