Paper: Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona (KVOA Local Tucson Feedback)VIDEO Stream

KVOA TV, Tucson ^ | 14 May 2005 | Peter Busch

[axes_of_weezles]

Video from KVOA Tucson. Puts some pictures to the BP story.

[axes_of_weezles]

Squeeze the source link for the video. BP/DHS say no comment. Local sources are saying Illegal traffic has picked back up. Interview with border resident. Doesnt look good for Nicely and BP.

[bahblahbah]

Our border patrol and law enforcement by Mexico is becoming too damn corrupt. Bring in the national guard for a few months and lock congress in a room until they figure something out.

[axes_of_weezles]

Note: High B/W, dont know if it works on dialup

[dts32041]

I would say lock congress out of the rooms for a few months unit they bring back real traditions like dueling and fisticuffs in the pubic chambers.

Are congress is to damned civilized.

[traderrob6]

Gutless wonders protecting their political behinds. Additional:

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/05/arizona-border-patrol-ordered-to-stand.html

[Libertina]

This situation is intolerable. We need to speak out LOUDLY and put more pressure on all "officials." Sadly, it's not just congress that is too "civilized." We suffer from that ourselves...

[Spiff]

T.J. Bonner, Border Patrol National Council President and 27-year BP Agent, was on the O'Reilly Factor last night. He said he had investigated this himself and had talked to agents who confirmed this report.

So, we have 3 separate entities reporting this:

1. Ben Anderson, retired Army colonel who is a Cochise County resident who has many contacts inside the Border Patrol reported this story last week on his website The Anderson Report.

2. Jerry Seper of The Washington Times who was embedded with the Minuteman Project during April and who is possibly the best reporter in the nation on illegal immigration topics reported that he'd spoken to a dozen Border Patrol agents who say that they had been given the order to keep numbers down.

3. T.J. Bonner, President of the National Border Patrol Council and 27-year Border Patrol agent has spoken to Border Patrol agents in Arizona who say that they were given the order to depress apprehension numbers.

My question is why is the rest of the media keeping this quiet. There was NO report in the Arizona Republic or the Arizona Daily Star this morning on this issue. Only KVOA Channel 4 in Tucson reported it last night. KOLD 13 had scheduled Randy Graf to appear on their newscast last night on this issue, but then they never reported it.

[Spiff]

By the way, how did you get the specific link to the KVOA video clip. I HATE the way they serve their videos and last week I tried to extract the direct link to download (or capture with SDP) the video of Kolbe threatening the Border Patrol if they didn't submit to his meddling with their operations to "stand down" their permanent checkpoints in Arizona.

It is unbelievable. Kolbe shows up on TV yelling at the Border Patrol and telling them that he will cut their funding and take Congressional action that will "sting" them if they dont "stand down" at their permanent checkpoints - and now we find that Border Patrol supervisors are telling agents to "stand down" their enforcement in Cochise County. How come no one has made the connection between these two things? If Kolbe can threaten the Border Patrol and cause them to change their operations for political reasons - and admit it on TV - then why are we to believe that he hasn't done this before and that he isn't doing it now to sabotage the Minuteman Project's effectiveness?

[AgThorn]

good report (great quality video) but simply a news report of the allegation with some testimony that crossings have increased. No real hard 'evidence' that the intentional 'stand down' order was given.

[cripplecreek]

Gilchrist and Simcox were on Hannity and Colmes last night. Colmes was trying to portray the Minutemen as doing something illegal because the "authorities" don't like it.


He kept talking over them and shouting "so You're going to ignore the authorities" and tried to portray them as trespassers who were going to operate on private property without permission.

[axes_of_weezles]

Q1. Just checked the properties of the vid whithin Windoze media player. Then copied the Location.

Who oversees congressmen. We do. I dont think we have enough friends in DOJ to do a RICO sting on Kolbe.

[1066AD]

Colmes had one of them on his radio show a few weeks ago, same nonsense, all he achieved was to show how pitifully ignorant he was of the world outside NYC.
At least Hannity actually went down there.

[cripplecreek]

Not much hope of the border patrol agents getting whistleblower protection from congress who is on the side of the illegals.

Shortly after 9/11 there were a couple of "former" border patrol agents who lost their jobs for saying there wasn't enough protection. They made the rounds of all the talk shows for awhile.

[Spiff]

Just checked the properties of the vid whithin Windoze media player. Then copied the Location.

It doesn't work here. I click on the KVOA video player and it comes up with some javascript thing in which I can't do anything but play the movie or add others to the playlist. How'd you get it to come up in just plain windows media player?

[axes_of_weezles]

http://www.kvoa.com/global/video/WorldNowASX.asp?playerType=native&ClipID1=422691&h1=Paper%3A%20Border%20Patrol%20told%20to%20stand%20down%20in%20Arizona&vt1=v&at1=Agriculture&d1=92300&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&activePane=info&playerVersion=6

should bring up the media player without the web page.