Posted on 06/07/2011 1:44:09 PM PDT by cowpoke
Hidalgo County Sheriff Department has confirmed that New Mexico rancher, Larry Link, was murdered earlier today on his property.
Sources are reporting that the rancher was responding to an alleged- illegal alien on his property at Stein’s Ghost Town when the he was gunned-down. The murder took place on the southwest side of the state near the Arizona border on Interstate 10 at mile marker three.
The Hidalgo Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the scene, only to find the rancher had already died.
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Who do they get to sue? Why the gun manufacturer of course, who else?
Stock the Rio Grande with Nile crocodiles. They eat humans.
You need to get in line, no president since Eisenhower gave a cr@p about the borders, and that especially includes the Bush family.
Mexican Cartel or Human Smuggler? Can’t believe a illegal shot him.
“Napolitano and Obama are responsible for this.”
They are absolutely responsible for this.
Sheriffs have more power than most exercise, they need to do all that the law allows. Posses are next best thing to a militia, and they are directly answerable to one man. I think this may only be true where the sheriff is an elected official.
Most of the state governors are complicit in this travesty, despite what the say publicly. Remember Napolitino was governor before her current gig.
I'm fully intending to be a smart ass here so...you should already know the answer to that question! Why don't you check your own State's laws and find out for yourself!
Texas Statutes - Chapter 431: STATE MILITIA
Texas Statutes - Section 431.001 DEFINITIONS
(1) "Reserve militia" means the persons liable to serve, but not serving, in the state military forces.
(1-a) "Servicemember" has the meaning assigned by Section 161.551, Health and Safety Code.
(2) "State militia" means the state military forces and the reserve militia.
(3) "State military forces" means the Texas National Guard, the Texas State Guard, and any other active militia or military force organized under state law.
(4) "Texas National Guard" means the Texas Army National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard.
Texas Statutes - Section 431.010: ORGANIZATION PROHIBITED
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a body of persons other than the regularly organized state military forces or the troops of the United States may not associate as a military company or organization or parade in public with firearms in a municipality of the state.
(b) With the consent of the governor, students in an educational institution at which military science is a prescribed part of the course of instruction and soldiers honorably discharged from the service of the United States may drill and parade with firearms in public.
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People." -- Tench Coxe - 1788.
>Pardon this very basic question, but can a state still form a state militia?
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>I don’t mean the National Guard. The Guard can be federalized at any time, so in reality the Guard is under a state’s control only if the fed’s don’t object.
Imagine how it would look [nationally] if the fed even tried to federalize the Guard in response to something like this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698298/posts
Politicians will not solve this problem, I just knew that Ronald Reagan, would fix the border problem, after all he campaigned well on the issue, saying any country that can’t control their borders is not a country at all.
Oh well.......
Well, part of the value of asking questions on FR is that you usually get more than just the facts. You also get useful conservative opinion and commentary to go along with those facts.
Of course, you sometimes do get a smart-ass response, but that goes with the territory. Some folks just can't help being rude and that just has to be to overlooked.
The United States ConstitutionArticle IV
Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
“>Pardon this very basic question, but can a state still form a state militia?
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>I don’t mean the National Guard. The Guard can be federalized at any time, so in reality the Guard is under a state’s control only if the fed’s don’t object.
Imagine how it would look [nationally] if the fed even tried to federalize the Guard in response to something like this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698298/posts
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If the States do their job in carefully selecting the officers of the Guard as Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16. The guard will ignore Federal orders to mobilize under Federal Command when they conflict with State orders.
It is this job that is extremely critical that we have our State governments pay a great deal of care to attending to. At the end of the day this is the difference between life and death for the State. The first loyalty of the Militia officers must be to the State not Federal Government.
Any officer that does not hold their first loyalty to the State Must be demoted to a harmless position.
An army is a threat not an asset if it’s loyalty is not to your state.
“Stock the Rio Grande with Nile crocodiles. They eat humans.”
The Rio Grande is of no aid to New Mexico as the Mexican border of New Mexico lays to the west of the Rio Grande river.
All States have their own Militia, there is the Militia which the Feds pay them to keep(the National Guard) and various volunteer and state supported militia.
In terms of the National Guard our States Need to retake control of their guard units by aggressively asserting their rights to choose the officers and conduct the training.
Letting the Feds mobilize their own guards against them is a sign of sheer stupidity and fatal incompetents on the part of State officials.
The whole point of Article 1 Section 8 Clause 16 is as Alexander Hamilton put it in the Federalist papers(no. 29, 181—87):
“If it were possible seriously to indulge a jealousy of the militia upon any conceivable establishment under the Foederal Government, the circumstance of the officers being in the appointment of the States ought at once to extinguish it. There can be no doubt that this circumstance will always secure to them a preponderating influence over the militia.”
Such questions are asked on FR occasionally because questioners know that many folks here have personal experience with the subject at hand. I for one would rather hear about the “militia” concept from a Guardsman than from a dry Wikipeadia article.
And as you can tell, I did get a number of good thoughtful responses.
My personal area of expertise is applied physical science. If you ask a question relating to that, I would be happy to answer. And I would add whatever commentary that I thought you might find useful.
I certainly would not call you ignorant, and I would not belittle you for not going to some dry website instead.
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