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...."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
The funding was for the STATE to deploy the guard to the border. This was not part of Bush's NG deployment.
Your profile only says you retired from the USAF in 2003.
I know that.
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Cant you read, Nopie?
It was both. USAF for 24 1/2 and NYARNG for 1 year.
Why don't you start a vanity and we can talk about it.
Sorry I didn't answer before you completed your post. I had company over for dinner.
I'd suggest if you wish to discuss the NG deployment to the border you start a thread devoted to that subject.
That isn't what this thread is about.
I am sure you would.
How about asking for the same level of scrutiny from the Feds that you are giving the MMDC and Simcox.
They've been collecting money for three years and haven't been able to produce ONE annual report yet? That's pathetic.
It sure is.
You are scrutinizing private citizens, but do not wish to expose fraud, mismanagement and failure to uphold advertised and promised standards of the NG.
That's the same issue.
So what fraud are you charging the National Guard with?
You know, live up to your promise, pay off your bets when you lose. Take it like a man and all that.
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OTOH, you can't write a coherent reply, to save your life.
If it was both, them why did you omit that on your personal page? By not doing so, you invited my query and others to wonder about your veracity.
Start the vanity and we can show who is right.
See number 55. There wont be 6K soldiers on the border.
Not at once.
Mine was a VERY well reasoned and logical question.
A one year tour in the Guard is not significant in my book.
My favored service is the USAF.
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