The letters themselves are posted on the SouthEast Arizona Republican Club home page...I'll have to see if I can find the link now that this article is posted.
Posted on 04/05/2005 1:11:42 PM PDT by polymuser
FORT HUACHUCA - Senior commanders on this southern Arizona Army post have told soldiers they may not take part in patrolling the border with Minuteman Project volunteers.
In a memo to soldiers assigned to the Network Enterprise Technology Command, Maj. Gen. James Hylton prohibited those assigned to his organization, to include the 11th Signal Brigade, "from participating in any active patrolling, monitoring or other intentional act associated with identifying and/or detaining illegal immigrants, either through an organized group, or on you own."
(Excerpt) Read more at svherald.com ...
Probably also wants to avoid possible Posse Comitatus hassles from lefty organizations, which would absolutely surface if active soldiers were found doing this. If the base had said nothing, and a soldier were found participating, the lefties would have called it "tacit approval" and flogged them even harder. I suspect the base absolutely supports the Minuteman actions, and shows it by keeping them from getting shut down as a "side benefit" of a Posse Comitatus lawsuit.
Praise the Lord for real patriots like our Minutemen =-)!
I thought Fort Huachuca was built to protect Americans. At least that is probably what the Apache's, and other tribes, felt.
It is a shame that the Senior Commander can't get off his butt to encourage his people, instead of hindering them.
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What happened?
Satire from pugbus.net:
NACO, Ariz. – Gonzo rocker Ted Nugent rolled into this border town in Cochise County Saturday night to assume command of the Minuteman Project, a citizen’s army dedicated to “taking back” the 370-mile border that separates Arizona and Mexico. Sporting a wide band of black Kiwi shoe polish under each eye and a “Greasers Go Home” T-shirt, Field Commander Nugent delivered an impassioned address to the assembled troops.
“If those dirt bags in Washington don’t have the guts to keep America safe for Americans, we do,” he screamed. “We’re not going to let a swarm of illiterate beaners invade this country and take food out of our children’s mouths just so Taco Bell can find cheap labor.”
Quentin McCallister, 62, recording secretary of the Minuteman Project, told the current affairs desk of the Cochise County Shopper that Nugent was the unanimous choice for the field commander post. According to McCallister, members of the all-volunteer Minuteman Project are sensitive to the perception that groups such as theirs are havens for crackpots, bigots, and xenophobes.
“We needed somebody with name recognition who could give us an air of legitimacy,” said McCallister. “Besides, Ted owns damn near enough guns to outfit our entire force.”
McCallister further explained that the guns worn by members of the Minuteman Project are “mainly for show. Most of our people aren’t allowed to wear guns in their hometowns. Hell, some of them aren’t even allowed to own guns.”
Nugent’s large collection of weapons is not his only qualification for the post of field commander. He also flaunts a keen grasp of immigration policy, which he summed up best in a brief speech to a Texas audience at one of his shows two years ago: “Latino immigrants who don't speak English should swim back where they came from—at the point of a gun if necessary."
The Whackmaster, as Nugent prefers to be called, had been gutting deer on his Texas game preserve, the Bambi House, when he got the call from McCallister.
"I was ready to lock and load," yelled Nugent, 55. "The Whackmaster is the man for the job when it comes to harvesting illegal aliens.”
Field Commander Nugent spent yesterday getting to know many of the fifteen hundred soldiers under his command. He came away impressed by their dedication and by the number of women, retirees, and other veterans of the swap meet circuit who had reported for duty.
“I told them this wasn’t going to be any walk in the park,” shouted Nugent.
Joel Schumacher, 45, an unemployed fry cook from the Bronx, is typical of the spirit that informs the Minuteman Project. Sitting on a rickety lawn chair a hundred feet from the border, Schumacher trained a pair of Kmart binoculars on a group of ACLU volunteers just across the border who had their binoculars trained on him.
“I’ve lost more than one job to a wetback who didn’t have a green card,” said Schumacher. “I’m here to see it doesn’t happen again.”
In related news, the Minuteman Project bagged its first border violator early this morning. “We’ve got one of the bastards,” bellowed Nugent, waving his carbine in the air. Upon closer interrogation, however, the violator turned out to be a Boy Scout executive trying to smuggle child pornography into the United States.
This ain't America any more wizr. It's the Land O Lawyers. And post #1 nailed the reasons for the Army decision.
Moral: Blame the over-population of lawyers.
OOPSIE! ! !
Please excuse the error. That should have read post #2.
Sorry.
b-ping...
"Upon closer interrogation, however, the violator turned out to be a Boy Scout executive trying to smuggle child pornography into the United States."
WRONG!
Upon closer examination of the records, this is a reference to a lawyer with the FloriDUH Wilflife Conservation Commission. Though the lawyer's computer on his work desk was loaded with child porn, and though the data had been accessed (means looked at for the non-computer buffs), the lawyer only received about 10 days suspension.
PS: He's still stalking the streets and courts of FloriDUH.
"from participating in any active patrolling, monitoring or other intentional act associated with identifying and/or detaining illegal immigrants"
Gutless! Our borders are being overrun and the military tells the soldiers not to report the CRIME! If this commander's house was being robbed, I wonder how he would feel if these same soldiers just watch without reporting it to the proper authorities. My tax dollars are being robbed – it’s causing my hospitals and schools to go bankrupt. And the people who are supposed to protect the borders will not even report the crime let alone help. Sick…
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
I thought this was another Jane Fonda article describing her sexual experiences with Ted.There's nothing that's sacred when one is trying to sell books.
Protection of our Nation's borders is supposed to be one of the duties of our military services..
"We don't want to put a soldiers in a situation where they could be hurt or killed,"
LOL! I'm sorry but this is too funny!
What this is---is some bureaucratic, political General Officer trying to "cover his a$$". He is afraid of political consequences, and afraid of being labeled " A racist".
We need a George S.Patton.
Probably not. The current military leadership is afraid of CNN. A bad report on the nightly news now ends careers. It's all about PR, you see; it's more important to look good on camera than to actually do your job.
Where have the warriors and patriots gone? They've been replaced by CYA bean-counters.
The letters themselves are posted on the SouthEast Arizona Republican Club home page...I'll have to see if I can find the link now that this article is posted.
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