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I suppose the Agents that I know personally are lying to me? I live here, they are part of my community (the Border Patrol Agents that work in this area). I have heard what they think about the Minuteman Project up close and personal.

I do not and never will agree that vigilantism is the way a problem should be solved. There are criminals involved in the Minuteman Organization. I can prove this. One of the Californians from this area who authored the Minuteman Project's SOP has been convicted of firearms charges. Do I consider the Minuteman Project a threat to our area? Yes, not only because they are not welcome, but because they will only give 30 days of untrained unsupervised "help" and then they will crow for the next 20 years about how they were here being good 'Mercans.

The environmental impact on the area is also a concern for me. Still I do believe if the Minuteman Project would send people to have a look at the area and make their best suggestions (to the officials in Washington that it could be a good thing for this area, minimal paramilitary participation) that would not be objectionable. That could be done without occupying our communities for 30 days with sidearms and camp shovels (which by the way will bend when you try to dig your “feces holes” in this hard pack ground).

Even the threat of the Minuteman Project has already caused stirrings of problems from the other side of the border. I am assuming that the Minuteman Project must desire a real battle when they arrive, and I would rather not see anymore Federal Agents have to die because of a group of unknowns (perhaps criminals) who have decided to take OUR lives in their incapable hands. This act of Civil Disobedience puts all of you right up there with the Black Panthers, the Arian Brotherhood and the KKK.

I may feel differently, and I may not feel so inclined to dispute this “movement”. Alas MY property will be in their line of fire, so I will continue to speak out against the Minuteman Project and all forms of vigilantism to solve a problem that all of these great 'Mercans/Liberal Anarchists who call themselves Minutemen have decided to poke their noses into. You think the Citizens here should have to be subjugated for you to exercise your rights to protest, but I think you will find we don't make good “subjects”. Sometimes we can be as ornery as the rattlesnakes that are protected by state law here. Do not kill the Rattlesnake, it’s protected in Arizona.

So it would be appreciated if some of you would weigh out of this situation before innocent people have to die. Does the Minuteman Project have any liability insurance or will we need to sue each of you individually, just curious. It’s always nice to start on rough drafts of the complaints in anticipation. I would hate to have to hire an extra clerk to handle all of the complaints of property damage or wrongful death and injury that will be exacerbated by the Minutemen’s presence down here.

I am not just weighing in, I am offering to assist the citizens of Cochise County in legal recourse against the Minuteman Project as any occasion to do so may arise (free).

If you come to Cochise County to cause trouble, trouble will follow you for the entirety of your occupation of our public lands, and may even follow you home.

"I am assuming that the Minuteman Project must desire a real battle when they arrive, and I would rather not see anymore Federal Agents have to die because of a group of unknowns (perhaps criminals) who have decided to take OUR lives in their incapable hands. This act of Civil Disobedience puts all of you right up there with the Black Panthers, the Arian Brotherhood and the KKK."

As one who lives close to "Ground Zero" to the Minuteman Project, I read your response with an open mind and empathy...UNTIL I read your last charge which totally discredited ANY sincerity in the matter.

Since when has American Patriotism and the defense of our borders become equivocated to that of the deeds of murderous thugs? Your characterization is nothing but slander of the Minutemen and nothing but unsubstantiated, scurrilous lies.

Whom would you have compared Patrick Henry and Paul Revere to?? Attila the Hun?

You're not so much concerned for the NIMBY aspect of citizen BP, as much as spreading liberal propagandae.