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Volunteers joining Civil Homeland Defense
patrols continue to grow by the week. Five new volunteers have
been out in the last week and two more will join their first
patrols this weekend.
Since the running gun battle on the I-10
between smugglers a few weeks ago, it has been like someone
turned on switch with the media. Last weekend we entertained
film crews from Germany, Speigal and ARD, a Dutch news crew, a
French television crew, an Australian television crew, a
documentary crew from New York, The New York Times, The London
Mirror Newspaper and on Sunday we educated a crew from CNN
filming a segment for the Aaron Brown news show. Whew! What a
week of interviews. And the tide has turned - no longer are
they here looking for “vigilantes” (because of
course there are none) they are hear to report about the
ruthless smugglers, the environmental damage and CNN will cover
our water supply being in jeopardy.
Saturday night proved to be interesting.
Nine volunteers set up on a well known heavily traveled network
of trails - the same ones we typically patrol. Within thirty
minutes we spotted a group of 15 illegals breaking in to our
country and called in the group to Border Patrol. The group
entered our perimeter and we lit them up with spotlights - of
course the coyote ran, along with 4 other brave young men from
Mexico who ran like sissy cowards. We followed them for awhile
calling for them to come back to the group of women and one
child they left behind. To no avail, they were gone into the
night never to return. Law breaking cowards that they are.
That left one young teen a child and five
women who voluntarily sat on the ground. We offered them water
and asked if they needed first aid as we always do. Among the
group was a young woman in her early twenties who was obviously
very pregnant - almost six months along as it turned out. She
was not feeling well so we offered her a chair, gave her water
and a volunteer took her pulse and generally looked her over to
make sure she was not in need of immediate medical attention.
We called Border Patrol back and informed them about the
pregnant woman and asked them to hurry in case she needed to
see a doctor. None of the group had jackets and it was cold -
they obviously had a smuggler waiting nearby in Palominas to
transport them to their next destination.
Through an interpreter we learned she had
no father for her baby, she had no family to support her and
because she was a highland Mayan Indian her government would
not provide her with assistance. She told us she traveled to
the border, joined up with a group of complete strangers and
decided to cross the border illegally to have her baby in the
United States.
Border Patrol arrived and boy were they
on a mission - a mission to arrest Chris Simcox specifically.
The agent was loud, aggressive and harassed every CHD
volunteer, asking them what their jobs were, if they had
permits for their weapons (the misguided and uninformed young
man didn’t even know that in Arizona you don’t have
to have a permit to carry a weapon for self-defense.
He came on particularly hard with a
female volunteer because her jacket was partially covering her
holstered pistol.” You uncover that weapon right now or
I'm going to arrest you on the spot!” he bellowed.
Chris Simcox had left the scene to return
to the trail far away from the group sitting, waiting for
another group to enter the area. The agent could find nothing
wrong with anything any of the volunteers were doing -
everything was by the book and lawful. He was terribly
disappointed because his orders were to bring all of us or
specifically Simcox, back in handcuffs.
He demanded that I return to the scene so
he could ask me questions. The message was relayed to me by
radio, so I packed up my gear and strolled back down the trail
to the group.
“Oh Mr. Simcox, how are you
tonight?” he said. “Could I talk to you for a
moment he said politely. He walked me 20 feet away from the
rest of the group and then began harassing me. “Do you
have a weapon on you tonight?” he asked.
“No”, I said. “No!” he exclaimed ( I
could tell he was terribly disappointed by this news for what
he thought was the truth was actually fiction). “Well
good, because we know you lost your right to carry a weapon
because you were convicted of a federal firearms violation,
right?” he said.
“No, actually I have never been
convicted of anything and in this country you are innocent
until proven guilty - right?” I said.
“Well, I’m going to interview
this group and if they make one complaint about you I’m
going to arrest you,” he exclaimed.
He interviewed the group - none of them
complained about a thing, in fact the pregnant woman told him
we were kind and had helped her.
He did not find what he was looking for -
someone in the group - a law abiding civilized citizen of the
United States breaking a rule, any rule - I think he would have
arrested me for littering or even jay-walking - if I were.
Then he turned helpful and almost
apologetic. Listen, I don’t want to have to be this way,
but if I don’t bring you in tonight tonight I’m
going to catch heat, man we all are,” he said. Somebody
in high places wants you out of the way - and bad,” he
said.
“You guys be careful and tighten up
the things I found wrong tonight and we can’t bother
you” I asked him if he found anything wrong with what we
were doing. “No,” he said nothing, but now
I’m suppose to call the F.B.I. to come out here and
interview everybody - the illegals and your group.
“But I’ll tell you what
,” he said. At that point I reminded him about my civil
rights and a little detail know as title 13 -”You
wouldn’t want to make a false arrest of a law abiding
citizen would you,” I asked.
“Look, he said, how long are you
going to be out here tonight we're expecting a big push of
illegals through this area tonight. we have horse patrols
coming in. we thank you for your help, but if you are packed up
and out of here in 15 minutes I won’t call this in and
we’ll call it even,” he said. Sounds good to me -
thanks for your help.
He then warned us that Washington has put
tremendous pressure on B.P. supervisors to arrest me and any
members of A.B.P. or Ranch Rescue. “They want you guys
out of the way at any cost,” he said. He then shook my
hand, thanked us for following the rules, stuck his tail
between his legs and returned to the job he was hired to do
-stop illegal entry into the United States. I thought they
worked for us - not against us. To be continued - I’m
sure.
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