Border Militia Divides Arizona Residents
This certainly isn't a surprise, but I've been watching the anti-Minuteman/pro-illegal rhetoric heat up sharply since the patrols began a few days ago.
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A right-wing militia patrolling the Mexican border to catch illegal immigrants is pitting some residents in favor of old-style frontier justice against critics who say the militiamen are the real threat.
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So if you're pro-America and anti-criminal, you're part of a right-wing militia?!
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They say it is a peaceful political protest, although some are armed with pistols, and a number of local residents have joined the patrols or turned out to support them.
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There's no convincing antis and liberals, but it is very possible (and very normal for those who obey the law) to carry a gun and remain peaceful at the same time. Self-defense means just that--"defense".
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Others, however, have held protests and watch with suspicion the volunteers' arrival in camper vans and four-wheel drive vehicles, some decked out with gun racks.
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Uh-oh, you know they must be up to no good if they have gun rucks in their trucks!
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In the old copper mining town of Bisbee, which reinvented itself as a refuge for writers and painters after the mine closed in the 1970s, many eye the vigilantes with suspicion.
"I had a Salvadoran work for me for six months, and it's not uncommon for people here to drive a migrant north in their car rather than hand them over to the U.S. Border Patrol," said cafe owner Charles Lewis.
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I believe that's called 'aiding and abetting'. Perhaps I should start making my own gross generalizations. All liberals secretly help criminals.
Er...wait a minute. They don't even keep it a secret anymore.
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Lewis and some other residents in this town in the Mule Mountains just north of the border say they fear the Minuteman volunteers much more than the migrants who trek across ranches and public land on the way north.
"I'd rather take my chances with the Mexicans than one of these U.S. military type idiots taking part in the patrols," local truck driver John Porter told Reuters, as he took the sun on a sidewalk table outside the Daily Diner.
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I have to think this guy is just anti-military. Unless he's just a self-hating idiot.
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"Migrants pay their taxes and I don't have a problem with them," he added.
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Guess he's auditing them all, right? Please....
OK, to be fair, if you continue down the article you'll reach the pro perspective. Of course, anyone who knows anything about newspapers understands that you put the writing with most impact towards the beginning of the article so people who zone out halfway through get the key details.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but this kind of stuff will probably never end. Point the finger, blame others for your own failures, and see nothing improve. Just pathetic.
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