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Bordering on vigilantism
The OC Register ^ | 03/25/2005 | Some Idiot

Posted on 03/25/2005 6:37:21 PM PST by Marine Inspector

The Minuteman Project mistakes the nature of our immigration problem

It will be fascinating to see how the Minuteman Project, the brainstorm of Aliso Viejo resident James Gilchrist, comes off now that President Bush has referred to the effort as a "vigilante" operation of which he disapproves. It has certainly stirred a lot of interest, pro and con.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; borderpatrol; cbp; illegal; legal; minutemanproject; vigilantism
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To: A CA Guy

There are two problems
1 (if I may quote Marine Inspector)

"Our immigration laws amount to efforts to repeal reality. There is honest work available in the United States for people from Mexico willing to do it. The legal-immigration quotas are unrealistically low."

2 Mexico/Central America. A question I heard a couple of years ago, "Have you ever noticed that there are not 10's of thousands of Canadians swarming over our northern border?" They (Illegals) aren't coming here because 1 we're such warm fuzzy people or 2 they've always dreamed of cleaning our hotel rooms. It's because we have jobs and they don't, and they will keep coming until there are jobs there.


61 posted on 03/25/2005 7:54:32 PM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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To: Dan Evans

It seems unfair to legal immigrants who have to fight our bureaucracy to come here. These guys came up here against the law, and now we find some of them may be Moslem terrorists disguised as South American Hispanics. It's scary to me to think a potential terrorist could work in a food plant, oil plant, or sensitive place.


62 posted on 03/25/2005 7:55:40 PM PST by Dubya_4ever_USA
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To: Dan Evans

You're right Danny. You may remember stupid CA Lt Governor Bustamonte awhile back addressing a group of black democrats absent mindedly uttered the word "ni66er" 2 or 3 times without virtually a word of reprimand.


63 posted on 03/25/2005 7:57:14 PM PST by kimosabe31
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To: Fee
"...because they cannot afford an armed paramilitary within the US that may challenge them in the future."

Then I suggest a course correction back to the Constitution as the founders envisioned it.

64 posted on 03/25/2005 7:59:22 PM PST by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Dubya_4ever_USA

That raises a question about the refinery explosion in Texas. The FBI said they ruled out terrorism. But they haven't determined the cause.


65 posted on 03/25/2005 8:09:44 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans

That came to my mind, too, about the explosion at the BP plant. Homeland security has warned about this recently and it seems to be a risk to allow illegals some sort of status when we're at war.


66 posted on 03/25/2005 8:16:44 PM PST by Dubya_4ever_USA
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To: A CA Guy

Yea but their Massive War Hardened Military, what would we do about them?

(Sorry I was flashing back to Dan Rather and that crazy Canuck Jennings loser)


67 posted on 03/25/2005 8:29:44 PM PST by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: Marine Inspector

Buy Mexico an give it to Haiti? Grrrr, I know.


68 posted on 03/25/2005 8:33:43 PM PST by Waco
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To: dljordan
My grandfather and some of the other men got together one night, put hoods on and went to the guys house.

Did the KKK come up in this story? <(•¿•)>

69 posted on 03/25/2005 8:46:39 PM PST by itsahoot (There are some things more painful than the truth, but I can't think of them.)
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To: spodefly

>>>I believe such an arrangement would be the death of the American middle class, the end of our rule of law, and create a schism in cultures that would make the Balkans look pleasant<<<

You also believe in the Easter Bunny

The Government of Mexico is a couple hundred Thugs and the rest of the population wants to be in the U.S.A.

Seal Team 1 could liberate Mexico by itself, over the weekend while drinking copius amounts of Dos XX.

It isn't DC or Mexico City, hate to say it but it is the "World Community" that would have to be placated. Right now the US has bigger Fish to fry.

"I" like the Annex Idea, I don't know where you get your intel from, hope you didn't pay much for it because it's $hit.


70 posted on 03/25/2005 8:47:13 PM PST by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: viaveritasvita

I saw that, too, and had used it for a tag line briefly!


71 posted on 03/25/2005 8:55:21 PM PST by HiJinx (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Next up is Operation 4th of July)
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To: A CA Guy
The population of Mexico are very under educated and spineless or they would have done something to correct all the problems in their country already.

Magnificent Seven <(•¿•)>

72 posted on 03/25/2005 8:56:48 PM PST by itsahoot (There are some things more painful than the truth, but I can't think of them.)
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To: Dubya_4ever_USA
That came to my mind, too, about the explosion at the BP plant.

I had a Deja vu moment when I heard the "this was not terrorism" line. When flight 587 crashed, I heard some official say the same thing even before the wreckage had cooled.

73 posted on 03/25/2005 8:58:06 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dubya_4ever_USA
Why is the President in favor of legal status for illegals? That's one point I've missed over the years and I don't understand it.

Because the Bush dynasty is all about a New World Order.

74 posted on 03/25/2005 9:02:18 PM PST by itsahoot (There are some things more painful than the truth, but I can't think of them.)
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To: TexasTransplant
Thank you so much for your pleasant and non-confrontational reply. You are obviously much smarter and more informed than I. I acquiesce to your superior knowledge, and supplicate myself to your wisdom on this subject. I only hope that you will forgive my inadequacies and allow me the opportunity strive for the level of intellectual superiority you have attained.
75 posted on 03/25/2005 9:05:20 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: TexasTransplant
"I" like the Annex Idea,

I don't think it would be very good idea for the US to annex Mexico. Do you know how much money Puerto Rico gets from us in welfare payments?

Mexico would bankrupt us from earned income credits alone.

76 posted on 03/25/2005 9:10:02 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Marine Inspector
It will be fascinating to see how the Minuteman Project, the brainstorm of Aliso Viejo resident James Gilchrist, comes off now that President Bush has referred to the effort as a "vigilante" operation of which he disapproves.

President Bush's answer was a cute politician answer. He did not say the MM Project was vigilantism, he simply stated he disapproved of vigilantism.

77 posted on 03/25/2005 9:11:30 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: TheDon
President Bush's answer was a cute politician answer. He did not say the MM Project was vigilantism, he simply stated he disapproved of vigilantism.

Not me. We should all be vigilantes. Citizens should all carry guns and the police should be prohibited from carrying guns.

78 posted on 03/25/2005 9:21:36 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Marine Inspector

"On Wednesday President Bush, at the summit meeting with President Vicente Fox of Mexico and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada, when asked about the project, said, "I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America. I'm for enforcing the law in a rational way." "

If you were enforcing the damn laws we already have their wouldn't be a minuteman project. We need more of these groups all along our southern borders until our government starts doing what they should have been doing all along.


79 posted on 03/25/2005 9:24:23 PM PST by ThermoNuclearWarrior (PRESSURE BUSH TO CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
How about we just call them "Neighborhood Watch".

We had a houseful of illegals cleaned out of our neighborhood.

All it took was a couple of dozen calls to INS....

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80 posted on 03/25/2005 9:25:02 PM PST by Lurker (Remember the Beirut Bombing; 243 dead Marines. The House of Assad and Hezbollah did it..)
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