Echoes of the Wild West in one man's border war

Arizona Daily Star ^ | 20 March 2004 | Michael Marizco

[JackelopeBreeder]

More detail on Thursday's shooting incident.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Ping!

[Lurker]

Don't shoot at the hood of the car next time.

Empty the first mag right through the glass.

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[sergeantdave]

Geez, if it's drug smugglers alley on this guy's property why not invite in the feds? Winging it on his own will buy him a casket.

[dts32041]

Kozak says he threatened the agency with an injunction because, like the smugglers, the agents kept cutting down his fences

Hey it ain't the wide open west.

The man can fence his property and the federals have to deal with it.

They can't whine about a citizen exercising his property rights.

[crz]

And we need gun control? According to the socialists we do as they say we can rely on the authorities to protect us. HA! Fat chance of that and this proves it! The cops admit they cant gaurd him all the time. So he must do it himself.

[janetgreen]

Attention, Senator McCain and buddies in the House - Arizona citizens are under fire by Mexico - where are you?????

[Armedanddangerous]

McCain is too busy trying to ban the guns this man would use to defend himself with.

Why does he keep getting re-elected in Arizona?

[farmfriend]

Short list.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[DumpsterDiver]

...soon-to-be illegal entrants in Agua Prieta - say they worry Wednesday's incident is indicative of the biggest fear of vigilantism are coming true - shootouts between Americans and illegal border crossers.

Are you scared enough that you'll stop breaking the law?

Jose Perez, a 36-year-old Mexican waiting to cross illegally from Agua Prieta Friday night, said the rumors that illegal entrants are targets reach all the way to Mexico City. "I hope nobody shoots at me," he said.

Stay on your own side of the border, Jose, and you'll have nothing to worry about.

[JimRed]

The feds should issue this good citizen a few cases of anti-tank size land mines.

[w-pat]

Doesn't it seem strange that our politicians only listen to Mexico and not Americans in direct contradiction to the U.S.Constitution to which they swore an oath? Could it possibly have anything to do with loyalty to a One-World government thus "telling a lie under oath"? Does anyone know how to trace deals and money? When an American is castigated and possibly persecuted for defending his property the perpetrators are primarily lawless, turn-coat American politicians from the local to the top.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Cause the folks in Phoenix are from Chicago!

[John Jorsett]

Time for an eBay search for "claymore mines".

[spectre]

"Jose Perez, a 36-year-old Mexican waiting to cross illegally from Agua Prieta Friday night, said the rumors that illegal entrants are targets reach all the way to Mexico City. "I hope nobody shoots at me," he said."

He is getting ready to break OUR immigration laws and I'm supposed to have sympathy for him? Not.

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[Wallace T.]

Unless the people in Phoenix help their rural fellow citizens, they will be back in Chicago, as the Southwest becomes Atzlan and they become aliens.

[yankeedame]

Don't shoot at the hood of the car next time. Empty the first mag right through the glass.

Really? I heard it was in this order: radiator, tires, engine and then glass.

[philetus]

One of the basic themes of gun control is that only the police and military should have handguns or any type of firearm. I cannot explain their rationale, other than to say that gun control proponents must believe that the police exist to protect the citizenry from victimization. But, in light of court decisions, we find that such is not the case. Further, look at the behavior of attorneys, and in particular, one attorney Mr. John Brophy, who doesn't deny that the police have no legal obligation to protect citizens, but does attempt to intentionally mislead people into believing that the government in this country recognizes and upholds citizens' rights to self defense, a belief that is completely and utterly false!

[TLI]

After two years of drug smugglers running their loads across his 40-acre property, tearing down fences and at times taking wild shots at him, Kozak on Wednesday fired back with more than his usual warning shots.

mexicans started the shootings eh? Been shooting for two years. Ok.

He opened fire on the truck with his rifle, placing three rounds in the hood.

Should have been 3 rounds through the windshield. Truck hoods do not shoot back. Drug smugglers behind windshields are another story.

After three $200 gates and spending hundreds more for fences and posts, Kozak gave up because they were simply knocked over by the trespassers.

$600 plus "hundreds more" and he could have had a nice M-14. .308 punch and plenty of range....

Kozak moved on to other barricades, made of wood and barbed wire with danger signs.

A backhoe to trench or a tracked blade to push a mound over the road... much better.

"They gave me a message and said, 'Don't shoot at us any more.'"

Well I read that as "Don't shoot any less" either. And "my message" would have been more "on target" as well. But that is just `lil `ol me.

A commander with the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. "You could always expect violence to instigate violence."

Yep, mexicans starting shooting first by two years if the begining of the artical is accurate. I am totally in awe of Mr. Kozak's huge amount of patence in not zotting the border bunnies on night one.

"Ranch Rescue's been wanting this to happen and unfortunately, I don't believe they know the depth or magnitude of what could happen to them or the relations between both countries," he said.

Ok Mr. county commander, the folks at RR have not been "waiting for this to happen," they have been WARNING everyone that this would happen and know EXACTLY what is at stake here.

Dave Stoddard, a retired Border Patrol agent living in Douglas, looked at the shooting as an inevitable clash.

While he said Kozak shouldn't have fired first, smugglers shouldn't be running loads through his property, Stoddard said.

OK. I am not going to pretend there is not media bias in most of these stories but that is the third time it has been claimed that Kozak fired first and acording to the first paragraph of this little bit of apparent propaganda that is totally false.

Why is it always the LEO's that spread such falsehoods, yet refuse to engage the armed criminals that are already shooting at American land owners?

oh... already shooting... right, never mind.

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