Posted on 12/02/2005 9:57:24 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
Man fighting for closed borders loses battle
08:55 PM Mountain Standard Time on Wednesday, November 30, 2005
By Mike Watkiss / 3TV reporter
Casey Nethercott, 38, founded the anti-immigration group, Ranch Rescue.
"If I had my way, I’d put a concrete wall down the border, put gun powder on it and say, 'America is closed,'" Nethercott said.
Some people call Nethercott an American hero, a patriot wronged by the country that he loves.
"He’s a hero. My son is a good man," said Nethercott's mother, Margaret. "He would never, ever hurt anyone."
"I can’t help that I’m 250 pounds," Nethercott said. "I can’t help the way my eyes look. Or that I lift weights. But I’m not a criminal."
Nethercott sits today in a Texas prison because there are others who say he is a criminal. A law-breaking vigilante.
"[The government] is lying to you," Nethercott said. "The borders are wide open and, damn it, something is going to happen."
Nethercott, a one-time bounty hunter, has made it his business to try to curb illegal immigration by starting an armed militia group on his 70-acre ranch near Douglas, Texas.
He would tell reporters that he and men were willing to step in where the government had failed. He said he'd use machine guns to monitor the border.
In early 2003, Nethercott, and a couple of men from Ranch Rescue, detained and allegedly abused two illegal immigrants.
Nethercott allegedly detained the immigrants, Fatima Leiva and Edwin Mancia, both Salvadorans, as they were crossing the border near Hebbronville, Texas.
"The one guy was dehydrated so I gave him water," Nethercott said. I gave his girlfriend some power bars and it was two miles from the end of the property so we drove 'em off the property."
But the couple says Nethercott threatened them both and pistol-whipped Mancia.
"I never even had a gun with me that night. They’re absolutely lying about it," Nethercott said.
Nethercott was charged with assault and while Texas jury deadlocked on that charge, Nethercott, who is a convicted felon, was found guilty of possessing a weapon and thrown into prison.
The couple, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued Nethercott. And a judge recently awarded the couple Nethercott's 70-acre ranch near Douglas, Texas.
"What they did is they waited until I was in jail," Nethercott said. "And then they sued me with a default judgment. I’m in jail, I couldn’t show up for court."
Nethercott claims that all he did was detain the couple until border agents could arrive.
He says that when agents didn’t show, the immigrants were released.
"If he was not found guilty of that, how could they take his ranch? We work so hard for this country and they’re giving it away to anybody who wants to come in," Margaret said.
"America right now is more concerned about their SUVs and their cell phones," Nethercott said. "They aren't watching their country being eroded out from under them."
Fatima Leiva and Edwin Mancia refused an interview for this story.
Nethercott is serving 5 years on the weapons violation
Americans no longer have a "right to their property"...someone should just declare the Constitution null and void and get it over with.
This comes under "No good deed goes unpunished."
BTTT
Another vicious liberal dog judge closing eyes on terrorism and granting land and children to a terrorist cause, the borderless one here.
There are plenty of liberal judges doing this work, it's insane. I thought they were at first confederate, but it does seem now they are puppets of an international ideology hellbent on destroying the US.
Does he have a defense fund?
No comments to this point proves his assertion, this kind of thing doesn't matter to most. How illegals can be awarded this mans property is beyond all logic. How he can get 5 years for possession of a weapon is stupid. The fact that someone convicted of a crime, serves a sentence, and can be denied their constitutional rights(to keep and bear arms) on his own property, is what a revolution was fought over. I know most disagree, but if the RKBA is constitutional, how can a man be denied that because of a previous conviction? The same goes for voting rights, or the "Freedom of the Press".
I share and sympathize with his concern about illegals streaming in from Mexico, but it wasn't the smartest thing in the world to be caught in possession as a convicted felon. He should have gotten someone who could legally carry to do the job for him.
What is the felony he was previously convicted of ?
What the....???? Since when has anyone's home ever been awarded as damages for an assault charge? To illegals (i.e. criminals) at that?
This is disgraceful. The Southern "Poverty" Law Center should be sued out of existence. They are just as bad, if not worse, than the ACLU.
Unbelievable. Break the law and get rewarded. The Founding Fathers just rolled over in their graves. The courts are giving away pieces of sovereign America to foreign criminals.
Giving an illegal alien the evil eye? That's a felony nowadays.
Since the SPLC was involved, there is no doubt the guy was actually innocent.
SPLC = mini-ACLU.
It's the same thing that happened to OJ and Blake (like them or NOT) and double jepordy is alive and well in America.
If the Southern Poverty Law Center is on the case, I will believe ANYTHING being said against them. They are atheists masquerading as Jews and they hate not only the KKK which they were originally founded to oppose but all things Christian or Republican. They are evil. Period.
The answer to that question seems a rather large hole in the story.
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