Arizona militia recruiting veterans with ‘kill records’ to patrol border.

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According to KOLD Channel 5 News in Arizona, local militiaman Bill Davis is recruiting “combat veterans, with kill records, to camp out and patrol” along the U.S.-Mexico border. “If it comes to when shots are fired in the general direction of these guys, they have my authorization to return fire, if they’re in defense of their life or their buddy next to them, return fire, stop it as fast as it starts, and they’re capable of it,” Davis told reporters. Despite a warning from Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada that the militia’s plan is “very dangerous” and “very risky,” Davis is pressing forward:

“If we think they’re carrying drugs, weapons, contraband, we’ll get out in front of ‘em and stop ‘em,” says Davis. “They won’t get past us. You can write into that what you want, short of shooting them.”

Watch Channel 5’s report: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/23/militia-kill-records/



Davis may be feeling empowered from the radical anti-immigrant law passed by the Arizona legislature, which requires police to attempt to determine the immigration status of anyone they encounter as part of a “lawful contact.” In any case, right-wing websites are celebrating Davis’ armed border patrol. The neo-Nazi website Stormfront calls it, “ore good news out of Arizona!”

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?s=12353515&clienttype=printable
http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/pr20100422/index.html

[Walk away]

1. Dear Arizona, Please secede.

Take Oklahoma and Texas with you. All normal people jump ship now.

[HillbillyBob]

2. yea give them back to Mexico...

nt

[Walk away]

4. That would freak the shit out of them. Imagine if they woke up to discover...

that they were the immigrants! "Papers Please"

[Deep13]

3. Are they singing Bonnie Blue Flag while they recruit?

[dmr]

5. What legal authority does he have to say: "they have my authorization to return fire"?

He sounds like a dangerous man who hangs out with dangerous men.

I don't deny the border's a big problem, but I don't want to see armed conflict at the border by an over-zealous, egocentric asshole and his cohorts.