Posted on 03/24/2005 6:33:06 PM PST by Marine Inspector
I’ve been watching with great interest the ‘Minuteman Project’ that has been developing in Arizona. This is a project to organize American citizens to patrol our border with Mexico. This isn’t some U.S. Border Patrol initiative, like the Civil Air Patrol which is an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, but a ‘civilian’ initiative to protect our border.
It is obvious that the Border Patrol is incapable, as currently organized, of protecting and defending our sovereignty from the mad rush of illegals that swarm over our southern border. Since President Bush has made it clear he isn’t interested in protecting our country, citizens have taken matters into their own hands. I say, “Good for them.”
Unfortunately for these patriotic citizens, neither the Mexicans nor the U.S. government want them taking part in defending their country. Hispanic gangs have been issuing threats of violence towards the Minutemen, and the Border Patrol is trying to discourage their actions as well.
As far as the gangs are concerned, what else would you expect? These are criminals who don’t want any interference with their transportation of their illegal human cargo. Personally, I think the Minutemen should be prepared to meet any force from these thugs with like force. After all, it’s the Hispanic gangs that are breaking the law, and the Minutemen who are defending our country from this invasion.
Anyone with half a brain would expect the Border Patrol to at least nominally be on the side of the Minutemen. But what kind of comments do we get from the Border Patrol? Here are a few quotes from Andy Adame of the U.S. Border Patrol in Tucson:
"People are going to get hurt."
“Many of these volunteers don't know what they're in for. “
"When you have untrained civilians, that are armed, that are out in the middle of the desert, in the middle of the night, in the dark, and they meet up with one of these smuggling organizations ... you're going to have a gun fight."
"Bringing untrained civilians into this border environment is a recipe for disaster."
While I recognize Mr. Adame may be more of an authority on border issues than myself, due to the government’s refusal to seriously address our immigration problems I am prone to think these comments are born more out of a resentment of the Minutemen due to the fact their actions highlight the Border Patrol’s failures. If Mr. Adame doesn’t want to see these patriots stand up for their country, then the Border Patrol needs to do a better job.
In fact, the state and federal governments as a whole need to do a better job. In general, politicians and law enforcement officials have shown almost a calloused indifference to the problems associated with illegal immigration. For at least the last ten years the majority of Americans have been screaming for the feds to do something about out of control illegal immigration. The response has been to offer repeated amnesties or turn a blind eye to the problem.
Border Patrol officials say there has been a growing level of violence in recent years along the border. What do they expect? This is literally a war that is taking place! We are being invaded, and our federal government refuses to carry out its constitutional duty and defend us!
These Hispanic gangs are not just linked to human smuggling; they smuggle in drugs and arms (And who would those arms be for? The army of illegals within our midst perhaps?), and they are linked to South American terrorist groups as well as Islamic terrorist groups. This is all information the U.S. government admits they know about, and yet refuse to boost the number of Border Patrol agents sufficient to address the problem (thanks again President Bush).
If we truly live in a land of ‘the rule of law,’ and not ‘the rule of men,’ then our elected officials need to act on their oaths of office and defend the rights of the citizens and our sovereignty. They should also remember that when a people are pushed too far, they will rise up to defend their rights themselves. If G.W. Bush and his big-business neo-con cohorts don’t wake up, they will find themselves in a fight with the very citizens that elected them. And the American citizens will find themselves caught in a two-front war, between the U.S. government and Mexico, as the Mexican government is aggressively attempting to undermine U.! S. citizen’s actions to organize and defend our borders through political pressure on the Bush White House, and through our courts and international courts as well.
If George W. Bush had an ounce of integrity, he’d honor his oath of office and increase the numbers in our Border Patrol to levels adequate to handle the situation, have the Department of Justice pursue and prosecute companies that hire illegals, and cut out this cancer of over 10 million illegals within our society. In addition, Bush would support, rather than constantly trying to undermine, the bills being submitted to Congress that enhance the enforcement of our laws against illegals and their abuse of fraudulent ID papers. But then it appears as if it is only the citizens that care about the rule of law. Understand something: if the average rank and file citizen has to take time off from making a living and patrol our borders to defend o! ur country, our border issues are out of control, no matter what any idiot in D.C. says. Remember this when the next election comes around for your Congressman, Senator, and yes, President. Pick someone who will defend our borders, our sovereignty and our Constitution. There are only a handful of representatives in Congress that do this right now, and they need help.
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Yar! If there's an issue that will hurt us in 2006 it's immigration, and Bush is totally fumbling it.
:-)
Here's what I have to say about Bush's "vigilante" comment...
When the President of the United States calls American Patriots "vigilantes" before the fact, and in front of a head of state and the world, it is a green light to kill them.
This issue will not go away, and I predict government-initiated violence which will be the beginning of the Second American Revolution (predict Revolution, not advocate, for all you baiters and thread assassins).
(ONE) of the biggest lies of the Bush administration.
I won't send any more donations to the RNC or any open borders Republican politician, I'll give it to the Constitution Party instead. I'm sick of paying the bills for illegal aliens.
To make sure that the illegals have free run of the country he put La Raza in charge of the Justice Dept!
The transparency for me is that there are people who are here with the sole purpose of killing a thread. Every time a thread like that gets some wheels they jump in and start a stupid fight or change the subject on some emotional point that is irrelevant. Some take the bait and WHAM !
Most of use can see it right from the start. There was some self moderation but it was not enough.
As this article mentions, they (the Minutemen) are already under direct physical threats from the Mexican gangs, La Voz de Aztlan (but I repeat myself) and other pro-illegal alien industry types, and have received the typical bureaucratic condescension from the Border Patrol.
Now Bush has fanned the flames even more with his 'vigilante' comment. I seriously hope he is considering a retraction and clarification.
On the now removed thread, ScudBud had mentioned that he heard the leader of the project, a decorated veteran, on the radio responding to Bush's comment and he was near tears at the betrayal.
I am praying for all those people. They have more guts than the rest of us. If they get in trouble down there, and it looks like they are being squeezed between the lawless southern interests and the non-law enforcing government interests, they will be getting reinforcements, and this thing could get out of hand in a hurry.
That thread appears to be back on the forum.
It is indeed, less a few comments from the flamethrowers and a new home in the 'bloggers and personal' section. A nice surprise. Plus, I had sent a link to that thread to several party reps here in GA, in NC, and in DC, and now I won't have to explain why I sent them a dead link.
Sanity prevails. Thanks mods and JR. I believe we are all trying to keep it civil, even if a few darts get thrown here and there, including mine in post 6 above. Sorry about that.
Amen.
Yep, that thread is back, and CJ is gone again. I hope that race-baiting flame inciter gets longer than a one week timeout this time.
Actually, it looks like CJ is still here ... at least the profile page comes up.
I would miss CJ is he (she?) was permanently gone ... weird but true. I often find myself reading thru a thread merrily absorbing the comments and then there is one comment that stands out and makes me reach for the psychic daggers ... then I see that it's just CJ.
My checkbook is already poised...
I concur with your thoughts.
A-firm.
Agree. They've come a *long* way.
Sure they have. That it why the issue of illegal immigration has barely been a footnote in most elections for the last 10 years. The voters keep voting in primaries and general elections for politicians who ignore the issue altogether...because it is so important to the voters. Hmmm...
Maybe most the voters don't care so much as Jeff Adams' thinks they care.
They take the jobs AND the welfare? How greedy. If we deport the illegals we will have good jobs and safe neighborhoods. Health care will be affordable and people will be responsible and get car insurance. And there will be lots and lots of welfare to go around. Boy it's hard to pass up such a convenient scapegoat.
The key word being "if".
Lawmakers pressuring Bush for more Border Patrol agents
March 10, 2005
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers... is pressing for money to hire thousands of new border guards that were approved by President Bush but then left out of the 2006 budget.
The letter [written by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin] was signed by 44 representatives, including 16 Texans.
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At issue is the disparity between the border security provisions in the intelligence reform bill Bush signed in mid-December and the 2006 budget that he released in February.
The reform package called for 10,000 more border patrol agents to be hired over the next five years, 800 additional interior investigators and 8,000 more detention beds.
The president's budget requested enough money for 210 border agents, 143 investigators and 1,920 beds.
The White House had promised that these "important steps would be fully funded in order to protect the nations borders, apprehend potential terrorists and detain them pending deportation," according to the letter.
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