Now I understand! They were not assaulted they were legally assaulted...oh well, then never mind. I got confused and mistook you for someone who was sane.
sorry my mistake
233 posted on 08/07/2003 11:24 PM PDT by Once-Ler (This Bushbot sez "I vote Dubya")
Most people think of a beating when they think of assault. They picture some guy in a bar breaking a bottle over someone's head or a real brawl. Or they think of a man who robs and beats up a victim. Or they think of some guy who just beats another person to a pulp.
These six men put handcuffs on the illegal aliens. This is exactly what the INS would have done with them. Would that have been assault? Be reasonable.
You may not like it because ordinary citizens made an arrest here, detaining the illegal aliens, but I have seen no solid proof that anything they did was unquestionably wrong.
We have thousands of illegal aliens comming across our borders every day. People who's farms and property are on the border are having a real problem with vandalism, thievery, dead pets, and destroyed property. These men tried to take action to help discourage illegals from entering their area. The INS isn't stopping it. The local police aren't stopping it. Our federal government isn't stopping it.
In certain areas, our citizens on the border have to put bars on their windows and lock themselves inside at night. Essentially they are imprisoned in their own homes because our nation is being overrun with illegal aliens, and nobody will put an end to it. That is my first concern.
Illegal aliens would not be subjected to any negative consequences if they didn't invade our nation. That's the solution to them being submitted to citizen's arrest. Preventing our citizens from executing a citizen's arrest serves no purpose other than to legitimize the seige mentality that our border citizens must live under.
Putting the handcuffs on has been charged as an assault. The fact that guns were present brings the additional charge of aggravated. This is clearly an abuse of power on behalf of the local authorities.
Why do I say this? There have been literally thousands of illegals apprehended in that area over the last six months, and tehn turned over to the INS without a single arrest of the citizens who executed citizen's arrests in the same manner these men did. Why weren't those aggravated assaults?