Posted on 01/27/2003 1:25:59 PM PST by Spiff
By Tim Steller
© 2003 Arizona Daily Star
A National Park Service ranger cited militia leader Chris Simcox Sunday for carrying a loaded weapon and operating without a permit at Coronado National Memorial in southeastern Arizona.
The chief ranger at the park south of Sierra Vista, Thane Weigand, said it appeared Simcox and William Dore were conducting a patrol of the border. "They were doing a special activity inside the park that's not sanctioned by the park," Weigand said.
Simcox, founder of the Tombstone group Civil Homeland Defense, has been conducting citizen patrols of the border area, but he said that's not what he was doing Sunday afternoon. He said he was simply hiking with Dore.
They were driving along Border Road when they came to a fence with a sign that said no vehicles were permitted, Simcox said. So they parked the van and walked past the fence along the road, not knowing the fence was the park boundary, Simcox said.
"Next thing I know, there's somebody waiting in the bushes for us," Simcox said.
It was a park ranger, who said she had been watching the pair, knew who they were and what they were up to, Simcox said. He and Dore were detained for about 3 1/2 hours, and some belongings were seized, Simcox said. Those belongings included a scanner, two two-way radios, his camera, a cell phone and his pistol.
Weigand said the charges against Simcox and Dore are misdemeanors.
I suspect they only bark like that from behind the safety of the monitor.
Your knowledge is fundamentally flawed.
If you let the small things slide, they will bury you. Is a little cancer OK? Can you be just a little pregnant? Can you be only a bit dead?
Hiding our heads in the sand over small things like this is why the frog pot is nearly at a boil and all the frogs are still present and accounted for.
Utilizing your flawed understanding, how can you square your prior assertions to this particular case?
***crickets***
Yep... that's what I thought.
Easy question. If they cannot pass the legislation because they are bound by the Constitution, under what authority were these two guys disarmed by a federal employee?
Dirtboy has assured me that his otherwise plain words in post #62 did not mean he was advocating that Mr. Simcox should have "drawn-down" on the Park Ranger and, as I posted in #269, that's good enough for me. Case closed.
However, as to Dead Corpse, not only did he advocate the commission of a violent felony, in post #73, he has confirmed that is his position, is subsequent posts (see for instance #267). So for this reason, I stand behind the condemnation I posted and direct it solely at Dead Corpse. In fact, it bears repeating.
To: Dead Corpse:Now it appears that johnny-come-lately, tpaine, has decided to jump in on the FRay and offer his two cents worth (that should just about tap him out for the day)! The most noteworthy thing he has to offer is (not surprisingly) his total failure to condemn, or even acknowledge, Dead Corpse's advocacy of the commission of a violent felony here on the FreeRepublic forum. For that reason, I would direct tpaine to the condemnation posted above and suggest he read as if it were addressed to him, especially #5! His failure is not really all that shocking either, because in past posts, tpaine has indicated that he is a law unto himself and superior to the Constitution.
Re: Your use of FR to advocate the commission of a violent felony.
Saying something like that on Jim Robinson's forum is just about the stupidest thing I can imagine anyone ever posting here. What could motivate you to say something that idiotic? Are you intentionally trying to get FR shut down? Are you an undercover informant for the BATF? Are you trying to work off a stiff federal criminal sentence by compromising FR posters in exchange for leniency? Are you a disruptor sent over here from DU to discredit FR? Or do you just lack the brains God gave a piss ant?
And they wonder why they get tagged with the "anarchist" label, LOL!
--Boot Hill
Boot
Walter Mitty as an anarchist.
Good grief. -- Anyone can read those two posts and see they do not advocate "violent felony". - Bizarro claim.
In fact, it bears repeating. To: Dead Corpse: Re: Your use of FR to advocate the commission of a violent felony. Saying something like that on Jim Robinson's forum is just about the stupidest thing I can imagine anyone ever posting here. What could motivate you to say something that idiotic? Are you intentionally trying to get FR shut down? Are you an undercover informant for the BATF? Are you trying to work off a stiff federal criminal sentence by compromising FR posters in exchange for leniency? Are you a disruptor sent over here from DU to discredit FR? Or do you just lack the brains God gave a piss ant?
Ditto. -- Daft.
Now it appears that johnny-come-lately, tpaine, has decided to jump in on the FRay and offer his two cents worth (that should just about tap him out for the day)! The most noteworthy thing he has to offer is (not surprisingly) his total failure to condemn, or even acknowledge, Dead Corpse's advocacy of the commission of a violent felony here on the FreeRepublic forum. For that reason, I would direct tpaine to the condemnation posted above and suggest he read as if it were addressed to him, especially #5! His failure is not really all that shocking either, because in past posts, tpaine has indicated that he is a law unto himself and superior to the Constitution. And they wonder why they get tagged with the "anarchist" label,
LOL! --Boot Hill 290
Proof positive bootie, that you have serious reality problems. - Thanks for your display.
"Bizarro"??? Really???
MineralMan: "What would you have had the gentleman in Arizona do, draw down on the Park Service person?Dead Corpse explicitly advocated drawing a firearm and pointing it at a federal officer in a threatening manner. Clearly, not only a felony, but a very dangerous felony. What do you think pointing a gun at a federal officer in a threatening manner is, if not a violent felony?Dead Corpse: "Yes."
Do you really want to remain on record as supporting Dead Corpse's call for the commission of a violent felony?
--Boot Hill
Boot
Nope, there is no context that can excuse the following display of whacko criminality (nor your defense of it).
MineralMan: "What would you have had the gentleman in Arizona do, draw down on the Park Service person?"--Boot HillDead Corpse: "Yes."
Were the children of Waco threatened by federal officers when they came in like a gang of rowdy and drunken cowboys with their guns ablazing?
I already know you know they were endangered by federal officers. Anyway, think about it...what sort of threat must this guy have been if he surrendered to a park ranger?
Get serious.
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