Posted on 06/22/2005 6:45:57 AM PDT by Marauder
oh really! I didn't know that...
Well we are watching our country go to hell in a hand basket!
And the longer it takes to straighten this mess out; the longer and more expensive it will be.
Well, you know, the posse has a long and illustrious history in Texas. I don't really see the objection, as long as laws are obeyed.
Whether or not the Mexicans should be shot, or deserve to be shot, isn't the issue ~ rather, it's why the "newsies" are always thinking of shooting people and never once of Ghandi's non-violent resistance.
It's the AIDS thing, and the drink too, right?
I don't think they deserve to be shot. But shooting the bad guys was not the posse's normal purpose, either...the purpose of the posse was to bring the bad guy in for trial, if he could be so brought.
Why would we wish to bring the Mexicans "in"? Don't we want to keep them "out"?
ping
A Mexican paramilitary group trained by the U.S. in running the cocaine trade in the U.S. This group is expanding its influence every day. They are now operating in seven states and will be in your state very soon. NAFTA enables drug traffickers. The proof is in the pudding and the mixture is corrupt as hell. The corruption is wide and deep and extends to top Mexican and U.S. officials.
Posse Ping!
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Makes the WoT sort of hard to treat seriously, doesn't it?
I'd like to see what Bush would do if the illegals ever came by his ranch and did the same things. That's the problem with our politicians - they don't live in the real world once they are elected. We should force them to go back from where they came from and live there six months out of the year. No, they hide in DC and let the citizens suffer from their dereliction of duty.
Previous Crawler-Times Minutemen editorial:
http://www.caller.com/ccct/editorials/article/0,1641,CCCT_840_3832275,00.html
'Minutemen' not needed on Texas-Mexico border
June 5, 2005
When self-styled "Minutemen" descended on the border between Arizona and Mexico in April to lend their unsolicited assistance to the U.S. Border Patrol in monitoring illegal immigrants, the result was well short of high drama.
True to their word, they made no attempts to apprehend border-crossers themselves, but claimed to have alerted the Border Patrol to sightings and thus helped in the apprehension of 335 individuals. The Border Patrol, for its part, was studiously noncommittal.
Now the group is reportedly turning its attention to the Texas-Mexico border - but to date their plans have elicited scant enthusiasm here. In fact, there has been an almost solid front of opposition to the notion here.
One critic is a familiar South Texas figure, State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, who said Texans are cool to "having vigilante groups from other parts of the country come to our state to try to tell us how to run our business."
In the legislative session, he sponsored a resolution urging Gov. Rick Perry to oppose the Minutemen's plans - and got the signatures of 11 senators.
The governor was tight-lipped, but evinced little enthusiasm for the project. As spokeswoman Kathy Walt pointed out, "ultimately this is a federal issue."
That it is, and considering the potential for disaster attendant on having untrained volunteers wandering around in the underbrush, the sensible course is clear: Let's leave this important, and sensitive, work to the professionals.
Amen, So9. Seeing the "big picture" makes it easy to understand why liberals are against border control, for gay marriage, for gun control, for abortion, against capital punishment, for no-fault divorce, ad nauseum: Because the side of every issue they support or fight is taken in order to try to divide the population and create chaos, and tends to aid in their goal of destroying our society.
A Mexican paramilitary group trained by the U.S. in running the cocaine trade in the U.S. This group is expanding its influence every day. They are now operating in seven states and will be in your state very soon. NAFTA enables drug traffickers. The proof is in the pudding and the mixture is corrupt as hell. The corruption is wide and deep and extends to top Mexican and U.S. officials.
We Need the 'Minutemen' because of NAFTA and because neither Mexican or U.S. officials give a damn about open the border. Officials don't give a damn because they are getting rich off the drug trade. 'Nuff said.
I will drink to that, bro.
I didn't see that editorial; I must've been too busy to read the paper that Sunday. But what it says doesn't surprise me.
This is a leftist paper, among the many leftist papers in Texas, that always take the Rat side of every issue and backs Rat candidates at election time. I would guess that most of its staff has had illegal aliens in their background, so don't look for condemnation of those sneaking into this country.
Well, almost local; we don't actually live in Corpus Christi, but in the general area.
Exactly!
Another poster said pretty much the same thing.
You're right. I wonder how Bush, as a private citizen, would feel about having illegals trespass on, litter on and vandalize his property?
I suspect he wouldn't be a big fan of such benign activities. For that matter, no editorial board member of a newspaper would appreciate it either.
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