Posted on 04/07/2005 1:04:16 PM PDT by SmithL
TUCSON, Ariz. - Authorities determined Thursday that three volunteers involved in a civilian project to watch the border and report illegal crossers did not hold an illegal immigrant against his will.
The Mexican man had told sheriff's deputies that he was detained and forced to pose for a picture holding a T-shirt with a mocking slogan. The shirt read: "Bryan Barton caught an illegal alien and all I got was this T-shirt." Barton was one of the three volunteers.
"The county attorney's office reviewed all available evidence, that indicates that there was no forcible detention, therefore the case is not substantiated, and no charges are pending," said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department.
The sheriff's department, Mexican Consul Miguel Escobar and the U.S. Border Patrol also agreed that the 26-year-old man was not detained, said Capas and Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Zortman.
The volunteers involved in Wednesday's incident identified themselves as members of the Minuteman Project - a monthlong effort that has people from around the country spread out along a stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border to report undocumented migrants and smugglers.
Law enforcement officials have said they fear the project will lead to vigilante violence. Mexico's foreign relations department also pledged in the days leading up to the civilian operation to pursue all legal and diplomatic means to stop the volunteers and ensure that they do not violate the rights of Mexican citizens.
Wednesday's incident was the first reporting any possible detention, though volunteers earlier assisted an immigrant in distress.
And what do you have, Judgeandjury?
Voters overwhelmingly reelected George Bush, despite his immigration plans. You seem to be one of the few people still bothered by it.
I'll kiss him. :-)
Really? Where did I ever support Stanley? Just more of your baiting bullshit. And don't post a smiley face to me. You aren't funny, you are an a$$hole.
I would advocate for a better class of troll myself.
Say what you want about Cultural Jihad, but I always got the impression CJ at least had 2 brain cells to rub together.
CJ was the master of the 'guilt by association' and 'passive-aggressive thread baiting' tactic, but behind those tired tactics was at least some degree of intellect. These clowns are pathetic pretenders to that tactic, too stupid to know they are intellectually outclassed by 90% of the people on the forum.
PRND21 has the same tired "Simcox = Felon" lie every time. ClintonBeGone has the same discredited article in the Denver Post from 3 years ago. Dane, harrowup and Ben Ficklin show up on the short bus with obtuse non sequiturs, and round and round we go ... I had hoped that the mods would see these clowns as using the exact same tactics that got CJ dismissed, and we would be finally free of them ... my plan doesn't seem to be working.
Its not bad enough that they use disruption and baiting and misdirection to derail and pollute threads ... its that they are becoming BORING in doing so.
I miss CJ.
You know, Squantos, there are a few who I have ignored the last few days, check my posts. But these folks are getting on my last nerve. They spam every thread. Hell they almost got Dead Corpse to go too far. I don't even know if I like Dead Corpse but this crap is too much. Anyway, I will hold my fire.
FReegards, buddy.
What? CJ is gone? Last i checked she was still being CJ.
Last time I checked, CJ had the pale blue screen of doom ... maybe the time out is over. I don't know ...
Last time I checked, CJ had the pale blue screen of doom ... maybe the time out is over. I don't know ...
And I stutter!
It's been suggested that I add that slur to the "Legacy List". How many does that make for you, so far? And without one shred of evidence from anyone that the Minutemen are anything but patriots!
The Legacy of Slurs by the Criminal Alien Lobby:
"vigilantes"
"skinheads"
"neo-Nazis"
"KKK"
"MMK" (Minute Men Klan)
"Stormfront"
"racists"
"criminal thugs"
"felons"
"fat old ex-supply sergeants"
"armed angry bumpkins"
"alcoholics in camouflage"
"ideologue drunkards"
"yahoos"
"clowns"
"mental defectives"
"cancers on America"
"moonshine patriots"
"Timothy McVeigh's"
"Lee Harvey Oswald's"
"rednecked trailer trash"
"good ole boys with shotguns"
--Boot Hill
That's the problem with voluntary term limits. If you do a really good job, people will beg you to stay on, and you worry about what your replacement would do in your place. FReegards.....
That's all they are trying to do .... so don't fall for the BS that'll get ya banned. Just keep on doing what ya know is fair and right !
Stay safe !!!
And Santa Anna's brother.
Just thank them for bumping the threads. Every reply = 18 new views.
It's just CBG's way of trying to associate the MM with white supremacist groups like the KKK by calling them the Minute Man Klan. Just ignore the troll.
LMAO !!.......Do ya have a link for MM updates ?
It'll be hard to drive these border threads to 1,000 replies and 18,000 views with only second string CALs.
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