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March 28, 2005

Michigan --> Mexico?

Gabe (the boy), are these guys the southern branch of your Michigan Malitia dudes?

Posted by nikl at March 28, 2005 02:07 PM

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MEDIA RELEASE: Homeland Security Bars Organizer of the Minutemen

STANLEY NOTE: Imagine that. "We the People" are barred from "official"
Homeland Security Press Conferences. Surprise, surprise. What do you expect
from the government that has overthrown this country from within? The POLICE
STATE OF AMERICA rolls on. Oh, I am sure the ACLU will be a big help here...
The big con of the American people continues...In all ways.

Homeland Security bars organizer of Minutemen -- The Washington Times

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Homeland Security bars organizer of Minutemen
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published May 9, 2005

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Newspaper publisher Chris Simcox, who helped organize last month's
Minuteman vigils and promised more in the future, was denied access to a
Department of Homeland Security press conference in Arizona last week.
Mr. Simcox, who writes for, edits and owns the Tombstone, Ariz.,
Tumbleweed, wants the American Civil Liberties Union to determine whether his
First Amendment free-press rights were violated.
He said the Border Patrol refused to let him attend the Thursday press
conference featuring Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who spoke in
Douglas, Ariz., on the need for additional agents and increased technology to
gain control of the Arizona border.
The press conference, at the Border Patrol's field office in Douglas,
was attended by Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, Arizona Republicans, and Arizona
Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat.
Mr. Simcox is requesting help from the ACLU, which stationed "legal
observers" along the Arizona border during the Minutemen's monthlong vigil in
April to ensure that the civil rights of foreigners crossing illegally into the
United States were not violated by Mr. Simcox and his volunteers.
"I showed up with press credentials and was held outside the gate,"
Mr. Simcox said, adding that he was told by a Border Patrol agent that Chief
Michael Nicely, who heads the agency's Tucson sector, had ordered him barred
from the press conference.
Mr. Simcox was one of two organizers of the Minuteman Project in
Arizona in April, when more than 800 volunteers from throughout the United
States set up observation posts along a 23-mile section of Arizona-Mexico
border west of Douglas to spot and report illegal aliens.
Supervisors at the Border Patrol's Tucson sector office did not
support the project, saying it disrupted operations, unnecessarily tripped
sensors and had little or no impact on the flow of illegal aliens.
Chief Nicely has said the Minutemen's efforts against illegal
immigration were "negligible" and they should leave border enforcement "to the
professionals."
Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garza in Tucson confirmed that Mr. Simcox
was excluded from the press conference on the orders of Chief Nicely, but said
it was "because of security reasons."
He declined to elaborate and would not comment on whether Mr. Simcox
was the potential security threat or whether anyone had made a threat against
him.
"This was an operational security plan and, as a result, I cannot
comment further," he said.
Mr. Simcox questioned security as a reason for being denied access,
saying there was "an overwhelming deployment of agents on the roads leading
into one of the most secure Border Patrol offices in the country" and that
other press members with credentials were "allowed in and out."
"This is an obvious case of discrimination," he said. "They pulled 50
agents off the line to provide security. While they blocked me, there is no
doubt that at the same time, hundreds of illegal aliens had no difficulty
gaining access to the United States.
"If I was banned because of the Minuteman Project connection, that is
unfair because I had a right and the proper credentials to attend the press
conference," he said. "This is a perfect challenge for the ACLU."
Officials at ACLU's Tucson office did not return calls for comment.

Posted by: Joseph Rodrigues at May 11, 2005 06:14 PM

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