AZ-based border Minuteman group calls it quits

[Ptah]

Source: Arizona Daily Star

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On March 16, Mercer sent out an e-mail urging members to come to the border “locked, loaded and ready” and urged people to bring “long arms.” She proposed changing the group’s rules to allow members to track illegal immigrants and drug smugglers instead of just reporting the activity to the Border Patrol.

“We will forcefully engage, detain, and defend our lives and country from the criminals who trample over our culture and laws,” she wrote in the March 16 e-mail.

Mercer said she received a more feverish response than she expected — 350 personal e-mails she said — and decided the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps couldn’t shoulder the responsibility and liability of what could occur, she said.

“People are ready to come lock and loaded and that’s not what we are all about,” Mercer said. “It only takes one bad apple to destroy everything we’ve done for the last eight years.”

Read more: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_7d47c702-378b-11df-95cb-001cc4c03286.html

[gratuitous]

1. Right, she got too many responses

"Feverish," even. That's totally believable. These people will lie to their undertakers.

[Dappleganger]

2. So she summoned the genie out of the bottle...

then when he actually appeared, decided it was too much magic to handle?

[Kali]

3. Crazy whackjobs that have too much time and money on their hands.

They should go do those jobs they claim migrants are taking away from Amurikans for free - then there will still be cheap prices/services and big profits for the companies that hire, plus less incentive for migration.

Almost win-win eh?





Idiots. Dangerous idiots.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. They are needed to work the Democratic officials threat patrol

[angrycarpenter]

5. Maybe she can devote her energy to freeing Shawna forde.

Psycho bitches got to stick together.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R big #5 for, she INCITED "locked & loaded" then ran when THEY SHOWED UP!1

http://www.notexasborderwall.com/

[rapturedbyrobots]

7. no sense of irony

or knowledge of history.

the land that she's occupying and defending was part of MEXICO just 160 short years ago. and the lands were taken by FORCE. there are families that have been living on those lands for 5 or more generations. so, who's culture and laws were illegally trampled?

maybe in 150 years there'll be some stupid xenophobic white americans in baghdad complaining about the illegal immigrants from basra.

[dballance]

8. She Lawyered Up

I guess she found out that when you tell crazy people to come "locked and loaded" they're going to do it. Especially in TX and AZ. Obviously she has an intelligent lawyer who told her she could be held responsible for the violence she incited. "Bring long arms?" What the hell did she think those mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging neanderthals were going to do with those "long arms?"

Can we give AZ and TX back to Mexico? It would save us a lot of tax dollars that go to their states.

[MineralMan]

12. Typical "Let's You and Him Fight" Attitude.

It's very popular amongst the teabaggers and other assorted wingers.

[tanyev]

9. Aww, they want to be just like Sarah.

[vaberella]

10. This woman is a bitch that was inciting violence and in the end couldn't handle her monster. n/t

[panzerfaust]

11. Too Good

Mercer sent out an e-mail urging members to come to the border “locked, loaded and ready” and urged people to bring “long arms.”
...
“People are ready to come lock and loaded and that’s not what we are all about,” Mercer said

???

Still, that is basically what those who have incited violence against those who voted to provide healthcare to more Americans are saying - gee, we are shocked that people are acting on our words.

Why cannot some of these violent people be held responsible?

[Javaman]

13. in other words, they are dumping the border bullshit in favor of

shifting focus to washington.

then minutemen is yesterdays news, they are going full on tea bag ball licking now.

It's all about image and promotion.

They don't want to miss the boat of stupid.