Posted on 07/28/2006 3:05:06 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
The first thing a Minuteman has to learn is to keep his powder dry. The bigger the powder magazine, the bigger the risk of getting it all wet.
This is the lesson that Chris Simcox, the president of the volunteers on the border, who have almost single-handedly aroused the nation's conscience about the tide of illegal immigration, seems to have missed in basic training.
The "powder" is the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Americans have contributed to the Minutemen, who have been exceedingly helpful to the U.S. Border Patrol. The careful, rigorous reporting of Jerry Seper in The Washington Times reveals that the Minutemen management has not made its records of fundraising and finances public in more than a year, raising the hackles and suspicions of several top Simcox aides. Some of them have resigned, protesting the loose management of the money...."[snip]
"... All the more reason that Chris Simcox and his lieutenants must account for the money and explain what the Declaration Alliance, the grandly named political public-relations firm in Herndon, has done with the money it has collected and disbursed in the name of the Minutemen. The Declaration Alliance is the creation of Alan Keyes, the smooth-talking conservative activist and sometime pol, and is meant to provide mass mailings, public relations and "a fully accredited and independent audit." So far no one in the Minutemen management has said how much has been paid to the Declaration Alliance, and what the Minutemen got for the money...."
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Whatever Mrs. Dean! How's Howard this evening?
Yes, and Simcox deserves to be deafened, at least til he comes out with a few explanations.
How funny is that? It takes 4500 NG soldiers to do the job of 250 BP Agents.
Now that's manpower well spent!
You're showing your word ain't worth spit....
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Ping me around November 16th.
It doesn't sound like the BP is doing spit. You are a prime example.
Correct, they're out busting their humps trying to stop a tidal wave. They leave the spitting to retired engineers.
LMAO is that why you have so much time to sit on FR trashing your boss? Put down the donut and do your damned job.
I dont ask the MMDC to solve all the immigration problems; I do expect a good attempt at it by the Federal Government; especially since Tex has accused the MMDC of doing things only the Feds are able to do in this forum.
You hold a double, unattainable standard for Simcox.
You dont apply the same scrutiny to the actions the Feds are taking.
Simcox's group is not Rather's proportional fonts. They will release their information on their timetable; just as the NG will on Operation Jumpstart. The NG has the power and the printing press of the treasury behind them.
You are scrutinizing volunteers. They have been under attack of the press since 2003. There have been no new facts since the posts of the beginning of July and next Tuesday will be August first. If there was something particularly illegal, dont you think national media attention for the past 3 weeks would result in some frog marching or financial investigations?
They couldnt' find any actionable discrepancies against the MMDC.
Slam me as much as you want. The record will still be here.
TWO three-month extensions of the filing deadline is the most they can get, eh?
Baloney Simcox has met his standard all of his life. He is a dishonest and paranoid crook.
If states would enforce existing laws, a whole lot of problems would bes gone; but they don't and haven't for 1/2 a century and before that, still longer.
And Simcox is befouling the entire MM movement, with his behavior. He is nothing but a snake oil salesman; yet you take his side, because you are so invested in this, emotionally and perhaps in other ways.
No, I hold one standard and only one....honesty.
Nobody elected Simcox to do a damned thing.
Nobody held a gun to his his head and made him ignore keeping good records.
Nobody is forcing him to ignore doing the right/correct thing.
The gullible get hoodwinked all the time. If I knew where you lived, I'd pull the "pigeon drop" on you, but I wouldn't keep the money. That's the difference between me and Simcox.
There have been no new facts, because Simcoxc is sitting on them. When Nov. 15 rolls around and he STILL hasn't filled with the IRS, you will still be trying to protect him and make excuses for him.
What will it take for you to wake up?
That's it, but I'd bet the manse that he won't make it this time either.
That's not a true statement, is it?
Yeah, there are.
From YOUR side. DUH.
LOL
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