Arizona Park a ‘No-Go’ Zone for American Citizens
Ready told Stephen Lemons, who blogs for the Phoenix New Times, that his group is ready to pick up where law enforcement cannot and is encouraging his white supremacist brethren to bring their “assault rifles [and] military equipment” down to the Vekol Valley, as well as “identity concealing items like bandanas, balaclavas,” and camouflage. Ready says his group has its own rules of engagement, which will be explained to anyone who joins their mission, provided they can show a valid ID. “Our statement to law enforcement is to support us with choppers … with SWAT teams and so forth. We’re telling them to come down,” he says.
Sheriff Babeu has declined help from the vigilantes. “Securing our international border and fighting these heavily armed smugglers is the responsibility of the federal government,” Babeu says, reiterating that he needs help. “Local law enforcement can’t handle this on our own,” he says, “yet it will only complicate our concerns to have untrained and armed citizens, who are not from Pinal County, patrolling our desert areas.”
According to my conversation with a white supremacist affiliated with “Border Ops” through his newsletter “White News Now,” the vigilante mission is moving forward with or without the endorsement of local law enforcement. “One way or another the invasion must stop,” I was told.
The sentiment is growing in Arizona. Earlier this week a second, seemingly less radical group launched a second vigilante operation called “Operation Line in the Sand.” This mission was run by a group calling themselves the “Vekol Valley Illegal Immigrant Patrol,” which spokesman Harry L. Hughes III says began keeping watch last weekend. “Although we were ‘armed for bear,’” Hughes says, “I would like to think the primary intention of this show of force was to raise public awareness when it comes to the drug trade and human smuggling.” Photos of the group posted online seem like they might be able to fight off a small army of bears while raising that public awareness. Interestingly, Hughes also wants the issue of destruction of public lands addressed.
With the current administration deaf to the pleas of local law enforcement, perhaps Hughes’ group should call on President Clinton?
And so it begins…
Its sad that neo-nazis are displaying more pride and American can do spirit then the sheriff of this county…
If this sheriff gave two shits about the US or enforcing the law he could have an army of 10,000+ militia to help defend the border in less then a month… all he’d have to do is put the call out for any military/ex-military, police/ex-police, Fed law enforcement/ex- fed law enforcement and say “hey we need help we’ll make you deputies and we’ll feed you and supply you with ammo”…
The worst part of this the the fact that this sheriff is personally empowering the neo-nazis and helping spread racism. The more these pissants keep letting the mexicans invade, rape, kill and pillage the more likely you will see massive racist backlash which you will see more and more support for groups like the neo-nazi’s and more and more recruiting chances for them…
This simple reality seems to escape the “experts”… or maybe it doesn’t maybe their hoping for just that type of race war to kick off… either way the fed government seems to want to encourage every form of violence possible against US citizens.
oohhh….Obama would love to see our citizen rise up against the “border crossers” coming across our southern border..then he could shoot us and get away with it completely..poor drug people, just wantin to have the American dream, those nasty Americans getting in the way..
It’s the stupidity of people like Milwaukee Board of Supervisors member, PEGGY WEST. “Board of Supervisors”, thank you…said AZ was NOT a border state like Texas. It’s like 57 states all over again. She stated….
“If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding the borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.”
…..HELLO!!!!! IS THIS TRULY THE MENTALITY OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN??????
I’m on the side of an uprising.. send in the militia..the sheriff cannot legally do this.
And just so there’s no international controversy about another poor, wayward goat herder ending up in Gitmo, TAKE NO PRISONERS! Vultures gotta eat too.
I agree with Brain. Obama would have a 6ft boner with a cheezburger on the end if citizens would rise up(which is EXACTLY what me need to do) I think America needs to come to a harsh reality. The police etc can never, should never nor ever meant to replace self defense. They were created to help keep the peace, and they will never be in the numbers needed to do what we expect them. I feel really sad, because we have gone from a nation that valued self reliance, self defense, and being self made to one where these things are not only looked down upon, but made illegal in some cases. We need citizens to begin to not only arm themselves, but also learn how to use said arms and work to defend this country. Find your local minuteman group and begin patrolling. Learn basic first aid and survival techniques. This is not paranoid redneck stuff, thisis common sense and self reliance. The feds have chosen NOT to protect us. And every new president not only makes it harder for us to protect ourselves, but gives special rights,reward and shelter to the very people who would do us harm.”voting the bums out” is a good start but it will never ever take the place of what American citizens need to wake up and do.
Well said,
But we need to give the Arizona law a chance to work. Implementation of it commences is a few days and I’ve heard that thousands of illegals are evacuating the state in anticipation of it already. Obama and his ilk have lined up on the wrong side of this issue(again) and it will be their undoing if they don’t start doing the waffle boogie pretty damn quick. If they back down they reveal themselves for the pathetic cowards they are…. if they hold the line, we get the Congress and Senate back this fall and the executive branch in 2012. I suspect we get it back either way because they really stepped in it this time. Tell those militia boys to keep their powder dry… if what I’m advocating doesn’t work, we’re going to need them.
Right…How, and with what, will this sheriff pay for food an ammo for the 10k militia? With what budget? And housing? Logistics? There’s a reason he’s calling for the military and national guard. He is in over his head, and he knows it, and he’s asking for help from the feds- asking them to do their -ing job.
Plus, imagine the nightmare if the sheriffs deputies happened to, oh, I don’t know, cross the border in pursuit of a gang? Maybe following a running firefight? If it’s neo-nazis, then they can easily be arrested by the Mexican army without issue from our side of the border. That might, finally get the army involved, to control the whole situation. If it was a recognized militia- holy crap man, can you imagine? Do we really need a full out diplomatic/cold war with Mexico right now? There are solutions, but the federal government needs to get involved in a very serious way. This isn’t even about immigration- it’s about drug smuggling and human trafficing.
And don’t kid yourself about the white supremists. Do you seriously believe they have that much pride in the US, a US that elected a non-white President? This is about finding some kind of supposedly legitimate reason to kill some non-whites. These are not nice, patriotic men. These are likely men who are going to take out all their anger and hate on others. It’s bad enough to start a war with drug smugglers (wars are not self-contained, and IT WILL spread into the towns around the area, much worse than it has already), but what will they do with the people who are in the hands of the traffickers? Without any law to guide them, will they provide help and send them on their way back across the border, or simply ‘eliminate’ the problem? I know where I’d put my money.
Christopher,
You make some very good points and I can’t disagree with your logic. But war is hell and there will be casualties. In fact there already has been. I blame it all on the libs/dems for their veiled support of illegal immigration, their implicit support of sharia, their openly transparent support of socialism, and for being a despicable bunch of pathetic weenies that just need a good slapping around. It’s mostly their fault things have come to this. If the skin heads can redeem themselves in Arizona some by kicking up a ruckus, good for them. But let’s not forget, it’s the Muslims, not the Mexicans, we really need to be most concerned about. What’s going on in Arizona is just a tune up for what comes next. If this sounds racist to you, BITE ME!
Lot of lack of understanding of the way things work in the US. I will break down by question some of these issues.
“Right…How, and with what, will this sheriff pay for food an ammo for the 10k militia?”
Why does the sheriff have to pay at all? He doesn’t a simple few calls to the media and through the right channels and he’ll have tons of aid coming in through private donations.
“With what budget? And housing? Logistics? There’s a reason he’s calling for the military and national guard. He is in over his head, and he knows it, and he’s asking for help from the feds- asking them to do their -ing job.”
Won’t really require a large budget since most of the ppl will be doing it for free and supplying alot of there own gear. Housing?… you don’t know much about the military… Logistics? Once again not really an issue for this job.
He’s asking for something which isn’t going to happen… HE NEEDS TO DO HIS FKING JOB… which is to protect his county/town/etc.
“Plus, imagine the nightmare if the sheriffs deputies happened to, oh, I don’t know, cross the border in pursuit of a gang? Maybe following a running firefight? If it’s neo-nazis, then they can easily be arrested by the Mexican army without issue from our side of the border. That might, finally get the army involved, to control the whole situation. If it was a recognized militia- holy crap man, can you imagine? Do we really need a full out diplomatic/cold war with Mexico right now? There are solutions, but the federal government needs to get involved in a very serious way. This isn’t even about immigration- it’s about drug smuggling and human trafficing.”
You really don’t know much about this issue do you? First the mexican army often crosses into the US… far to often. Second were already at war with mexico like it or not. Third theirs really no realistic difference between the mexican army and the drug cartels. The only “solutions” left that will work involve shooting ppl crossing the border… be it the fed/state/local groups that do it.
“And don’t kid yourself about the white supremists. Do you seriously believe they have that much pride in the US, a US that elected a non-white President? This is about finding some kind of supposedly legitimate reason to kill some non-whites.”
These are not nice, patriotic men. These are likely men who are going to take out all their anger and hate on others. It’s bad enough to start a war with drug smugglers (wars are not self-contained, and IT WILL spread into the towns around the area, much worse than it has already), but what will they do with the people who are in the hands of the traffickers? Without any law to guide them, will they provide help and send them on their way back across the border, or simply ‘eliminate’ the problem? I know where I’d put my money.”
Your kidding right…. these ppl have the same pride in the US that in the 1920-40s they had in germany… the pride they see it could become with they’re “help”. Once again maybe you should read what I posted because ppl like you are insuring that the neo-nazis and other are being patriotic groups… and thats dangerous counter to what you may believe. The war with the drug smugglers is already spreading once again do you know anything about this topic? Its spreading through not just the border states but even into non-border states… Your once again about 10-20 years behind the curve here in understanding whats going on.
A Live Fire Exercise for our Special Ops troops ?
A Terrorist invasion to be handled per the Patriot Act ?
A wonderful opportunity for testing robotic war machines,
airborne and otherwise ?
According to Ruben Navarette, Nobel Laureate in Moonbattery, these are just the hysterical tantrums of crazies whipped into a frenzy by Fox News. There’s actually no problem at all there, except for a few gardeners and maids who have taken a wrong turn.
and they brought their drugs and guns along for the ride…
of course they did..shotting a vase beats the hell out of dusting it ;0)
We have poor leadership in the USA. Obama needs to be faced down about this border situation.
I don’t understand why people are afraid of this man..he gets softball questions and we settle for drivel for answers from Gibbs.
We are being invaded, literally. Obama has treated the AZ governor like a naughty child and it needs to stop. The man needs to go down hard.
McCain has not done anything to help with with AZ problems…until an election and it’s a hot topic. Now he’s gung-ho..a day late and dollar short.. he’s milquetoast..he should have been more interested in his state sooner. He needs to go and a hard liner with the state’s interest at heart.
As to why people are afraid of The One, in spite of his thundering incompetence and seemingly boundless stupidity, it was best summed up by Scott Adams’ Dilbert, referring to his pointy-haired dimwit of a boss;
“There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.”
Unless of course said idiot is also a complete arsehole with nearly unlimited power. Which is more or less the situation we have in the Oval Office right now.
I’m predicting it will end like one or the other of two previous cases in the same place. Either Carter, or Nixon. I call the odds six-five and pick ‘em.
cheers
eon
Living in Arizona must be a surreal experience right now. The state is literally being invaded by foreign nationals and the U.S. government simply doesn’t give a damn. State officials try to adopt reasonable measures to stem said invasion and they are pilloried as racist apartheid thugs. Not only that but the federal government goes to court against the state to prevent enforcement of laws which SHOULD be enforced BY the federal government. The worst criminals imaginable engage in armed violence along the border, kill law enforcement officers and transform large swaths of the state into war zones and nobody cares.
I’m not the paranoid type but I have to buy into Senator Kyl’s thesis that the Obama government wants things to get so chaotic in Arizona that the “least bad” solution will be wholesale amnesty for illegals and instant naturalization. There seems no other explanation for the federal government, so “activist” on other fronts, remaining passive in the face of this crisis.
Arizona? Arizona is a big state.. it has 430,000 illegals in it. I live in
Maryland.. a small state. Our Marxist Governor O’Malley has declared it a sanctuary.
In this tiny state we have 500,000 illegals. And the state just built
a 30 million dollar mansion called “Casa de Maryland”..to find employment and
legal counsel and sanctuary..for our illegal population. Meanwhile unemployment
for Americans here in Maryland is 13%. You want to see “crazy”..come to
Langley Park Maryland. A little multiculutural tour of gangs, drug lords,
graffitti, violent death and ..wait for it..”Casa de Maryland”
It’s due to insurgent sanctuaries like Maryland that our country is in such a mess. American’s need to wake up and kick the libs/dems out. They’re ruining our country. And it appears to be intentional with the help of a lot of useful idiots.
“Tiny” Maryland might have more illegals than “big” Arizona, but what percentage of your land is desert, where NOBODY lives?
It soesn’t matter carolanni, ehunter still makes a good point. We need to stick together. Illegal Immigration is a problem for all 57 states.
So What? Lets worry about most of Los Angeles being a “No-Go Zone” for
Americans. Lets worry about Ron Gochez and La Raza quoting Fidel Castro
and preaching Marxist Revolution to mass crowds
of Mexicans in which whites are the enemy to be dispossesed.
Lets worry about mass voting blocs of hispanics that will
put whites in the minority and rewrite US immigration laws. Lets worry
about California becoming the least educated state down from most educated
in 1970. Lets worry about the 11 million legal immigrants that are now
living on welfare..at white middle class taxpayers expense. Lets worry about
the scum polticians that are giving away our land, culture, and future. Lets
worry about endless indoctrination of the young into fundamentally Marxist
“Multi Culturalism”. …What do I care about a remote Wildlife Refuge.
The invasion is here..now and we are losing all of our country..not some strip of
desert.
B
no
You are correct that your statement takes precedence. However, the thugs that “own” this land need to be forcibly removed for the principal alone. Almost all wars are about force of will and real estate. So it deserves its due credit.
The border gets the most attention, but interior enforcement that eliminates the magnet that draws the illegals here in the first place is the dirty little secret that must be addressed. This is a war for not only for our sovereignty and culture, but is fundamentally about stopping subversive leftist and corporatist threats to our constitutional republic and rule of law. Hence the hysteria over Arizona SB 1070; they wouldn’t oppose it nearly so much if it were not effective.
Very Well Said Regularguy,
Let’s not overlook the very real possibility that O’Bama is allowing this Immigration Issue to reach a boiling point intentionally so that our focus will be diverted from the Muslim situation. It’s in our country’s best interests to resolve our differences with Illegals (especially Latinos) from south of the border. They are primarily Christians with a good work ethic.I personally think the Arizona law is an excellent way to go about weeding out the bad apples. Once we get that implemented we can commence deporting Muslims who would seek to violently overthrow our Country and impose Sharia law. I’m beginning to think O’Bama has very little problem with Sharia. Has anyone heard him say one critical thing about it? I’m sure he would line up in favor of the mosque two blocks from ground zero. Is there anyone out there who would dispute me on that?
Obama is a failure, McCain is a failure, all of both the Congress and the Senate are failures, and Oath breakers. They all have sworn to protect the USA from enemies and have failed. They swore to protect the USA and have lied. These piss-ants still want to bend over and take it from criminal illegal aliens because it is “too hard” to enforce the laws on the books. I have nothing but disdain for those bottom feeders in D.C. If there is more lawlessness and murder on the boarder than Mr. Obama is an accomplice to murder no matter who gets murdered.
Obama wants Open Borders. He wants Amnesty. With Amnesty the Democratic Party
will get 30 million guaranteed votes as Dems provide welfare in return
for allegiance.
Thats what kind of scum our politicians are.
A nagging part of me – and I don’t usually subscribe to conspiracy theories, I’m a skeptic – wonders if this isn’t going in a direction to allow for some kind of martial law declaration.
Arizona is certainly headed towards chaos. And the Federal government seems seriously complicit in assuring that continues to happen. Trying to forsee how the equation finishes out runs beyond me, but I see no good. Historically we as a nation have declared war over less than this.
Yes!!!!! Martial Law looms ahead!! Why else would our “leaders” allow the situation in AZ o continue?
Mexico has filed a suit against the AZ law..what the hell? A foreign nation files against one of our states and Obama does nothing??
I believe they are working towards the uniting of Mexico and the US, and really don’t care what we think.
martial law..yes.
Noway Anne. This would mean the police could come into your home and take your guns. I just went to CA a month ago, driving the 8. No new check points. There were new ones in CA. No checkpoints from Tuscon to Lordsburg,NM. That is NM Border Patrol HQ, and at any given time, the lot is full of private cars and full Border Vehicles. NM has the same problems but you don’t hear from the fact, they rarley get caught. There are at least a half dozen ways to go north to ABQ or into AZ. Columbus,NM is like an ocean wave one month, nothing the next. The DrugStore’s ran out of Tylox a while back, oh that’s right, we think we are going to keep Afganistan from ever growing poppy again. What happened to the DEA?
O”bama has done worse than nothing Anne, Obama has filed suit against Arizona too. It’s a complete outrage.
As of June 28th, he has not filed suit. He talks about it a lot, but he hasn’t filed.
Kind of like in Europe right now. Since those in the mainstream are dropping the ball, fringe groups will fill the void. Im no Neo-Nazi, but I can understand the sentiment of wanting to do something.
I wrote about this for my paper as well.
It’s time we got control of the border. It’s time we killed the cartels. If that means sending special forces across the border to teach them manners, so be it. If it means sending armor to the border to teach the Mexican ARMY manners. So. Be. It.
Patrick
Harold Coyle ‘Trial by Fire’ 1992 US/Mexico war sparked by Drug Lords
Coyle assumed the corruption in Mexico, particularly in its military,
was correctable by cleaning out the Drug Lords. He may have been optimistic,
and also underestimated the demographic doom about to overtake Mexico;
The main ‘enemy’ may be masses of refugees crossing the border.
For a fictionalized scenario of just how effective (and cheap) a weapon refugees can be in a “geopolitical” sense, read “Sea Fighter” by James H. Cobb, the third novel in the “Captain Amanda Garrett” series.
cheers
eon
The southern border is just too big to effectively control against the huge numbers trying to cross. This needs to be addressed on the demand side of the equation and I finally see this beginning to happen. Arizona took a big step when they made E-Verify mandatory. In 2008 illegal immigration numbers dropped 18%, partly due to the fact that many illegals have decided the identity theft needed to beat the system is too difficult or risky. Coupled with the economic downturn we are seeing that we don’t have to deport tens of thousands of illegals, take away their jobs and many will simply go home. Improvements in E-Verify, making it necessary for government assistance, making it mandatory in all states that want federal funding, and outlawing lawbreaking sanctuary cities could make this trend accelerate immensely.
On the other side of the equation is the incentive for drug smugglers. A thirty year war on drugs that has been hugely expensive and a dismal failure has to be rethought. It wasn’t until the St. Valentines Massacre and the need for a new taxable product during the Great Depression that America finally repealed prohibition. The evolution of Mexico into a narcostate, the violence across the border, the violence from our own homegrown drug financed gangsters, and the current massive deficits could result in the legalization or at least decriminalization of some drugs.
Once those two huge incentives to cross the border, jobs and drug money, dry up or at least decrease significantly our border agents will be far less overwhelmed and far better able to police the border against the illegal immigrants I fear most, OTMs from Islamic countries.
I’m sorry rancher but this is a myth… work side enforcement is very costly to both the employers and taxpayers and isn’t hugely effective for the cost.
1. Its very easy to fake docs to get a job even with many of the other things being added to the system.
2. Many illegals work under the table anyway so its meaningless.
3. Gangs don’t care who they hire.
4. Many many state give welfare and such to illegals purposely or through a “were not asking” policy. So even the best case of stopping them from getting jobs is overall meaningless since they will sit on the public doll.
5. Anything short of a national ID with a national DNA data will be picked apart in a few years. Beside the massive cost of such an ID/Datatbase… the insane government abuse of the system would be well insane.
Work side enforcement helps but it does nothing for the real issues of crime, drugs, welfare… and in fact makes them worse.
The only cheap and easy way to deal with the problem is to seal the border… once the border is sealed illegals will self deport or be picked up through normal police actions such as speeding tickets…
As long as the border is open then you do nothing about the 3 big issues crime, drugs, welfare…
rancher and robotech,
You’re both right. You both have good workable ideas. It will be very expensive, but it’s a big problem that needs a big effort to solve it. It probably won’t happen unless our Federal Govt helps, or at the very least gets out of the way. Neither of those things will happen unless we bring about big changes in congress and the presidency. O’Bama’s American dream is unAmerican.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html
A very good read. However, this is an example of things to come. The desired effect is occuring. We as Americans, will see fighting among ourselves along color, and religious lines. It is part of how a Nation is to be change/destroyed.
The United states government is performing treason, and not doing the will of the people. They have sold out.
As a regular PJ Media reader I can’t express how excited I was to see this posting. Finally! Some in depth reporting on important subject matter that maybe, just maybe might get the facts out here on the ground without a blatant bias. Being in the eye of the immigration hurricane in Maricopa county may yet bear important national fruit.
I’ve been in Phoenix for ten years now. During my stay the NEW TIMES has had a running gig targeting Sheriff Joe. Stephen Lemons is just the latest to latch on. These articles have proven little more that hit pieces, rarely shedding any light on the issues at all. Instead they alternately portray Arpaio as a Sheriff Buford Pusser caricature – a publicity clown ever ready for a media event – or – the sinister ALL THE KINGS MEN Svengali – a shrewd and corrupt associate of such wannabe vigilante racists as J.T. Ready. Make no mistake, Ready is a real life disgusting white racist. And Arpaio long ago discredited these vicious rumors as just that. No affiliation what so ever.
It’s not fair to accuse NEW TIMES editors of pushing their brand of advocacy journalism as strictly ‘selling newspapers’ – since it’s a Village Voice syndication that is priced to sell in many cities besides just Phoenix; it’s a Free Times literally. You can pick it up and read it for nothing. And shockly journalism occationally does break out there – just rarely, very rarely. Instead its basically a good local guide to what band is playing in what bar on fri or sat. And did I mention, ITS FREE?
These editors and various writers have been claiming not only a secrete alliance between Arpaio and such openly racist losers like Ready, but have been pushing the same unproven clap trap about Sen. Russell Pearce (The State Senator most responsible for SB 1070 & most of the other anti-illegal Immigration issues here for the past 6+ years) as well as former County Attorney (current Attorney Gen candidate) Andrew Thomas.
Such libelous shoddy reporting amps up the stakes not only locally but nationally as immigration has migrated beyond just a problem for border states.
So it is with great dismay that I have to point out to the writer here thus – about an article that otherwise does a good job trying to break into these issues:
‘The park sits in the Vekol Valley, which falls under the jurisdiction of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Unlike BLM, Babeu has law enforcement obligations to uphold. In April, one of Sheriff Babeu’s deputies, Deputy Louie Puroll, was ambushed in the park while chasing six drug smugglers. Despite the fact that Puroll fired 46 rounds of ammunition at his assailants, he was outgunned, overtaken, shot, and killed.’
It’s beyond disappointing that such an editorial slight would escape this writers proofing. It’s exactly the kind of shoddy work common from NEW TIMES!
Deputy Louie Puroll was not shot and killed! Your article referenced with it’s link clearly pointed this out!
I have watched, as have many likewise who are acutely attuned to the immigration debates here in Arizona, a lot of deliberate misreporting going on – long before the current controversies over SB1070.
The claims of an imminent outbreak of violent vigilantism has been a smokescreen useful to such open boarders/immigration advocates as Frank Sherry & Tamar Jacoby and echoed by the likes of the Southern Poverty Law Center- often and for quite a long time. They too have insinuated without facts, not only besmirching those above already mentioned, but also Kris Kobach, the astute author of SB 1070 – and who likewise is a candidate for his states position as Attorney Gen.
I have often (with many others) taken PJ Media’s own Ruben (the “Mexican Masher’) Navvarette to task for his particular brand of San Diego convenient –retention- from- memory-more-like-Gabriel Garcia Marquez-fictional-surrealism – passing itself off as reporting/commentary.
So, please, Annie Jacobsen, do continue with these astute narratives. But…
Hire an editor! The stakes are too high for these kinds of High School yearbook goofs. You diminish not only the topic but the venue that has invited you.
Plus you set those of us who care about these topics deeply as easy marks for those who oppose us. And since the facts rarely if ever aid their cause, such mistakes incourage them to believe they can win the argument with the American people by way of old fashioned straw men character assassination.
That is a big problem in what is already a complicated issue.
Phoenix48,
Thank you for pointing out my error. I notified the PJM editors who corrected it.
Seems to me that by not sending Federal troops to repel invaders from Mexico, push them back across the border, establish law and order, and to secure the border in Arizona–especially when such help was specifically requested by the Governor of Arizona–Obama is in dereliction of his most basic duty, and that his inaction is aiding and abetting the Mexicans who are invading our country and gaining control of our land, and that, therefore, Obama has committed the “high Crimes and misdemeanors” of neglecting our National Defense, of not protecting our country’s borders and citizens, and of not trying to repel a foreign invasion, and could—if the Congress wished—be impeached for his crimes.
This Congress obviously won’t impeach, but perhaps the new Congress seated in January 2011–if different enough in composition–might vote to start the impeachment process rolling.
I live about 90 miles north of the US / Mexico border. In 2005 my neighbor, a law enforcement officer involved in drug investigations, advised me not to travel on the back roads within ten miles of the border unless I was armed.
Now I’m being advised by the Federal Government not to visit a National Monument with 30 miles of my home because that Federal land filled with armed criminals. How long will it be before I am personally forced to defend my own neighborhood, here in small town America, against foreign invaders and drug cartels? How long will it take before the invaders reach your town and set about turning it into a narco-province of Mexico?
I’m ready.
This article implies the entire Sonoran Desert National Monument is closed. Best I can tell, it isn’t. Only a very small portion of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge is closed, along the border with Mexico, about 3500 acres closed since October 2006 – nothing new here.
That’s bad enough, but it isn’t 1.4 Million acres. Can someone point me to evidence that more has been closed due to the border situation?
Marley: Does it really matter if it’s 100 square miles or merely 10? The point is, that if I want to drive from where I live, south of Tucson, to San Diego, along I-8, I will traverse through land that is, shall I say, hazardous to my health. Traveling through what part of your state will produce a similar risk?
Darcy,
This is the point I’d hoped to make and is the underlying principle to the narrative of my story.
I will comment further on this thread below.
OK it is a very small area it doesn’t matter? OK Let every redneck in America go there to hunt Mexicans after all it is a very small area so who cares.
Americans need to wise up and face the fact that we are being invaded/attacked on our southern border, and our president is allowing it…we have to ask why..why is this man allowing this to go on in our country?
We need to demand that the laws on the border be enforced. The people running for office need to answer for what they have “not” done. No softball questions, make them answer to us.
McCain really needs to go. He has had years to work for better enforcement, instead he wants to sponsor amnesty etc..now that he’s up for re election and there is a stink, he walks the fence and talks of tougher enforcement etc..what a farce. He knows about the Sonora Desert National Monument problems.
Of course by now we all know that Arizona is “not” a border state with Mexico like Texas is. Such stupidity, in one form or another, seems to be rampant.
Enough, already! It’s true geographically-challenged Democratic official Peggy West didn’t know AZ was a border state, but give her SOME credit. At least she knew it was 1 of the 57.
1. Clay Marley, as Ms. Jacobsen should have learned from the Website she linked, some roads in the Sonoran National Desert Monument have been closed in order to repair environmental damage caused by off-road vehicles. My quick reading–careful reading is Ms. Jacobsen’s job–found a caveat about drug smuggling, but the overall area remains open to visitors.
2. CM, I agree with your statement about the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Posting a link would do for Ms. Jacobsen the work she should have done herself. So I won’t. As Dr. Helen often writes, if you subsidize behavior you get more of it.
3. darcy, I agree with you that fundamentally it doesn’t “really matter if it’s 100 square miles or merely 10″. But getting the facts right matters! If an undecided audience catches me being off by a factor of ten, I can kiss them good-bye even if my underlying argument is sound.
4. Ms. Jacobsen, this is the second instance in this single article in which you have apparently failed to read a source that you linked. Phoenix48 #14 pointed out the first. My opinion of your credibility is adjusted accordingly. I suspect that some of your commenters put more journalistic work into this piece than you did.
5. Finally, note that some major PJM writers are wont to slam the leftist media for caring more about the narrative than the facts. Pot, meet kettle.
GS: I think you are confusing two parks (one is run by BLM and the other is run by U.S. Fish & Wildlife) and two separate stories. I have clarified below.
–Annie Jacobsen
How about this: We demand that Mexico become a habitable place for decent human beings and then allow more immigration? Why are they always let off the hook in these arguments? They (the Mexican people) have created, or allowed to be created, a political cesspool on their land. How is this the problem of tax-paying US citizens?
I think we’re all seeing–right now–how very easy it is for the “right” people to turn a country’s political system into a cesspool.
So far, at least, most business gets done without bribes, at least at the local level (reallybig business, federal level, requires millions in political contributions; see, e.g., ownership of Obama by America’s unions; support of the very destructive Cap ‘n Tax by some businesses). But self-dealing is so rampant (see, e.g., climate change legislation–Cap ‘n Tax–which will benefit well-positioned politicos and businesses) that bribes become almost a non-issue.
Once Mexico’s narcoterrorists begin buying border states’ law enforcement (assuming they haven’t already begun), once our economy has been destroyed, once a huge percentage of our citizens are unemployed and become desperate, who’s to say we won’t be just like Mexico? Is Canada prosperous enough to absorb fleeing Americans?
Sounds like the Nazis are going to fight Mexican drug gangs for control of a section of American territory…while the Feds sue Arizona for trying to get federal immigration laws enforced…and our illustrious leader plays golf.
Only in America.
Sounds good let the Nazis fight the cartels. What is the down side either way civilization gains.
Those who lose wars and lose territory always have longer memories than the winners. Mexicans never have forgotten that Texas was once part of Mexico, as was California and the several states between them. It is not large in our own memory, and we moved on long ago. I understand this because I am a Southerner. We have never forgotten either, and the north wonders why we won’t let go.
That said, I would never – never advocate returning the southwest to Mexico. The very idea is absurd, is it not? But it is not absurd to many Mexicans, who hope to reconquer the area by immigration, and others- the drug gangs – who feel they have an historical right to flout American jurisdiction.
The only way to deal with this is to make it abundantly clear that the hope of reconquista or the flouting of American jurisdiction is a hopeless pipe dream. That means vigorous enforcement.
Our government has turned a deaf ear to the pleas of its citizens on the border and elsewhere. That leaves a vacuum into which radical and militant groups feel empowered to enter. No peace loving person should see that as a good thing. No responsible government would alloow that to happen. But I am afraid that is exactly what is about to happen. If the government does not take up its responsibilities, then the best course as I see it is to begin impeachment procedures immediately after the election and installation of a new congress. There are are abundant grounds for doing so, and it cannot happen too soon.
Tinmouth,
Great post. I commend you.
Yep, the American Southwest was part of Mexico from 1821 (when Mexico’s independence from Spain was recognized) through 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding the southwest to the US. The US agreed to pay Mexico 15 million for the land, among other concessions, including respecting the property rights of the Mexicans (about 20% of the population at the time) living in what would become CA, TX, NM, and AZ. The Republic of Texas was independent prior to this (though the Mexicans didn’t recognize them), and the remaining parts of AZ and NM were purchased in 1853 for an additional 10 million (Gadsden Purchase).
So the southwest was part of Mexico for a whopping 27 years (32 in the case of AZ/NM) and the US didn’t take it; we bought it from their government. The Mexicans at the time were about 20% of the population of the region. Prior to 1821, it belonged to the Spanish, who slaughtered the majority of the native peoples. The ones who weren’t slaughtered ended up breeding with the Spanish to create the modern-day Mexican. So they are not any more native than most of the North American population is. These areas have been part of the US for far longer than they were part of Mexico, and we compose a lot more of the population. That is a large part of what this invasion seeks to change–they seek to retake the southwest by outpopulating us.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if the tables were turned. The Feds won’t enforce their own immigration laws and states like Arizona and Texas are just supposed to deal with that.
What would happen though if states passed laws that would make it an absolute defense in law if the “victim” was an illegal alien, and the burden of proof as to citizenship was placed on the ones who were challenged as to their immigration/citizenship? Want to sue someone for personal injuries you sustained in a car wreck? The Defendant has filed a Right of Residency Challenge. If you can’t meet it the law suit gets thrown out of court, forever.
File a criminal complaint against somebody for assaulting you? If he files a Right of Residency Challenge and you can’t meet it the case against the Defendant gets thrown out.
The incidence of “self-deportation” would become an avalanche, or they would quickly move to more “progressive” states.
Hey Federal government, you won’t enforce your own laws regarding illegal immigrants—well we won’t enforce our laws either when the “victims” are illegal immigrants. How the liberals would howl.
Uh huh, sounds like an engraved invitation for an ACLU lawsuit. I do believe they are awarded their “attorneys’ fees” when they win a case for violation of anyone’s civil rights. (It’s no longer a place where caring-though-impoverished, self-sacrificing attorneys fight for the rights of the underdog!) If illegals aren’t given every right a citizen has, then their rights have been violated. And the ACLU is just the group to invest 1000 hours @ $350 to protect them.
I`m all for setting the table with a squadron of Air Force fighter jets unloading on the drug gangs who have invaded our country.
Don`t let anyone in the gov`n tell you they can`t find these people either. If we can build the Hubble Space Telescope that can see billions of light years into deep space we can sure as hell turn that thing on Arizona and tell what color eyes these invaders have….
There will be no action. Obama will not do anything to defend this nation.
Obama and his adm need to go. So does McCain.
We could round up all the thousands of unemployed homeless black people wandering our streets and send them down to the border. Give them a gun and a job and a couple of meals a day to keep an eye out for two-legged coyotes.
I wonder how many of them would stay on the job and employed, and how many would wend their way back to Detroit, Mexican drug smuggler in tow, eager to get back to life on the streets.
If you are going to go that far just send them to Mexico and let Mexico take care of them, or not.
In my view the poor souls cannot see the real reasons why they are allowed to come over. The plans are to make them the new SLAVES.
They come over free, and will be entrapped in the long run.
if given Amnesty, they will have to continue to provide
1: work for low wages.
2: build up Social security.
3: give up their young people to become a part of the Armed forces of the US.
4: provide cheap labor in the prisons camps.
5: once they are placed in a DNA bank, finger printed, given an ID, they will now be used at will to do whatever they are commanded to do.
The illegals will wish they stayed in Mexico and fight the Cartels.
if there is a fight to take back America, they will be caught up in a bad situation. Blacks always side with the Whites.
The Hispanics should take note of the Civil Rights struggle
THEY ARE BITING THE HANDS THAT FEED THEM
How can they cry RACISM and then expect the same people to Feed them and provide benefits, this is foolish.
The dont know much about America and what they are facing.
The BETTER LIFE they seek will become bitter sweet in the long run.
THIS IS SELF IMPOSED SLAVERY in many ways only in a new way.
many of their leaders are clueless, and is paid to continue to give them a false sense of security which is way off base.
They themsleves will suffer in the long run
Go NSM! Past time to do what the Fed’s refuse to do,the Fed’s have shown themselves to be TRAITORS!
Doesn’t matter what color American you are just so your an AMERICAN.GET DOWN TO THE BOARDER NOW!!! /Damn with all the illegals that have invaded our country with the governments blessings we need to start cleaning out our own hood’s 1st!!!
Just legalize drugs, but don’t enact Obamacare that will make us pay for the few imbeciles who OD. Then again, with gov’t care, an OD might prove more fatal than at present.
It’s my body: I should be able to put into it what I want. Prohibition facilitated Capone et. al. On this point, I say, “Bonghits 4 ‘Bama.”
Well folks. Since everone is talking fantasys, lets try one more. We could do as the USSR did. Build a Berlin Wall, complete with watch towers and machine guns. Anyone that appears in the “no mans land ” between the walls is shot. Oh yea, it’s full of mines and tunnel guards. Those of you who do not live in a border state have no idea how bad it really is. Try being a police officer in that area. Try working for a Chief and Mayor who tell you that Arizone is wrong. As it stands right now, we are being invaded by another country and our leaders are allowing it. Bring our troups home and let them save us from intruders.
The problem with such a wall is that it also keeps Americans in should the Federal Socialists (I would call them National Socialists, but that seems to have been redefined to mean “white supremacists”) win and we need to flee.
(I would call them National Socialists, but that seems to have been redefined to mean “white supremacists”)
The democrats are now and always have been white supremacists and if you don’t realize that it’s because you’ve bought into a huge lie.
have a nice day
Our country was founded and defended by citizens and militias or has nearly everyone forgotten that ? Each militia had there own agenda too. The Irish fought for Irish immigrants – the persecuted British fought for other British subjects and so on.
As A Jew and retired military member I don’t like the idea of neo-nazi’s defending our borders but if the state, county or federal law enforcement agencies are unwilling/wont or simply can’t what choice do us American’s have ? If it isn’t the neo-nazi’s then it will be some other group that will and the police/feds will have a issue with that.
Our Constitution granted the right to every state to have a “well formed militia” which is suppose to be the states National Gard but they are tied up with political bull and mismanagement and the state governors not doing a thing to use there powers to mobilize them.
Regardless of what Sheriff Paul Babeu says or wants every American has a duty to protect our country, our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights grants us that power whether we like the group defending it or not.
Everyone complains of all these minutemen groups saying they are only going to cause more problems but it was those same kinds of minutemen 200 years ago that helped fight the British Crown and win our freedom.
sad that we can’t close off the border can’t we use national guard
What national guard ? There isn’t enough left in our country, they are all in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus so far there hasn’t been one governor that will use there power to mobilize them in fear of the White House and Congress scolding them for it or the communist party of American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) suing them for racial profiling.
You’re wrong about “all” of the national guard being in the Middle East. But you’re right that fear of the White House, Congress and the ACLU will give any governor pause.
To tell the truth, I strongly suspect Governor Brewer may be setting the stage to do just that. She and the AZ legislature bring a giant spotlight on the border problem, knowing nothing substantive will be done to stop it. Then they continue a campaign to educate the public about what’s really happening in our border states. It’s not just the border either–the cartels have sophisticated supply and distribution networks in place all across the US. They even have lookout posts IN ARIZONA to keep track of LEO activity for smugglers, complete with supply runs! If the violence hasn’t touched your part of the US yet, trust me, it will. Better to stop it now before it engulfs us all. Illegal aliens already hit your pocketbook to the tune of at least $338 BILLION a year (Center for Immigration Studies). The true cost of illegal aliens is horrifying. Spend some time perusing this site. http://www.usillegalaliens.com/ But I digress…
Anyway, Brewer pushes for the Administration to secure the border, knowing they will not do anything that would stem the flow of future Democrats or the drugs that keep current Democrats anesthetized against critical thinking. She engages them in every way she can, and does so as publicly as possible. Eventually, she will have established that she has just cause to call up the AZ Nat’l Guard and possibly assemble the state militia as provided in the Arizona State Constitution.
Only about 20 to 30% of the Nat. Guard is in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, druggies make up a significant portion of the Obama base. So don’t expect this administration to lift a finger to deal with these alien felons. The dope must flow.
There are two, separate Arizona parks that are currently being written about in the news and a number of commenters seem to be confusing them. I hope this clarifies:
My story is about the Sonoran Desert National Monument, which is 496,600 acres of “cactus plains and rugged mountain ranges southwest of Phoenix,” according to BLM. The Agency’s spokesman, Dennis Godfrey, confirms that earlier this month a dozen signs were posted warning people against traveling in the area to the south of Interstate 8 due to “active drug and human” trafficking. For exact roads that are closed, you can see the map below.
I am not writing about the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, which is a separate land parcel under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is located on Arizona’s international border with Mexico. Newspapers USA Today and Fox News both carried stories about this park this past week and I think commenters have got them confused (they actually speak to the same, bigger issue). The Refuge — which was not designated a monument by President Clinton — had 3,500 acres closed in 2006 and, according to Fish & Wildlife, will remain closed “indefinitely” because the area is not safe for visitors.
In an official press release and map (which I link to below) the reason for the indefinite closure is because “the concentration of illegal activity, surveillance and law enforcement interdictions make these zones dangerous.” Yes, other Fish & Wildlife press releases also claim “imperiled species issues” but it is hardly the turtles and the cacti that are the real issue. It’s the “violence on the Refuge associated with smugglers and border bandits,” as is written in the closure notice.
It’s a slippery slope moving north.
–Annie Jacobsen
Sonoran Desert National Monument road closures: http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/az/pdfs/nepa/projects/phoenix/08_EAs_pdo/sonoran_road_closure.Par.95542.File.dat/color_page_size_all3.jpg
Closure of Refuge Lands Adjacent to Border (Arizona/Mexico)
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:3JMCYnD3IDoJ:www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/buenosaires/PDFs/Closure.pdf+http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/buenosaires/PDFs/Closure.pdf&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShJ6hKKGWLpOsXo4dw2mBIfLe112md1E3asBQxsMYNlMW3aN9-qXr1H7_8UqAB8DNaNfCl6I8g2CDtKggHBH7E5nPXkBglfe3gNFDFnBCMA9jbaefLyzBvS0IJburJtDK5GMt5O&sig=AHIEtbT5teT_Ql1GJp0_gtDxOsE8XyBDkg
You can never go wrong with adding more info and congrats to you for at least reading and responding to some of the comments here… your braver then many who post at PJM… but then again your not also posting propaganda BS like say rock moron or old ruben…
Annie Jacobsen, thank you for your response to my previous comment.
No, I am not confusing the two parks and neither is Clay Marley, whose comment #17 I was following up.
At the Sonora link in your article, clicking on “Temporary Road Closure in Sonoran Desert National Monument” takes one to a page with a number of links that explain, per my previous comment, that 15% of the roads were closed so environmental damage could be repaired. At the Sonora link, clicking on “Border Issues” takes one to a warning that drug smuggling takes place and instructions on how to react.
You write: An American national monument has become a drug-smuggling corridor between Mexico and the southwest. No argument from me. Wars between Mexican drug cartels have grown so severe in the park that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), who manages it, says it’s too dangerous to enter. Not true, according to the BLM’s Sonora Website.
My disagreement with you about the Sonoran Monument closures is based on exploring the Website which your article linked. If there is material I have overlooked, please set me straight with a hyperlink. Thanks.
Afterthoughts: I found a Fox News report quoting BLM spokesman Dennis Godfrey, but I have not found a recording of the interview. I have not found any confirmation of the quote on a federal Website. I have not found any photos of the Sonora signs. Fox reported on June 16, so the government certainly should have updated the Sonora site if there is a public safety issue.
If the government is covering up the Sonora situation and Godfrey inadvertently blurted out the truth, that’s important to know. If Fox has materially misquoted a government spokesman about a national security issue, that’s also worth knowing.
Oh, and please let me temper the harshness of my original comment. I don’t fault you if you took Fox at face value, but it’s unfortunate that the post, afaik, didn’t link to Fox or another news report.
This report seems to settle the point (HT: Allahpundit/Hot Air). Warning signs–not closure signs–are being placed by the feds in the Casa Grande area, well north of the border.
To summarize:
1. In June 2008, during the previous administration, the government closed some roads in the Sonoran Desert National Monument. The stated rationale was environmental damage from off-road vehicles.
2. Well north of the border, the federal government recently has put up signs warning that travel is dangerous.
3. The federal Sonoran Monument Website is materially inconsistent with the warning signs.
Annie Jacobsen, if you maintain that the foregoing distinctions are irrelevant given “underlying principle to the narrative of my story”, I disagree. As a matter of principle, it’s important to get the facts right. As a matter of practical politics, the Left–and the Bush/McCain immigration “reformers”–are going to seize every pretext to play gotcha.
Here a couple of other links of interest. In this one, the AP seems to get it right. Signs “recommending” people stay out of the larger area for their safety. These are being put up by local AZ BLM people.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0IriIZqcpNXMXAxGAJ0-u16vPWwD9GC0NV80
Next we have a video of the AZ governor standing in front of one of these signs pleading for help from the feds. Which won’t be coming. Instead Obama has decided to sue AZ for enforcing federal laws. The Left’s disdain for the constitution is matched by their disdain for any laws they don’t like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VLmXQ&feature=player_embedded
I was concerned the original article was exaggerating the situation. It was not, though it is true the National Monument is not formally closed. As an aside, would it even be possible for a state to unilaterally close a federal National Monument? Now that would generate some press coverage.
1. Via Hot Air, here is criticism of Obama’s coordinator for local & federal immigration enforcement.
2. Clay Marley, after some nontrivial digging for sources, I agree that the article did not misrepresent the seriousness of the situation.
3. I considered the Brewer video to be extremely effective. Unfortunately, if the media are to be believed, she put her foot in her mouth regarding the immigration/drugs connection. I doubt that will change the outcome of her reelection campaign, but it helps the media to poison her national prospects. The media will jump at chances to cut down GOP Presidential timber while it is still a sapling.
4. As an aside, would it even be possible for a state to unilaterally close a federal National Monument? IMHO a state controls state roads leading to a federal installation unless national security is involved, but I doubt that today’s federal courts would agree with me. And I would probably oppose such a unilateral closure by my state. Now that would generate some press coverage. Yep. The governor would be portrayed as George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.
I would be surprised if the sheriff in question did not have the power to deputize citizens. He could ask for volunteers and augment his forces at will. Secondly he could put out a national request to the lawful citizens of the United States and ask for volunteers to come to his aid. Once the news media got a hold of this not even 0 and the rest of the democrats would be able to live it down.
So….I wonder if the Islamists in Dearborn, MI (which already has no-go zones for police work similar to British bobbies’ no-go zones in London) are watching this and taking a lesson. If they can just cut the heads off 2 or 3 American citizens in Dearborn, well, shoot, the U.S. government would probably just declare Dearborn “too dangerous” and put the responsibility on American citizens to STAY OUT.
I’m sorry I don’t live closer to Arizona. I just might have a yen to go driving into that area….I’m beginning to think we’re going to need a few American suicide missions to get this thing on the front pages. Just BEING an American within the borders of the United States is turning into a suicide mission anyway; we can just well participate a little more on our own terms…..
Obama would rather miss a murdered Arizona border guard’s funeral than a three-foot putt.
In ObamaWorld, decency is asking way too much.
Respect for the security of our borders is out of the question. One example, The Sonoran Desert National Monument is closed because it isn’t safe for border guards or tourists. A full blown, all out clean up effort in the Gulf is not a priority. Keeping Andy Stern happy is. As well as the memory of Saul Alinsky alive. It’s what blows wind up Barack’s skirt.
I swear, the miscreants making up the Obama administration make the German Gestapo look like choir boys singing carols on Christmas Eve. For the ObamaBoys don’t care if Americans get killed trying to enforce the laws of our land; they’re in this to kill our country. To replace it with a regime that sieg heils to the state. Cossacks at state dinners. I ask you, what did we ever do to Obama to deserve this?
In point of fact, from day one of this administration, Obama owed our nation a duty; to be faithful to the ideals and traditions upon which it was founded; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Instead, Obama, with thug, socialist unionists and domestic terrorists at his side, has abrogated his oath of office.
No American wanted us to spend our way to national oblivion, taking over major industries in the process. No one wanted our military to put research and weapons development and missile defense on the back burner. Nobody wanted the equivalent of Lady Antebellum to be placed in charge of Homeland Security. Nobody in their right mind wanted the constitutionally wrong headed, sick entity known as ObamaCare, passed with the pain of a kidney stone, to be signed unconstitutionally into law. Obama now announces we’re no longer a super power. Let me take this opportunity to announce that Obama is a super traitor. Every day, he’s a sacrilege to America, treating freedom, liberty, duty, honor and country with the kind of disdain, disgust and contempt, usually reserved for wife beaters.
Cue the metaphors.
The United States of America has been treated like a pinata. One beaten so badly by Obamunists that it’s ready to Humpty Dumpty all over the place. With Obama at the wheel, the land of liberty is like a car driving down the street crashing on purpose into everything it approaches. We’re an airplane whose course correction has us auguring into the side of a mountain. The anointed one, who the mainstream media treats like a lover in the midst of a slobbering illicit affair, continues to lead this nation on its personal Bataan Death March; a dirty, humiliating, transforming experience. Obama’s in such a state of hatred for the United States that he’s now making war on one of our states. He’s trying to bully Arizona into accepting the illegal aliens who want to break its laws; crossing the border with impunity, and killing Americans on sight. That Arizonans are now target practice for drug runners is indisputable. That Arizona law enforcement officers are being targeted for execution concerns Obama less than running out of toothpaste. Fellow Americans, this resident President is out of control. And now there’s talk that Obama is fixing to issue an executive order that makes all 12 million present illegals legal. Translated it amounts to 12 million more Democratic votes. To me, it adds up to 12 million more reasons to kick Bama’s butt out of the White House.
Obama doesn’t care about Arizona. He cares about his agenda. A lot more than Obama cares about the environment. Fact is, nobody who cares about our environment would prevent foreign ships in the Gulf from collecting sludge and skimming oil. Every day, though, Obama tries to dial down oil cleanup operations to a snail’s pace. The Jones Act? Obama’s acts relating to cleanup have been intolerable. We all know what concerns Obama; possibly offending Marxist loving labor union bosses and disrupting the flow of labor union money. While Obama keeps Andy happy stem to Stern, Obama happily drives Bobby Jindal nuts by having the Coast Guard checking cleanup ships to make sure there’s “enough life jackets on board.” Somebody check Obama for citizenship.
Let’s face it, Obama’s actions are disgraceful. The mainstream press should be lynching Obama for sabotaging cleanup operations, but they’re too busy worshipping him. Obama couldn’t give two hoots in hell about a fast, efficient Gulf oil clean up. He sees the damage as done, and looks now to make the most of it. Enter Crap and Tax stage left.
You see, everything Obama does is born of intention. There’s not an incompetent bone in Obama’s body. Every slick scheme he’s perpetrated on this nation has been thought out to the letter. Laws, rules, fairness mean nothing to him. His agenda means everything. It’s the only thing. And nothing’s going to get in Obama’s way.
Even the Constitution. Frankly, to Barack Obama, it’s the equivalent of a closed zipper to a child molester.
IF this oil thing is as bad as some people are predicting ( see Rense.com) then 157 million disposed Americans are gong to try to crowd into the American States of California, Oregon and Washington over the next 2 years.
This will certainly cause the flare up of the Mexican American War again as these states will look like Bangladesh WITHOUT 30 million illegals besides.
The time for talking is over.
Rense is a complete and utter idiot.
A few people who have been working the spill itself get sick, possibly from the fumes, and from this he concludes that people who live 500 and 600 miles inland are going to have to evacuate?
For crying out loud people, learn some science. Start with what they used to teach in first grade.
How’s that drug prohibition workin’ for ya?
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Gaza, oh Gaza. We reap what we harvested. Had the Bush administration not put immense pressure on then PM Ariel Sharon in giving Gaza over to the enemy, we probably wouldn’t have the difficulties we are facing today.
We have this same problem in Nevada where the feds have removed miles of the state from public use.
If they can’t keep the park open, then it needs to revert to state control.
Once returned to the State of Arizona, she could deputize volunteers, under the state police or Highway Patrol to enforce a border closure.
If the Feds object the only thing they can do is send the National Guard, which is what we wanted in the first place.
but,but,but…Harry has your back!!!, until you put him back in office that is…
THE WHITE MAN MASSACERED THOUSANDS OF INDIANS IN THE EARLY TO LATE 1800′S TO TAKE THEIR LAND, AND KICK THEM INTO DESOLATE ENVIROMENTS, NOW THEIR LETTING THE MEXICAN DRUG RUNNERS KICK THEM OUT. YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS HAD MORE BALLS THEN YOU HAVE. YOU ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO VOTED IN A PRESIDENT WITH AN ISLAMIC NAME. YOU WANTED CHANGE YOU HAVE IT! THE GOVERNER NEEDS TO SEND IN THE NATIONAL GUARD TO TAKE CARE OF THIS MESS. THIS IS EMBARASSING TO THIS AMERICAN BORN MEXICAN!
Instead of deporting illegals to their countries of origin, we shuld “deport” them to states that have sanctuary cities. The expenses for relocation would be charged to those cities. It wouldn’t take long to collapse their local economies. Then they could file for bankruptcy, renegotiate some of the ridiculous deals they’ve made with unions, and use the savings to then deport the illegals back to their countries of origin. This should be a requirement if the city in question wants to receive any state or federal aid. The pocketbook remains one of the most vulnerable areas in which to strike.
A National Monument is not the same thing as a National Park…