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| Legislator wants law to declare Minutement "terrorists" |
| 2007-01-21 |
| An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill to revise the state's statutes on organized crime and fraud by defining "domestic terrorism" in such a way that members of the Minuteman Project or other border-patrol groups could be prosecuted and forced to serve a minimum six-month jail term. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D- After all, there's no possible connection between the coyotes and the invaders who create a market for their services. As WND reported, it was federal inaction that motivated Arizona lawmakers to approve the new law creating the crime of smuggling in 2005. Maricopa County District Attorney Andrew Thomas announced he would interpret the law to mean illegals caught with a smuggler could be prosecuted as co-conspirators if they paid a coyote to transport them across the border. "If the customer pays a dope peddler money, he's violated the law," said Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who compares the relationship between coyotes and illegals to drug dealers and their customers. "(Here), they're paying for transport." That law was upheld last year by a county judge after defense attorneys questioned its constitutionality. Last month, the same judge who upheld the law also overturned the first jury conviction of an illegal immigrant charged as a conspirator under the law, Associated Press |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #4 Idiot-stick's proposed "law" is a violation of the Second Amendment. Read it - it says an armed militia. It says nothing about being affiliated with any law enforcement or government agency. This bitch should not only lose her seat, she should be run out of town trussed to a 30-foot cedar timber, and dumped well inside Mexico - without any identification. I can believe the ACLU would want to try something like this. That's an organization that should be declared an enemy of the state, and run out of the country. 49Pan - I'm not a citizen of Arizona, but I'll vote for you anyway! |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-01-21 22:51 |
| #3 You realize this would make members of the neighborhood watch "domestic terrorists"? It could be used to prosecute everyone who takes part in a "take back the night" march. Big ol' can a worms this bint wants to open. Can't wait to see her reaction when it's used against people who report illegal dumping or other Green-party concerns. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-01-21 15:31 |
| #2 She can just FOAD!! She is on my list and when I move to Phoenix this spring I will do everything I can to see she is not elected again. I don't care if a dead roach is running against her I will campaign to see her and her lunacy stopped. My wife is a stay at home mom,a decision we made as a team. She is more educated than I am, and could certainly get a better paying job. She works harder than I ever did, she is raising two sons, mostly alone with my trips. Her stress levels skyrocket and she worries while I am gone and she alone running the house, she's more akin to a single parent with an occasional house guest that she has to feed and do laundry for. Our decision was made to give our son's the best household possible, and I don't mean the money either. What a miserable egocentric bag of wind for degrading the most important person in the family, I wish her the worst. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2007-01-21 13:29 |
| #1 said women and moms who stay at home and don't work are dependent on men and "leeching off their husbands." Perhaps there are those stay-at-home spouses who are parasitical on their husbands. All the ones I know, however, work in partnership managing household and family while the job-holding partner manages his career. In fact, the several househusbands I know deliberately made the choice to put less-stellar careers on hold because having a parent involved in the child rearing full time was important to them. Arizona State Representative Sinema ought to be careful should she ever find herself talking with them though, as one is a former prosecuting attorney with a small consulting practice, while another has a concealed carry licence and little tolerance for fools. (He took on the re-training of the compound security staff when he followed his wife's career down to Caracas, Venezeula, back in the 1990s.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-21 12:29 |