Posted on 07/15/2005 8:46:12 AM PDT by jackbenimble
More than 15,000 volunteers will man observation posts and conduct foot and horseback patrols this fall along the Mexican border from Texas to California and in seven states along the Canadian border in a new Minuteman vigil to protest what organizers call the government's lax immigration enforcement policies. Chris Simcox, who heads the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, said volunteers from throughout the country who are "concerned that the U.S. government must be made to act and take control of our borders" are signing up in record numbers for the new monthlong patrols set to begin Oct. 1. "We want a secure U.S. border and an end to the blatant disregard of the rule of law regarding illegal immigration," Mr. Simcox said. "Nearly four years after the September 11 attacks on America, we should be doing a better job of securing our borders. "Our government is more concerned with securing the borders of foreign lands than securing the borders of the United States," he said. Mr. Simcox, publisher of a Tombstone, Ariz., newspaper and founder of the Civil Homeland Defense Corps in Arizona, coordinated the "Minuteman Project" border vigil in that state in April that for a 30-day period shut down a 23-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border to illegal immigration. He said the new volunteers will be deployed in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and that other Minuteman groups will patrol the border regions of Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Vermont and Washington. They will observe and report to the U.S. Border Patrol, but not detain, those attempting to illegally cross into the United States, he said.
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Everybody SHOULD read it but getting a dimwitted Bushbot to look at it is next to impossible.
They'd rather drool over pictures of the Betrayer in Chief and swoon.
Now they've labeled Phyllis Schlafly a tinfoil hatted nut because she wrote an excellent summary of it.
Screw em, I hope they are the first to have their pets raped and their children eaten by the hordes of illiterate monkey people who will soon be swarming across the erased borders by the millions to pillage.
Sounds like a bloody good start to Me...
Not Bloody Likely. John was a Pommie, and as far as I recall, he did not change his citizenship and adopt the USA by becoming a Naturalized Citizen. Not to mention the fact that he never did espouse any particularly patriotic leanings in his life -if anything he seemed more the of the 'pacifist' lot, and even if by some stretch of the imagination he found himself following a more militaristic path it would have been for Queen and Country, not U.S. Military.
You cannot possibly be serious with that statement. It makes as much sense to expect legislation to stop the flow of illegals as it does to expect gun control legislation to keep criminals from acquiring firearms.
The Minuteman Project is a catalyst for getting Congress to act. Plus, the people in my area (remember, I live not a half mile from the northmost observation post from the last MMP event) loved the effect that the MMP had on the constant invasion. They reported being able to sleep through the night without being awakened by their dogs barking at criminal invaders passing by their houses, etc. They're certainly not wasting their time. The people who are wasing their time, and everyone elses, are anyone who supports any kind of amnesty or reward-the-criminal-invaders programs.
The legislation would reroute the flow of migrant workers thus keeping them out of the way of border guards looking for terrorists, drug smugglers and gang criminals.The Secretary of Homeland Security believes it is necessary in order to secure our borders, why do you oppose it?
Down around Bandera Partner, the saying mutates to:
"All crap and no cattle".
Arnold has zero charter to say anything about immigration. It's a Federal matter.
Always was. Still is.
ADD:
This subject came up about a month ago.( in conjunction with some kind of criminal utterance by Bill ORielly)...excuse those comments but consider the notion of border control in light of current reality:
Two things:
1. Bill O'Reilly --Tilt.
2. Locking the barn door after the horse has gone.
1.O'Rielly is about a lot of things and most of it is ratings and audience. Relevance is often his most tragic victim. He really does'nt give a damn about any thing or ideal. Cheap sensationalism is really not current events...it's more like night time Jerry Springer...only Bill is Jerry and the geeks combined.
(Look at those beady mean eyes...he really is not nice.)
2. Border tactics: This is kind of like hiding the matches after the whole house is engulfed in flames. There are literally millions of illegals all over our country right this second. You don't really want to take time to teach a border patrol agent karate at this point do you?You and we have "bigger fish to fry". Let's stop thinking about the border and start dealing with the enormous problem in our laps.
If you stop and think about it, O'Rielly might be an Al Queda agent and immigration might be a clue that they have won already.
Okay! Okay. So I have a tendency to get dramatic.
Still.
Your tendency for the dramatic has you on the threshold of jeapardy.
Your comment :"the Betrayer in Chief" just might be considered inappropriate "in time of War".
Of course no one is accusing you of being a loyal,patriotic American either.
Don't be danely.
My defense is that this is cyberspace and everything I post is a joke, like Laz, only not that funny.
Call the friggin cops or write your congressman.
Don't be so touchy.
OK. I'm sorry. I forgot to wish you Happy Bastille Day!
"Danely"? How'd you know that I am Scandahoovian?
Living in a border state, I thought that description was rather correct!
Laz told me.
He is right though, JG, I do go over the cliff sometimes.
But it's like having the secret alienspotting sunglasses or finding out that soylent green IS people.
I've got to get a new addiction.
FReeping is killing me much too slowly.
It appears that the North American Community is supposed to be accomplished by 2010. We have 5 years to stop this or our country will undergo a sea change.
I'm not opposed to border control. What I alluded to is that there's no way legislation will have any impact whatsoever on the flow of illegals. It doesn't now.
How does this legislation provide for ensuring that migrants go one way while the others go another? And how is it supposed to free up Border Patrol officers when there's hardly any control there now?
No, not all of us. Just the crapweasels in Washington all of whom swore an oath to protect and defend the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic.
No one believes a word of it.
Can't even get people to look at it when you serve it to them on a platter.
We're screwed.
By eliminating the demand for illegal laborers you reduce the number jumping the border.
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