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Homeland Security backs off idea of civilian border patrol
Denton Record-Chronicle/AP ^ | 7/21/05 | Jeremiah Marquez/AP

Posted on 07/21/2005 2:44:05 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com

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To: etcetera
The Feds don't trust civilians enough to allow them into Fed turf.

Wrong-o. Since 1941, Civilian auxiliaries have not only handled search and rescue, border security and counternarcotics missions for the Army Air Corps until that force became a seperate service, the United States Air Force, in 1947. They even performed combat antisubmarine patrols during WWII, getting credit for one certain U-boat sinking and a couple of other probables. When interviewed after WWII as to why the U-boats discontinued their attacks on coastal tankers and freighters after 1942, German submarine service commander replied that *It was those damned little red and yellow airplanes....


41 posted on 07/22/2005 11:52:04 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Fruit of the Spirit
"There are currently no plans by the Department of Homeland Security to use civilian volunteers to patrol the border," spokesman Brian J. Roehrkasse said. "That job should continue to be done by the highly trained, professional law enforcement officials."

At least the ones not also on the *professional* payrolls of the drug and human smuggling cartels.

Military, law enforcement caught in FBI drug trafficking sting

Associated Press
May. 12, 2005 06:15 PM

TUCSON - Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday.

Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, seven members of the Arizona Army National Guard, five members of the Arizona Department of Corrections and a Nogales, Ariz., police officer, officials said.

All 16 agreed to plead guilty to being part of a bribery and public corruption conspiracy, said Noel Hillman, a Justice Department official. advertisement


42 posted on 07/22/2005 12:00:15 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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"TUCSON - Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints,.."

Very good, Archy!

I wonder how will Homeland Securities respond? hehe


43 posted on 07/22/2005 12:36:46 PM PDT by Fruit of the Spirit
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To: Fruit of the Spirit
"TUCSON - Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints,.."

Very good, Archy!

I wonder how will Homeland Securities respond? hehe

I can't say. I wasn't directly involved in that one, so the only feedback I'm getting is from press accounts.

I did have a little to do with this one....[.pdf file]

44 posted on 07/22/2005 1:47:56 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Amerigomag
Is it a possibility that there is a mutiny in the ranks over Bush's demonstarted unwillingness to enforce our boarders?

I'd suggest to you that the rank and file in Customs & Border Protection (legacy Customs, legacy Immigration, and Border Patrol) want the borders sealed as badly as anyone, unfortunately, the upper management doesn't. I don't know why.

45 posted on 07/22/2005 1:54:21 PM PDT by Terabitten (Illegal immigration causes Representation without Taxation.)
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"Wrong-o."

Wrong for then (WWII) but not wrong for now. We live in a different time now.

46 posted on 07/22/2005 8:11:49 PM PDT by etcetera
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Well, that would certainly explain their penchant for the unusual "highly trained professional law enforcement" line.

Not like anyone said they weren't (highly trained or otherwise)...such that the statement is downright weird. It's almost (maybe already is) the language, that expression, of someone drawing a line. They might just as well have said, "stay away, OR ELSE."

It's militant language, and it bothers me coming from people who we are expected to respect to protect and defend.


47 posted on 07/23/2005 2:47:18 AM PDT by BIRDS
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