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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 ...
No good deed goes unpunished.
Meanwhile, O.J. Simpson has never paid the judgment found against him in civil court.
I've been trying to pick a poster to respond to with my shared outrage.
Then I saw your name.
1. We need the judge's name and info.
2. We need to find out what it will take to get an appeal going.
So, by that logic, you can simply go to Los Angeles and shoot illegal immigrants, since they have no legal standing and are committing a crime by being on US soil. Is that what you're saying?
"Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land"
I was thinking more like bitter irony myself.
Yeah no kidding.. I mean how can they OWN anything if they are not here legally?
Bump.
This is a joke right?
The ranch goes to the wetbacks. Right. Untill Dees presents them with his bill.
That's the part that gets me, the conviction is apparently based on an accusation. Why would you assault someone, then give them cookies and water?
But, I admit, at first sight I thought this story was a hoax. Then, I saw ... Southern Poverty Law Center. That makes it more believable.
and BITS would happen.
The people of this nation aren't stupid, dispite what the politicians think.
The people of this nation simply aren't fully awake yet.
number 2 first
I believe that would be your logic. No one was shot. They were detained.
If you are asking "So, by that logic, you can simply go to Los Angeles and DETAIN illegal immigrants, since they have no legal standing and are committing a crime by being on US soil."
The answer would be yes.
First off, you need to read the full article. It describes the situation in some detail.
Next, the "perpetrators," as you call them, had been captured and were being held. At that point, Mr. Nethercott should simply have called INS, and been done with it. At that point, there was no more crime being committed, but rather a group of citizens having done their civic duty. Nice job, fellas.
But apparently Mr. Nethercott wasn't content to stop there. Instead, he decided to pistol whip one of the guys -- which is assault, not "self defense" as you're trying to paint it. Even illegal immigrants have legal protection from assault, even if it's committed by an American citizen.
And then to top it all off, Nethercott and his pals didn't call the INS, but instead let the two fellows go!!!! Doesn't that make them accessories to a crime?
As usual, there's more to the story, and this time it's right in the linked article.
Three S's prevents such suit's!
There is no such thing as an "Illegal Immigrant", thy are an active invasion force, and should be treated as enemy combatants.
And no, no SARC tag needed, as I am serious.
It's time to protect the border and our national identity by every means necessary.
Yeh.
Ok, -did- you derive your name from mine? I mean with the spaced hyphen and all.
If you're really serious, then you should ask yourself why Americans (by hiring these people) are paying the illegal immigrants to cross the borders. Because that's why they're coming.
As far as illegal immigration is concerned, it's one place where Blame America First happens to have a great deal of merit.
no
if true the judge should be not taken off the bench, but thrown, literally.
Read #93. They weren't detained, they were pistol-whipped, then released.
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