'Border militia' critic gets cold feet

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 | By Jon Dougherty

[JohnHuang2]

According to citizen border organizations that patrol the Arizona-Mexico border for illegal entrants, a pro-immigration activist who considers the group members "terrorists" has failed to follow through on threats to "confront" the organizations.

"I have been in Cochise County since Saturday morning and I have been out taking long walks in the desert with my fellow volunteers both in daylight and after dark," said Jack Foote, national spokesman for Ranch Rescue, a Texas-based citizen border group. "We have yet to bump into [anyone], so they can't be looking for us too hard."

Ranch Rescue's Jack Foote communicates with other volunteers during a border patrol Saturday near Sierra Vista, Ariz.

Foote was referencing Armando Navarro, an outspoken critic of the groups, who warned in a statement last week he and others planned to "confront" the so-called border militias over the weekend. Navarro's threat came in the form of a press release issued by the National Alliance for Human Rights, entitled, "Latino delegation travels to Arizona to confront militia activity."

It never happened.

"They were all a bunch of blow hard trouble makers – a lot of threats and no action," said Chris Simcox, editor of the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper in Arizona and founder of the group Civil Homeland Defense.

An article published Thursday on a pro-Hispanic website, Aztlan.net, said Navarro and a "delegation" planned to travel to Sierra Vista, Ariz., "to 'confront' what [Navarro] called 'terrorist armed militias'" operating there.

"The cardinal mission of the delegation is twofold: (1) To demonstrate bi-national solidarity with those groups in Arizona that are actively combating the terrorism being directed by several armed militias against our immigrant people; and (2) to send a powerful warning to the armed militias that their terrorist acts will not be tolerated and that they will be dealt with accordingly," the article quoted Navarro as saying.

At the end of the article, which was written by Hector Carreon of La Voz de Aztlan, was a graphic picture of a deceased Mexican migrant worker allegedly "lynched by Anglo vigilantes."

Simcox, along with American Border Patrol founder Glenn Spencer, is also pictured in the article.

Simcox said Navarro and his colleagues "just wanted to stir up their Atzlan reconquista philosophy" – a goal of some Hispanic activists to retake parts of the southwest U.S. for Mexico. He said the local authority, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Devers, told him "if they show up to cause trouble just to give him a call and he would take care of it."

"They never showed their faces at my office or the headquarters in [nearby] Palominas," Simcox told WorldNetDaily.

"Navarro does not call us, he doesn't write, and he doesn't send us flowers. We are starting to feel just a little ignored by [him]," Foote added. "For folks that claim to be 'confronting' us, they sure are conspicuous by their absence."

On Saturday, the Sierra Vista Herald reported that Navarro claimed the border would erupt in violence if Foote, Simcox and Spencer were not shut down. The paper also said Navarro denied he was ever intending to confront the groups. Rather, he claimed he only wanted a dialogue with them.

"I rather would call it a cross-fertilization of information," Navarro, a political scientist at the University of California Riverside's department of ethnic studies, said. "I basically want to obtain information from him (Spencer) and give him information. We need to learn form each other."

The paper also said Navarro knows of people in Mexico who would take up arms against the civilian border groups, so the time to resolve problems is getting shorter.

Devers agreed. "There will be some kind of violent confrontation," he told the paper.

In an interview with WorldNetDaily last year, Navarro would not say whether radical Hispanic elements were attempting to flood areas of the U.S. southwest in an attempt to repopulate them with an eventual eye toward secession.

"If in 50 years most of our people are subordinated, powerless, exploited and impoverished, then I will say to you that there are all kinds of possibilities for movements to develop like the ones that we've witnessed in the last few years all over the world, from Yugoslavia to Chechnya," he said.

"A secessionist movement is not something that you can put away and say it is never going to happen in the United States. Time and history change."

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Quote of the Day by Bubba_Leroy

[lavaroise]

According to citizen border organizations that patrol the Arizona-Mexico border for illegal entrants, a pro-immigration activist who considers the group members "terrorists" has failed to follow through on threats to "confront" the organizations.

Murderers do not confront evidence, they stab in the back.

[lavaroise]

against our immigrant people;

Your immigrant people? Sheesh, these people then associate themselves with the terrorist trafficing of illegals. By that alone the Aztlan FARC like embryonics need to be dismantled.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[txdoda]

The paper also said Navarro knows of people in Mexico who would take up arms against the civilian border groups, so the time to resolve problems is getting shorter.>>>> >

Funny, NONE of these so-called, "latino activists" ever suggests joining "people of Mexico to take up arms" against the corrupt mexican government, to resolve all the
problems in mexico.

Seems all latino activists, poor mexicans, mexico's elite, AND the corrupt mexican gov't, have all decided, it's the job of the US gov't and the TAXPAYERS in the USA to make
life better for mexico's (50 million) poor.

[joesnuffy]

Aztlan oh Aztlan - How we lust after stealing your land America.....and making ourselves kings again.....



A breakaway of U.S. states is a distinct possibility,
according to prominent Chicano activist and
University of California at Riverside professor
Armando Navarro. In an interview with
WorldNetDaily, Navarro would not answer directly
whether he shared separatist aspirations, but said
that if demographic and social trends continue,
secession is inevitable.

"If in 50 years most of our people are subordinated,
powerless, exploited and impoverished, then I will say
to you that there are all kinds of possibilities for
movements to develop like the ones that we've
witnessed in the last few years all over the world,
from Yugoslavia to Chechnya," Navarro said.

"A secessionist movement is not something that you
can put away and say it is never going to happen in
the United States," he continued. "Time and history
change."

In a 1995 speech to Chicano activists, Navarro said
demographic trends are leading to "a transfer of
power" to the ethnic Mexican community in the
Southwest. He notes that most studies show that
within the next 20 to 30 years Latinos will comprise
more than 50 percent of the population of California.
This fact, and other cultural and social developments,
are opening the door for "self-determination" and
even "the idea of an Aztlan," he said in his speech.

Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, is
regarded in Chicano folklore as an area that includes
California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts
of Colorado and Texas. Spencer believes the aim is to
create a sovereign state, "Republica del Norte," the
Republic of the North, that would combine the
American Southwest with the northern Mexican
states and eventually merge with Mexico.

[ought-six]

' "..Navarro knows of people in Mexico who would take up arms against the civilian border group..." ' "So he wants to bring in armed Mexican to kill Americans. Why the f**k doesn't the FBI do something about this guy?"

Politics. The FBI is most assuredly monitoring this guy and the various "hispanic liberation" movements in this country, as they have announced their intention to take over at least parts of the U.S. for Mexico. It is a foreign invasion, pure and simple, and is done with the full knowledge and encouragement of the Mexican government. However, because of politics, the federal government will in all probablity take no action against these groups. It will fall to the American people, those who have the will and the wherewithall, to protect their homes and families, and, yes, their country.

[madfly]

ping

[occam's chainsaw]

Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, is regarded in Chicano folklore as an area that includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas.

Funny...I never heard of any Aztec ruins in those areas.

[madfly]

fyi

[junta]

You'll get a nasty note from Karl Rove for that post.

[skeeter]

Funny, NONE of these so-called, "latino activists" ever suggests joining "people of Mexico to take up arms" against the corrupt mexican government, to resolve all the problems in mexico.

Not so imaginative Marxist prattle. Their agenda has less to do with economic justice than mexican nationalism.

I'll have to save Navarro's quote re: the Balkans for the next fool to claim 'they're only here to do the jobs Americans won't'.

[AAABEST]

I'll have to save Navarro's quote re: the Balkans for the next fool to claim 'they're only here to do the jobs Americans won't'.

But who'll pick our strawberrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kstewskis]

Funny...I never heard of any Aztec ruins in those areas.

lol, I guess that's why it's "mythical." Just like the object of their delusions.

[Brownie74]

[AZamericonnie]

Thanks for the ping madfly.

[pulaskibush]

Mexicans have to leave their corrupt excuse for a nation or starve.

Why then would they come to America only to be under the control of that nation again?

I suppose after Azlan became a cesspoole like Mexico, they would have to immigrate to Canada.

[BenR2]

Aztlan oh Aztlan - How we lust after stealing your land America.....and making ourselves kings again.....

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. . . So we can resume eating our young, as in our "glorious" days of old . . . .