Posted by
Arnie on Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:44:06 PM
It’s outrageous, and also scary, what some
politicians can conceive as good for the country, or the State of
Arizona in this case. “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.” WND has the story.
HB2286 is a bill introduced by a very young, green and still wet behind the ears, Krystan Simema, a democrat of Phoenix. I said green because she was formerly of the Green party. I said wet behind the ears because her credentials are totally social work oriented. Educated she is. Degrees she has. But,
if your only experience in life is with the down and out, the
victimized, the hard luck stories that social workers deal with daily,
then what other attitude can one get but that only bigger government
and more restrictions can resolve the problems of humans. In this bill, she focuses on the Minutemen carrying weapons.
But the way the bill is written it will eventually lead to other self-protection issues.
The bill reads in part.
Sec. 2. Title 13, chapter 23, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-2320, to read:
13-2320. Domestic terrorism; classification
A.
An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the
individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local,
state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another
individual or group of individuals as an organization, group,
corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged
illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting
alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals
is armed with a firearm or other weapon.
Her intentions are to silence and restrict the
work of the minutemen who wish to aid the border patrol in apprehending
illegal alien crossing of our border. She says they are “just scary”. I wonder what she thinks of illegal drug smugglers entering the country? I
wonder what she thinks of the Mexican gangs shooting at our border
patrol officers from the other side of the no fenced border?
All of that aside, in her stupidly written bill, I
also see the possibility of a homeowner going to jail for protecting
his domicile. Consider this. You have noticed that you are being robbed or threatened (an illegal activity) on your own property. Perhaps
someone has broken into your detached garage, barn or out building, or
even house itself, and by returning home you discover the intruders. You
call 911, but then because of the immediate nature to protect your
property and/or life, you and your spouse and teenager and possibly a
neighbor to help patrol and/or surround the garage, barn or whatever
for observation till the police arrive, and you arm yourself with a
firearm or other weapon of force just in case. The police arrive. You were armed while detecting illegal activity. The criminal intruder would go free. The homeowner would spend 6 months in jail with a felony record.
This bill is what is “just scary”.
As I See It Now.