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January 11, 2003, 07:31 PM
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Who does this Raul Grijalva
think he's working for?
By Carl F. Worden
Published 01. 11. 03 at 9:11 Sierra Time
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 as an example to anyone else who might be tempted to do the same. 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, but you can get arrested nowadays for merely threatening it if the traitor in question has been elected to the House of Representatives.
Such is the case of rookie Arizona 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, Jack Foote and the men and women patrolling the border with them as racists, and blamed them for 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 facing citizen arrest trying to cross the border.
The photograph accompanying the following Gannet News Service article, shows bespectacled Representative Grijalva standing between his wife and House Speaker Dennis Hastert. In it, Mr. Grijalva is caught 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 it almost always includes a complete "line-by-line" audit and examination by the Internal Revenue Service. It 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 -- they'll 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 family men like Jack Foote and Chris Simcox have been helping the ranchers living along the border with Mexico to protect their lands, their livestock -- and their very lives -- from the onslaught of Mexican nationals invading the border illegally.
Many of these Mexican nationals are smuggling illegal drugs as payment to those who assist them, drugs intended for American streets and our children, and they 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 the citizens living there. Filling the vacuum of that failure, citizens like Jack Foote and Chris Simcox have come to the aid of those ranchers, patrolling, protecting and making citizen arrests of the interlopers they capture for the Border patrol and the INS -- all perfectly legal activities under federal, state and local law, yet 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 drug runners laundered into Grijalva's election fund, because he sure as hell 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 will definitely discourage others from committing the same kind of treason, but it is a solution I cannot by law suggest.
© 2002 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted)
Who does this Raul Grijalva
think he's working for?
By Carl F. Worden
Published 01. 11. 03 at 9:11 Sierra Time
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 as an example to anyone else who might be tempted to do the same. 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, but you can get arrested nowadays for merely threatening it if the traitor in question has been elected to the House of Representatives.
Such is the case of rookie Arizona 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, Jack Foote and the men and women patrolling the border with them as racists, and blamed them for 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 facing citizen arrest trying to cross the border.
The photograph accompanying the following Gannet News Service article, shows bespectacled Representative Grijalva standing between his wife and House Speaker Dennis Hastert. In it, Mr. Grijalva is caught 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 it almost always includes a complete "line-by-line" audit and examination by the Internal Revenue Service. It 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 -- they'll 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 family men like Jack Foote and Chris Simcox have been helping the ranchers living along the border with Mexico to protect their lands, their livestock -- and their very lives -- from the onslaught of Mexican nationals invading the border illegally.
Many of these Mexican nationals are smuggling illegal drugs as payment to those who assist them, drugs intended for American streets and our children, and they 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 the citizens living there. Filling the vacuum of that failure, citizens like Jack Foote and Chris Simcox have come to the aid of those ranchers, patrolling, protecting and making citizen arrests of the interlopers they capture for the Border patrol and the INS -- all perfectly legal activities under federal, state and local law, yet 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 drug runners laundered into Grijalva's election fund, because he sure as hell 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 will definitely discourage others from committing the same kind of treason, but it is a solution I cannot by law suggest.
© 2002 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted)