‘Citizen Militias’: Arizonans Vow to Take Matters Into Their Own Hands to Protect Border
- Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:59pm by
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Minuteman volunteers build a fence along the U.S./Mexican border near Palominas, Ariz., Saturday, May 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh)
Arizona militias say they are done waiting for the government to protect their borders after state lawmakers shot down a bill that would have created a state-sanctioned border militia unit.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that militia volunteers remain committed to stopping what they say is an invasion of smugglers and illegal immigrants, even after being denied state organization status.
The defeated bill would have created a 300-member volunteer militia at the request of the governor. They would have been be armed; however, a provision in the bill required that members be screened in order to prevent violent extremists from joining. You can read the text of the bill here.
Like almost any topic related to illegal immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, the issue is extremely contentious. The Daily Star reports:
A longtime Arizona border-militia leader, Jack Foote, worked for a period with the group that wrote the bill and said its demise is motivating sympathizers of the border-militia movement.
“We have now washed our hands of our state’s Legislature,” Foote, of Cottonwood, said via email. “Now we are going to do things our own way.”
But critics of that movement, such as Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League, said the border-militia idea is extremist in its nature, not just at its outer edges.
“Some are explicitly white supremacist,” said Pitcavage, who has studied extreme right-wing movements for years. “The others may not be white supremacists but may well be racists.”
Critics of militia groups often point to the case of Jason Todd “J.T.” Ready, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi and border-militia leader, who shot and killed four people before taking his own life. He was being investigated by the FBI at the time.
In this undated handout photo from J.T. Ready, J.T. Ready is shown. Ready. Ready is a reputed neo-Nazi who has been conducting heavily armed patrols to catch illegal aliens in the Arizona desert. (AP Photo/J.T. Ready)
The latest legislative blow to citizen militias in Arizona is part of a growing list defeats.
The fight to form a lawful border militia in Arizona began in 2007, when former Sen. Jack Harper introduced a bill to sanction a state Homeland Security Force that could be used on the border if called upon by the governor, The Star reports. However, then-Gov. Janet Napolitano, now Department of Homeland Security secretary, vetoed the legislation, calling it unnecessary because the governor is already within his or her right to call up a militia.
Harper and others pushed the issue again in 2011 and were able to pass a new bill to establish an Arizona State Guard. The victory was shallow, however, as no money was provided establish the guard and the toothless bill made little impact.
Then drawing from the public laws of 22 other states, state Sen. Sylvia Allen put together a team of people to write a bill that called for $1.9 million to fund the new volunteer militia last year.
But like the others, the legislation faced heavy opposition from lawmakers and was eventually killed. Among the bill’s opponents were Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and head of the Arizona National Guard, Maj. Hugo Salazar who worried about the militia group being armed and that he hadn’t been consulted enough, The Star reports.
“All this does is, it legitimizes the Minutemen-type model of enforcement,” said state Sen. Steve Gallardo, a staunch opponent of the bill.
The reported surge in border militia activity in Arizona, as Fox News Latino points out, seems to contradict a report published in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Spring 2012 Intelligence Report that claimed the “nativist extremist” movement had collapsed.
The same report links the Tea Party to the armed militia groups, saying the Tea Party movement has become “home to many nativist extremists.” The center argues the interest of the two groups intersected in 2009 over President Obama’s healthcare plan when coverage for illegal immigrants was a hot topic issue.
“Since then, the lines between the movements have become increasingly blurred, with leaders frequently making appearances at each other’s events,” the report read.
Now, even without legislative support, militia supporters are vowing to continue.
“There is a large military veteran population in our state who would go down there and do the work that the state needs done under the state flag,” Michael Frye, a supporter of the bill, told the Star. Now, he added, “There’s really no other choice but for those folks like myself to form citizen militias.”
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Comments (196)
Gladius_Doctorae
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:37pmI dont care who the hell is protecting our border from drug cartels and mooslimps. illegal is illegal is illegal. Remove the water coolers, the free maps and shoot one across the bow. If they keep coming, shoot em. Word will get around real fast. The rapes, beheadings, kidnappings, robbery, drug running, …will stop. I havent heard of any more thugs with hoodies snooping around in gated communities, have you?
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:56pm“The rapes, beheadings, kidnappings, robbery, drug running, …will stop.”
Are you talking about going forcibly into Mexico to fight crime? That would really cause some pain!
99.99% (never say never) of the violent crimes (by Mexicans and South Americans) are not occurring in the US side of the border. Governor Brewer could not come up with a single beheaded corpse in Arizona.
Just facts, not Arizona crazy talk.
Fight for the families of our POW-MIA
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:12pm“We have now washed our hands of our state’s Legislature,” Foote, of Cottonwood, said via email. “Now we are going to do things our own way.”
Playing right into Obama’s and Holders hands. This IS exactly what they want as part of their “bottom up, top down” plan before the elections or by Jan 20, 2013.
Report Post »US_SOLDIER
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:13pmCome on Blaze. It says the idiot J.T. Ready dude is heavily armed in the picture. Look closer! That is not a standard AR-15 lol. It’s either a .22 made to look like it or it has a .22 LR bolt conversion in it. Although I will admit he is an idiot for being a Neo-Nazi. The thought that because you have more or less malanin in your skin that that makes you superior does nothing but blast your ignorance for all the world to see.
-”It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open ones mouth and remove all doubt” - Mark Twain
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:23pmMonocine is an apoligist for killers and criminals. The blood on the border is his fault as much as anybody elses.
Report Post »If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.
Malitia probably is not the right answer. But, people have the right to protect them self and their property. If they have to group together in order to be victorious in that effort then that is what they should do.
Sirfoldallot
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:18pmBig Sis will put a stop 2 this & Eric Holder will sue those cowards . Obama will take a victory lap.
Report Post »Armyof One
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:38pmUS_Soldier, that is a 9mm AR upper, not a rimfire. Check the mag, it’s a 32 round. .22 conversions, or dedicated .22 rifles, use standard AR/M16 sized magazines with .22 sized internal followers.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:08pmIsn’t Phoenix the kidnap capital of the world…or # 2 at least? Where do the authorities suspect those people end up…just curious.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:44pm“Some are explicitly white supremacist,” said Pitcavage, who has studied extreme right-wing movements for years. “The others may not be white supremacists but may well be racists.”
Strange isn’t it he has NEVER studied far left hate mongers who resort to violence like the thousands of OWS types, the ARA types who attacked people in a Chicago restaurant.
He hasn’t studied the Reconquista bunch either, and they’refar more numerous than this group here. And howabout the Brown Berets. Any study done there by theADL? Nope!
And how about the Black Panthers? Or Black Muslims? If they object to them they don’t say so.
The ADL is no more than a left wing open borders rag tag bunch that are lying hypocrites and fools. And that’s about the best I can say about them.
To the ADL, every white conservative group amounts to no more than white supremacists.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:13pmThe same warning shot they gave bin Laden.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:16pm“…“Some are explicitly white supremacist,” said Pitcavage, who has studied extreme right-wing movements for years. “The others may not be white supremacists but may well be racists.”…”
Report Post »Like the ADL is a decent, non-racist, non-partisan organization that isn‘t in the Turd’s and Holder’s back pocket.
ApostolicIlx
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:25pmMonince, here you go. “Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy’s body was found Oct. 10 in a Chandler apartment — his severed head a couple feet away.” Want some more? Drugs coming into Phoenix have caused a little jump in the number of knuckleheads. I’ve got a nephew in the Sheriffs Dept down there trying to stay alive. If you want to keep walking in water up to your knee’s and seeing pyramids, more power to you. I’ll rely on the facts though, thanks for playing.
Report Post »PelositheGreat
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:15pmactually iyt looks like a 9mm sub conversion with a 9mm mag hanging down. nothinh indicates a 22.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:21pmHeck of a choice for the citizens of AZ. Rely on the Government and get run over by the Illegals, or defend your state on your own against Illegals, and get run over by the Government. Looks like AZ. has been Hung out to dry, where’s John McCain by the way?
Report Post »wzanesdad
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:28amWe have an absolute constitutional right to form citizens militias and defend our state. There are no more racists in these groups than in any other group. If the mainstream media ever decides to come down here and take a look, they would find that half of the militia members are hispanic. See… one thing they don‘t bother to tell you is that the LEGAL hispanics don’t want the cartels kidnapping or killing thier families and friends either. Go to a militia meeting in your state sometime…..if you don;t like it….try another. There is some really awesome amerians out there..all ex-military…all with major weapons…great logistics….and before they actually go in the field you train, train, train….for weeks. Think they’re not in your state? I promise…..you have at least a dozen. in every state. Where do you want to be when the shtf? and who do you want helping to protect your families? The military? Some may break from tradition and fight for what;s right, but the majority will still take orders from the commander and chief.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:54amPrivate citizens on the border was what Ron Paul said can be done NOW to secure the border…..
You’re welcome
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:27amAPOSTOLIC, thanks for the 2010 incident, that article was overlooked by many in the past 5 years. You are the Man! LOL
POW-MIA Never Forget
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:30amIllegal immigration is such a huge problem and is poisoning our society. This is what I have been saying for some time now. The Federal government is full of traitors and they refuse to enforce our laws that is why it is so important for us to take power in our local communities and when the crimmigration activists come running in and the Federal government tries to sue we tell them we won’t comply! Because we are the ones obeying and enforcing the laws and they are the criminals! What I really worry about is while illegal immigration is out of control, our corrupt government continues to make it easier period for everyone in the world to keep coming here legally which is the same as allowing a foreign invasion! This is the same thing! Whether you allow it by the law or not you are still selling out our country to foreign powers who hate this place and us as people!
Report Post »I Fly Low
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:54am@ Army of one
Report Post »Good call. That’s what it is !! Looks like a converted Uzi mag. They work well after a small mod at half the price !! Sharp eye !!
oneshiner
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:29amIf I were a citizen of Arizona, I‘d be on that border with everyone who’s trying to protect their state from those trying to destroy it. Frankly, if I happened to live on the border lands, I’d shoot first and ask questions later. Illegals of all kinds come through and destroy personal property and worse.
Talk, talk, talk and NO action is what Arizona has gotten. Shame on our (haha) Big Brother government for not protecting Arizona from these illegals of all kinds, not just the Mexican.
Report Post »LotsaBullits
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:23pm@ Monicne- maybe Jan Brewer couldn’t come up with just one, but google came up with 2 in one headline:
http://www.krgv.com/news/expert-says-beheadings-in-u-s-look-like-work-of-cartels
There have been multiple firefights on the border. It’s a shooting war.
Report Post »susanm621
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:56pmGo for it…If government won’t protect our country, we will….
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:18pmThey locked and loaded and wired for concertina – Maestro, tap tap tap…let the music begin! This ought to be interesting going forward.
Report Post »The Repairman
Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:35pmHelp is Help why shouldn’t they be formed? But seeing the Feds are reluctant to do their JOB’s got to agree with you Citizen Militias are in order. Give the illegals a shot in their direction word sure gets out quick that it’s not easy or convenient to get across that border any more. Maybe they should do like the drug Cartels did put some skulls in their way and then they might get the hint.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:36pmPlease explain why these folks are so scared.
Illegal immigration is way down, the Feds are hiring hundreds of new Gummint Border Patrol agents (yes, life-sucking union members) but even though Arizona is “winning” the ALEC-promoted Arizona invested privatized immigrant holding facility Industry just can’t take no for an answer.
Just the facts, please.
1,690 POW/MIA
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:54pmIt is evident yo do not live down here. Your MSM is NOT telling you just what is going on down here. Yes the poor laborer is going back to Mexico because he can make better money in Mexico than he can here. But what you are not hearing is how the Zetas and the other Mexican Drug cartels are increasingly operating on this side of the boarder.
But stick your head in the sand and believe what you are feed by the MSM a.k.a the propaganda ministry. When your neighbor gets his head cut off because he ran afoul of the Mexican Mafia don’t say you had no idea.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:55pmGee, private property is many areas is being over run, trampled, homes are constantly burglarized, and damaged, drug cartel operations, murders…should I continue? Or do you live safely and far away enough to just not give a sh*t? How about we let invading mobs over run your home as well your neighbors, destroy private property, and even murder and rape a few. I’m sure it will be okay with you and you will naturally not care. It’s really not your problem is it? So just sit back and poke fun at those who are fed up with a government that has refused to do it’s job, and I will gladly add, regardless of which party holds the W.H. or Congress.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:07pm@MONICommie
Nearly 70 percent of the land in Arizona is owned by the U.S. government, which leases a portion of the public domain to ranchers or miners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
In 2008 it was 48%
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21343
Customs and Border Patrol is also not allowed into that 70%
http://www.mexidata.info/id2706.html
Enough facts for you Sociacommiarxist?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:30pmEncinom’s latest canard. POW/MIA. We could protect our border AND search for POW/MIA.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:24pmROFL, Monicnee- you’re trying to use the POW/MIA to direct our attention from the facts to accomplish what, exactly?
Report Post »Oh, right: spin the spin.
wakeus_com
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:32amYou obviously don’t live there. You obviously don’t know anyone who lives there.
Until you do, stop with the silly statements. I am only trying to save you from being publicly embarrassed.
Report Post »Darlie
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:59amYes, Monicne,you are clueless. Illegals are not running home from most areas of the country. Huge swaths of the SW are dangerous for Whites, and “reverse discrimination” is rampant. Turn in an illegal’s drug dealings and you will get a “3 strikes, you are out” warning- yeah you, the law abiding citizen. This is from the local police who now are run by the
Mexican Mafia. My family fled the area in order to enable our children to
have a future. We had to start over completely. Our beautiful paid-for home was made worthless by the illegal crime rate making starting over painful.
This is the untold story – LEGAL citizens being forced to leave their hometowns along the border. Where us the humanitarian concern for these Americans?
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:59amEncinomom is a dull, rusty tool, but a tool none the less.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:45amOK folks, I understand how you are living lives of terror and fear, and I can see how that makes you reach out for help. I wish someone could help ease your minds. But the Feds have tried mightily to address the problem and are over-spending our precious TAX dollars to do so.
Since 911- the Department of Homeland Security has spent billions on unrealistic border protection systems and has tripled the number of fully trained Customs & Border Protection officers (it takes three years of training!). So maybe if we just armed all Arizonians over the age of 16 and had them “Walk the Border” a few weeks every two years, the bad guys would get the message.
Living on the border is a choice, much like being gay or living in New Orleans. And, if every Arizona family paid their own way in food, tents, weapons and ammo and medical supplies, we could send the bureaucrats packing and save some money for those patriotic tax payers without a border issue.
Maybe we should disband the DHS and return to the Government envisioned by our finest President, the great Ronald Reagan, who was also the owner of a southern California ranch. Now, there was a guy who went to bed without worrying every night! You would never see him whining.
POW-MIA 2012
Report Post »peace maker
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:13am@ monicne have you been down to the border? Have you seen what crosses the border? Here are some facts for you. I have been there, I have seen first hand the violence that happens, and I hate to break your glass bubble, but the violence happens on our side of the border. There are even merc teams hired by the cartels operating on our soil. No other country in the world would allow merc to operate in their country such as we do. Take off the blinders Monicne, stop drinking the Kool-aide, and realize that there is some very bad things that have come across our bordes.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:33pmWhy do you people even reply to this reject??? He…She…It…is just egging you on.
Stop replying, and start ignoring.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:37pmWolf
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:24pm
“ROFL, Monicnee- you’re trying to use the POW/MIA to direct our attention from the facts to accomplish what, exactly?”
It’s not really clear to him, Wolf.
He‘s just another mentally disturbed twinkie who thinks he’s some clever propagandist.
But, like the others, he’s too delusional to understand his comments just set people more firmly in their ways.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:34pmI’m not convinced that J.T. Ready was the bad guy the government has painted him to be or that he was the one who killed his family and himself.
As to the Arizona citizens finally having to accept the fact that they are on their own, they will now become the Federal government’s enemies. They will be branded racists, neoNazis, and bigots.
The arrests will start, undercover stings will be highlighted in the press and every man and woman even remotely associated with these American citizens will be suspect.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:40pmunfortunately you may be right…why they don’t do this to the illegals and drug cartels is beyond me…what?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:30pmHere is good proof of government involvement in drug trafficking http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-sibel-edmonds/
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:37pmMy guess is Holder supplied the guns to the drug cartels,because they needed guns for their drug business…lot of money in drugs and I believe some of our leaders are that corrupt..sometimes they truth is right in front of us..I never believed that BS story about tracking guns
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:53amThe state needs a militia. When the Feds are furnishing guns to the cartels and refusing to tell congress about it. When a man who defends his property (Roger Barnett) and is sued by the illegals for causing PTSD and they win. When Fat Janet and Epic Holdup put up highway signs warning motorists on Interstate 8 and 10 to watch for illegals. When smuggling tunnels are so sommon that they don’t even make the national news anymore. When our government sues the states for enforcing federal laws. Someone has to enforce the laws that the Feds chose to ignore.
Lets give Obama access to a moving van in November. There are plenty of volunteers who will help them pack.
OMG 2012
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:17pmGODLOVINMOM… worldly powers desire to cut our knees from under us. We have, for the most part, been the agent of good in the world. If we remain a strong, “healthy” Republic, those that lust over earthly power and riches will not be successful in their intent for the “moral majority” will not stand for it. Their agenda necessitates the criminalization of those (race and creed does not matter) who hold to the “traditional” concepts of the founding of these United States. Indeed, anyone in the world at this point on who espouses common sense, ethics and morality in governance will become a target. I even fast and pray for British politician Nigel Ferage’s wellbeing. In order for that which is prophesied in the Book of Daniel, Revelation, and 1 Enoch to transpire, all this must come about.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:41amPaxinveritate…Thank GOD that worldly powers only have so much time…our lives are but a vapor here on earth…then onto Glory…but those worldly powers sure can make it hell on earth..I LOVE prophecy…anyone just has to read the bible to know whats coming…one of my favorite’s is the book of Daniel!!!…satan has NO power over a soul that belongs to the Lord, which mine does!!!
Report Post »mlimberg
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:33pmAfter we close the border, we’ll need to address the Liberal/Progressive movement…. Send these SOB’s back to the rock from which they came….
Report Post »skytwzzlr
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:31pmIn my opinion, the Arizona Star is a very liberal publication that is on board for open borders and seems to demonize people that are opposed to illegal immigration in a back handed way by using sources such as the ADL and the SPLC for source information in order to call anyone opposed to open borders either a White Supremacist or racist.
Report Post »I think that a lot of what they print is rubbish and not fit for the bottom of my cat’s box.
korbin
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:29pmMy posts disappeared how weird maybe it had to many facts and key words like Constitution, Militia and so on. I believe the Blaze selectively eliminates posts maybe a little pot calling the kettle black Hmmmm. This Government doesn’t bother following that outdated pesky US Constitution since when is a group wanting to be recognized as a legitimate militia a bad thing? Just don’t get it.
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:10amI will take the Constitution over anything any day!
Report Post »Some Conservatives don’t even know what it says.
Just in time
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:28pmSo American citizens are the enemy and illegal aliens are victims. The government of America is on the wrong side in this matter.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:10pmThe FEDERAL government … and some liberal states ..
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:01pmAnd… the Music that they played was; “the World turn’d Upside Down”!
Report Post »vanman4446
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:30pmWhat’s new???????
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:45am“some illegal aliens were the victims”… wtf are you talking about. Illegal. Look it up, spin it after you glean the meaning, but “illegal” trumps all of your other blather.
Report Post »romadave
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:25pmArticle 4, section 4 of the US constitution.
[...] and [the United States] shall protect each of them [the States] against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
The US govt. must protect the States from Invasion and domestic violence (hello drug cartels).
Sounds like their job is to secure the border.
In case of a failure of the legislative and executive branches to act, the ultimate power and responsibility rests with We the People.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:24pmhere here.. time WE took matters in our own hands since the NON AMERICAN BORHN SOCIALIST stood wiht mexico against ca az nm tx fl n refuses to secure the border.. send back the cartels heads no mercy NO PITTY EXTERMINANET ALL DRUG LORDS
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:46pmi think perhaps first you should worry about your grammar and spelling
then perhaps you could find the time to worry about something else
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:50pmPsychosis – I love when you idiots attack a person‘s grammar while you didn’t even start your sentence with a capital letter or end it with a period. Nice job genius.
Report Post »roy3331
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:18pmThat all right Zoro51 I and many more will over look your spelling and grammar, Most Americans don’t
Report Post »care about spelling and grammar any more,we need to get this country back to sanity !!!
Lord_Frostwind
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:39pmWhile I disagree with some of what you say, you do have a good point Zoro. We can’t let these Cartel slime intimidate us like they do the Mexicans. Stand and fight against the drug dealing swine!
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:06pm@psychosis: I knew exactly what he meant. Maybe mom and dad didn’t send him to college.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:26pmPSYCHOSIS:
Report Post »It’s not so much what a man says…but his posture when he says it. Methinks Zoro made his point.
RamonPreston
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:18pmWhat did Red Skelton say? “Didn’t you go to school, stupid?“ ”Yes, And I came home the same way.”
Report Post »Personalforrest
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:21pmThose who join this group are the modern day Paul Reveres, Ben Franklins, and other fore fathers who also said “enough is enough”.
Report Post »FoundersKeeperUSA
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:37pmYou are 100% correct. We are the only nation in the world that dosent secure its borders. Try to cross into Mehheeco and see what happens to you.
Report Post »DGuy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:39pmAn American in Mexico BETTER have his passport and Visa if he does NOT want to wind up in jail…
Report Post »randy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:21pmGood for Arizona!
Report Post »Just goes to show people are tired of the lack of protection for the people by local, State and Federal Govt’s Obama will have to put a stop to this, it being so close to November. We all know he needs the Illegal Alien vote.
HowardSternIsABigot
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:21pmThis is what always happens when govt fails to perform its primary duties. Citizens must take things in their own hands, its inevitable. its the real story of the KKK origination in the south after civil war. Society broke down and got real ugly, desperate people formed secret “militias” to enforce moral codes. look it up[.
Juries will follow suit and justice will be the first victim.
Report Post »facilitiesmgr
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:06pmThe KKK was not established as a “law keeping” organization! It was bigoted and rascist from it’s inception. They tried to use the law as rationalization for their actions. It just goes to show that if one adds in just enough truth to the mix that things start to sound good and then people will believe it.
The National/Federal government has forgotten their job as drawn out in the Constitution. One of it’s roles is to protect our sovereignty internationally and part of that includes protecting our borders from those of any stripe who would infringe on the liberty and freedom we enjoy. When people seek to come to this country illegally they don’t have any rights protected by the laws that were established for our legal citizens. That doesn’t mean you can do anything you want to them, they are still God’s creations, but that is as far as it goes.
We as citizens do have a right, and I might add a responsibility, to defend our country from the onslaught that is being carried out against us.
Report Post »DREDGE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:14pmI will agree with you!
Report Post »And that idiot bleeding heart “facilitiesmgr” should go to Mexico and see
how well god’s creatures treat him.
flagbearer
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:59pm@Facilitiesmgr
Report Post »There’s no defense of the KKK as it exists today, but I disagree with you about its original intent. There are too many family diaries and letters with example after example of the failure of the Union soldiers and martial law (yes, governmenment) failed to keep people (white and black) safe during Reconstruction. Such statements as yours is illustrative of the attempt today to alter factual history. Southerners were racist, but they were also deeply concerned for black people and very generous to them in times of need. Those stories are never told by Hollywood or media, so a warped image exists today to support the liberal left and put down anything Southern.
Atilla
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:21pmHopefully the beginning of a secessionist movement. How long does it take for the Feds to ignore article 4 Sec. 4 of the Constitution before they reap what they sow. Good for them.
Report Post »Plojka
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:19pmThis invasion needs to stop and if the Fed is not going to protect the borders, then the good people of AZ need to rise up and do it!
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:17pmCan’t the Sheriffs deputize people? If not they need to.
Report Post »jekill
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:31pmthe federal 287(g) program used to deputize law enforcement but Obama stopped funding it.
Big shock face.
http://24ahead.com/obama-admin-shutting-down-287g-immigration-enforcement-progr
Report Post »Stephen Markovich
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:28pmthen have the citizens pay out of pocket to join at no cost to govment
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:16pmIf Eric Holder wasn’t out teaching Black Pastors what to say and not say to keep their 501c3 free money coming, then he would have his justice dept. blow these people away once and for all.
Holder wants to make sure that Oblamer get’s 95% of the Black, Dead People, and Illegal Aliens vote. No ID Yes Vote is his slogan. He stole this from the liquor stores slogan which is No ID No Sale. Get it? Holder is a racist extremist and is sympathetic to Muslim Extremist.
Report Post »Steve28
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:16pmJust maybe if they start shooting folks coming over illegally then they will stop doing it. What a novel idea.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:25pmWhat happened to all those land mines left over from Viet Nam? I think we should bury them in the Arizona desert before somebody gets hurt by one. We wouldn’t want that.
Report Post »Right wing nut job
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:15pmIt‘s sad that the citizens are forced into a position to handle an issue this inept gov’t will not. Not only is the gov’t refusing to secure our borders, but they are demonizing those who would take a stand by highlighting one crazy person. Look at the rest of the world’s borders. Go to Europe or Asia and try to illegally cross a border. This is not a new or radical concept! JUST SECURE THE DAMN THING!
Report Post »spfoam1
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:14pmOur second amendment rights exist for many reasons. The government is not serving the citizens, so the citizens have to serve themselves. Git-R-Done. The invasion must stop.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:36pmIf Barry – the enemy of the State, and his racist wingman Holder stay in power there WILL be a revolution. – no question about it.
Report Post »It will be necessary and I don’t believe our men will fight to protect him – The military by a 2 to 1 margin dislike their Commander in Chief.
LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:13pm…
Report Post »If you want something done right, don’t wait for the Government to do it. Do it yourself.
Stick to your guns Arizona. Pun intended.
godlovinmom
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:09pmYour pursuit of life, liberty and happiness is a little in jeopardy living along the Arizona border, don’t ya think…I don’t blame these citizens one bit!
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:07pmIt is racist to want your border’s protected. This country will not last another 10 years.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:06pm“Some are explicitly white supremacist”
I don’t put a lot of stock in that. That’s what the leftists say about the tea party.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:20pmIt’s sad that we on the Conservative right and the Tea Party have to take the blame and get lumped in with the crap sandwich of fringe elements from our society (many Ron Paul supporting types).
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:06pmShould of stuck to criticizing Christianity like the American press does pal.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:04pmThey just need to call themselves the White Panthers……
Report Post »FoundersKeeperUSA
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:34pmSo let me get this straight. The New black Panthers can put bountys on folks heads, openly talk of “kiliin me sum crackas” but we cant protect our borders? And wanting to do so makes you an extremist? How many more of our fellow Americans will get raped or killed by an illegal infiltrator before we put an end to this ourselves?? My point being they shouldnt be here to began with. How many more Americans will be the victim of crimes we more then should be able to prevent? This is how nations colapse.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:34pmYou know that just might work…naaaa…only racist blacks get those “special” names…I know a few black Americans and they think, like me, that the black panthers are a bunch of racist haters.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:49amChupacabra Krackers has a ring…
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