[libertylass]

I am also attaching a statement from Jack Foote,Ranch Rescue's National Spokesman, from yesterday (3/23/03):

Everyone:

As you may have already heard, we just concluded Operation Falcon early, not just because our nation went to war with Iraq while we were there on the property, but due to two of our volunteers, Casey Nethercott and Hank Conner, being arrested that same day on false charges by a corrupt county Sheriff and County Attorney in Jim Hogg County, Texas.

This is the very same county Sheriff who had just the week before had his letter published in the local paper, warning his county's Citizens of the danger of armed foreign paramilitary groups that have been operating in Jim Hogg County: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31553.

Our volunteers were on private property as the invited guests of the landowner, to assist him with dealing with this threat that had been publicized by this same Sheriff, who admitted to WorldNetDaily reporter Jon Dougherty that he was not talking about Ranch Rescue activities when he wrote his letter, but about an organized criminal enterprise. The county's chief deputy sheriff, Guadalupe Rodriguez, said to Dougherty that he believed the armed men were foreign nationals but not just ordinary drug smugglers.

God knows what they might be carrying. FOX News broadcast a report about Iraqi terrorists planning to smuggle a weapon of mass destruction across the Texas border.

Nethercott and Conner have been in jail for five days already and STILL have not been appointed an attorney. The intent of the County Attorney has been purely to stall all efforts to secure their release and to stonewall all attempts to provide them with legal counsel. Nethercott and Conner were even denied medical treatment for the first two days after their arrest. Conner requires blood pressure medication and Nethercott requires insulin, yet neither were provided for their first 48 hours of incarceration. This is an outrage! This is the behavior of rogue states like Iraq and North Korea, not the United States of America.

While we are confident that our volunteers will eventually be exonerated, I am sure you can appreciate the significant expense that will be involved in defending them against these trumped-up charges. That expense appears to be the only real reason why these charges were ever brought in the first place.

This whole affront is made even worse by the fact that we have been forced to withdraw all of our volunteers from our host's property, leaving him and his wife at the mercy of the hordes of criminals, some armed, that have been pouring across this property 30 miles north of our southern border. This points out the very real dangers that all of us face whenever we volunteer to assist border county landowners who suffer not only from the predations of the hordes of criminals that pour across their property, but also from the neglect and criminal behavior of rogue law enforcement agencies who behave as though in league with the smugglers. They are thugs, not respectable servants of their Citizens.

Please read about the details of this at http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlc=967248 . Please spread the word about what is happening to our courageous volunteers.

Please donate to the legal defense fund that we have set up. Our website has a link for online donations via PayPal and credit card.

Jack Foote National Spokesman for Border Rescue/Ranch Rescue USA http://www.ranchrescue.com State Coordinator for Ranch Rescue Texas

[hotpotato]

Sounds like it's time to hold an election. What's the attitude of the local community?

[Amerigomag]

"If you're a police officer, out there in the darkness,

From what I've read this is a highly unlikely senerio. Not the guy in the bushes but the LEO, looking for aliens at any time, especially after dark.

Try again sir.

[PuNcH]

Gotta keep those drugs moving...

[madfly]

Update.

[junta]

bttt

[Keith in Iowa]

>> Conner requires blood pressure medication and Nethercott requires insulin, yet neither were provided for their first 48 hours of incarceration. This is an outrage!

More than an outrage - it's a Human Rights violation - Amnest International ought to be all over this.

[Dante3]

bttt

[TLI]

""The bullshit stacked up so fast in the 'Nam you had to have WINGS to stay above it.""
Apocalypse Now. ( How fitting)

as well as in south Texas....................

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Foote said the two undocumented immigrants were taken unharmed to the ranch gate and let go. They were apparently picked up later by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Ranch Rescue is a volunteer group that provides armed patrols to border area ranchers who claim the U.S. Border Patrol is not protecting them or their property from undocumented immigrant trespassers (criminal aliens).

Claim???  Sounds like they just plain DON'T  DO THEIR JOB, why is that?

Texas Ranger Doyle Holdridge..... "This is a very high-volume illegal alien area"
Well hell, if they know that how `bout doing a little work?

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According to the complaint by the unnamed Salvadoran, Henry M. Conner Jr., 62, of Lafayette, La, and James N. Casey, 35, of La Mirada Calif., tracked him and a companion down with a dog, threatened his life, and beat him with a weapon.

An unnamed salvordan???  Why withold the name of the "victim?"   Do we need to notify his mommy and daddy?  WHERE IS THE UNNAMED SALVORDAN NOW???

They were arrested Thursday by Texas Ranger Doyle Holdridge after he took a statement from the Salvadoran. He said the complainant "had a knot on the back of his head about half the size of your fist."

The complainant was "picked up" by the BORDER PATROL, not the Texas Rangers.  The Salvordans were in the custody of the same Border Patrol that "does not do it's job."   Why?

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"to assist him with dealing with this threat that had been publicized by this same Sheriff, who admitted to WorldNetDaily reporter Jon Dougherty that he was not talking about Ranch Rescue activities when he wrote his letter, but about an organized criminal enterprise.

The county's chief deputy sheriff, Guadalupe Rodriguez, said to Dougherty that he believed the armed men were foreign nationals but not just ordinary drug smugglers.

(That is the)......   same county Sheriff who had just the week before had his letter published in the local paper, warning his county's Citizens of the danger of armed foreign paramilitary groups that have been operating in Jim Hogg County

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This entier LEO story STINKS.  A flimsy story on the part of the Sheriff about armed foreign nationals to begin with, then the NON-uS citizen, foreign national, CRIMINAL ALIEN that was released? The landowners representatives that were doing the LEO's job sit in jail on nearly half a million dollars bail? The criminal aliens are still poring over the border?   Vicente Fox must be laughing his butt off.

Yea, sure, I'm gonna believe I'm reeeally safe with the Jim Hogg County sheriff on the job! Border Patrol too!

I am in the DFW area, why would I care what happens 400 miles away on the mexican border?
GUESS WHERE A LOT OF THOSE CRIMMINAL ALIENS WIND UP?

[TLI]

once again... this is the actual statement of the journalist Eric Boyt, not text but scanned direct from his notbook in his own handwriting.

Journalist Statement

I saved all seven pages.  I suggest that others save them also, so copies will always be available.

[HairOfTheDog]

"Exotic Game Ranch" + trespasser scaling 8-foot fences = Time to switch to Tiger farming.

[TLI]

The ball of string begins to unwind!

"" Posted on 03/29/2003 3:43 AM CST by kattracks
WASHINGTON - An Iraqi terror team armed with millions of dollars tried to get smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico to Crawford, Tex. - the site of President Bush's ranch, a law enforcement source said yesterday. The alarming attempt to infiltrate the country occurred this month, the source said. ""

I wonder.... just where did they try to cross?

How did the local sheriff and BP employees vote a few years ago?

Were they equipped with "professional backpacks" and walking together in a military cadence?

Will the Texas Rangers arrest everyone known to have eaten at Dary Queen on the morning after the attempted border crossing?

WHAT DID THE SHERIFF KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT ?  < / idiotic >

[TLI]

BUMP!