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Posted on 08/19/2005 9:25:31 AM PDT by RoyalsFan
By ANDREW POLLACK Published: August 19, 2005 DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico.
Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally.
The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit in which the immigrants had said that Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch and a former leader of the vigilante group Ranch Rescue, had harmed them.
"Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land," said Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which represented the immigrants in their lawsuit.
Mr. Dees said the loss of the ranch would "send a pretty important message to those who come to the border to use violence."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Read the article. The defendants settled the case.
The jurors in question are American citizens and live in the same county as where these border crossings occured.
Regardless of their race, they probably have the same issues with illegals crossing the border as anyone else in the county.
So, for them to find in favor of these illegals probably says a lot as to how extreme they considered the actions of the ranch owners.
He can't appeal, he settled the case. Also, according to the article, he is serving time in prison, having been convicted by a Texas jury of being a felon in possession of a gun.
No such marks on the illegals. But, I guess we'll just take the criminalal border invaders word for it.... right?
Doesn't anybody read the article before posting? He settled the case, he can't appeal.
And, what's frustrating, is that the bunch of "Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up" loons don't get that all they are doing is hurting the cause of immigration control.
WTF! These cockroaches committed the crime by being on his property. No illegal scum should have the same standing in our courts if the first friggen act they commit is entering the country illegally.
Good one, my snarky friend. You must be an orbitologist, knowin' about all these refractin' rainbows and whatnot. That only comes from book-learnin'!
It doesn't matter. If you detain a trespasser on your property, you simply do not have the right to pistol-whip him.
No illegal scum should have the same standing in our courts if the first friggen act they commit is entering the country illegally.
The Constitution, and the law, protect everyone in America equally. Don't like it? Amend the Constitution.
For what, exactly?
These were the kind of demonstrators who tried to stop the Carlsbad illegal immigration forum from taking place last week, by threatening violence if it took place.
They represent the true face of the Open Borders Lobby.
This guy equates Old Glory with a Nazi Swastika.
Neo-Communists still peddling "workers of the world unite!"
Note the black and white Palestinian pro-terrorost jihad kefiya scarf.
For example:
What do you propose to do about the Americans who are paying the illegals to cross the border?
Do you really support the idea, as espoused by some on this thread, that it is permissible to commit crimes such as assault and murder against illegal aliens because they're "breaking the law by crossing the border?"
Well?
Was this one of those Kalifornistan things that if you once looked at a gun, but then got in a bar fight, they charge you with a felony?
You'll have to point out your charges because I have never seen that refered to by anyone but you. How can anyone take you seriously when you continually bait and misrepresent good people on this forum? I would think the occasional nut who would say such a thing would be thrown out of here.
Looking up the articles on Google, they were found not guilty on the pistol whiping charge as the illegals kept changing their story.
If so, why?
Something is screwed up here. I'm reading the jury was in the criminal case.
"The Salvadorans testified against Mr. Nethercott when he was tried by Texas prosecutors. The jury deadlocked on a charge of pistol-whipping but convicted Mr. Nethercott"
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