Posted on 08/28/2005 8:04:47 AM PDT by Borax Queen
EQUAL TIME: Randy Graf sees the ranch forfeiture as part of an erosion of freedoms.
The rule of law is a standard we can no longer afford to bend. Without laws or equal enforcement of those laws, there is anarchy. The anarchy that exists today with regard to illegal immigration hit a new low last week.
The seizure of Casey Nethercott's land in Cochise County, near Douglas, is the epitome of the brazen disregard for the rule of law that the open-border crowd has achieved.
Such groups as La Raza, MEChA and the Council on Foreign Relations - all of whom are trying to merge Mexico with the United States - won a tremendous victory in this case. Their victory is the American public's loss.
Nethercott, an Arizona rancher, was accused of harassing two illegal aliens from Central America and charged in Texas with a criminal offense. The criminal charges were dismissed only to have a far-left group challenge Casey in civil court.
An open-border activist judge awarded the two illegal aliens damages against an American citizen. Despite the fact that they were given water and supplies and sent on their way, the suit alleged that the plaintiffs are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Casey sits in prison for gun possession while the illegal aliens have applied for special visas and have a $100,000-plus ranch to get started in their new lives.
It wasn't enough for the judge to award punitive damages. Instead of giving Casey the opportunity to liquidate assets and pay fines, awards or judgments, this judge took the deed to Casey's land in Arizona and turned it over to the illegal aliens.
After ignoring, ridiculing and passing the buck on existing immigration laws for the last few years, Gov. Janet Napolitano decided to declare a state of emergency in Arizona last week.
She has had every opportunity to enforce a proposition that 57 percent of the voters approved. Rather than responding to the will of the people and enforcing Proposition 200, she and her special-interest cronies attempted every trick in the book to prevent the law from being carried out.
The watered-down version of Proposition 200 that eventually emerged makes it easier to vote than to rent a movie from the local video store.
The criminal invaders already have access to welfare, education, health care, highways - and now they have access to our private property. Apparently, not only can the government seize our homes - as declared in the Supreme Court decision on the so-called Kelo case in June - it can also turn them over to illegal aliens.
Unless the public wakes up and takes control, politicians will continue to listen to special-interest groups, ignoring the vast majority of the American public that wants a sovereign nation with secure borders. Whose ranch is next up for seizure and redistribution to illegal aliens?
Illegal aliens being given American citizen's property Ping.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Just another nail in the coffin.
Here is the link for what the newspaper had to say about the "vigilante deserving his fate" -
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/90534.php
It is a true perversion of the entire basis for the founding of this country, when an American citizen, breaking the law, gets his land taken away from him and given to FOREIGN ILLEGALS yet when those same FOREIGN ILLEGALS BREAK THE LAW IN THIS COUNTRY, THEY ARE REWARDED WITH EDUCATION, JOBS, MEDICAL TREATMENT, WELFARE and benefits not available to United States citizens.
This is the sickest perversion and treasonous behaviour yet regarding illegals and our country. Where in the hell is this world going ???
It's like watching a movie of some future nightmare scenario, but not being able afterward to walk out into the sunlight of a free America!
It's an unbelievable nightmare for those of us who remember a united United States with property rights and voter registration security.
Not all lawyers, judges and politicians are crooks, but an increasing number of increasingly powerful criminals sit in black robes chopping down our beloved nation, sit in legislative chambers agrandizing their bank accounts and sit in governors' offices building a neo-Leninist society.
It STINKS!
Right towards merging our country with Mexico and Canada, as per the Council on Foreign Relations.
His mom also mentioned on the show that she is 78 and nearly bed-ridden, yet the govt. stole 60K of her money - the money she used for bail. She is trying to get that money back and had to mortgage her house. The govt./lawyers also harassed Nethercott's sister into turning over the ranch. There are so many fishy and fabricated things about how the illegals got the ranch. Nethercott tried to call the Border Patrol, but they wouldn't come out there, so N. took the illegal aliens TO the BP after providing cookies, blankets, and water. Later, they lawyered up and claimed he beat them.
I don't get it - did this get appealed and not overturned?
Nightmare is right!
we NEED to know the name of this judge so we can write and tell he/she/it what its decision means for our country. ANyone know?
The criminal case had a hung jury, so the case was tossed. In the civil case, I think (and I could be wrong and someone can correct me) Nethercott settled, so no appeals. From what I understood, he and his family had little to no money to fight this, but the illegals had the Southern Poverty Law Center. Plus, Nethercott's rights seem to have been suspended - a la the phone calls and mail, making it hard to get messages out.
absolutely outrageous!
"From what I understood, he and his family had little to no money to fight this,"
That's what it sounded like to me. Dees spins it to "They knew they were guilty" but he's a lying peice of crap.
Major lie. Illegal aliens did not receive the property from the courts. Nethercott tried to hide, rather than fight. All he had to do was file a response from prison (free) to the civil suit. No attorney necessary. The process could have been stalled until he could garner support, financial and/or pro bono legal. He quit, pure and simple. Not worth worrying about.
Here are some links and info DD was kind enough to find for me the other day:
This is about Nethercott's arrest in Hogg County, Texas.
Rescue Ranch Rescue!
April 3, 2003 http://www.vdare.com/asp/printPage.asp?url=http://www.vdare.com/mann/rescue_ranch.htm
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This is about the civil lawsuit filed by the two illegals from El Salvador.
Border Protectors Face Lawsuit
April 4, 2004
http://www.desertinvasion.us/articles/articles2004_jan_june.html
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This article is about Nethercott's arrest in Arizona by the FBI. It says "[Arizona] deputies were called to assist the FBI and that Nethercott was booked into the Cochise County Jail on a federal hold. He is expected to be transferred to a federal facility later today." The article doesn't say what he was charged with (if anything).
The judge is Alex W. Gabert in Texas???
Hmmmmm.... I was trying to find the name - I think someone just posted it on FR last week - which is why I first started reading up on this topic.
All the while we have deluded folks singing the song about "respect for the rule of law". We have no damned law. What we have is people who have power and use that power to their own ends.
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