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TheHeretic -> Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 8:09:53 AM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlogVzK7Gi0

     There might have been a time when I had some understanding for Minutemen type groups.  Illegals cost the US a hell of a lot of education and health care dollars.  The damn border needs to be secured.  Public actions can be a great way for grassroots types to draw attention to a problem, so the idea of what happened here seems like a fun little publicity stunt.  The reality is something else entirely.

     If this group posted this (along with clips of varying lengths from the other cameras present) figuring to gain my support, they really stepped on their collective dick.


      From the beginning




slaveboyforyou -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 11:28:27 AM)

Wow, what a gentleman.  Don't you just love people who use foul language in public places in the middle of the day?  I understand how upset he is over illegal immigration, but barging into a place where families are shopping and loudly cussing out the clerks is beyond ridiculous.  The poor clerks he is screaming at have no say in how Home Depot conducts their business. 




luckydog1 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 11:37:56 AM)

Would they not accept his Liberty Dollars or something?




Level -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:00:34 PM)

Maybe he was mad because he couldn't find any Freedom Fries......




farglebargle -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:03:54 PM)

Did you guys watch the video?




slaveboyforyou -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:25:52 PM)

I watched it.  I saw a tiny little man with a big mouth talking like a sailor in a public place in the middle of the day.  I don't care what your politics are.  There is no excuse for behaving like that.  You can state your beliefs without being crude and ungentlemanly.  What he and his group did will make absolutely no difference.  Home Depot is not required by any law to check the green cards of people congregating in the parking lot waiting for contractors to show up.  If a business decides to allow loitering on it's property, there is nothing illegal about that.  So this man was completely uninformed when he was shooting off his mouth about the law.  He is also wrong about the first amendment.  You don't have a right to go on to private property and cause a scene.  The manager had every right to tell him to leave the premises. 

I don't like the way the immigration problem is being handled any more than these guys.  But this is not the way to handle it.  If they are really mad at Home Depot, they can organize a boycott, write the president of the company and the shareholders, picket shareholders' meetings, or picket the store off of the premises.  Walking in off the street and cussing out the low-level employees won't make any difference, and it was purely histrionics. 




Level -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:33:28 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I watched it.  I saw a tiny little man with a big mouth talking like a sailor in a public place in the middle of the day.  I don't care what your politics are.  There is no excuse for behaving like that.  You can state your beliefs without being crude and ungentlemanly.  What he and his group did will make absolutely no difference.  Home Depot is not required by any law to check the green cards of people congregating in the parking lot waiting for contractors to show up.  If a business decides to allow loitering on it's property, there is nothing illegal about that.  So this man was completely uninformed when he was shooting off his mouth about the law.  He is also wrong about the first amendment.  You don't have a right to go on to private property and cause a scene.  The manager had every right to tell him to leave the premises. 

I don't like the way the immigration problem is being handled any more than these guys.  But this is not the way to handle it.  If they are really mad at Home Depot, they can organize a boycott, write the president of the company and the shareholders, picket shareholders' meetings, or picket the store off of the premises.  Walking in off the street and cussing out the low-level employees won't make any difference, and it was purely histrionics. 


I concur.




popeye1250 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:41:54 PM)

I thought it was kind of funny.
I wrote a letter to the local Home Depot manager here about about illegal aliens on their property soliciting for day labor jobs and two months later they didn't allow them to solicit on their property anymore.
I don't know whether my letter alone accomplished that, I doubt it, they probably had a lot of complaints about it.
But, "the pen is mightier than the sword."
But, I'm a stockholder and I didn't swear in my handwritten letter.
The thing this shows me is that *our government* isn't doing it's job! If it were this kind of thing wouldn't be neccessary, would it?
And the guy who was doing all the talking was right, it is a federal felony to hire illegal aliens.
He could have used more tact but he was right.
No different than the illegals marching and swearing last spring.
Until *our government* gets up off of it's arse and starts doing it's job we'll probably be seeing more of this confrontational type of stuff.
In the DPS (dreaded private sector) if you don't do your job you're fired.
Impeachment takes too long and is too complicated.
The Minutemen are right to go after employers who hire illegal aliens.
And George (Herbert Hoover) Bush called them "vigilantes?"




luckydog1 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:44:34 PM)

Well said Slave Boy For You.




luckydog1 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:47:15 PM)

Popeye thre was no evidence presented whatsoever that Home Depot was hiring illegals.  They are not legally required to check the citizenship of people in the Parking lot.  It is the Gov job to stop them before they get to the parking lot.  Cussing at a clerk accomplished nothing.  I hope that guy got arrested, even better if he resisted and got tazed.




domiguy -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 12:50:24 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

Maybe he was mad because he couldn't find any Freedom Fries......


lol....Yeah I watched it...I saw a loud mouth man idiotically attempting to defend his Country by becoming a trespasser....Going after the illegals individually or the store in which they gather in front of is not the way to solve the problem.....

However, I must admit, that dropping a shit load of "F-bombs" will probably solve almost every problem imaginable.....Thus far, Dropping a large and untimely amount of "F-bombs" has got me through three stints of re-hab, four marriages, thirteen jobs and thrown out of more churches than I can begin to recall.

The "F-bomb" is what makes America great!




GoddessDustyGold -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:04:09 PM)

This is most definitely not the way to garner support for a most worthy cause.  I personally know at least one Minuteman who takes his turn patrolling the Arizona border.   They have strict rules regarding how they are to only report an illegal crossing.  They even offer food and water from a distance if it is needed and place the needed articles on the ground and then back away.  Afterwards, they can only hope that the "legally" empowered will follow up on the reports and send the crossers back to where they belong.   
I did take note of the shoppers who were watching the altercation and cheering the antagonists on.  They may agree with what they are saying, but I would rather have not seen them not in the store at all.  If more people who feel strongly about this issue were to quietly enter each and every buisness that is known to abet the illegals in some manner and let them know in a polite way they they are not going to patronize that business  I think we would get much farther much faster.
Are you willing to not shop at home depot and other businesses that ignore the problem or raise their hands in catitulation? (That is a general question being thrown out for consideration here.)  If sales went down, they would change their tune very quickly.   I would rather they caputulate to My side of the argument by feeling the pinch of lost sales than to feel that there are no real consequences to their bottom line profit margin by continuing to ignore it. 




Level -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:07:21 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: GoddessDustyGold

 If more people who feel strongly about this issue were to quietly enter each and every buisness that is known to abet the illegals in some manner and let them know in a polite way they they are not going to patronize that business  I think we would get much farther much faster.


Well said, Dusty.




EPGAH -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:24:21 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: GoddessDustyGold
They even offer food and water from a distance if it is needed and place the needed articles on the ground and then back away.  Afterwards, they can only hope that the "legally" empowered will follow up on the reports and send the crossers back to where they belong.

If you give food and water to a stray, aren't you just encouraging it? Deserts and mountains and to a lesser extent, rivers, are natural boundaries BECAUSE they are hard and/or hazardous to cross! A natural filter, if you will!
Besides, doesn't that mean they're aiding and abetting the very scum they launch such vitriol against?

But yes, I agree with the second part...any business that hires illegals will lose my business and more importantly, I take advantage of the ICE tipline...One fine may or may not hurt them, but multiple fines for the same stupid mistake MAY eventually teach them!
Of course, for every one like me, there are those who patronize them simply BECAUSE they hire those "poor unfortunate illegals"! (Hint: If they weren't illegal, they wouldn't have to worry about the "dangers" of crossing the border except at safe "checkpoints", nor the "constant specter of deportation"! [8|] )
Yes, our immigration system is hard and expensive, and no guarantee of getting through, but we don't WANT it to be easy, because citizenship confers so many benefits that invaders don't--or at least shouldn't--get! Not to mention that the act of crossing illegally is proof of an invader's "flexible morals"--they've already broken INTERnational laws, what will constrain them to follow Federal, state, or "lesser" laws?

If they want a guarantee, I can guarantee that if caught, they won't be punished harshly enough! And, of course, their capture will be from their own arrogance, breaking one of those "lesser" laws, like drugs, gun-violence, driving without a license, or even something as stupid as driving with illegally dark-tinted windows and then mouthing off to the arresting officer in Spanish![:D]




popeye1250 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:27:41 PM)

Luckydog, I agree!
This is a law enforcement problem but how do you get law enforcement to do it's job?
We're PAYING law enforcement to do a job and it just ain't happening! (I've since sold my stock in Home Depot and glad I did!)
I think that The Minutemen maybe need to start picketing outside local police stations to get something done.
They say; "we don't enforce federal laws."
But, everytime a bank is robbed off they go, sirens wailing to the bank!
Banks are FDIC Insured which makes bank robbery a federal crime.
The FBI always investigates bank robberies.
Local and state police agencies should stop responding to bank robberies if they "don't enforce federal laws."
Let the FBI handle them.
I couldn't care less about some corporation's paper currency!
And they drive 70mph to get to a bank endangering the public just for some paper currency?
"We caught the robbers with $20,000 but, unfortunately two people were killed in a car crash by one of the responding cruisers,"
When you ask a police officer about that I *garauntee* you the first word out of his or her mouth will be , "well..."




slaveboyforyou -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:38:45 PM)

I have been saying it for years.  We should really restructure the border patrol along the lines of the Coast Guard.  They could afford to hire a lot more people that way.  As it stands now, they run it like a police department and that is the wrong way to go.  You could enlist people for 3 or 5 year stints, and have the manpower needed to patrol the borders.   




GoddessDustyGold -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:54:13 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: EPGAH

quote:

ORIGINAL: GoddessDustyGold
They even offer food and water from a distance if it is needed and place the needed articles on the ground and then back away.  Afterwards, they can only hope that the "legally" empowered will follow up on the reports and send the crossers back to where they belong.

If you give food and water to a stray, aren't you just encouraging it? Deserts and mountains and to a lesser extent, rivers, are natural boundaries BECAUSE they are hard and/or hazardous to cross! A natural filter, if you will!
Besides, doesn't that mean they're aiding and abetting the very scum they launch such vitriol against?



I am going to disagree with this.  I know you are rabid on this subject, but they are still human beings, albeit, in many instances, quite misguided.  The minimal food and some water is available and offered when it seems obvious that it is needed.  Some don't go any farther and return, rather than knowing they have been spotted and will be reported.  Perhaps they will try again on another day...perhaps not.  *shrug*
I disagree that the solution is to kill by refusing water.   The solution is to enforce the laws currently on the books...i.e. immediate deportation of those who enter illegally, and severe fines and other consequences for those who offer shelter (as a landlord) or jobs (as an off the books employer).  If there is little opportunity to better themselves by entering this country illegally, that will stem the flow of illegal border crossing much more quickly. We no longer become the land of opportunity for everyone who is discontented with their own country's lack of opportunity.  Our opportunity must be reserved for the citizens and the legal aliens who have followed the rules.
Please keep in mind that I refer to desolate border stretches.  Sometimes they are fairly close to ranches and those ranches have been robbed and there have even been some killings because the people are desperate for food and water.  Or they're just skanky people who have no conscience and they are just doing what comes naturally and they will continue to do the same when they hit the big towns.  Call Me a cynic if you want. 
It does not do any good to point out that they are aiding and abetting by making sure that there is a water bottle or some peanut butter crackers. There is a group here that wants to support the usage of unmanned watering and sustenance areas (kind of like rest stops for illegals) for illegal crossers.  I do not sanction that.  But the desert is harsh and there is no need for children to be subjected to those horrors just because their parents made an unwise decision. And it is just as unwise to deliberately kill the parents, for then we are left with the responsibility of the children. 
Sorry, but living in Az, I am too up close and personal on this issue.  I am opposed to illegal immigration.  I am also opposed to delilberately allowing people to thirst to death in the desert to prove a point.    I would rather have them arrive here and then find that they cannot rent an apartment or find work.  That is much more effective, in My opinion.  But that is not happening, is it?

Edited to add:  You live in Missouri.  I would  like to see you surive for one day in the desert without the proper protection and enough water.  Hell, we carry water in our cars in case of a breakdown, and that is in the middle of town. 
I do not feed the javelina who comes up onto My patio.  I chase them off.  You are correct.  That is encouraging them.  But I also didn't chase off the coyote that was drinking from My neighbor's tree well.  He might not belong in that backyard, per se, but there is not always going to be water there.  He went back to his "wash" where he normally lives.  If he could get his food and shelter every day in My neighbor's yard, then I would say that neighbor is abetting the coyote and fostering a dependence on the neighborhood system.  This is precisely why we are told to not feed the wild animals.  And this directly parallels, in My opinion, the fact that if illegal immigrants can make it all the way into the country, they can then be supported by the community at large, whether that is with a job and a place to rent, or with free social benefits or a combination thereof.  They become dependent on it as a source of survival and then we are stuck with the care and feeding of all.  However, if he just drops by because this is where he can get water today....no problem.  I can share for 5 minutes.   
Take away the ongoing support of society, and there will no longer be a moral decision to make at the border.  Because they won't be coming in anymore.  There is no longer a reason. 




luckydog1 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:55:45 PM)

Popeye, I think your analogy with the bank is stupid.  But I do agree that the system is not working as it should.  Currently in my city a proposal is up to have the local police detain and call the FBI when they encounter an illegal.  But how do you tell

You want to begin to have to carry proof of citizenship at all times? 
Or you want a Real ID linked up to federal Databases so they can check from a drivers liscence or a retina scan.
OR what other solution do you have?  How do you tell?  Surley you don't mean  if they speak Spanish in Public.  Or look Hispanic?






popeye1250 -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 1:57:47 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I have been saying it for years.  We should really restructure the border patrol along the lines of the Coast Guard.  They could afford to hire a lot more people that way.  As it stands now, they run it like a police department and that is the wrong way to go.  You could enlist people for 3 or 5 year stints, and have the manpower needed to patrol the borders.   


Slaveboy, good idea.
The thing is, at some point if *our* government either can't or won't do it's job in a certain area The People certainly have the right to step in.
We've passed *that point* a few years ago with Bush.
I don't know if a "writ of mandamus" would do any good anymore
                           (any lawyers in here?)
or would the *govt* just ignore that too?
I was giving Bush the benefit of the doubt until he called The Minutemen *"vigilantes"* for doing the job that he *should* have been doing all along!
It was at that *very point in time* that I realised that Bush was a total piece of corrupt shit!




EPGAH -> RE: Man on a mission or a**hole with an excuse? (11/23/2007 2:13:56 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: GoddessDustyGold
I am going to disagree with this.  I know you are rabid on this subject, but they are still human beings, albeit, in many instances, quite misguided.  The minimal food and some water is available and offered when it seems obvious that it is needed.  Some don't go any farther and return, rather than knowing they have been spotted and will be reported.  Perhaps they will try again on another day...perhaps not.  *shrug*
I disagree that the solution is to kill by refusing water.   Ihe solution is to enforce the lws currently on the books...i.e. immediate deportation of those who enter illegally, and severe fines and other consequences for those who offer shelter (as a landlord) or jobs (as an off the books employer).  If there is little opportunity to better themselves by entering this country illegally, that will stem the flow of illegal border crossing much more quickly. We no longer become the land of opportunity for everyone who is discontented with their own country's lack of opportunity.  Our opportunity must be reserved for the citizens and the legal aliens who have followed the rules.
Please keep in mind that I refer to desolate border stretches.  Sometimes they are fairly close to ranches and those ranches have been robbed and there have even been some killings because the people are desperate for food and water.  Or their just skanky people who have jo conscience and they are just doing what comes naturally and they will continue to do the same when they hjit the big towns.  Call Me a cynic if you want. 
It does not do any good to point out that they are aiding and abetting by making sure that there is a water bottle or some peanut butter crackers. There is a group here that wants to support the usage of unmanned watering and sustenance areas (kind of like a rest stop for illegals) for illegal crossers.  I do not sanction that.  But the desert is harsh and there is no need for children to be subjected to those horrors just because their parents made an unwise decision. And it is just as unwise to deliberately kill the parents, for then we are left with the responsibility of the children. 
Sorry, but living in Az, I am too up close and personal on this issue.  I am opposed to illegal immigration.  I am also opposed to delilberately allowing people to thirst to death in the desert to prove a point.    I would rather have them arrive here and then find that they cannot rent an apartment or find work.  That is much more effective, in My opinion.  But that is not happening, is it?

True, but if you "catch" them enough to give them food and water, however minimal, you could also lace it with some sort of tranquilizer and have them taken back unconscious...(And hopefully some kind of contraceptive could also be added)
If you believe they are human, they need to face the consequences of crossing illegally, since that is a CHOICE...If they are simply animals, shrug, turn your back, and let Darwin's Will be done...
I myself, notice that they attack and rob Americans, sometimes just raiding, stealing what they want and retreating back into Mexico, who will protect them, and other times, doing a long-con, taking money from America and siphoning it into Mexico. (Not to mention their more subtle larcenies of our welfare, educational, medical, and prison systems) Yet no matter how much they steal, it makes no improvement in Mexico and does NOT diminish the number of invaders...indeed, some might even say they increased (Including the illegals themselves, when they "show their strength" in our streets!) Because of that, they are either sociopathic as a "class", or just feral humanoids--dangerous animals that need to be treated--well, like dangerous animals!
As to their children, I sincerely doubt any American FORCED them to have children, so the children are THEIR responsibility, not America's! And yes, I know about their hijacking of the 14th Amendment, and their use of their children as anchors and/or sympathy props when caught, "But you're breaking up our family!"...Again, choice is theirs, punishment should be equal, not lessened simply because they "can't keep it in their pants", I think the cliche is?
Corporations from DELL to Zenith have factories in Mexico, so they need not invade America for a job! How many jobs must we outsource to prevent them from showing up here?
The, "For a better life" excuse is specious, since a bank-robber or drug-dealer could justify their crimes that same way...And I just covered why the, "For the sake of the children" excuse is invalid.
Moreover, once here, they treat it as their "right" to corrupt and destroy our neighborhoods, burden our schools with children that don't have any intention of learning, bring drugs, disease, and violence to our lands.
If you believe America is inherently a better nation, then we owe it to ourselves to keep the bad ones out...If you say that America already has criminals, I agree, therefore we don't need more. Furthermore, if Mexico's rejects can no longer escape into America, then Mexico will be FORCED to make the necessary reforms to make life "bearable" for them down there...After all, America--despite being the ones invaded by their rejects--CANNOT force them to shape up; that would be imperialist![;)]




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