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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:27 PM
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U.S. Mexican Border to Explode Soon
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 11:32 PM by lonestarnot
Minutemen border malitia volunteers now "Vigilantes" - bushitler, Foxy and Canadian Dude met today and bushitler now referring to the people helping out the border patrol as vigilantes. He put enough money in the budget to add 205 more people to border patrol. This situation is about to explode soon.
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MrNiceGuyDied Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:33 PM
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1. umm
Canadian Dude bitch slapped the American Dude today.

Maybe you should learn his name, and how to stand up to bullies.

Mr Martin is becoming a pleasant surprise to us up here.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:35 PM
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2. Yes is it Martin? I'm old and senile, so tell me more...would love to
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 11:39 PM by lonestarnot
hear the bitch slap story! Not much reported but the border deal...what else do you know?
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MrNiceGuyDied Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:19 AM
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15. well it was a question about missile defense
After several temper tantrums, threats, and canceled visits based on Canada's decision to opt out of missile defense a reporter asked a long winded question trying to put Martin on the spot by asking for a clarification of the Canadian position.(AGAIN)

Mr. Martin looked at Mr.Bush then the reporter and said..."The case is CLOSED"

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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:25 AM
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22. Oh YEAH! Good Bitch slap! No wonder not fooking reported! Thanks
enjoyed that and I will remember the Honorable Martin's name from this day forward!
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:08 AM
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9. Welcome to DU, my fellow Soviet Canuckistani!
:hi:
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MrNiceGuyDied Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:20 AM
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19. Hey thanks
This place is great. Do we have anything like this to talk about lefty Canadian politics?
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:45 AM
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41. Maybe you can find help in the Canada forum.
You can find that at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=190

There's also a site, http://www.straightgoods.com/index.php that I have bookmarked, but I confess I haven't checked too often. Too entertaining and enlightening on DU!
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Ironpost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:52 AM
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76. Up there, down here also.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:45 PM
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3. Huh?
Yes, wingut A-holes want to patrol the border (for free as opposed to having a HIGH PAYING JOB as Border Patrol EMPLOYEES). And O'REILLY the Loofah wants a MILITARIZED border to keep all non-O'REILLY-ethnics-OUT.

But, when the vigilantes shoot a few Meskins, all Hades will break out against THE VIGILANTES. What it's all about is ---GUESS-------RACISM!!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:47 PM
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4. Not racism! There is a difference between legals and ilfuckinglegals!
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 11:53 PM by lonestarnot
I will not support business that hires them! Beside the fucking fact that over 100 of these bitches employed by a DOD contractor with stolen SS#'s and stolen identities!
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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:52 PM
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5. It's a Scar not a Border
We're all legal
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:54 PM
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6. Scar my ass and we are not all Legal!
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 12:01 AM by lonestarnot
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:55 PM
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7. Me neither
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 11:56 PM by joefree1
Looking the other way while corporate farms and sweatshops exploit illegal workers lowers the bar for all of us. Let's stop the bullshit, enforce the borders and allow worker visas from abroad.

Now about all that cheap stuff from China ...


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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:58 PM
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8. I don't give a didly damn what we do, worker's permits fine; amnesty not
illegal not! Some of the deportations are for criminal activity done here. We send their asses home and they're back the next day unless there offense is capital or life sentence, then Mexico will not extradite!
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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:10 AM
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10. Wonder why those "illegals" walk across the searing desert
carrying two gallon jugs of water seeking refuge as a "landscape artist" in Scotsdale for $4.25/hr? Maybe they got pushed off their land by the Banana barons. Maybe their blood is in our morning coffee.

Maybe they are simply chasing down stolen goods, you know, mangoes for example. The ones in the grocery stores of America the land where bananas, coffee, chocalate, mangoes etc. don't grow.

Maybe it is the Beast
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:13 AM
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11. What do you propose as a solution? And I'm hearing that you think
open borders are fine...
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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:26 AM
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24. Used to live right on the "border"-literally
In SE Arizona. That as a suggestion that I have a bit of experience with this dilemma, and it is one. The open border question is a canard as is the security wall propisition. People would not go to far away lands where they know not the language or customs if the situation where they are is secure, stable and rewarding. The reason their is a mass migration of brown skinned folks to El Norte is because they are being pushed off their land by TNC's, mostly American but not exclusively, for expropriation of land and exploitation of resources-Theft. Address the problem at the roots or it shall persist. Get the Corps off the land. Stop buying from and/or supporting any Corp that is involved in this practice such as Chiquita and Citigroup.

If you really want to look into this just examine how the US Gov't foreign policy has undermined the ejidos in Mexico. Look at what is happening to people in S. Mexico so that the timber and cattle barons can get their greedy paws on it all. The same group that is exploiting you and me is exploiting these beautiful people who you call "illegals". It's another case of blaming the victims and as long as you see these humans as "illegals" you can't see who is really tearing at us all.

Peace
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:38 AM
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Yes you are right... "illegals" is a term of exploitation but it is a
commonly known term for someone who enters a country without proper process so that is the one I use. I would like to be more endearing, but why don't they fight the corps. from their country. I am doing all I know how to do from this country. And there is the 9/11 consideration, even though I believe this administration MIHOP. So Fox is marginalized, stop letting American Corps do business there and it will all go away? Not...their choice should be different leadership as should ours.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:38 AM
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72. You do know what happened in Chiapas, in oh 1995
don't you?

it was a whole surprsie and with the mess going on down there, with the elections next year, Mexico may just explode into civil war
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:54 AM
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77. US Activists look back with horror at Kent State. 5 deaths.
How many hundreds died at the Tlatelolco Massacre? The full story still hasn't been told--but a few confused weekend warriors didn't do the killing.

Some here blithely instruct the Mexicans to overthrow their government. Mexicans are working for reform in their country; immigration is a safety valve in the meantime. Civil War there would cause a massive flood of immigrants.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:38 AM
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32. what is a TNC
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:45 AM
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39. Trans National Corporation (?) n/t
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:17 AM
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13. Really?
How do you feel about the same abuses at the other border north of here?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:19 AM
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16. Same damn way...but I know less about them...live in AZ
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:32 AM
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28. Cleita, I think the people from north want to stay there re their great
health insurance and other benefits. I know a lot of them who just come south for the winter and scurry back up there to keep their benefits in gear. Seventy plus % of illegals are coming from the south at least from every site I can find.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:41 AM
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34. I'm not talking about Canadians, but other nationals who go
through Canada because they can.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:57 AM
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51. They should meet the same damn stop sign! n/t
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:17 AM
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12. racism? oh get off it. all borders should be secured yrs. after 9/11
The fact there are 10 million illegals here shows we have NOTHING secured. Bush is off fighting in Iraq (for that WMD and terrorists)and we have no secure borders. Terrorists can walk right in from the borders. Outrageous
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:21 AM
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20. Absofuckinglutely! Through the looking glass once again!!!!!!!!!!!!!n/t
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:27 AM
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80. So instead of changing foreign policy you wish to imprison all of us
Let's keep doing what we do to make the world hate us and just build bars around our country with machineguns and armored personel. What a great American Dream.......
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:17 AM
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14. There are allready military types here in San Diego that park
their SUV's by the border, watching for "Wets". Soon these freeps will be able to legally shoot crossers.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:19 AM
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17. Hey, it's just shootin' cans...
like Mexicans.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:21 AM
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21. NOOOOOOOTTTTTT! This is a racist statement clieta, I am surprised at
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 12:23 AM by lonestarnot
you! I don't see Canadian's racing across the border like Mexicans. And I don't condone anyone being killed due to this insanity!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:26 AM
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23. I guess I forgot my sarcasm note, but I thought you would know
that. It certainly is racist. I can tell you the whole "can" diatribe that I once heard from an Aryan Nation White Supremist, but I'm sure you can figure it out. Now you still haven't told me about what you think of those white illegals coming over the border from Canada?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:29 AM
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26. Yes in a previous post I said that I live in AZ and am not familiar with
the northern border as well as I am aquainted with the southern border. I don't hear the publicity of Canadian's rushing to work in US under stolen identities with stolen SS#s...Child support enforcement knows of hundred and hundreds of cases in Arizona of these stolen SS#'s and do NOTHING about it not even a report!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:36 AM
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30. Oh Gawd. No you are right about that there was no publicity.
When they speak English and look rather blond, no one worries. Oh yes, you can get a SS# by opening a bank account here in this country. No problema. How do you think all the Saudi and Kuwaiti sheiks do it? This is how many an Aussie, Brit and Irish fella established themselves here in the good ole USA in the last half of the last century, after crossing the Canadian border as a visitor. Oh, they were legal in Canada as part of the commonwealth.

Also, don't forget all those Swedish and Danish Au Pairs who are imported by the ultra rich and who disappear into the population after they have done their six month's obligation. There is just so much that you don't know about the illegal immigration traffic. I won't even go into Asians right now. So stop picking on poor Juan Valdez, who is actually needed here.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:44 AM
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37. Bank America helping out with the SS #'s, They should require papers
before being permitted to open an account. As for the Saudi's Kuwaitis Aussies Brits and Irish Swedish danish Au Pairs, Asian same damn treatment! No discrimination. Things are different now. If we keep them out but for legal means, we will be able to distinguish whether or not the next 9/11 comes from inside or outside the U.S. Juan Valdez is my friend, just don't want him here illegally!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:47 AM
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43. Sure...............
:eyes:
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:35 AM
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29. I heard that once and it was MexiCANS, Puerto RiCANS, and some
other "CANS" of which I no longer remember the country being dissed. I remember hearing it once about 20 years ago.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:37 AM
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31. Africans. Sad, isn't it?
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:42 AM
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35. Was it AfriCANS? Is that how you heard this? Again, years ago I
heard it once and didn't think it was funny then or now.(Especially when certain groups of people were brought here by force and enslaved for generations). N-O-T funny.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:44 AM
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38. I wasn't trying to be funny but sarcastic.
The idea to me of a bunch of white jerks with guns sitting on the border to pick off Mexicans just struck me ironic and really sick.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:46 AM
Response to Reply #29
42. Well then don't forget the chinacans who built the railroads and were
dissed due to that nasty little cocaine scapegoating.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:20 AM
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18. How do you know they are freeps?
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:29 AM
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25. Who else would dress up to play army to try to shoot "Wets".
Progressives? I know some of these yahoos.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:31 AM
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27. People who are fucking tired of the environment being RUINED by shit
and trash and bodies and having their identities stolen and crime due to exploitation and unfair labor practices etc those people! Not all are freeps. I for one am sick the fuck of Home Depot and their parking lot chasers, purse snatch'n stabbers! House needs something fuck it...let it run down!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:40 AM
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33. Oh yeah some poor shit is stealin' it all from you.
Which one of your ancestors stole it from the Navajo and the Apache? My family originated in Arizona too and they were poor southern white trash who arrived there to work in the mines before Arizona was a state.

I'm also Hispanic.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:49 AM
Response to Reply #33
44. Y mi tambien... No excuse to go back to origination this is now and we
either share and give it ALL away as you suggest or we treat everyone similarly and do not discriminate as to who comes and who goes. Everyone must enter legally or we will continue to be oppressed and scapegoat illegals.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:45 AM
Response to Reply #27
40. I was under the impression that your OP was on the subject of
vigilantes. If the minutemen aren't vigilantes, then I'm sorely confused on the term.

Is having vigilantes with sidearms on the border a good idea?
No bleeping way! That is insanity.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:51 AM
Response to Reply #40
46. No one has been shot YET...LOL Bushitler like the idea originally and
commended the effort... he is now condemning as a vigilante effort.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:32 AM
Response to Reply #46
71. so what is to LOL about?
I missed something.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:50 AM
Response to Reply #27
45. Keep listening to Rush and Savage Nation. Are they taking your job away?
They are here in San Diego and rarely they commit crimes. The ones I see by the Home Depot are just looking for day work to survive.
The ones that work the agri-business out here take jobs that no white or black american would ever take.
So unless you have seen "them" commit all these horrible offenses, then put a sock in it.
BTW ID theft is pretty much a white thing.Those with access to computers and such.
The negative effect on the environment you speak of is fractionally minimal as compared to what Industry and the US Navy does down here in San Diego.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:53 AM
Response to Reply #45
47. You are not observant of courtroom population and crime stats if you
believe what you have just said. And let them have whatever the fuck job they want but enter legally! or stay the fuck home!
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:56 AM
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49. Agri-business in CA would go bust without them.
My friend is a grower in Encinitas and he tells me this.

Reality my friend!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:59 AM
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52. Let it fucking bust! Then we would get at the root cause of the problem
in Mexico!
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:03 AM
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55. Go here:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:05 AM
Response to Reply #55
56. No thank you! Hate those freaks and all they stand for! but will read
your point if you care to share.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:06 AM
Response to Reply #52
57. So what's gonna happen when there are no jobs here?
Are you going to sneak into Mexico? Or, are you going to work in the fields because there won't be any Mexicans anymore because they will be taking better paying jobs there? Hmmm? You don't think it's possible?

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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:08 AM
Response to Reply #57
59. Nope gona stay and fight! People thought of solutions to the depression
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 01:09 AM by lonestarnot
and the dust bowl ended...but America will cease to be all about the rich and bushitler will be sent pack'n back to tejas like rained on trash!
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:35 PM
Response to Reply #49
81. So has your friend got a problem with legalizing guest worker permits?
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 01:40 PM by joefree1
Or does he like exploiting illegals without having to deal with worker health and arbitration?

And for the record most of my dad's generation in Sacramento worked in the fields as young men and women. It used to be a great summer job for students. Now with low wages, worker abuse, and toxic crop fumigation you have to be desperate to work on the corporate farms.

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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:02 AM
Response to Reply #47
54. Go after the colossal bandits
The only crime in America is poverty. And poverty is caused by inordinate wealth.

Address the root of the problem or be forever chasing shadows.

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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:07 AM
Response to Reply #54
58. Agree and not chasing shadows just solutions! n/t
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Astarho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:43 AM
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36. Not surprising
Bush is a dumbass, but even he (well, OK, someone in the admin.) realizes that a bunch of armed vigilantes (and that is what they are since they have no official sanction) wandering around the border is not a good thing.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:55 AM
Response to Reply #36
48. You have not seen what is happening at the border apparently.
Illegal entry must be stopped. This is what "is not a good thing"
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 12:56 AM
Response to Reply #48
50. I did see a lot of footage on our journalistic TV last
night of American College kids making asses out of themselves across the border for spring break. Does that count?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:01 AM
Response to Reply #50
53. Yes they are asses! Rocky Point an American hangout for demonstation
of what riches do when they go on spring break from UofA or ASU...family funded drunk'n girls gone wild episodes...been to a few myself just to see but I was always required to get a fucking visa!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:14 AM
Response to Reply #48
62. But then America would lose a source of cheap easily exploited labor!
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 01:15 AM by Lone_Star_Dem
What would happen to our economy if business' had to pay a fair wage to it's laborers? Not that I think the current minimum wage is fair, but what they pay migrant workers borders on slave wage.

America, where we use people up and dispose of them just as easily as a dixie cup. Makes you proud to call the place home.


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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:46 AM
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75. Precisely the point! Need to stop! n/t
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:11 AM
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60. Look this was fun, but I think it's time for you to stop
insulting everyone you think is beneath you.

You will appreciate this advice someday.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:14 AM
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63. I am not trying to insult anyone...thanks for the advise...want legal
immigration and not any other way to get in U.S. Legal or nut'n... Sorry if I gave you the impression I was trying to insult you or anyone else. Not my intention. Peace! And later...
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:23 AM
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67. I wasn't gonna play with you anymore but just one thing...
how come all you vigilantes aren't doing the other borders??? Oh you want to know why? You can't! Most illegal immigrants fly into this country these days. Your little border patrol crap is picking on really poor and defenseless people.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:26 AM
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68. Not... Fly???? Ride donkeys isn't that the real problem? Where do you get
the stats to support this supposition?
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:14 AM
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61. 'Observers' plan to check actions of Minutemen
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/67103.php

'Observers' plan to check actions of Minutemen

A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star

By Tom Beal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Teams of volunteer "legal observers" will be monitoring a group that plans to patrol the Arizona border for illegal entrants in April, despite fears for the safety of volunteers that led the Arizona ACLU to reconsider its sponsorship.

About 25 people showed up to be trained in Tucson on Wednesday by Stanford law student Ray Ybarra, who said he submitted a letter of resignation to his two-year fellowship from the American Civil Liberties Union when he learned the group might withdraw its backing.

The ACLU has not accepted Ybarra's resignation and it may yet sponsor the project, said Eleanor Eisenberg, Arizona ACLU director.

Despite the ACLU's concerns, 21 people signed up to observe the actions of the Minuteman Project, which hopes to attract 1,500 people from across the country to Cochise County beginning April 1 in its effort to prevent illegal immigration.

More training sessions for legal observers will be held next week in Phoenix, Douglas and Tucson.
..more..
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:19 AM
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65. Interesting...watch the watchers and another group will be watching those
watchers, pretty soon we could create some watcher jobs...LOL
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:19 AM
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64. I've lived on the border in both Texas and Arizona
and I don't know what you are talking about.I think if we have a border problem then it is up to our government to solve it, and I do NOT advocate giving a bunch of redneck macho dickweed vigilantes permission to control the border. Apparently the ACLU agrees--they will be monitoring the situation as well.
I believe that people have a right to live...it's not their fault their country is in the financial ruin it is and they want their kids to be fed just like you do.
Addressing the real problems that lead to this would solve the secondary problems.
Whether anyone likes it or not, Mexico and Canada are our neighbors. We share a continent and I would like to think we wouldn't blame ours or their governments' shortcomings on innocent people who are just seeking a better life.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:21 AM
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66. You do not speak to illegal entry or solutions just around them
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:26 AM
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69. I'm sorry
I don't advocate taking away anyone's right to feed their family by any means they can--even if it is sneaking into a country illegally.
There may be a day that we are sneaking into these countries illegally to escape the tyranny in our country.
Your solution seems to advocate killing or maiming them if necessary and I find that morally reprehensible. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I don't have a solution for this problem, but not having one is certainly better than the one you have.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:31 AM
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 01:43 AM
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73. lol
trust me-I can read, and I read YOU loud and clear.:)
You hate the ilfuckinglegals.
You support vigilantes on the border so you can go to Home Depot and not be bothered by illegals.
You spew hatred on this subject and I find it distasteful.

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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:51 AM
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74. Not proposing ad hominem attacks, but status of illegal aliens
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 08:54 AM by lonestarnot
You are off the mark, and maybe off the nut...LOL
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:01 AM
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78. I found "ilfuckinglegals" especially illuminating....
I've got some friends who live down there. They've had some troubles with burglars who live across the border--but got law enforcement onto them. They aren't worried about those only passing through. And they've got guns of their own--they don't want vigilante fools on their property.

The undocumented workers themselves aren't usually armed. But the vigilantes may get a bad shock if they run into any drug runners or coyotes.
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:03 AM
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79. I hate it when borders explode.
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