Homeland Security bars organizer of Minutemen

Washington Times ^ | Monday, May 9, 2005 | By Jerry Seper

[JohnHuang2]

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Newspaper publisher Chris Simcox, who helped organize last month's Minuteman vigils and promised more in the future, was denied access to a Department of Homeland Security press conference in Arizona last week. Mr. Simcox, who writes for, edits and owns the Tombstone, Ariz., Tumbleweed, wants the American Civil Liberties Union to determine whether his First Amendment free-press rights were violated. He said the Border Patrol refused to let him attend the Thursday press conference featuring Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who spoke in Douglas, Ariz., on the need for additional agents and increased technology to gain control of the Arizona border.

[marvlus]

He should be getting help from the ACLJ, not the ACLU.

[goldstategop]

Yep. The ACLU is pro-illegal immigrant and won't defend politically incorrect speech.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Colorado Buckeye]

No surprise here. A few hundred volunteers made the Washington establishment look like a bunch of utter fools; so they're a little ticked off. It's down right amusing.

[CDHart]

"It's down right amusing."

Yes, it is. :^)

Carolyn

[untrained skeptic]

Chief Nicely should be relieved of duty.

[Mulder]

This country is becoming more and more like the Soviet Union each day.

[Mulder]

Chief Nicely should be relieved of duty.

Not only that, but he needs to be investigated for violating the civil Rights of an American citizen.

It is a federal felony to do so.

[gitmogrunt]

Bureaucrats like Chertoff,really do have their head up their arse.

[Travis McGee]

From the Department of New-Speak:

[Travis McGee]

U.S. Constitution Article 1 Section 8 Clause 15:

"The Congress shall have Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections

and repel Invasions;"

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U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

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[Dead Corpse]

This country is becoming more and more like the Soviet Union each day.

Ya' think?

[HiJinx]

The editor of our local paper (Sierra Vista Herald, www.svherald.com) wrote against DHS's actions in this morning's edition. I wish I could call it a scathing or blistering editorial, but it wasn't. Will post around noon MST when they put the current edition up...

[afnamvet]

No surprise here. A few hundred volunteers made the Washington establishment look like a bunch of utter fools; so they're a little ticked off. It's down right amusing.

Utter fools indeed....all of them.

[texastoo]

There is really no reason to get upset about this. This mess is being shoved down our throats by a Republican administration. There are times that I wish Kerry had won the election just to stop this mess.

[raybbr]

There are times that I wish Kerry had won the election just to stop this mess.

I sometimes think so, too. Imagine the government gridlock there would have been.

[Dead Corpse]

No. The way the GOP is rolling over in Congress, we never would have noticed a difference. Grid lock? These Nacy boys don't have the sontes to put together that much unity into anything. Unless it's more spending that is. Then they are all on board.

Kerry would have been a disaster on wheels. As will Shrillery if we can't find a way to stop her.

[Dead Corpse]

sontes=stones. Dang fingers...

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!

[CedarDave]

Saw this on Fox this morning -- E.D. was pissed. For an admitted Rat, she can be amazingly conservative at times.