Posted on 03/31/2005 10:16:34 AM PST by Travis McGee
Away from it all, taking it nice and easy is just how Terry Green likes to spend his time on his ATV in the deserts west of Tucson.
"We've hardly ever run into anybody else riding quads out here,” Green said. "We're not out here turning donuts and whatnot, we're out here kind of sightseeing."
Green has known these deserts for decades, but that doesn’t mean he’s letting his guard down. He carries both a pistol and a rifle when he rides.
"It's like the Boy Scouts. Be prepared. Usually you have weapons, you don't need them. It's when you don't have weapons you wish you did,” Green said.
A few weeks ago, Green wasn't sure whether he would need his guns or not when he met something he had never seen before head on.
"We basically came face to face, they stopped, we stopped, just for a moment I think the driver thought I was Border Patrol and half the people jumped off the truck and headed north, the other half headed south,” Green said.
Green estimates there were as many as forty people who gathered back to the truck, and let him take this picture to the left. He believes they were illegal immigrants.
"What else would they be? There weren't 40 of them out there in a pickup truck for a picnic,” Green said.
Green's encounter was peaceful, but, it still illustrates his concern about what's going on in the deserts outside of town, and the safety of those who choose to go out there.
"What if these had been drug smugglers? That would have been a whole different scenario,” Green said.
With all those possibilities, Green still keeps criss-crossing the deserts west of town, which are lands he claims just as much right to as anyone else.
"I'm not much at running away from a fight. What are you going to do? I'm not going stay home in my backyard,” Green said.
Especially when he's just as much at home in a backyard open to everyone.
Green said that he tried to contact authorities after seeing the truckload of people; however, he was out of cell range. The U.S. Border Patrol has a number to call to report illegal immigrant smuggling, at
1-877-USBP-HELP.
Maturity-redefined downward: "Neener-neener-neener."
What is really funny is he did it to me just a couple weeks ago. Perfect case of pot calling a kettle black. Not that that is a big suprise either.
Which he did. Thank you for the bump CJ...
O'Reilly said FNC would broadcast a segment
from the border with the "citizens" tonight,
so please try to remember to watch.
Yep, middle-class American people are so lazy and snobbish. They won't work for $4 an hour, and live six families to a house, one family per (former) bedroom, sharing the kitchen.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
It's all part of the elaborate charade whereby the USBP pretends to defend our border.
Given the "catch and release policy," an illegal has an 80% chance of making it on his first try, a 96% chance after two tries (if caught and released), and a 99% chance after three tries.
The reality is that the USBP stops NO illegals, they only delay them at best.
Thanks for the bump. With your help, thousands of freepers will learn the truth about the unopposed criminal invasion.
Oh yeah... Thanks for bumping this thread again. :-)
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