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Sheriff To Texas Border Town: 'Arm Yourselves'
NPR ^ | April 9, 2010 | John Burnett

Posted on 04/12/2010 6:36:17 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: Getsmart64
"You think that would apply to this situation?"

I'm not sure. You call it an invasion, but some people would call this a civil issue. I agree with the posse commitatus. I think it's something that is in line with what the founders believed and I'm a little wary of using federal troops (army, navy, air force, marines) for this situation. I think the answer is more border people and to put the national guard down on the borders. They are the states troops after all. Also, allowing communities to call up militias would not be a bad thing and is lawful per the current law (militia act of 1903).
61 posted on 04/12/2010 10:07:42 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: PapaBear3625
It remains to be seen if the US Justice dept will stick its nose in and charge shooting ranchers with civil rights violations on behalf of the illegals.

Really? I have no doubt that they would.

62 posted on 04/12/2010 10:10:36 AM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: PapaBear3625
It remains to be seen if the US Justice dept will stick its nose in and charge shooting ranchers with civil rights violations on behalf of the illegals.

I'm willing to bet they will. Even armed Zetas can vote Democratic, so they'll be the good guys.

63 posted on 04/12/2010 10:13:52 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Getsmart64
The military wouldn't be used for civil crimes but to repel, basically, an invasion.

Forgot about Waco, already......Hmmnnn

64 posted on 04/12/2010 10:16:25 AM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: myknowledge
Might want to have a gunsmith put you a 20" barrel and some composite stocks on that pump shotgun (that a Remington?) .... save your nice wooden ones. Oh, and a screw-in flash suppressor/compensator/choke. Sling? See you've got your shell caddy ..... your smith could add one to the left side of the receiver, too. And some slings have loops for extra rounds, tho' that just makes 'em heavier.

</kibitz>

Nice collection.

65 posted on 04/12/2010 10:27:33 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: SwinneySwitch

Blessed to have my few acres of desert in the same county as Sheriff West...who has always been pushing for border security. Hudspeth County has been overrun for years by illegals....and Hudspeth does not have the money to combat the problem (only 3,500 people in a county stretching over 4,000 sq mi)


66 posted on 04/12/2010 10:30:30 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD Hayworth for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com)
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To: deport
Some people might like to make Republican Ron Paul go away ..... his isolationist activists are becoming a real pain in the butt.

He has done good work asking awkward questions about the games the Fed and Treasury have been playing, but he's got no stroke with which to extract real answers, and he's been very unhelpful about anything to do with foreign policy and defense issues -- w/ respect to defense, he's a throwback to Sen. Borah and the '30's defense budget cutters who had the Army practicing dropping flour sacks on stake-trucks carrying signs saying "TANK". Call them "wooden-gun Republicans".

In a day and age when Iran is trying to get the bomb and Pakistan has got it, we can't afford having people like Ron Paul in office.

67 posted on 04/12/2010 10:39:22 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Some people might like to make Republican Ron Paul go away ..... his isolationist activists are becoming a real pain in the butt.


Actually...its the Liberal Globalist ideas of those critical of Ron Paul that have made this border situation a real mess....and I doubt that Paul, or any of his supporters, have any issue with individuals defending themselves along the border

It is the Liberal Globalists, not the “isolationists” (the Liberal Globalist perjorative term for people who value the UN and the WTO over the USA), that allow the Mexican border to become so dangerous.....it was Liberal Globalists that allow Illegal Aliens to have more rights than American citizens do


68 posted on 04/12/2010 10:47:02 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD Hayworth for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com)
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To: lentulusgracchus

That should have read....”who value the USA over the WTO and UN”....that clarification needs to be emphasized.


69 posted on 04/12/2010 10:48:46 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD Hayworth for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com)
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Ping!


70 posted on 04/12/2010 11:02:16 AM PDT by HiJinx (Angels are found where you least expect them; let them comfort you.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Some people might like to make Republican Ron Paul go away ..... his isolationist activists are becoming a real pain in the butt.


I’m afraid we are stuck with Paul. He had three opponents in the primary and still got over 79% of the vote. I’m not sure who could take him on and defeat him but that said I’m not familiar with the people in the district.

Redistricting in the 2011 legislative session could possible rearrange the district lines so that he’s not as entrenched.


71 posted on 04/12/2010 11:03:13 AM PDT by deport
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To: SwinneySwitch

Will Hurd in District 23 - met him last week and was very impressed. His opponent, Quico Canseco, appears to be running (his THIRD campaign, first two unsuccessful) on the “I have a hispanic surname and that’s the only thing that’ll win” ticket. Pissed me off. Gimme the former CIA operative for the current problems of this district.

Colonel, USAFR


72 posted on 04/12/2010 11:38:14 AM PDT by jagusafr (Don't make deals with pirates)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Actually...its the Liberal Globalist ideas of those critical of Ron Paul that have made this border situation a real mess.....

Well, yes, of course, and I carry no portfolio for the globalists, let me make that clear. I don't carry water for the Bohemian Club and other people like that.

Still, is it too much to ask of a Republican that he act to defend the country and appropriate proper funding for our prophylactic worldwide engagements? Washington's advice is no longer operative in a world where hostile thermonuclear warheads are at most 30 minutes away by Loral-improved, AT&T-systems-controlled, Slick-Willie-W88-Warheaded ICBM.

73 posted on 04/12/2010 11:51:27 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: itsahoot
Forgot about Waco, already......Hmmnnn

Only if you're assuming that the military will be used against American citizens protecting themselves and their property and not the invaders.....I guess....

74 posted on 04/12/2010 11:56:46 AM PDT by Getsmart64
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To: edcoil
How can there be a drug problem in Mexico? The government legalized it last year and we are told legalizing drugs gets the crime out of it.

Could you be any dumber? It isn't legal here, and as long as there is a market here (where the Mexicans and other drug lords have always marketed their wares) then there will be crime chasing the illegal drug dollars. Legalize it HERE and the crime will drop down to a whisper. It won't stop entirely, just as bootlegging never stopped altogether, but it will almost unnoticeable.

Did you learn nothing from the history of prohibition? Are you really that dense?

75 posted on 04/12/2010 12:04:04 PM PDT by calex59
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To: thackney; Eaker
Don’t you miss the Valley?

Not even a little bit.

76 posted on 04/12/2010 12:05:55 PM PDT by TheMom (Pablo is very wily)
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To: calex59

No and since you have been here since 2004 you clearly don’t get sarcasm so I guess we will need to continue to use /sarc for you.


77 posted on 04/12/2010 12:06:38 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Texas resident

“the smackdown of Ramos and Campeon by the feds”

That’s when I knew something was rotten in Denmark. And I blame Bush most of all for not releasing them.


78 posted on 04/12/2010 12:41:29 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: thackney; TheMom
Don’t you miss the Valley?

As much as I miss gout.

79 posted on 04/12/2010 1:16:05 PM PDT by Eaker (Pablo is very wily)
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To: jagusafr

If Will Hurd makes it through the runoff, ask him to respond to the voter guides before the November election.


80 posted on 04/12/2010 3:08:30 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Mexas - beyond your expectations.)
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