The frustrated people of Arizona are taking matters into their own hands. They will do what George Bush refuses to do: protect our southern border. The Minutemen Project is an idea whose time has come!
While we’re spending billions to keep the enemy in Iraq at bay, enemies in our own country continue to use our own stupidity and suicidal tendencies against us. But real men are saying, “No more!”
Intent on securing the vulnerable Arizona border from illegal immigrant crossings, U.S. officials are bracing for what they call a potential new threat this spring: the Minutemen.Nearly 500 volunteers have already joined the Minuteman Project, anointing themselves civilian border patrol agents determined to stop the immigration flow that routinely, and easily, seeps past federal authorities. They plan to patrol a 40-mile stretch of the southeast Arizona border throughout April when the tide of immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border peaks. (Source)
Yes! I was beginning to wonder if America was a nation of weak-kneed wimps.
For background on Arizona’s plight, see Liberals and the Will of the People of Arizona. As irritated as I am about illegal immigration and Bush’s threat to give amnesty to lawbreakers already here, I can only imagine what the citizens of Arizona must be going through. But we all go the way of that state because the Muslim scourge is sneaking into our country right along with Mexicans:
Officials concede the 370-mile Arizona border is the most porous stretch on the U.S.-Mexico line. Moreover, recent intelligence show that al-Qaida terrorists are likely to enter the country through the Mexico border, James Loy, the deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, said last week.“Several al-Qaida leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico, and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons,” Loy said in written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
There is a proud tradition of Americans volunteering to do what the government will not or cannot. From ushistory.org:
By the time of the [American] Revolution, Minutemen had been a well-trained force for six generations in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Every town had maintained its ‘training band’. The adversity that this region faced-Native-American uprisings, war with France, and potential for local insurrections, social unrest, and rioting-provided ample reason to adhere to a sound militia organization.
Modern day America is being invaded by foreigners to our south, and a volunteer force of Americans is exactly what is needed to combat the enemy. Many people don’t understand this because the “enemy” isn’t taking us by brute force. Every day we prostrate ourselves and consult Vicente Fox or any other nation about our foreign policy, America’s sovereignty is eroded. The so-called rights of foreigners who cross our borders are in many ways greater than our own. I, for one, don’t like it one bit.
Personally, I like the idea of Americans taking it upon themselves to defend their homeland. I wholeheartedly support this group and suggest that get a “Donate” button. I won’t rest until I see more headlines like this: Deportees sent back by the planeload .
I’ve written about illegal immigration many times. In fact, there’s an immigration category. Two posts chockfull of statistics: Death of the West and George Bush’s Immigration Non-Policy.
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I thought minutemen was a liberal new england thing.
So what do these vigilantes propose to do if they find illegal immigrants, tar and feather them? That was what, typically, happened to British tax collectors when New England ‘volunteers’ got hold of them.
Maybe we’re lucky this is taking place in the low desert of Southern Arizona where there are no cottonwood trees.
One word: S-C-A-R-Y
Joseph – I see you didn’t bother to follow the link to their site. Here’s some relevant info:
This call for volunteers is not a call to arms, but a call to voices seeking a peaceful and respectable resolve to the chaotic neglect by members of our local, state and federal governments charged with applying U.S. immigration law.
It is a call to peacefully assemble at the Arizona-Mexico border to bring national awareness to the decades-long deliberate neglect of effective U.S. immigration law enforcement. It is a reminder to Americans that our nation was founded as a nation governed by the “rule of law”, not by the whims of mobs of ILLEGAL aliens who endlessly stream across U.S. borders.
I’ll plan on driving a truck full of fruit to the gathering so they can buy an apple for $2.00 or a handful of grapes for $4.00.
Very funny, Neal. And very liberal. Although you exaggerate a tad, I’ve no doubt the market will readjust itself once LEGAL citizens start taking jobs illegal aliens currently occupy.
I’m curious about something. How did you find my blog, and why do you read and comment? You’re welcome to do both, of course.
We’ll be waiting for you, Neal. And bring your buddies (Joseph & Mike M.) so you can all watch the “border fence hopping show” from the comfort of your car.
Why is it that the notion of enforcing our immigration laws and removing people that are in this country illegally inevitably causes the charges of racism to be thrown around? I have never seen any illegal immigrant supporter in the U.S. cry foul towards other countries that have stricter requirements than we have.
And as for the crack about the more expensive produce, I have only this to reply with:
Inevitably the arguments from those who support illegal immigration turns towards “Well, without them here you won’t have cheap produce, clean toilets, etc. etc.” The implication of that argument is that menial jobs are all that immigrants are good for. And yet, I get called a racist…
LaShawn,
Their website looks an awful lot like a repackaged Ranch Rescue. When I went to check the Ranch Rescue site, it was still there, but bare bones and nothing like it was.
Ranch Rescue was a good idea, but run badly. They were *way* too much like vigillantes. The Minuteman site is far more toned down and emphasizes no contact is preferred.
I strongly urge anyone going down there to:
1–Be well armed, AND skilled in those weapons.
2–Carry digital cameras and camcorders that have long lenses.
3–Keep your distance–drug runners don’t like to be photographed, so stay outside rifle range.
4–There’s no such thing as too much water or too much ammunition.
One word: AWESOME
Joseph’s Mission statement on his site is “A blog from a gentleman of the Liberal political persuasion dedicated to right reason, clear thinking, cogent argument, and the public good.”
Unfortunately it seems the liberal persuasion poison has taken over everything else so he makes false statements in order to bolster his “cogent argument”.
Liberals do that daily.
They must debate with us on a factual level or they’ll keep losing elections….
That’s my belief.
It is time we citizens take responsibility for what we find disagreeable in our lives. Our reliance upon Government to solve our problems only causes us greater problems. We’ve been listening to too many years of “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
http://Suspendedreality.blogger.com
The marketplace decides how many fruits and vegetables there are and what the price is… (unless there are subsidies going on but that isn’t the marketplace).
The illegal immigrant issue being pinned by liberals into a fruit and vegetable cost issue is not only demeaning to those human beings but dismissive of our right to:
1) protect this nation – security issues
2) have a process (which by the way allows for more legal immigrants than all other countries combined)
If prices go up because labor is more expensive then fine prices go up. If that means that less people buy fruit and vegetables because a new couch or vehicle or plasma screen TV is more important to them than their health then that means less people buy fruits and vegetables.
Then when less people buy fruits and vegetables, farmers will need to do something else or lower their price to sell anything at all.
We don’t need 100% of our farmland being utilized 100% of the time producing 100% of the fruits and vegetables for a fraction of the cost due to cheap dehumanized labor supply.
We need just as many fruits and vegetables as we are willing to pay for from that certain percentage of farmland that is needed.
That is called capitalism (defined = the people choosing who gets what resources)
Communism or socialism is defined as the government choosing who gets what resources. Thank you very much but no thanks.
By the way, WIC (Women, Infants and Children) is a federal program that gives pregnant women and children up to the age of 5 who are TWICE the poverty level free essential foods like cheese and juice and milk and peanut butter and such.
I don’t need to hear from leftists that the costs have to be low so that the poor (twice the poverty level which is up to $28,000 annually) can afford food AT THE RISK OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY !!!!
“That is called capitalism (defined = the people choosing who gets what resources)”
like with an election?
Actus, no wonder you think like you do. Economics 101 buddy.
Capitalism is the people choosing who gets what resources.
Socialism is the government choosing who gets what resources.
Of course there is grey area in between and that is the debate. Where is this country headed?
I believe that this country’s economic system should be capitalism. There should be a safety net (not diluted into a hammock by able-bodied people). And this nation is a nation of laws to protect our constitutional rights.
The debate is because there are people like you who want to dilute the safety net (which provides for non-able-bodied) to penalize success and hard work to give to others (socialism).
Read up DUDE!
>>I’ll plan on driving a truck full of fruit to the gathering so they can buy an apple for $2.00 or a handful of grapes for $4.00
See this:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/002706.html
“The removal of illegal workers from the seasonal agricultural workforce would increase the summer-fall supermarket prices of fresh fruits and vegetables by about 6 percent in the short run and 3 percent in the intermediate term…”
The first link at that post is to an excerpt of someone else offering up the Price of Lettuce Canard. The one doing that was a Mexican consul, so I guess you’d say he has a financial stake in misleading people.
“Capitalism is the people choosing who gets what resources”
I don’t think its quite ‘the people’. That brings up ideas like democracy, and one man one vote, etcc. I think its more the money that decides where it goes. People have money, but they have different amounts.
Actus, regardless of how much or how little money I have, if i decide I ain’t buying what you’re selling then either you have to improve your product and try again or go somewhere else. That’s capitalism in a nutshell.
However when Comrade Fearless Leader tells me I must buy X as a good member of society or do without, regardless of whether I want to buy Y or Z, then that is socialism.
Hence the Trabants and Ladas that subjects were forced to accept. Likewise everything else that is mediocre about those societies — a lack of choice and subsquent scarcity for everything else. Why else do Candadians come down on health trips to get the medical care they can’t get back home.
Open your eyes. Choice and the rule of law that backs the freedom to choose what’s best for you is what drives the economy. Anything else falls short. But even if you refuse to accept this fact, you’re slowly being out-numbered by those who act on realities and have no time to act up on fantasies. Join the revolution or get left behind, it’s your choice.
La Shawn, Can you believe the number of American citizens who step up to support and defend illegal border violations of their own country?
Not only this, but support providing jobs, ’special’ bilingual education, medical care, and subsidized living using our deeply indebted country’s tax dollars. All this without even considering the risk we may be aiding and abetting an embedded terrorist.
I admit, I really just don’t understand what causes the differences in logic between the right and left brain. My theory is the left operates on emotion and the right on logic. If this theory is correct, Churchill offered some hope with his famous quote (paraphrased) “If you’re young and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are older and still a liberal, you have no head.”
Let us hope more of us grow up…more faster.
“Actus, regardless of how much or how little money I have, if i decide I ain’t buying what you’re selling then either you have to improve your product and try again or go somewhere else. That’s capitalism in a nutshell.”
Well, makers of certain things don’t care what whether or not I will buy their products, because I can’t afford them, and they don’t want to make them affordable to me.
Its one form of ‘people rule.’ people weighed by their purchasing power. Its just that when I think of the “people rule” you bring up other egalitarian ideas, such as one man one vote, equal representation, etc… that aren’t there in capitalism.
“Well, makers of certain things don’t care what whether or not I will buy their products, because I can’t afford them, and they don’t want to make them affordable to me.”
Well, boo hoo. If enough people like you ain’t buying then, the maker will go out of business. What don’t you get about it? That it’s unfair that M$ WinXP goes for a couple of hundred dollars here, yet only costs $37 in Thailand?
As for one man, one vote, it’s rather meaningless if it isn’t backed up by the rule of law and the concept that power flows up from the people and not from the powers-that-be deciding what they’ll llow you to do. The pragmatic difference is that in the former, if it ain’t on the books, it’s legal, in the latter, everything is illegal unless specifically allowed by law.
The effect on capitalism is that if an American thinks of something, they can give it a whirl and see if the market bites. If for some reason it proves to be detrimental, the govt will step in and ban it if need be. OTOH, a German would first have to get a lawyer to see if the law justifies the idea. If it doesn’t, then either you have to lobby the legislative to toss in a paragraph permitting your little venture, or forget it. Now, pray tell, which capitalistic is more dynamic?
Then compare either rule of law system to what Putin and other authoritarian systems where if Putin doesn’t like you the person, well, he’ll just change the law and take away your business. These are the essential cause & effect that underly economic strength & growth.
They are illegal imagrints and should not be allowed to have any benifits to legal imagrints and if the mexican diplomat dont like it then why dont he just get lost we dont need any damn forgein politicians making laws for americans so why dont mexico just take back its people and quit sending them here
“Well, boo hoo. If enough people like you ain’t buying then, the maker will go out of business.”
Nobody like me buys airplanes. And the airplane business is doing fine.
Andy, You should be commended for your parent-like patience…..I think?
Actus: You never flew on a plane? Besides, the commercial air industry is heavily subsidized (esp after 9-11), thus provides a weak basis for a true free-market system (as does most industries, nowadays; sadly).
One of the responsibilities of our D.C. government (as opposed to the manifold host of things that they are NOT authorized to do but do anyway) is to keep our frontiers secure. Having failed this, it is natural that concerned citizens, the few who are left, would be doing what government officials should have been doing in the first place!
“Actus: You never flew on a plane? ”
Certainly. But thats different than buying one.
Nobody like me buys controlling stakes in companies.
Jim R. Good point, I’ve got 4 rugrats and Actup provides good practice in rooting them in the conservative creed. At this point, nthey understand good & evil and now learning about accountability and finances via chores and allowances.
“Nobody like me buys airplanes.”
And everybody like you buys the tickets that amortizes the cost of the plane. You can’t afford to own a plane, but you can afford to rent a seat long enough to get from A – B. And you’re in lawschool and haven’t figured this out yet?
How in the world are you going to pass bar, let alone channel a baby that should have been C-setioned out? Oh wait a minute (smacks forehead), Girly Breck Boy wasn’t all that smart about the economy either. Argue the law all you want, just promise me you’ll stay away from politics and law making.
“And everybody like you buys the tickets that amortizes the cost of the plane. You can’t afford to own a plane, but you can afford to rent a seat long enough to get from A – B. And you’re in lawschool and haven’t figured this out yet? ”
I’m renting a trip from a-b, not making a decision between boeing, airbus, bombardier or embraer. Someone else makes that decision. With my money, if you wish.
Actus, It has nothing to do with voting. Capitalism is the economic system where the people choose who gets what resources.
If you don’t like the definition and want to change people to money then go take it up with the people who create definitions…
But in literal terms money can’t spend itself so it is the people choosing who gets what resources and you are illiterate. Sorry to call names there. Just the facts.
Socialism is the government deciding who gets what resources.
This country is in between having the people choose with a little over 50% of the time and if you add up all state and federal expenditures the state choosing a little under 50% of the time.
Heritage.org does the annual economic freedom index and the United States dropped off of the list of the top 10 countries with the most economic freedom this year. Pretty sad. That spells downfall from my perspective.
“Actus, It has nothing to do with voting. Capitalism is the economic system where the people choose who gets what resources.”
Its just that my problem with that description brings up egalitarian democratic ideals. I think its more accurate to say that wealth allocates reasources. And most of us are smart enough to know that that means those who control wealth.
Actus, actually it is the market that allocates resources. How else would you explain the wealth behind chroniccandy or crack? Oh yeah, it’s a VRWC in conjunction with the CIA to steal from the black & poor.
Hmm, lessee what else? Oh yeah, George Soros controls wealth and now he owns the DNC.
What else? Soomeone must have been asleep at the gate when Micheal Jackson/Jordan, Magic, Coz and Oprah snuck thru to become some of the wealthiest entertainers.
In other words, here anyone can be wealthy with the right idea, perserverance and creativity and a customer base willing to shell out the $$.
In a socialist system, anyone with theright pedigree, degree or just flat out connections to the political power can be wealthy.
So what’s that psychobabble about egalitarian democratic ideals again?
“Actus, actually it is the market that allocates resources.”
In the the market, the decisionmakers are the controllers of wealth. With unequal power roughly in proportion to their wealth. Thats my point. I think you now you now get it.
“So what’s that psychobabble about egalitarian democratic ideals again? ”
In a democracy, where “people rule”, the egalitarian democratic idea is that everyone is a decisionmaker in equal proportion. This isn’t psychobabble. Its actually sometimes worth going to war over.
Actus, You are missing the point. The decision makers who decided on the definitino of capitalism hit the nail on the head I believe and you are flat out mixing apples and oranges.
The economic system of capitalism is the people choosing who gets what resources.
You mix into it issues of governance. In this country we’ve tried to eliminate monopolies and other inequitable and unethical business practices because if one person or entity owns a town or service or good then there is a lack of competition and we all agree that the common good isn’t served.
While I appreciate your desire to look out for the common person, trust me the best economic system is capitalism. A nation will prosper with capitalism and not prosper given the government choosing who gets what resources.
It is up to us to make the right business rules, set the right amount of tax (so as to not punish to harshly success) and provide a safety net for those who are not able-bodied, and provide for a defense of this nation and justice system that is as fair as we can with our government but that doesn’t mean the defintion of capitalism is wrong. You’re off track. Face the facts sometimes…
“The economic system of capitalism is the people choosing who gets what resources. You mix into it issues of governance”
No. I mix into it issues of what “the people” means.
Liberals.
The English language means nothing.
“The English language means nothing.”
No I think you understand english just fine. I think hate problem is you’re not understanding the concepts.
I live in the area where this is taking place and we have cottonwoods all along the San Pedro River. The elevation here runs above 4000 feet.
The minute men are a great group of patriots who are doing what is good for the country and keeping americans safe. The idiot liberals should just take their hybrid car and drive it off a cliff.
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