Posted on 01/21/2005 10:27:54 AM PST by KidGlock
Daughter mystified by man's threat against White House
Friday, January 21, 2005
By Barton Deiters
The Grand Rapids Press
CEDAR SPRINGS -- Aleata Timmers was touched that her dad went to Washington, D.C., to argue her fiance's immigration status, but now both the men in her life are behind bars, leaving hers in shambles.
Lowell Timmers, 54, remains in federal prison after he parked his old Ford van a block from the White House on Tuesday and threatened to blow it up if his daughter's fiance, Manuel Regalado, was not freed from a Detroit-area jail where he is being held on immigration violations and facing deportation, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
"Now, everyone knows about Manuel's case, but it's not really helping," said Aleata Timmers during a hastily arranged press conference Thursday at Jose's Restaurant in Cedar Springs. "I'm very angry. I don't know how he thought this could help Manuel's case."
With her 1-year-old daughter, Emma, grinning and babbling on her lap, 26-year-old Timmers said she faces having to care for her baby and her distraught mother, Gloria Timmers, now that both men are imprisoned.
Timmers said she had expected to travel to Regalado's native Guatemala if he is deported for failing to meet immigration service requirements after he entered the United States illegally in 1999. She said the two missed an immigration service appointment because their car broke down, and they got lost in Detroit while driving a rental car. He was arrested two weeks ago when they returned to Detroit.
She described her father as a man of high morals, who volunteered to fight in Vietnam as a young man and became a pacifist who opposed the war in Iraq and the policies of President Bush.
Timmers said she had not talked to her father since his arrest. A disheveled Lowell Timmers appeared in federal court Wednesday, where a judge denied him bail. At a detention hearing Tuesday, a judge will determine if Timmers should be released or face charges.
He was just doing the freaky loner activity that some Americans are apparently still willing to do.
The best sort of people, no doubt.
Ah! One of those pacifists... the van-detonating kind.
Understatement of the week.
I wonder what her first clue was? Handcuffs?
What is wrong with these people?
Deport the illegal alien. Send the dad for a psychiatric examination. Sounds like he needs one.
Mystery solved.
Maybe he secretly wanted the guy to be deported. That's probably what will happen now.
Timmers said she had expected to travel to Regalado's native Guatemala if he is deported for failing to meet immigration service requirements after he entered the United States illegally in 1999. She said the two missed an immigration service appointment because their car broke down, and they got lost in Detroit while driving a rental car. He was arrested two weeks ago when they returned to Detroit.
She described her father as a man of high morals, who volunteered to fight in Vietnam as a young man and became a pacifist who opposed the war in Iraq and the policies of President Bush.
Boo hoo, and it's all Bush's fault.
Yeah...I've never seen so many pacifist who believe in using violence as a means to an end. They must be related to those tolerant, diversity-loving liberals...who love everybody except those who act and think differently than them:)
Just hang both of them.
Sometimes events develop in such a way that you fall behind. But if I understand this correctly, the baby is a year old yet they have not yet gotten married. Her "fiance" is a jailed illegal alien. I suppose "fiance" sounds better than boyfriend, but it really isn't the right word.
If they wanted to marry, settle down, and have a family, and get him legalized, they sure have wasted an awful lot of time. At least a year and nine months, from the sound of it. Plenty of time to set up another appointment with the INS.
It's never a good idea to threaten to use terrorism by saying you are going to blow up a van a block from the White House.
How do these people think?
I think the word you're looking for is "Sperm Donor"
Gee, I thought immigration laws aren't being enforced. That's what a certain faction here on FR keeps braying, anyway.
LOL
“I don't know how he thought this could help Manuel's case."
Maybe he’s not very bright.
(think back, there may have been other clues over the years...)
Surprise, surprise.
Carolyn
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