Arizona Guard militia plans more aggressive border action. (Not Good)

[Desertdog]

"When this Minuteman thing is over, if it doesn't work, we're going to come out here and close the border with machine guns," Nethercott said.

This type of group scares the h*ll out of me. If they really try something like this it will look bad on all law abiding gun owners and militia groupes. I hope they come to their senses and don't start anything. Dd

Nancy Perla Reports
Arizona Guard militia plans more aggressive border action
Apr 9, 2005, 9:04 AM
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3188165

Eyewitness News 4 has learned an armed militia along the border near Douglas may take matters into its own hands this July.

Casey Nethercott, the leader of the group said Friday that he doesn't yet want to go into detail on his plans.

He supports the Minutemen, but his backup plan is a much more aggressive approach.

Nethercott pointed to two black SUV's, saying, "These are armored vehicles. They got quarter-inch steel in them. They'll stop small arms fire and some rifles."

The headquarters of the militia, called the Arizona Guard, sits along the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona, in the Southeastern corner of the state.

Pointing again to the vehicles, Nethercott continued, "You'll get killed without them, here's been so many shootouts out here."

So many shootouts, he said, that the back wall is riddled with bullet holes of all sizes from drug smugglers who open fire on the compound; prompting the group's border project, tentatively planned for July 4th.

"When this Minuteman thing is over, if it doesn't work, we're going to come out here and close the border with machine guns," Nethercott said.

Fighting fire with fire, but Cochise County authorities say the Arizona Guard must act by the letter of the law.

"We will make sure we find out about that, and we will regulate him, just like we regulate the Minuteman Project," explained Paul Newman, a County Supervisor for Cochise County.

The Minutemen, who sat and watched the border still Friday, say they don't support a violent solution.

"I think anytime you go to that length to take the law into your own hands, you're asking for trouble," said Chris Simcox, an organizer for the Minuteman Project.

Eyewitness News 4 has learned of several other groups, including one in California and another in Texas, planning to launch their own anti-illegal-immigrant projects soon.

 

[Waitone]

Does anyone know anything about the group?

Does anyone know anything about the blowhard?

Did perhaps the blowhard record the interview with the reporter. Nothing better for Eyewitness News at 6 and 11 than a bit containing selective outrage.

BTW, was there any outrage over the threats by MS-13 "to teach the militia a lesson"?

Just checkin'.

 

[Darkmind]

Eyewitness News 4 has learned of several other groups, including one in California and another in Texas, planning to launch their own anti-illegal-immigrant projects soon.

It seems like the Minutemen have accomplished what they set out to do!

 

[Vernal45]

This group scares me as well, but, I think the only way to stop Illegals crossing our borders will have to involve something like this group, and other groups. Since OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS are not listening to the people any longer on this issue, as well as many others.

 

[Parallax]

If they're planning to do this on private property, I don't see the problem...

 

[HankB]

Is this a real orgainization or just a couple of good ol' boys who done got themselves a trailer for HQ and a couple of SUVs?

If this "Arizona Guard" is a "militia" in the same sense as the "Michigan Militia" which Timothy McVeigh tried - unsuccessfully - to join, probably everyone who's become a member since the Oklahoma City bombing is an undercover Fed who's infiltrated it from some alphabet agency. Would this qualify the "Arizona Guard" as a Government agency itself?

[tinfoil hat]Which brings me to my point . . . one of the old Hippie/Yippie leaders from the 60's said they could always tell who was the undercover Fed - he's the one who always suggested they go out and bomb or burn something. Hmmm . . . Agent provocateurs to discredit the Minutemen, anyone? [/tinfoil hat]

 

[AZTOY]

The situation calmed after Cochise County sheriff's deputies arrived at the ranch. The incident was later reported to the FBI, which obtained the arrest warrant for Nethercott.


Update: Arizona Jury Acquits Border Vigilante

A federal jury in Tucson, Arizona, acquitted Casey James Nethercott, a former member of the border vigilante group Ranch Rescue, of charges that he threatened to assault U.S. Border Patrol agents.



Nethercott was released on February 22, 2005, after spending five months in federal custody.
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Arizona Neo-Nazi Shot During Arrest Attempt

Posted: September 23, 2004


A self-proclaimed neo-Nazi and recruiter for a newly formed Arizona milita group was shot and wounded by FBI agents as they attempted to arrest one of his associates.

Kalen Robert Riddle, 22, was wounded on September 15,
2004 as federal agents attempted to arrest his associate, Casey James Nethercott, a former member of the border vigilante group Ranch Rescue, on a warrant for threatening to assault agents with the U.S. Border Patrol. The incident took place in a parking lot outside a Douglas, Arizona, supermarket. Riddle was later listed in critical condition at a hospital in Tuscon. He has not been charged with a crime.

In August, Nethercott was sentenced in Texas to five years in prison for illegal possession of a firearm. The case stemmed from an incident in which Nethercott was accused of detaining and assaulting a pair of Salvadoran immigrants and beating one with a pistol.

Nethercott, 37, was charged with threatening to assault U.S. Border Patrol agents with "intent to impede, intimidate, and interfere" with their duties. A complaint supporting the arrest warrant indicates that Nethercott had threatened the federal agents with a "shootout."

According to the complaint, the charges stemmed from an earlier encounter with U.S. Border Patrol Agents on August 31. Nethercott allegedly refused to stop his vehicle for U.S. Border Patrol Agents and continued driving to his ranch in Douglas.

When the agents arrived at Nethercott's ranch, they found Riddle waiting with a weapon. When they asked Riddle to show his hands and get on the ground, Nethercott told him not to comply. "I'm going to take care of this myself, we're going to have to have a shootout," Nethercott allegedly said.

Nethercott and Riddle had been members of Ranch Rescue, a border vigilante group, but had recently broken with its founder. Following the split they led an effort to recruit armed volunteers to join a new group called Arizona Guard. On its Web site, the Arizona Guard claims to be "an Organized Militia dedicated to the defense of American Patriotism and to help local ranchers and citizens defend property from illegal alien activity and drug running operations." It asks volunteers to carry firearms on missions. According to Nethercott, his militia has 10 to 15 mne and "more military and police experience" than the "sheriff's department has on any weekend."



Originally from Aberdeen, Washington, Riddle created his own Web site where he posted pictures of himself holding a rifle and dressed in a Nazi uniform. On it, he claimed that two of his favorite things were "ethnic cleansing and weapon making."



This Nethercott guy, is bad news.

 

[threefeathers]

I had a fairly friendly run in with these guys last week. I'm a 24 year vet 19D but these guys are scary and they are looking for an incident with the BP.

 

[Crosshair]

HankB

[tinfoil hat]Which brings me to my point . . . one of the old Hippie/Yippie leaders from the 60's said they could always tell who was the undercover Fed - he's the one who always suggested they go out and bomb or burn something. Hmmm . . . Agent provocateurs to discredit the Minutemen, anyone? [/tinfoil hat]

Kind of the same way with the undercover people at my (former) high school. They where alway's obsesed with the details. (Story gotten from friends of course.)

NARK: So who did you buy this from. What grade is this stuff. How much for an ounce, a pound. Want to go smoking together after class.

Regular costomer: How much you charge. Is it good? Here's $20. See ya later.

And people say that the pot smokers are the dumb ones. Had a student that sold booze out of his backpack during detention. Never got caught. Heck, the school pothead was the biggest computer geek in the school. Solved problems that the tech's couldn't.

 

[feedthehogs]

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[s&w 24]

I hope this doesn't give ranch rescue a bad name there the good guys!

 

[itgoesboom]

:banghead:

Closing border -----> Good.
Citizens Getting Involved -----> Good.

Pistol Whipping an Immigrant -----> Bad.
Associating with Nazi supporters ------> Bad.
Going out looking for a fight with Border Patrol -----> Bad.

Some people scare the crap out of me.

I.G.B.