Posted on 12/07/2011 12:32:41 PM PST by montag813
by John Hill
Stand with Arizona
There was a time when farmers were just concerned with protecting their animals. That's no longer the case.
"Now I'm worried about am I going to come home at night after work," said Scott Blevins. The Pinal County farmer and father has every reason to worry. A recent run-in with drug smugglers on his farm hit way too close to home. That's why this farmer isn't playing around. For safety he wears a bullet proof vest and packs a handgun and rifle to work.
"I’m convinced somebody’s going to see something they shouldn’t see and somebody’s going to die," Blevins said.
(see complete video report below)
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's department is doing a heck of a job, and they are still overwhelmed by traffic and crime across the border: a spokesperson said they are "understaffed by 100 deputies."
But NOT TO WORRY! Obama and Big Sis say the border has "never been safer"!
Just ask Scott Blevins.
The tragic irony is BO’s DOJ will jump on this guy with both feet if he happens to shoot a mexican, whatever the cause.
Good luck, sir.
a glock is not a good choice for an open-field weapon. No handgun is. A folding stock carbine with strap to sling over shoulder is.
Article says he carries a rifle and a handgun. I hope that’s the case. IMHO, he probably needs a close range, mid range, and a long range with him at all times, since he could encounter all three situations on his farm/ranch.
I wonder if we could get some enterprising folk to start installing survellience equipment along these guys property lines? Maybe donate the equipment and then have people to donate their services to do the installation. They really need the help, since our FED refuses to do anything about it.
Something like a well equipped group of armed citizens comes to mind....
I know...I know.....heresy. I must depend on my govt to protect me and my family at all times.
</sarchasm>
Article says he carries a rifle and a handgun. I hope that’s the case. IMHO, he probably needs a close range, mid range, and a long range with him at all times, since he could encounter all three situations on his farm/ranch.
I wonder if we could get some enterprising folk to start installing survellience equipment along these guys property lines? Maybe donate the equipment and then have people to donate their services to do the installation. They really need the help, since our FED refuses to do anything about it.
Something like a well equipped group of armed citizens comes to mind....
I know...I know.....heresy. I must depend on my govt to protect me and my family at all times.
</sarchasm>
And people wonder why we're so fed up down here on the border...
Have you ever tried to do any actual physical labor with a carbine over your shoulder? A handgun on your hip is about your only realistic option.
Having a rifle close to hand is a very good idea, though.
That’s why I always advocate the perfect farm vehicle - a big ass backhoe....cuts them DRT condos in one fell swoop....
A pistol & carbine are good from fist fight range to 300+ yards so he has the short /medium/long range business covered . Concerning the idea of a group of private citizens wandering around his property armed it would better to hire what used to be known as range detectives , private armed guards who were trained in the basics of the law with regard to the use of deadly force & the making of citizens arrest .
Backed up by support of the state cattlemans association who would be useful in the lobbying of state & local politicians .
The Range detectives would work in coordination with local & federal authorities to protect the property rights of the ranchers .
Sound familiar to anyone?
No farmer walks outside the perimeter of his security fence unless he is heavily armed and no-one travels on any road at night unless he is on essential military duties, and only then in mine and ambush-protected vehicles mounted with machine guns and cannons, which have largely replaced the farmer's status symbol, the Mercedes Benz.
They are all locally-created, locally designed, usually converted Land-Rovers, although almost any vehicle with sufficient engine power can be adapted to wear the specially-designed armor plating and heavy mine-proofed steel, roll bars and bullet-proof glass.
In many of the sensitive commercial farming areas — and these now cover the majority of farms — homesteads have taken on the appearance of fortresses containing their own arsenal of arms that would not discredit military establishments elsewhere in the world. The chain-link security fences are usually wired to alarms designed to indicate exactly what sector of the fence has been interfered with or breached. In addition some are fitted with highly sensitive microphones to identify and pinpoint potentially hostile sounds from long distances — footsteps on gravel, movement through grass — and monitor these through a receiver installed near the farmer's bed. Alerted, the farmer can at the press of a button, switch on blinding searchlights or phosphorus flares strategically placed in the garden, and fire sets of grenades usually concealed in the bush outside his security fence. Again instant and massive retaliation has beaten off many attacks.
Before the war it was open house down on the farm. Rarely were windows or doors locked or even closed at night. The farmer and his family would go to town leaving their home open to friends and visitors who might drop in. Hospitably, there were usually cold beers in the fridge and plenty to eat in the deep freeze. It was a friendly, outgoing, trusting society. But not today.
In the early days of the war, protection was elementary, or even non-existent ("It won't happen to us" was the attitude) and sandbagged walls to protect windows, doors and other vulnerable parts of the building was thought to be sufficient. Bitter experience disproved this, and now many of the protective measures employed are highly sophisticated and almost impregnable.
Again, sound familiar?
South Texas? no...
"The Valley?" no...
Arizona farm on the border of Mexico? Nope.
Rhodesia, 1979.
We all remember Rhodesia, right?
Oh yeah, it's not there any more.
Gone.
It was "liberated" by communist "freedom fighters."
By which there was an election that was fowled by Carter's administration in it's attacks on elected leader Muzorewa, a small, American-educated pastor, which resulted in another election that brought tyranny in the form of local thug politician Robert Mugabe.
All of this just too damn familiar? I think so because it is the same damn thing. And it is having the same damn results.
Carter saw to it the communists got what they demanded, and it got worse. They caved to further demands, and it got worse. More demands, more demands, more demands.
Until it was outright genocide.
At least they knew the difference between fighting a war and financing a war and called it what it was.
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Sadly I fear you may well be correct in your assessment of the situation along the American Southwestern border. Sadly I see the GOP going along to get along with the party of Socialism ,Sodomy & Slavery .
I know folks that lived through it and then escaped Zim.
They have no problem looking directly into the eyes of any naysayer and telling them it is the same process, same political party, same propaganda producing the same results.
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Our Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano, has assured us our borders have never been safer.
Besides that, if for some unlikely reason something "unfortunate" happens, the DOJ under our ever diligent national guard dog, Attorney General Eric Holder, will be on the case, quick!
As I've said, "hysterical"!
/s/
This is what Perry is talking about. He has “begged” for help from the federal government. Jan Brewer has done the same for Arizona.
obama’s answer...... stick it in your ear.
oh I forgot obama also turned around and sued Arizona.
I like the idea of the Range Detectives, and honestly, I had forgotten about those guys. I grew up in the cattle and sheep region of Texas, but have been living in the big city too long now. ;)
My only problem with this is that they would be reporting up to the Feds, who are against us to begin with. Maybe reporting up to the State and the Cattlemen’s Association would work?
pistol in pocket, carbine on the stump
Those are just a bunch of rich, white 1%’rs.
Why would they be reporting to the feds for stopping someone who was vandalizing a stock tank? That is strictly local not Federal criminal trespass is also strictly local,same with cutting fences & trying to steal vehicles & fuel supplies on the ranch all strictly local.
As for anything that might be federal would be stopping drug mules & the Range Detectives would be able to claim that failure to stop them could lead to their employers property being seized by means of asset forfeiture laws as they were allowing the drugs to cross the ranchers land.
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