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  • Illegals are trashing America’s border areas

    11/18/2011 7:28:58 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 25 replies
    Conservative Action Alerts ^ | November 18, 2011 | Ron Arnold
    “I have learned to live with trash,” said fifth-generation Arizona rancher Jim Chilton.He saw his once-beautiful ranch, just a few miles from the border with Mexico, is now dotted with clusters of crushed trees and cactus, whole hillsides have been turned into charred eyesores, years worth of his award-winning conservation projects obliterated — and the whole thing is littered with trash, tons and tons of trash. And some of the trash was dead bodies. Chilton had the misfortune of settling in the path of what would become a dangerous drug- and human-smuggling route on the U.S.-Mexican border, parallel with the...
  • Court upholds libel award against environmental group

    12/07/2006 8:28:51 AM PST · by george76 · 18 replies · 1,546+ views
    Associated Press ^ | December 7, 2006 | PAUL DAVENPORT
    An Arizona appeals court on Wednesday upheld a jury’s $600,000 judgment in favor of a rancher in a defamation lawsuit, rejecting an environmental group’s argument that documents it posted on the Internet were shielded by the First Amendment. The Court of Appeals upheld a Pima County Superior Court jury’s award of compensatory and punitive damages to Jim Chilton in his lawsuit against the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit with offices in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, D.C. A lawyer for the rancher said the appellate court had stood up for a person wrongly defamed, while an attorney...
  • Rancher Turns the Table [On environmental groups by using their tactics]

    08/22/2005 5:30:23 PM PDT · by Brian328i · 43 replies · 3,084+ views
    WSJ Online ^ | August 19, 2005 | Jim Carlton
    ARIVACA, Ariz. -- Jim Chilton is one of hundreds of ranchers targeted by environmental groups for allegedly allowing cattle to despoil the West's backcountry. Now Mr. Chilton is showing ranchers how to turn the tables on the green groups by using their own playbook. The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson is known for its lawsuits against ranching practices -- and for its methods of posting photos on the Internet that it says depict land destruction. So when the Center came after Mr. Chilton, he struck back with a defamation suit in Arizona Superior Court in Tucson last year. He...
  • Environmental group loses suit filed by cattleman (Ctr. for Biological Diversity)

    08/20/2005 10:22:32 AM PDT · by madfly · 36 replies · 1,159+ views
    post-gazette.com ^ | Aug. 19, 2005 | Jim Carlton
    ARIVACA, Ariz. -- Jim Chilton is one of hundreds of ranchers targeted by environmental groups for allegedly allowing cattle to despoil the West's backcountry. Now Mr. Chilton is showing ranchers how to turn the tables on the green groups by using their own playbook. The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson is known for its lawsuits against ranching practices -- and for its methods of posting photos on the Internet that it says depict land destruction. So when the Center came after Mr. Chilton, he struck back with a defamation suit in Arizona Superior Court in Tucson last year....