Still shining the spotlight of truth. There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right.
Let me add the following to Jackelopebreeder's report:
The source of the following is idratherbepainting and her doctor friend from Phoenix.
Friends of mine and Minuteman Project volunteers were having fun with the coyotes yesterday. On the road about 1/2 mile from my house is a number of popular load pickup points. Yesterday my friends drove down the road looking for signs of illegals or coyotes. Sure enough, in a really popular spot they saw the tell-tale baseball cap on the fence post. That means there's a group with the coyote in the field waiting for pickup or possibly a food drop off. The coyotes have cell phones and arrange these spots and use signs like a baseball cap as a signal of their exact location. Local high school kids and such who are making a few bucks enabling the illegals will get a phone call sometimes with a number and a food drop off point. They'll go down to McDonalds and pick up 100 one dollar sandwiches and come out to the drop off point, give it to the coyote, and collect $200. Instant $100 profit - and illegal.
One of my friends saw the cap, cut it up and threw it on the ground. She drove on about one mile and found some flourescent pink and orange marking tapes tied to the fence like they use on job sites and in landscaping. Coyotes use this all the time to mark trails or pickup points. She cut the tapes from the fence.
She drove back the direction she came and saw that the cap on the fence had been replaced. She cut this cap up too and yelled to the unseen group of illegals "You're not getting your food or a pickup today!" She finished there and drove back down the road again. This time she saw a pickup vehicle - a minivan - at the location where she'd cut the marking tapes. She pulled over behind the minivan and it peeled out and left the area. She yelled at the unseen group of illegals, "No pick up for you!" She saw that the tapes had been replaced by a pants cuff cut from a pair of jeans. She cut it up and tossed it away.
She went back to the place where she'd seen the caps and found now a sock on the fence. She took it off and cut it up. Her friend finally took pity on the illegals in the field and called Border Patrol and let them know there was possibly two groups of illegals in the field and that they're likely getting really hungry and some of them don't have their hats anymore. Border Patrol responded and she left the area.
Last night they went out there again and found two coyotes by the road. When lit up with their spotlights the coyotes ran away into the field. This morning they found a cell phone in the field where the coyotes had been. I've got possession of that cell phone and I am trying to get a charger cable to recharge it and get the numbers off of it. I will turn over the phone numbers and cell phone to Border Patrol if I can get anything from it and confirm it was actually dropped by a coyote.
The load drivers got really brazen last night. About 1.5 miles from my house the Minuteman Project volunteers observed a group of illegals and their coyote coming down from the mountain. They got close enough for the coyote to be observed using a cell phone arranging a pickup. Border Patrol was called. Suddenly, a van pulled into the area in Coronado National Park and the illegal aliens ran and jumped in. The van peeled out and ran straight at the MMP volunteers who dodged out of the way. The van hit the highway and headed north at a high rate of speed. Border Patrol was just arriving and gave chase. At this point we don't know the disposition of the van and its occupants. There's a good chance that they were intercepted at the check point further north, but that is only if the check point was even open at the time (thanks to Rep. Jim Kolbe's (RINO-AZ) meddling it is only open half the time).
this jackelopebreeder?
Any plans to start a daily log pinglist? I'm fascinated.
Crosslinked ( and again, thanks to all )--
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1380062/posts
Thunder on the Border-- (Minuteman Project)
various FR links & stories | 04-08-05 | the heavy equipment guy
Excellent report on excellent work.
Great work but.....
Stay safe.
Still shining the spotlight of truth. There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right.
(Loved your Y-chromosome crack in the article!) (Oops, better change that to "joke" not "crack"!)
--Boot Hill
Well deserved Bumperoonie!
Thanks for the updates, I was wondering if there had been any talk on site about making the project longer or permanent? since the infrastructure is in place, all thats needed is a rotation of volunteers...
I was a bit cynical when I went, but I listened to everything without saying anything, I decided they are trying to do it right, and work together with with law enforcement. Some of us won't be going into the field, due to the no guns policy, but will help with some of the organizing, and training, and working radios as time allows.
Thank you for the great report. Thank you to all the Minutemen (and women)!
BTTT
"The girls were tired, cold, hungry, dehydrated – and terrified. I wanted that coyote’s hide."
It's good to care about endangered ladies. At the same time, the Minutemen are disrupting the coyotes' routine. The coyotes are losing face. People will be less willing to pay them much.
It seems to me that the Minutemen are acting in combat terms like a reserve. You are more mobile than the border patrols' placements, which appear to be too rigid. So it's been easy for coyotes to overwhelm Arizona. That's all changing now.
Great work! FReegards....
I have friends down there with them and wish this is one I could have made myself. They are doing patriotic work and it WILL make a difference.