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HARASSING THE CITIZEN BORDER PATROLS:

WHO DOES THIS RAUL GRIJALVA THINK HE'S WORKING FOR?
By Carl F. Worden

I received an e-mail from one of my favorite readers, encouraging me and other writers to not only recognize the problems facing America, but show America how, together, we can overcome these problems and dig ourselves out. It has always been my personal conviction that merely recognizing a problem for what it is gets you nowhere, so I'm in personal agreement with her request, and I think all the others would agree with me in principle. In the reality of the day, it's not quite that simple.

How do you solve a matter of treason? Normally, we would march the traitor to the gallows after a fair trial, where he or she would be hanged by the neck until dead, this ultimate penalty being imposed and carried out as an example to anyone else who might be tempted to commit treason. I heard that Founding Father Thomas Jefferson once shot a traitor to death on the White House lawn, but I haven't verified it. It still sounds like a good idea, though, and it would definitely solve the problem. However, you can get arrested nowadays for merely threatening it, if the traitor in question has been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Such is the case of rookie Arizona U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, a craven traitor to the people of the United States if there ever was one.

As his first official act, the newly sworn-in Grijalva sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney's Office, calling for federal authorities to investigate what Grijalva termed "vigilante" groups patrolling the border between the United States and Mexico. In his letter, Grijalva libeled the good names of citizen patrol leaders Chris Simcox and Jack Foote and the names the men and women patrolling the border with them. Representative Grijalva called these people "racists" and accused them of creating an "atmosphere of fear" on the border.

Oh yeah? Whose fear? The border ranchers writing to me all say that the presence of these citizen patrols has finally allowed them to sleep at night. If that's the case, then the only "fear" being felt is by those aliens facing citizen arrest when caught in tha act of illegally crossing the border or trying to do so.

The photograph accompanying a Gannet News Service article, shows bespectacled Representative Grijalva standing between his wife and House Speaker Dennis Hastert. In it, Mr. Grijalva is engaged in the act of placing his left hand on the Bible, while raising his right hand and swearing before God to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, knowing full well he intended to violate that oath with his first official act.

Let's analyze exactly what Representative Grijalva is calling for. An official request for a federal investigation into a citizen's activities is an official request for harassment of that citizen, not only by federal investigators looking for any possible level of wrongdoing or violation that can be prosecuted, but also by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which almost always conducts a complete "line-by-line" audit and examination by the citizen's federal income tax returns. Such an official request amounts to an attack on the person and livelihood of the citizen targeted, and its obvious intent is to punish and make an example of that person in order to discourage others from following his lead. And the federal agents who conduct those investigations--the same ones who also swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution--willl go along with those orders just to keep their jobs. Prostitution takes many forms.

So what have these targeted citizens been engaged in? Drug running? Prostitution? Organized crime? No, good and decent, law-abiding American family men like Jack Foote and Chris Simcox have been helping the American ranchers living along the border with Mexico to protect their lands, their livestock--and their very lives--from the onslaught of Mexican nationals crossing the border illegally and invading the U.S.A.

Many of these Mexican nationals are smuggling illegal drugs as payment to those who assist them, drugs intended for American streets and for American children and youth. These drug-smuggling, invading, illegal aliens have been destroying fences, killing and stealing livestock, and threatening the ranchers and their families with death if they so much as complain.

In the meantime, the federal government of the United States has done nothing to fulfill its constitutional obligation to protect our borders and U.S. citizens living there--on the American side of the border. Filling the vacuum created by that failure, citizens like Jack Foote and Chris Simcox have come to the aid of the ranchers, patrolling, protecting, and making citizen arrests of the interlopers they capture for the U.S. Border Patrol and the Immigration an Naturalization Service (INS). Although these are all perfectly legal activities under federal, state and local law, Representative Raul Grijalva has officially called for the virtual disembowelment of these law-abiding citizens he is sworn to protect.

The first question that jumps to mind is, "Who does this Raul Grijalva think he's working for, the Mexican government or the drug runners?" And I would personally like to know how much money the Mexican government and/or the drug runners laundered into Grijalva's election fund, because he certainly isn't working for the people of Arizona or the United States.

So you want a solution to this continuing problem of official misconduct and treason by those elected to office? There is only one effective solution left to us--one that would definitely discourage others from committing the same kind of treason. However, it is a solution I cannot lawfully suggest.

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