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2005-05-12 Home Front: Politix

15,000 volunteer to help guard U.S. border

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Posted by Steve 2005-05-12 8:57:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I await the ACLU's first lawsuit. Probably something about an illegal assembly.

Posted by Highlander 2005-05-12 09:34|| 2005-05-12 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Too many people in one place. Too much carbon dioxide produced. Probably violates Kyoto. I see this going to the ICC.

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-12 09:48|| 2005-05-12 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Judge should toss it out. We're just trying to set the Guiness Record for "World's Largest Game of Red Rover".

Posted by eLarson 2005-05-12 10:06|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-05-12 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, the tradition goes back a lot further than WWII. Back in the Civil War many military units were raised as private companies, and elected their officers by vote. When such units were organized, then they would be inducted into the Union Army or Confederacy as a group. This lasted until the time of Teddy Roosevelt, when it was decided that these "militias" needed more skilled officers, and should evolve into Reserve units. However, what the Minutemen are proposing is not necessarily the raising of militias for military purposes, but more properly "posses", to augument law enforcement. This is more than a semantic difference, as both militias and posses have distinct rules. Technically, if the Minutemen are to continue this effort, it might be to their advantage to become "deputized" by a sympathetic Sheriff in whose county they operate, as this affords them some legal protections. Some interesting historical precedents and case law to consider here.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-12 10:10|| 2005-05-12 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 "While our troops are fighting on foreign soil ...we the people will take up the slack" by patrolling the border.

Thing is, there's no real "slack" to take up, since it is unlikely that American soldiers would have been deployed at the Mexico border for patrol purposes anyway, war or not.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-12 12:33|| 2005-05-12 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Rush said earlier today both houses have a plan to legalize 10(?) million????

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-05-12 13:41|| 2005-05-12 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 The Minutemen did it right, in spades, in AZ. If they pass on the procedures and people keep their heads, this will be the "shame them into acting" effort that will force the entire political structure to address the issue.

And the light shone on it will be bright, too, given all of the competing factions and sentiment that the immigration and security issues generate. I would note here that the two, immigration and security, are not of equal weight - security trumps. No moronic mass legalization legislation would stand a snowballs' chance in Hell.

They'll actually have to figure this sombitch out and choose rational actions, skating down the center of the road between the minefields of the interests. Beaucoup compromises will have to be made by the pro-immigration folks because Red America outnumbers them and is interested more in security - and probably fed up with scofflaws getting their way. Some here have suggested this is a Republican Achilles heel... I think that this may boomerang on the Dhimmis if they don't realize that security trumps and continue their stonewalling BS or try to make a total circus out of this bomb.

Posted by .com 2005-05-12 13:56|| 2005-05-12 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Chris Simcox has been invited to testify before the House: this is progress. Someone in Washington gets it.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-12 15:30|| 2005-05-12 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 keep the (spot)light on - the roaches have to hide

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-12 15:49|| 2005-05-12 15:49|| Front Page Top

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