Posted on 07/16/2005 9:56:10 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Police Keep Close Eye On Border Vigilantes
Vigilantes Spark Protests From Civil Rights Groups
POSTED: 3:48 pm PDT July 15, 2005 UPDATED: 5:28 pm PDT July 15, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- A group of volunteers that plan to start monitoring the San Diego County-Mexico border this weekend -- and their foes -- will not be allowed to commit vigilante or racial violence, authorities said Friday.
Participants in the grassroots project "Operation Border Watch" must limit their involvement to "eyes and ears and talking," San Diego County Sheriff Bill Kolender warned.
"If there's any violation of the law ... on either side of this issue, law enforcement will, in fact, take action," Kolender said during a news conference.
Also attending the midmorning briefing at the sheriff's Kearny Mesa headquarters were officials with the U.S. Border Patrol and the Chula Vista and National City police departments.
In recent weeks, preparations for the civilian immigration-control effort have sparked protests from civil rights groups, as did similar endeavors conducted in Arizona this year by a group called the Minutemen.
Opponents called the self-appointed border enforcers -- most of whom carry guns -- dangerous vigilantes and bigots.
The monitors say their goal is to help enforce immigration laws and that they carry firearms strictly for self-defense.
Along with law enforcement agencies, immigrant-advocacy groups have promised to send observers to the county's arid southern reaches to keep an eye on the volunteer border watchers.
I'm afraid you're right. Like a cancer that devours our bodies one cell at a time, our country and our freedoms are being ever-so-slowly eaten away. By the time the general public (sheeple) finally wake up, it will be too late.
It reminds me of a story I heard long ago. A bricklayer took home one brick from work in his lunch bucket every day. The boss never missed them. When he decided to retire, he had enough bricks to build his dream home. Had he taken them all at once, he would have been discovered and fired.
Just like the bricks, our government is taking our freedoms away one day at a time so that no one will notice.
It saddens me so to see our founders spit upon by our new "leaders". There isn't but a small handful of our elected officials in this country that could hold a candle for the original freedom fighters like Washington, Jefferson, Madison et.al.
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