IOW, professional malcontents looking for a windmill to tilt. Advice to any would-be 'dozer jockeys on the upcoming project: if you feel your treads run over something, be sure to throw it in reverse and back up to see what you hit. Several times.
Posted on 06/08/2008 3:36:26 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
EDINBURG TX - Some opponents of the border fence are preparing civil disobedience when the bulldozers move into the Rio Grande Valley late next month. Speaking in an individual capacity, members of the No Border Wall coalition told the Guardian that a number of protests are planned, both locally and nationally. Members of the group made the comments after speaking out against the levee-wall plan at this week’s Hidalgo County Commissioner’s Court meeting.
“There are people ready to do civil disobedience, people who have experience in doing civil disobedience, who are not afraid to do that,” said No Border Wall coalition member Ann Cass. "We are going to gear up our actions through July 27, that’s when they said they will start building the fence.”
Asked what civil disobedience is, Cass responded: “Civil disobedience is when you are willing to break a law and you know in your conscience that the law is a bad law and what they (the government) are doing is bad.”....
Cass said membership of the No Border Wall group is growing. “You could say we have hundreds of members when you look at the constituents that each of us have and represent,” she said. “We are going to do things statewide and nationwide. This is not an issue just for the Rio Grande Valley. This is a problem for the whole nation.”
Cathy Lovejoy Maloney, executive director of the North American Butterfly Association in Mission, is also a member of the No Border Wall coalition. “I don’t want to be represented by a wall as an American and I think everybody has a right to speak out on that. International relations will be damaged,” Lovejoy Maloney said.
The No Border Wall group makes no distinction between the fence plans the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning for parts of Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron counties, and the 22 miles of levee-wall that Hidalgo County is working on with the International Boundary and Water Commission and DHS. Both projects will cause havoc for the environment, the group says.
No Border Wall group members urged Hidalgo county commissioners to delay the levee-wall project until after the hurricane season. They also questioned why Dannenbaum Engineering is involved in the project when the company has received negative publicity in El Paso and Brownsville.....
Treason.
A newsletter from the Department of Homeland Security from around a year ago had a brief section on domestic terrorism. Basically, “anyone” who disagreed with current immigration laws could be considered as domestic terrorists.
That’s bad news if amnesty is granted and We The People disagree.
IOW, professional malcontents looking for a windmill to tilt. Advice to any would-be 'dozer jockeys on the upcoming project: if you feel your treads run over something, be sure to throw it in reverse and back up to see what you hit. Several times.
I’m going to smoke pot at the Phish concert for illegals! :D
Sedition AND treason. No problem though — our repectable federal government will handle the situation on behalf of REAL American citizens -— (/s)
If locals don't want the fence, don't build it there. Build it first where the locals want it. Build first for those ranchers whose homes are turned into trash dumps by the illegal traffic.
Arizona is the place to start, if the corrupt little border towns in Texas are squawking.
Then, let those who didn't want the fence enoy the pleasures of being the mouth of the FUNNEL--as the illegals and drug runner diverted from the fenced areas s choose the unfenced lands for their march inward--we'll see how long they protest.
Arrest them all at the start ('round um up), and haul their asses off to jail where they want to go.
sneak back across the border (southbound)?
I seriously doubt that. The political reality is that they know they can’t try for amnesty again until it appears they have constructed the fence. I think Bush and McCain have swallowed that idea and so have become gung ho fence. “The locals” don’t get to choose where the law the enforced. Communities thousands of miles from the border pay the price of illegal immigration. The only place there is substantial opposition to the fence is in parts of Texas that think they would be better off being part of Mexico. Uh huh. Speaks volumes for the inadequacy of the public education system down there.
So it's two of them, with a sympathetic press.
I hear you. But they have to start building it somewhere. I find it telling that they are choosing to start the project where opposition is vocal and well-organized. Looks very calculated to me--anything to slow and stall. There are plenty of ranchers who have been begging for protection for years, people who are afraid in their own homes because their property is a highway for bandits. Start building it there.
I do not believe they want this fence built, period. They posture for some people, some of the time.
I also believe this is why Bush's approvals are approaching zero. Nobody ever mentions illegal immigration as the cause of the big slide in his numbers, but I believe that those Americans who supported him lost all faith in him when he tried to "ramnesty" down our throats.
Full speed ahead!
Neither sedition nor treason; not good politics, however.
“How are we going to live if we can’t smuggle?”
I was hoping someone would mention Rachel Corrie and how her protest fell kind of ... flat.
Does that work with not paying federal income taxes?
Funny, but no.
Neither sedition nor treason....
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Depends on your perspective and your concern about our country and who is in it illegally, breaking our laws, and feeding fodder to our corrupt and malfeasant politicians.
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