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    AZ Senator: Put armed volunteers on border...


    Senator: Put armed volunteers on border
    by E. J. Montini - Apr. 13, 2010 12:00 AM
    The Arizona Republic .

    For those of you who were horrified when the border was being patrolled by a ragtag bunch of gun-toting volunteers, watch out for an alternative being proposed by a state legislator who expects it to sail through the Legislature.

    It involves the border being patrolled by a ragtag bunch of gun-toting volunteers - funded by taxpayers.

    "I think it is going to pass with bipartisan support," said Republican state Sen. Al Melvin of Tucson. "The motivation in this is that I have become really tired of people over the last 20 years pointing their fingers east to Washington and claiming that it is a federal problem. It's also a state problem, and the crux of this legislation is to bring all of our resources to bear to do our part in cooperation with the federal government to improve security on the border."

    In House Bill 2162, Melvin utilizes the "strike everything" amendment lawmakers use to file last-minute pieces of legislation to create what he calls a border-security commission for Arizona. According to the legislation, the commission would be charged with recommending to the federal government "the immediate deployment" of military units to the border. It also would ask for an additional 3,000 Border Patrol agents and would "urge the governor to deploy Arizona National Guard units" to the border.

    The most interesting part of the legislation, however, orders the distribution of $200,000 in state money "to the Cochise County sheriff's office for border security, including the costs of equipment related to a pilot program to dispatch a volunteer security force to the United States-Mexico border."

    Like the much-publicized Minutemen of the past couple of years - only using your money.

    I asked Melvin where the volunteers would come from.

    "All 15 of our county sheriffs have posses," he said. "I think there are a lot of ways to make this work. And we need to really look at all possibilities. . . . The time could not be more appropriate than right now to get this commission in place. It's sad that it took the death of this rancher. This is something I wanted to do for a very long time, and I think we are going to get it done."

    It was one thing to have a group of well-meaning citizens armed with binoculars sitting on lawn chairs and searching the horizon for border crossers.

    A volunteer "security force" is a completely different thing.

    In the days following the murder of Cochise County rancher Robert Krentz, however, Gov. Jan Brewer appeared on Fox News and said, "I requested the federal government to send 250 more down to support local law enforcement and the Border Patrol we have down there. It is a federal responsibility, and, certainly with the budget Arizona is facing, if we were in fact to send more troops - which I could - we don't have the money to sustain it."

    Melvin believes that we do.

    After all, in that same Fox interview, Brewer called the situation on the border "out of control." Melvin agrees and believes that if what the governor says is true, then we must find the money to deal with it.

    Perhaps in the form of volunteers. Perhaps culled from the many sheriffs' posses.

    Given that, is there anyone out there who doesn't expect Sheriff Joe Arpaio to get in on this action?

    So, let's review:

    Well-armed, well-trained narco warriors and other bad guys are crossing our border. We counter with less-well-armed and less-well-trained citizen volunteers.

    "I haven't run across anybody yet who thinks it's a bad idea," Melvin told me.

    Reach Montini at 602-444-8978 or ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

    Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... z0mnw2zAiO

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    "I think it is going to pass with bipartisan support," said Republican state Sen. Al Melvin of Tucson. "The motivation in this is that I have become really tired of people over the last 20 years pointing their fingers east to Washington and claiming that it is a federal problem. It's also a state problem, and the crux of this legislation is to bring all of our resources to bear to do our part in cooperation with the federal government to improve security on the border."
    Go Arizona! This makes all other states look like whimps! Wake up states! You all have work to do! Quit pointing to Washington, the cesspool of national corruption and disgrace. Just because we as a nation have so many corrupt and disgusting critters posing as political representatives in Washington that have refused to do their duty, it does not leave the states and their politicians off the hook to point back at others. Get to work!

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    Arizona legislation to create my Wall of Americans!! GO ARIZONA! GO! GO! GO! GO!

    Every border state should pass a similar law, deputize American volunteers, give them some training, and get them to the borders.

    Hoo-Ray!!

    Arizona leading the way! Wake Up States ... by the time Arizona is finished, we may relocate the US Capitol to Arizona and the All-Star Game to Mexico City. We have that right, you know.



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    Judy wrote,
    Every border state should pass a similar law, deputize American volunteers, give them some training, and get them to the borders.

    Hoo-Ray!!
    Yeeeeeee-Hawww!

    by the time Arizona is finished, we may relocate the US Capitol to Arizona and the All-Star Game to Mexico City. We have that right, you know.
    You go girl!.......umm, I mean Ma'am. The air and water is bound to be better in Arizona than what they are breathing and drinking now.

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    Arizona is on a roll.
    RIP TinybobIdaho -- May God smile upon you in his domain forevermore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roundabout
    Judy wrote,
    Every border state should pass a similar law, deputize American volunteers, give them some training, and get them to the borders.

    Hoo-Ray!!
    Yeeeeeee-Hawww!

    [quote:1k9md1yj] by the time Arizona is finished, we may relocate the US Capitol to Arizona and the All-Star Game to Mexico City. We have that right, you know.
    You go girl!.......umm, I mean Ma'am. The air and water is bound to be better in Arizona than what they are breathing and drinking now. [/quote:1k9md1yj]

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    That's what the Minutemen were all about in the beginning, wasn't it, but the government on the state and local level let them take the heat for wanting to guard and secure our border after 9-11??!! Then of course good old boy, Jorge Boosh stood up with his arms around his beloved Vicente Fox and called those Patriots, "VIGILANTES." REMEMBER? (You member!! ~Jorge Lopez)
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    Where is that guy that wanted to start the camp fire thing on the boarder...he should be interested in this.

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    Just tell me where to sign up,and how many weapons that I need..... I have my pick of a few hundred....

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