Posted on 02/21/2005 2:38:55 AM PST by ajolympian2004
If the Minuteman project wishes to become involved at the border, they must remain unarmed and peaceful. They cannot detain. They must work in an advisory status only.
Turth be told, I think they should be able to aprehend and detain north of the border. The fact is, the border patrol will turn on them like rabid dogs, if they do so.
This will probably get ugly. Perhaps that's a good thing. If the feds get the idea the citizens of this nation have had it, perhaps they'll get off thair fat rumps and do something about this travesty.
Course what they'd probably do is hire 10,000 new agents to guard against U.S. citizens making aprehensions. And they'd probably do it lickety split.
What I find kinda funny...is that the Tucson and Phoenix police departments...have programs where local citizens ride with the cops. It helps out when you have one cop assigned to a car, and sometimes the judgement of two on the scene can make a difference. From all of the programs in the US where private citizens ride with the police...I've never heard a negative word.
Which brings me to the border patrol. They too could use the help of private citizens. And what we see...is a private empire. They want absolute control over the situation. The government needs to take one of two actions. Either they beef up the border patrol...triple the number of officers out there....or they fire them all and go for a military-run operation. I don't see a problem with each state being given $100 million and using its national guard force for guard and patrol. They'd have air assets, recon, and the technology to take on trespassing.
Government is willingly refusing to enforce the law. In that case, citizens ought to do it.
A timely reflection of what was established.These are being
recruited with every good and right intention.The current crop of corrupted politicians will oppose this with every
means at their disposal. Simcox has allready been warned by them.My prayers are with these American patriots--I fear
those who ought support them most will be a bigger threat
than the illegals that now refuse to recognize our borders.
I see this whole situation to get very ugly and out of hand, it's only going to make the border situation worse than it already is.
The Bush Administration (and administrations before it, both Dem and GOP) could have started the chemotheraphy on this CANCER many, many years ago, before the disease spread, to riddle the entire body. But NOOOOOO!!! They had to let it fester like this until our Southwestern US states are like the Balkans and we are totally overwhelmed.
And just how many illegals are in the country now in spite of the best efforts of these "qualified and well-trained" boarder police?
Check the byline -- Lara Jakes Jordan. She's married to Jim Jordan, formerly Kerry's campaign manager during the primaries. IOW, she's a shill for the Demoncrat party, and her bias is quite apparent in her "articles."
In essence, the Minutemen are asked to function as a welcoming committee and tour guides.
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for pointing this out.
I thought Jim Rob banned the Minute Men from this site. Saying they are from Storm Front
Yes he did.
Absolutely. A few raucous demonstrations at choice border locations would get some action too. Say 5,000 Americans march on a place where the illegals are streaming through. Or disrupt a legal border crossing where semi trucks are trying to pass through, and will lose money with the chaos
He did, because IHO, the Minutemen are vigilantes. StormFront is associated with the KKK. (At least that's the way I remember it.)
Surprising that this thread hasn't been pulled already.
And the weak sister politicians who won't enforce the laws are the exact cause of the problem. They've abdicated their responsibilities until it's become a crisis situation, a real one, not like the "crisis" in education or health care.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:m40D2g42OSoJ:www.wnd.com/news/article.asp%3FARTICLE_ID%3D32268+%22Lara+Jakes+Jordan%22&hl=en
He was deliberately targeted by a political activist disguised as a reporter – Lara Jakes Jordan.
I invite you to read her original story and see for yourself how it is dripping in venom. It's an editorial camouflaged as a news story. And she wrote it for the largest and most powerful news-gathering operation in the world, ensuring it would get maximum play in newspapers throughout the world.
Who is Lara Jakes Jordan?
For starters, she is married to veteran Democratic Party operative Jim Jordan, the former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and manager of Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid.
Not surprisingly, the Massachusetts Democrat was among the first to criticize Santorum's remarks, using it as an opportunity to attack the White House. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kerry got an advance copy of the article given his connections.
But there's more to the Lara Jakes Jordan story.
In January of this year, Mrs. Jordan was one of the signatories on a letter to her bosses at the AP attacking the news organization for "rolling back diversity" by not extending benefits to domestic partners.
In a symbolic move, the signatories to the letter returned key chains AP management gave them to "celebrate" its corporate diversity. The key chains carried the slogan: "AP Diversity: Many Views, One Vision.
It seems Mrs. Jordan's ideological fervor is not reserved only for her private life and her corporate politicking. This woman clearly ambushed Santorum on an issue near and dear to her bleeding heart.
I've been in the daily news business for 25 years. When I got started a quarter century ago, there was an old newsroom saying that went like this: "I don't care if you sleep with elephants as long as you don't cover the circus."
Mrs. Jordan violated that old newsroom ethic. She abdicated her right to cover the circus because she was sleeping with an elephant – or, in this case, a donkey.
That's why I say these catcalls for the head of Rick Santorum are nothing more than a political sideshow. It's not Rick Santorum who should be forced from office for clearly stating views that have been considered mainstream for the last 5,000 years. It's Lara Jakes Jordan who should be drummed out of the news profession for scoring cheap political points under the guise of news reporting.
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