Border Militia: We'll Shut Down the Border with Machine Guns

TNL ^ | 04/09/2005 | The National Ledger

[ClintonBeGone]

Border Militia: We'll Shut Down the Border with Machine Guns

Casey Nethercott is the leader of a militia group dubbed the Arizona Guard and said during a TV interview broadcast on Friday, "When this Minuteman thing is over, if it doesn't work, we're going to come out here and close the border with machine guns."

KVOA TV-4 in Tucson carried a report on Friday by reporter Nancy Perla that toured the group's compound that sits along the Arizona/Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona. The camera showed two older model American made SUV's, both painted black, that Nethercott claims are "armored vehicles" with "quarter-inch steel in them." Pointing again to the vehicles, Nethercott continued, "You'll get killed without them, here's been so many shootouts out here."

The camera then shows a concrete block wall riddled with bullet holes that Nethercott says came from drug smugglers. The report titled "Mimicman Projects" by KVOA calls them copy cats and says the project could begin on July 4, though Nethercott would release no details.

The Minuteman Project stated through Chris Simcox, who is an organizer for the project, that they don't support a violent solution. "I think anytime you go to that length to take the law into your own hands, you're asking for trouble," Simcox told KVOA.

The armed militia supports the Minuteman Project, but says that if they fail to close the border to illegal border crossers, his group will step in and be heavily armed to do the job.

[judgeandjury]

These MMK's are really one step away from going postal.

What does MMK stand for?

[Dane]

No he(Elian) was not! You should learn some immigration law and them go back and learn how Elian came to the US.

Yeah that evil bitch(Elian's mother,according to you and your usual rhetoric, IMO) got on a raft to escape communism and gave her life for him.

BTW, when is the tancredo crowd going to make janet reno their patron saint?

[Dane]

BTW, Marine Inspector works for the Border Patrol.

Notice the theme running through his replies, janet reno and hillary good, Goerge W. Bush bad.

JMO, no doubt his union foreman(or marine inspector could be the union foreman) is parroting DNC talking points.

[judgeandjury]

Not true. What was proven is if you provide objective information that place Tancredo in a bad light, all hell breaks lose and his supporters will attack the messenger like rabid dogs.

LOL, your "proof" (which you posted on a different thread) that Tancredo used illegal aliens to do work on his house was a single article in the pro-illegal immigration Denver Post, which has had Tancredo in their crosshairs for years. And what facts did the Denver Post use to support their published allegation that Tancredo used illegal aliens? The word of two lawbreakers whom the Denver Post refused to produce or even name.

And then you come on this thread talking about providing "objective information that place Tancredo in a bad light". What objective information? The Denver Post sure didn't provide any objective information in their hit-piece article about Tancredo and the make believe illegal aliens.

[Bennett46]

"That's all I need to hear from you. Ellian was here legally. He stepped foot in America"


No, he was rescued at sea...and then he 'stepped foot in America', illegals rescued at sea are not allowed to remain here, including Cubans.

You are a switch and baiter. You do not let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[ClintonBeGone]

BTW, Marine Inspector works for the Border Patrol.

Well that certainly explains a lot. Amazing what these union bureaucrats won't do to attack Bush and promote their gal Hillary.

[Ben Ficklin]

Hornet's nest bump

[COEXERJ145]

BTW, when is the tancredo crowd going to make janet reno their patron saint?

It would get a little crowded if they do that. After all, they already have Tancredo and Hillary but I guess they might as well add one more in order to have their holy immigration trinity.

[Ben Ficklin]

#234 is for you also.

[harrowup]

"BTW, Marine Inspector works for the Border Patrol.

Well that certainly explains a lot. Amazing what these union bureaucrats won't do to attack Bush and promote their gal Hillary.

He plays the tough guy role at LP and even threatened to look up a poster's Green Card status. He backed off.

Rumor has it that he is a POE clerk checking manifests, so he no doubt has plenty of time to do the union stuff. Thanks be that he isn't armed.

[judgeandjury]

Why do you believe Tancredo now, when he so clearly lied to his constituents when he took (and broke) his term limits pledge?

Tancredo didn't lie about his term limit pledge, he changed his mind. Have you ever changed your mind about anything? Lying is when you say something that you know isn't the truth, or when you say that you're going to do something that you know you're not going to do. If a person honestly believes that he will or won't do something, and then states that belief publicly but later changes his mind, then he did not lie.

[johnb838]

I think a good start would be to stop calling our enemies "friends."

[Lazamataz]

Oh, cool. So I can smear you as a Nazi from now on.

You freakin' Nazi.

G-d I hate you freakin' Nazis.

[johnb838]

Well you just launched a left-wing style ad hominem against Tancredo so why shouldn't you be attacked?

[Nowhere Man]

Whether or not the border needs to be defended by vigilanties with machine guns is a discussion I'm not going to weigh in on. However, the fact that some, and a growing number, of people feel it is necessary, should shame our Congress Critters into actually fulfulling their duties and upholding our laws.

I look at it this way, I've been using this cliche a lot lately but, "nature abhors a vacuum," and since it seems the police, military and border patrol seems to be hamstrung and the government is falling down on the job protecting our borders, well somebody, somewhere, shomehow will step in, be it the Minutemen or some guys with machine guns. I don't lump them together at all but I'm saying is that somebody is going to step up to the plate here, be it government sanctioned or vigilante. I can't blame people at all for being this way. I know my father who was stationed in Korea at Camp Casey in the mid 1950's would have a similar DMZ between Mexico and the US with fences, guard posts and minefields.

[righttackle44]

"They are joined at the hip and co-ordinate their activities."

Please prove your statement. I said PROVE. Not stupid Democratic-controlled, leftist websites. Not the craziness of Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or Teddy Kennedy.

P-R-O-O-f.

I live here in Arizona, and I can't prove it.

[Dane]

Well you just launched a left-wing style ad hominem against Tancredo so why shouldn't you be attacked?

Yada, yada, yada, same old, same old repsonse.

I never attacked tancredo for using illegal labor to put in an overhead projector and terraced seating in his basement, he attacked himself for the rhetoric he uses.

[Ben Ficklin]

Keep on scrolling.

[jmc813]

He literally was convicted of firearm violations and lying to a federal officer.

You Arnold Republicans sure do love gun laws.

[HiJinx]

Already posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380482/posts

And I'm surprised it stayed up the first time, considering the subject matter. If the Minuteman Project was supposed to be bad, this is 10 times worse. The MMP didn't threaten to patrol the border with HMMWV-mounted M-60s, as Casey Nethercutt has said he plans to do.