That about meets my expectations.
Grey Deacon told Joseph Farah's nationally syndicated "WorldNetDaily RadioActive" audience yesterday that ACLU monitors sent to the border to watch Minuteman activity and report civil-liberties abuses to authorities have begun flashing lights, sounding horns and warning off illegals and their "coyote" human smugglers from entering territory patrolled by the volunteers.
And if aiding and abetting people crossing the border illegally isn't your cup of tea, there's always assult:
The ACLU is getting desperate to get something on the Minutemen and are trying to provoke incidents now. They pushed one of the Minutemen the other night trying to get him to push back. Didn’t work. Then last night they walked up and shined a spotlight right in a Minuteman’s face from six inches or so away. Didn’t work that time either. We immediately report these types of contacts with them to the Sheriff to counter any claims they try to make against us. They should be called the UCLU (Un-American Civil Lawsuit Union)
They give us the middle finger every chance they get to try to get us to react. We are still trying to figure out if that is their age or IQ.
And if those two aren't enough, there's always the pictures of the ACLU observers smoking pot on the job.
Meanwhile, on the law-abiding citizens's side, the U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544, the largest largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the country, has declared its support for the Minuteman Project, and has this to say:
"We want to make it clear – because we've had a lot of questions about this – we have not had one single complaint from a rank-and-file agent in this sector about the Minutemen," says a statement on the site. "Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents; they're courteous. Many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever."
The group blames the ACLU for setting off ground sensors in the area of the Minutemen activities:
"Reports of [Minutemen] causing 'ground sensors' to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong."
So you have the Minutemen who are out there doing their part to help secure our border from illegals (with the hearty appreciation of the Border Patrol), and the ACLU sends "monitors" who aid and abet criminals, commit assult, and smoke pot to watch the Minutemen to make sure they aren't doing anything wrong. Now that's irony.
posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 7:34 PM
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# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/18/2005 9:22 PM |
That's not exactly irony. That's the ACLU. I don't remember that last time they were on the correct side of an issue, but I do remember one years ago. Hopefully there are enough good people out there to get a reasonable jury when they pull off their entrapment.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 10:00 AM |
"A Mesa man was arrested Monday on suspicion of holding seven illegal immigrants at gunpoint."
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=39436
Let me get this straight; you are upset that an agency is monitoring someone who is supposedly monitoring another agency.
If you are mad at the ACLU for getting in the way of the Minute Men, shouldn't you be mad at the Minute Men for getting in the way of Border Patrol. After all, the border patrol and the ACLU are legitimate organizations that screen their employees and have chain of command and can initiate rules for their employees and enforce them. Who knows who the minute men really are and who they are accountable to?
I agree, if Bush isn't going to secure the border, someone has to, but don't get mad when a group of concerned citizens want to monitor another group of "concerned citizens" who are trying to monitor the border and border patrol.
I know this is a term that Republicans don’t like to hear, but checks and balances are a good thing.
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# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 1:23 PM |
I guess you didn't read the quote from the Border Patrol union:
"Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents; they're courteous. Many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever."
They're not getting in the way of the Border Patrol, so there's nothing to be mad at them for.
And how can you trust a "check" that's engaging in illegal activity?
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 1:45 PM |
Checks and balances, what a concept. Let's apply it to the military: have half of our soldiers fight for al-Qaeda. Our country is being invaded. Time to wake up.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 3:05 PM |
They are causing problems such as tripping sensors and initiating false alarms.
Look, you guys are the ones who vote Republican and support big business legislation that benefits from workers they don't have to pay, thus eliminating good paying jobs for Americans. Anything else would be communism right? Isn't that the capitalistic "Wal-Mart way", the lowest bidder wins? If companies, manufacturers, farmers / Co-Ops etc. were forced to pay these people good wages, then Americans would want these jobs, and if Americans were doing these jobs there would be no reason for these people to come here right? I am willing to pay an extra quarter for my strawberries if it means that Americans get good paying jobs and it stops the mass migration across the border.
Have fun learning Spanish in your "free market" society.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 3:08 PM |
They are not tripping sensors. Did you even read the post? I'm not going to reproduce the whole thing in the comments, try reading it again.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 3:25 PM |
Ya but I also read other articles and news sources besides Fox, The Drudge Report and Jesus Weekley.
Just because you say it, doesn't make it so.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/19/2005 4:49 PM |
I didn't say it, the Border Patrol did. You know, the guys who put the sensors there?
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/20/2005 12:41 PM |
Oh no!!! They were smoking pot!!! It's the end of the world!!!
Toady you're paying an extra $.25 for strawberries isn't going to pay farm workers more or stop immigration or anything else. If the gov't forces higher wages there'll just be less produce.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/22/2005 4:02 PM |
Wasn't Guy Bannister a Minuteman?
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/24/2005 2:36 AM |
What the Minutemen are doing is great... It is unfortunate the BS that they have to put up with, from this group, as well as from people such as President Bush.
# re: ACLU Observers Engaging In Criminal Activity
4/24/2005 7:12 PM |
I tend to agree that the minutemen are patriots, doing a good job, gaurding the borders.
I live in Texas, where most of the illegal's end up. Yes, I am calling them illegal's, because they come across the border in the dead of night, and they break the law.
Talk about having to speak Spanish? I work in a hospital, and most of our repeat business is mexican(s), who have social security cards, driver's licenses, and for some unfahtomable reason, don't or won't speak English.
Funny, I could have sworn that in order to become a citizen, you had to know how to speak English and be able to read it well enough to read the constitution and swear allegiance to this country.
Am I wrong?
P.S. Before anyone accuses me of being a Republican, I'm not. I'm a conservative leaning Independant.
# ACLU Pests Getting Desperate
7/6/2005 8:30 PM |
When it comes to their attempts to impede the noble and highly successful efforts of the Minutemen to defend our country's border with Mexico, it has been business as usual for the fifth-column moonbats at the ACLU. As usual, they...