Posted on 04/10/2006 5:52:04 AM PDT by IrishMike
When the Minutemen set up shop at the Arizona border last year to call attention to the illegal alien loophole in US Homeland Security, President Bush foolishly chided these brave patriots by calling them vigilantes. Although chagrined at being deserted by the man who has the constitutional responsibility and authority to defend our borders, the Minutemen dug in their heels and persisted. And persisted.
Their Yankee determination to do the right thing was rewarded when President Bush finally sent additional border patrol agents to Arizona. Even the Mexican government was motivated to pay greater attention, at least temporarily, because of the due diligence of heroic Minutemen.
Before the Minuteman took their courageous stand, open border advocates and anti-American liberals insisted it was “impossible” to stop illegal immigration. Best to just accept reality, learn Spanish, and switch to rice and beans as food stables, according to the leftists and Hispanic racists.
Thank God, the Minutemen PROVED illegal aliens CAN be stopped, thereby delivering a great victory on behalf of all American citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbyus.com ...
Did you know there was a translator? Gawd, you folks will attempt ANYTHING - ANY NONSENSE - to try and spin this.
I'm sure he was answering the question as asked, but there's no rational evidence to suggest he knew about any group other than the Minutemen.
DOBBS: Let's go to the other issue, which is the fact that the Border Patrol has said that they do not want the vigilantes, as President Bush has referred to them, and President Fox of Mexico do not want them there. But it appears that at least that the margin have provided some help.Even Rush Limbaugh, at the time, decried the President's characterization of the Minuteman Project a vigilantes. I recall Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger stating that he disagreed. It was all over the news, pundits everywhere were commenting on it. Polls were put out, I remember casting a vote in some, that asked if readers agreed with the President's characterization of the Minuteman Project as vigilantes. Michelle Malkin wrote about it as did several blogs. Many reporters asked congressmen and other notables if they agreed with the President's characterization of the Minuteman Project as vigilantes.What is your judgment, your thought about President Bush referring to these men and women, these volunteers as is vigilantes?
TANCREDO: I think it's a reflection of the fact that he really and truly is completely out of touch with what is going on, on that border. And he cannot really, I think, understand the frustration that these folks feel.
And, by the way, they are coming from all over the United States to express that frustration. And all they are asking him for is to do his duty as the head of the -- of the executive branch of government and enforce the law, the law on the border.
Now, frankly, I think that that's not a vigilante type of activity. It is what American citizens do.
Why do you keep insisting otherwise? What political agenda of yours does this idiocy serve?
Did you notice that the old Hubaroo was not included in a list of Texas cities with demonstrations per radio news this a.m.? We're blessed to live in a city with some common sense.
Agreed.
Yep, 82,600 hits - versus four or five freepers who claim otherwise. But we're the misguided ones.
Maybe they think we've forgotten the context of the leading news from back then as they claim Bush's comments were lifted out of context.
But Freepers have long memories and Google as well. Can't spin that away.
I do not deny they used that spin to get publicity. Can you answer my question now?
Yes, relax and watch your country being flushed down the toilet.
Learn Spanish (as another poster says)?
ROFLOL!
Illegal invaders be gone!
Arrival of aliens ousts U.S. workers
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published April 10, 2006
An Alabama employment agency that sent 70 laborers and construction workers to job sites in that state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says the men were sent home after just two weeks on the job by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for less.
Linda Swope, who operates Complete Employment Services Inc. in Mobile, Ala., told The Washington Times last week that the workers -- whom she described as U.S. citizens, residents of Alabama and predominantly black -- had been "urgently requested" by contractors hired to rebuild and clear devastated areas of the state, but were told to leave three job sites when the foreign workers showed up.
"After Katrina, our company had 70 workers on the job the first day, but the companies decided they didn't need them anymore because the Mexicans had arrived," Mrs. Swope said. "I assure you it is not true that Americans don't want to work.........
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060410-123506-1297r.htm
No, not "supernatural", just a modest three-digits.
"Meanwhile, the Minutemen are called ‘vigilantes.’ It's 180 degrees out of phase.”
The two bush apologist moron in this thread are reminding me of the holocaust deniers and revisionists. Their claims are just plain riciculous but that doesn't stop them.
To vote illegally, duh
>>And what King Mob wants, he gets, or he'll burn your fracking city down.
And we will end up with a Napoleon running things. People will embrace someone who will clear the streets with grapeshot, at some point. It's a sad thing to watch all around.
MO. I think you have taken too many head shots from Larry and Curly.
It's pretty clear they inhabit a different reality than most of us.
I know my FReepmail is empty.
Gov Doyle vetoed voter ID and kept Peg 'the keg' Lautenschlager our AG pill popping-drunk driving-state vehicle crashing...on the job...
How much 'real' investigation or prosecuting will she do to if it helps Pubbies and harms her benefactors?
Nada,Zip,Zilch
imo
In Indiana we need to provide photo ID to vote. Maybe this a way we can identify them and round 'em up
The topic du jour at the time Pres. Bush made his vigilante comment WAS the Minutemen.
This is was Vincente Fox said: "President Fox called the Minutemen “migrant hunters”
How many Minutemen since the inception of the project have "shot first?"
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