Posted on 04/18/2005 9:44:38 AM PDT by Spiff
MINUTEMAN PROJECT: We want to make it clear because we've had a lot of questions about this.....we have not had one single complaint from a rank-and-file agent in this Sector about the Minutemen. Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents, they're courteous, many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever. Reports of them causing "ground sensors" to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong. The Minutemen have succeeded in shifting the bulk of the illegal alien traffic out of the Naco corridor.
If only President Bush were so supportive of the rank-and-file agents. While President Bush hangs out thousands of miles away in the White House, these people are willing to give up their time and energy to actually do something. While President Bush entices millions of illegal aliens to keep coming with his amnesty proposals and his demoralizing statements that he doesn't want Border Patrol agents chasing "good-hearted people just coming here to take jobs Americans won't do" the Minutemen are trying to get our laws enforced.
The Minutemen have made it very clear that they fully support rank-and-file Border Patrol agents. If only we had such support from the politicians we have to work for (aren't we really supposed to be working for the citizens of this country anyway?)!
I guess the Border Patrol must be a bunch of "vigilantes" as well, according to Bush.
Can you please ping your list to this threat? Thanks.
[ahem]
[whistling]
[shifting uncomfortably]
Aw, who am I kidding?
LOL
Presidente Fox, HELP!: Will you please order your subordinate, George Bush, to get our borders under control? Bush won't listen to the American people, he defies the will of 70 to 80% of us, but you have some obvious power over him. Can you help us out here pal? Maybe order him to hire a few more Border Patrol agents and some equipment so they can patrol the borders? Get him to buy us a few patrol vehicles so we don't have to drive worn out junk with over 150,000 or 200,000 miles on the odometer? Maybe even get him to quit enticing millions more of your countrymen to come over here illegally by throwing endless amnesty proposals out there and telling us we shouldn't be chasing them in the first place because they're just good-hearted people coming here to take jobs we won't do? Maybe get a two-way radio system that actually works? We have a somewhat selfish motive for asking Presidente Fox. You see, at the rate Mr. Bush is cutting our budget, cutting our new hires, cutting our employment rights, depriving us of equipment, demoralizing our workforce with dumb statements, and cutting our pay, we believe that soon these "good hearted illegal aliens" he so desperately wants here may in fact really be doing a job soon that no American will want to do. The job of a Border Patrol agent! We believe he may really have a pent-up and sincere desire to have the "fox" guarding the henhouse. We need some help here buddy. Please!!! Can you help save our jobs?
I guess the Border Patrol must be a bunch of "vigilantes" as well, according to Bush.
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Yes, the White House got some angry words on this obvious pandering to Vincete Fox...and the BP should be supporting the "bad vigilates" because they are doing the government's dirty work for them...a really tragic, sick situation from my viewpoint. Your Washington elites in action for the American people...
GW is walking a thin line.
Another major terrorist attack that may have been perpetrated by some who came across the border (North or South) illegally, and GW and his legacy are history.
These ACLU folks should leave the police work to professional law enforcement.
There are some great pictures at Michelle Malkin's Immigration Blog of the ACLU smoking a couple joints. The last thing the Border Patrol needs is a bunch of doped-up legal advisers making their job more dangerous.
Now why does THAT not surprise me one bit?
This whole situation makes me so %*%$$# MAD!
Listen up Bush...WE are the People.
WE hired you, and WE can damn sure FIRE you if you don't get off your (censored) backside and UPHOLD YOUR OATH YOU SWORE BEFORE GOD!
(rant off)
BTW - *THANK YOU*
Minutemen
and U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544!
And this came out the other day. Some people are "getting it".
Necessary Changes for Immigration reform
http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/Apr1505ImmigrationReform.pdf
Sorry that is...
Necessary Conditions for I*mmigration Changes
I'm just wondering what our very own CAL members here on FR will think. Of course, they probably don't like the border patrol to begin with...
Instead, we squander billions on nonsense, while ignoring the most critical national security threats.
"Billions for Homeland Security, but not one penny for an effective border fence."
Above: Your billions of Homeland Security tax dollars at "work" on nonsense.
So very true.
This 'should' get media attention, but all we'll probably hear about is the story of Mexican and US citizens trying to 'heal' the border by singing and chanting to it.
Yoohoo, Katie!
"ACLU sneaking around "
on private property in some cases..?
That's got to be a pretty stupid move...
I just added a report from this weekend to another post (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385236/posts?q=1&&page=221#221) but this might be a more appropiate post for the report.
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My wife and I were on the border this last weekend. We attended the rally and helped man the Naco line. Great experience.
Jim Gilchrist was most impressive at the rally answering reporters and others questions and posing for pictures for all comers. We then we marched along in front of the Border Patrol station chanting, "More Border Patrol".
Along the Naco Line the minutemen were mostly on the high ground scanning the south side of the border. Comm was well organized: a call the Border Patrol brought action right away. I didn't see any of "them" getting across although some did approach the 4-strand barbed wire fence that serves as the border along that stretch.
The ACLU (refered to as "yellow-bellies" for the yellow shirts they wore) were inter spaced along the line although they didn't seem to be doing much except playing frisbee all weekend. I had a camera at the ready in case that frisbee catch a good south gust of wind but luck they remained Americans, so-to-speak.
Looking across the border you could see trails worn smooth from the endless footfalls of the millions who have crossed, along the way rags were tied to bushes and trees lead the way along trails to the holes cut into the barbed wire fences. We eyeballed the trains that passed occasionally on a well used track and trucks on a road in the distance as well as the the many dirt road crisscrossing the Mexican desert.
Side note: We also drove along the border near the town of Naco where the Army Engineers were erecting a tall solid metal fence. We applause them for their service but not the government that supplied the materials they had to work with. The fence was a mishmash of materials, mostly portable runway panels reminiscence of WWII fame. All material used and worn. Every few yards a new material salved from some government scrap yard or other.
Let me guess, they are all singing Kumbaya ?
Exactly what I was thinking.
As a Canadian who believes in honoring the law, if millions of my fellow-countrymen illegally entered the US; I'd perfectly understand the need for the US to secure your borders.
After all, your number one priority is to protect your own citizens before worrying about our sensibilities.
I find it disgraceful your president seems oblivious to how dangerous the open Mexican-US border is to your country's safety. It isn't just about jobs; it's about security.
If a new terrorist attack occurs on American soil from terrorists who sneaked across the Mexican border; I hope all conservatives will have the sense to impeach President Bush and imprison him for not doing his job in protecting you.
Read the other stuff on this site, too. I had no idea that a UNION could possibly be more conservative than a Republican Administration. A more alaming note on here is that Bush's Attorney General pick is a member of La Raza (The Race) - a subversive group that advocates the forcible seizure of the American southwest followed by a genocide or forcible expulsion of all non-Latinos including Native Americans.
Canada needs more people like you. Thank you for your comments.
BUMP!!!
BTTT!
[[Many folks think shipping that little boy back to Cuber]]
Hey you sound just like Ted Kennedy :) :)
I was thinking Rush Limbaugh.
Yea, you are right. Rush also makes fun of Kennedy by pronouncing it Cuber :) :)
Hannity & Colmes doing a SPECIAL LIVE FROM THE BORDER tonight.
Their regular time slot.
Thanks and a BUMP.
Just as we suspected. The grunts love the MMP while the BP manager-class spouts the White House line. Thought so.
Oh-oh, this thread has been overlooked.
It's still standing.
I suspect because it is perhaps one of the funniest threads I have ever seen on Free Republic, to wit:
I had no idea that a UNION could possibly be more conservative than a Republican Administration.
Now, Peter, let this old Democrat tell you something about unions. They used to be organized to protect the worker from the management abuse. That ended many moons ago.
Now, unions are managed to attract more members so the dues grow so the union management can get richer and move all their stolen loot to Mauritania and the Caymans.
Of course the BP union wants to take the opportunity to bash President Bush and using the dumbfounded MMP organizers as foils is perfect for the job.
The formula is simple.
Demand more agents.
Get more agents.
Get more dues.
Retire with the new boat and the condo.
If you think the BP union is helping conservatism and protect this country then you have a lesson coming in 2006.
Useful idiots someone says all the time.
Read the whole site.
The BP union has links and support for agents who are trying to LEAVE the Border Patrol.
Also, all of their links are conservative.
And they are applauding the MMP.
They hate President Bush. They love dues. Period.
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