ACLU fails to oust Minutemen
Posted on April 20, 2006
Reported earlier here by Kender, and now picked up on WND
The American Civil Liberties Union failed an attempt to remove volunteers with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps from Arizona state land.
Ranch owner Pat King, whose property includes some state trust land she leases, told the Arizona Daily Star newspaper the ACLU officials who instigated the complaint don’t care about her.
“So they are not really the American Civil Liberties Union are they? Because they don’t give a darn about what has happened to my constitutional rights to property,” King said.
King, according to the Daily Star, called the ACLU members misguided, out-of-town youngsters who don’t understand what people and drug smugglers have done to her land and the valley.
About 60 ACLU members have been monitoring the Minuteman volunteers since the beginning of a monthlong patrol April 1 south of Three Points, Ariz., on King’s private Anvil Ranch.
The ACLU’s Ray Ybarra complains the volunteers shine high-powered flashlights on them as they drive by.
But the Minutemen claim the ACLU members have harassed and berated them and interfered with Border Patrol apprehensions.
The president of the Minuteman Arizona chapter, Stacey O’Connell, said the border group is considering legal action.
The paper reported Ybarra contacted the Arizona State Land Department about the Minuteman presence on state trust land without permits.
An Arizona official showed up Monday night to visit the volunteers.
The issue was resolved, according to O’Connell, when volunteers presented valid permits and others promised to get them right away online.
“Nobody was escorted off state land, nobody was asked to leave,” O’Connell told the Daily Star.
Read the whole thing.
» Filed Under ACLU, Border Control/Homeland Security, News
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That’s because the ACLU has no Constitutional case. Even if the Minutemen stood on the border with rifles it wouldn’t violate the Constitution, which gives the right and the responsibility to the people to call up a volunteer militia.
Lest look at this from what apears to be the ACLU’s point of view.
The ACLU is an NGO of the United Nations and is being paid a sizable amount by George Soros. Both are for open borders. The U.S. contributes to the U.N. so what is good for the U.N. is good for the U.S. George Soros is a naturalized citizen and his liberties are important. What does Pat King contribute to the ACLU’s version of the Civil Liberties of America? Most likely nothing so she is not important.