A Border Watcher Finds Himself Under Scrutiny : AZ IMC

November 24, 2006
A Border Watcher Finds Himself Under Scrutiny
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
For years, Roger Barnett has holstered a pistol to his hip, tucked an assault rifle in his truck and set out over the scrub brush on his thousands of acres of ranchland near the Mexican border in southeastern Arizona to hunt.

Hunt illegal immigrants, that is, often chronicled in the news.

“They’re flooding across, invading the place,” Mr. Barnett told the ABC program “Nightline” this spring. “They’re going to bring their families, their wives, and they’re going to bring their kids. We don’t need them.”

But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the earliest and most prominent of the self-appointed border watchers, Mr. Barnett finds himself the prey.

Immigrant rights groups have filed lawsuits, accusing him of harassing and unlawfully imprisoning people he has confronted on his ranch near Douglas. One suit pending in federal court accuses him, his wife and his brother of pointing guns at 16 illegal immigrants they intercepted, threatening them with dogs and kicking one woman in the group.

Another suit, accusing Mr. Barnett of threatening two Mexican-American hunters and three young children with an assault rifle and insulting them with racial epithets, ended Wednesday night in Bisbee with a jury awarding the hunters $98,750 in damages.

The court actions are the latest example of attempts by immigrant rights groups to curb armed border-monitoring groups by going after their money, if not their guns. They have won civil judgments in Texas, and this year two illegal Salvadoran immigrants who had been held against their will took possession of a 70-acre ranch in southern Arizona after winning a case last year.

The Salvadorans had accused the property owner, Casey Nethercott, a former leader of the Ranch Rescue group, of menacing them with a gun in 2003. Mr. Nethercott was convicted of illegal gun possession; the Salvadorans plan to sell the property, their lawyer has said.

But Mr. Barnett, known for dressing in military garb and caps with insignia resembling the United States Border Patrol’s, represents a special prize to the immigrant rights groups. He is ubiquitous on Web sites, mailings and brochures put out by groups monitoring the Mexican border and, with family members, was an inspiration for efforts like the Minutemen civilian border patrols.

“The Barnetts, probably more than any people in this country, are responsible for the vigilante movement as it now exists,” said Mark Potok, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the groups. “They were the recipients of so much press coverage and they kept boasting, and it was out of those boasts that the modern vigilante movement sprang up.”

Jesus Romo Vejar, the lawyer for the hunting party, said their court victory Wednesday would serve notice that mistreating immigrants would not pass unpunished. Although the hunters were not in the United States illegally, they contended that Mr. Barnett’s treatment of them reflected his attitude and practices toward Latinos crossing his land, no matter what their legal status.

“We have really, truly breached their defense,” Mr. Vejar said, “and this opens up the Barnetts to other attorneys to come in and sue him whenever he does some wrong with people.”

Mr. Vejar said he would ask the state attorney general and the county attorney, who had cited a lack of evidence in declining to prosecute Mr. Barnett, to take another look at the case. He also said he would ask the state to revoke Mr. Barnett’s leases on its land.

Mr. Barnett had denied threatening anyone. He left the courtroom after the verdict without commenting, and his lawyer, John Kelliher, would not comment either.

In a brief interview during a court break last week, Mr. Barnett denied harming anyone and said that the legal action would not deter his efforts. He said that the number of illegal immigrants crossing his land had declined recently but that he thought it was only a temporary trend.

“For your children, for our future, that’s why we need to stop them,” Mr. Barnett said. “If we don’t step in for your children, I don’t know who is expected to step in.”

Mr. Barnett prevailed in a suit in the summer when a jury ruled against a fellow rancher who had sued, accusing him of trespassing on his property as he pursued immigrants. Another suit last year was dropped when the plaintiff, who had returned to Mexico, decided not to return to press the case.

Still, the threat of liability has discouraged ranchers from allowing the more militant civilian patrol groups on their land, and accusations of abuse seem to be on the wane, said Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network, an immigrant rights group.

But David H. Urias, a lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund who is representing the 16 immigrants suing Mr. Barnett, said fewer complaints did not necessarily mean less activity. Immigrants from Mexico are returned to their country often within hours and often under the impression that their deportation — and chance to try to return again — will go quicker without their complaints.

“It took us months to find these 16 people,” Mr. Urias said.

People who tend ranches on the border said that even if they did not agree with Mr. Barnett’s tactics they sympathized with his rationale, and that putting him out of business would not resolve the problems they believe the crossers cause.

“The illegals think they have carte blanche on his ranch,” said Al Garza, the executive director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Arizona, a civilian patrol group that, Mr. Garza says, does not detain illegal immigrants but calls in their movements to the Border Patrol. “The man has had it.”

Mr. Barnett, a retired Cochise County sheriff’s deputy and the owner of a towing business, acquired his ranch in the mid-1990s, buying or leasing from the state more than 22,000 acres.

Almost from the start he took up a campaign against the people crossing the border from Mexico, sometimes detaining large groups and radioing for the Border Patrol to pick them up.

Chuy Rodriguez, a spokesman for the agency’s Tucson office, said the Border Patrol maintained no formal relationship with Mr. Barnett or other civilian groups. Agency commanders, concerned about potential altercations, have warned the groups not to take the law into their hands.

“If they see something, we ask them to call us, like we would ask of any citizen,” Mr. Rodriguez said.

Mr. Barnett’s lawyers have suggested he has acted out of a right to protect his property.

“A lease holder doesn’t have the right to protect his cattle?” Mr. Kelliher asked one of the men in the hunting party, Arturo Morales, at the trial.

“I guess so, maybe,” Mr. Morales replied.

Mr. Barnett has had several encounters with local law enforcement officials over detaining illegal immigrants, some of whom complained that he pointed guns at them. The local authorities have declined to prosecute him, citing a lack of evidence or ambiguity about whether he had violated any laws.

A few years ago, however, the Border Action Network and its allied groups began collecting testimony from illegal immigrants and others who had had confrontations with Mr. Barnett.

They included the hunters, who sued Mr. Barnett for unlawful detention, emotional distress and other claims, and sought at least $200,000. Ronald Morales; his father, Arturo; Ronald Morales’s two daughters, ages 9 and 11; and an 11-year-old friend said Mr. Barnett, his brother Donald and his wife, Barbara, confronted them Oct. 30, 2004.

Ronald Morales testified that Mr. Barnett used expletives and ethnically derogatory remarks as he sought to kick them off state-owned property he leases. Then, Mr. Morales said, Mr. Barnett pulled an AR-15 assault rifle from his truck and pointed it at them as they drove off, traumatizing the girls.

Mr. Kelliher conceded that there was a heated confrontation. But he denied that Mr. Barnett used slurs and said Ronald Morales was as much an instigator. He said Morales family members had previously trespassed on Mr. Barnett’s land and knew that Mr. Barnett required written permission to hunt there.

Even as the trial proceeded, the Border Patrol reported a 45 percent drop in arrests in the Douglas area in the last year. The agency credits scores of new agents, the National Guard deployment there this summer and improved technology in detecting crossers.

But Ms. Allen of the Border Action Network and other immigrant rights supporters suspect that people are simply crossing elsewhere.

BREAKING INTEL: Bush Prepares for Martial Law
by Tom Heneghan Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006 at 2:14 PM

U.S. Flag Officers Versus Pentagon-British-Mossad Neo-Cons US Military prepares for civil war and domestic insurrection as British Viceroy Occupunk Bushfraud prepares martial law script. Bushfraud, on advice from his handlers the British Monarchy, readies 20 day detainee legislation which would functionally destroy the US Constitution and end the Bill of Rights as we know it.

MISSION: IDENTIFY THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 21st CENTURY™

BY TOM HENEGHAN

AUGUST 15, 2006

U.S. Flag Officers
Versus
Pentagon-British-Mossad Neo-Cons

US Military prepares for civil war and domestic insurrection as British Viceroy Occupunk Bushfraud prepares martial law script. Bushfraud, on advice from his handlers the British Monarchy, readies 20 day detainee legislation which would functionally destroy the US Constitution and end the Bill of Rights as we know it.

Bushfraud and Dunblaine Blair are being assisted in their treason by the British Yiddish Corporate media which is now in full Gestapo terrorist propaganda mode.
The Box Media Filth dreams of shutting down the free Internet aka another phony terrorist scare. That is why the Box Corporate British Yiddish media is so enthusiastic having the NSA spy on the People.
How dare you, you "Tyrants and Conspiratorial Kings."

Item: Further breaking news. Pat Roberts (R Kan.) has been caught in delaying phase two of the Iraq War Inquiry until after the November election. An aide to Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D. W.Va.) has told this reporter that Roberts is protecting the criminal culpability of Bush, Blair, UK Minister Alexander and Mel Sembler, former US Ambassador to Italy, in orchestrating the forgery of the noted British Mi6 dossier which took American boys to their death based on a lie.

The Rockefeller aide also fingered the point man or liason between the Pentagon and the British government. That individual fingered today by this aide is former Iran-Contra player Eliot Abrams. Note: Douglas Alexander has been linked to Bay Point Schools, Florida-Gate 2000, and the latest false flag terrorist scare out of the U.K. Reference Aug 12/06 IEOR. Calling Flight 109 click.

P.S. Message to Chris Matthews: The American people will not hand over their Constitution to Bushfraud or a Dunblaine pedophile named Blair based on a phony war on Terror. Hey Chris did you not watch you colleague Keith Obermann last night. At least fifteen phony terrorist scares orchestrated for political purposes. Come on Chris Get real!

PPS - Michigan cell phone terrorist case collapses. Question: When will FBI bring Jose Padilla (John Doe #2) to trial on the Oklahoma City Bombing case? Answer: Never; too many 9-11 Oklahoma City, Bojinka Philippine documents might be presented in court.

PPPS - British Bank Dick Russell Chambers now linked to massive Bush Blair slush fund which bribes and controls US media stooges for favorable media coverage. Note: Of course Rupert Murdoch of Fox News is the bagman. Story developing,

NOTE: Rudy Giulliani former Mayor of New York, has been caught lying to the 9-11 Commission. Story Developing.

MANY MORE OF TOM HENEGHAN'S
WEEKLY BRIEFINGS & VALUABLE UPDATES IN THE CLOAK ARCHIVES

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OrlandoMary
Court Adjudicated Official Federal Whistleblower FIRED, after 31 years of Federal service, without any compensation, for over eight years Reporting On-Going Treason Threatening National Security, that of Extensive Briberies and Cover Up Conspiracies 'Giving Aid and Comfort' to Illegal Muslims -- Rewarding Numerous Felonies

Three (3) Illegal Muslim Sham Marriage Rings in Orlando area PRIOR to 9/11 - NO prosecutions

*** These illegal aliens who have engaged in numerous FELONIES of sham marriage, document fraud, perjury, bribery, forgery, failed to pay taxes, etc. have been REWARDED with green cards and our highest privilege of United States citizenship.

WE REAP WHAT WE SOW
http://maryschneider.us/reapsow.php

TREASON

Disloyalty to one's nation ; a person who reneges on an oath of loyalty or a pledge of allegiance, is considered to be a traitor.

Article Three of the United States Constitution defines treason as levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to its enemies.

Extensive TREASON in these united States of America is not a contained domestic issue, but has a far reaching, worldwide detrimental impact. We here in America have a moral responsibility to the rest of the world when our actions have negative repercussions on their daily lives.

http://maryschneider.us/treason.php

WE REAP WHAT WE SOW
http://maryschneider.us/reapsow.php

Our highest privilege of United States citizenship rewards these felons with easier travel on United States passports, voting privileges, the ability to hold public office, and the opportunity for a federal position with access to classified information.

These treasonous conspiracies are NOT about Creator loving, law abiding legal Muslims in the United States, but specifically address illegal Muslims who are being aided and abetted by treasonous officials, after committing numerous felonies defrauding the American People.

This is NOT a political issue of democrats vs. republicans vs. libertarians vs. independents, it is NOT an issue of black, brown, red, yellow, or white, NOR is it an issue of Buddhist vs. Christian vs. Hindu vs. Jewish vs. Muslim... ;

it IS an issue of national security, it IS an issue of home security, it IS an issue of personal security.

*** While, our very own men and women are ordered by the Bush Traitor Cabal to an illegal war against claimed 'seditious' Muslims [now in the quagmire of a foreign civil war],

only to return in body bags or with their arms, legs, hands and feet blown off, bodies burned and/or poisoned with radiation poisoning ; and

while you and I, John Doe American citizens, loose our precious freedoms and privacy and our divinely inspired united States Constitution is shredded in the name of 'created' terrorism,

this Traitor Cabal so easily manipulate zoned-out, sleeping Americans via their conspiratorial Orwellian, corporate-controlled LMSM (lying mainstream media), and sold out, extortion-friendly treasonous Congress,

expecting ignorant Americans will continue to give up their divinely inspired Constitutional rights and freedoms all in the name of 'security, security';

whether it be `security' from state-sponsored bombings or the highly convenient `created' HN51 bird flu;

expecting the American People to willingly accept martial law and a quasi-tyrannical dictatorship through fear, fear, fear from their created 'terrorism' using Muslim patsies,

i.e. via the highly successful D.C. sniper template

*** Read up on what Hitler did with the `Reichstag Fire' and to the German People's constitutional rights - this 'created catastrophe' enabled the power to pass laws by decree, without the involvement of the Reichstag aka congress aka parliament -- a familiar parallel ?

These same treasonous officials, destroying our divinely inspired constitutional rights and freedoms with their 'Patriot Act' (written PRIOR to 9/11), spending our hard earned tax dollars, hundreds and hundreds of billions, in fighting, bombing, killing innocent Iraqi men, women, children and babies :

* who did NOT attack the USA on 9/11

* who did NOT have WMDs

* who have NEVER attacked these united States of America

all in the name of the Traitor Cabal's 'created terrorism' to fight claimed 'seditious Muslims' (patsies) ; while these Traitor Cabal conspirators are supporting, protecting and propagating these treasonous briberies and extensive cover up conspiracies of 'giving aid and comfort' to illegal Muslims here in these united States of America ; [patsy sleeper cells ?]

rewarding their numerous felonies with green cards and our highest privilege of United States citizenship. Who in the Illuminati NWO Traitor Cabal's extortion-friendly Bush/Clinton, Congress, DOJ, FBI, DHS, OSC, OIG, DOD, the LMSM are knowingly complicit in these on-going treasonous conspiracies? See documents at :

http://www.maryschneider.us

http://www.maryschneider.com

MUST SEE THESE:

AMERICA: Freedom To Fascism. Aaron Russo Interview.
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com
36 min 49 sec - Jun 8, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3254488777215293198

Freedom to Fascism - A Must-See Film by Aaron Russo - by Stephen Lendman
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/

President JFK Speech on Secret Societies
and Freedom of the Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlEqtaWpKEU

"We each must seek to be more aware of right and wrong in our daily lives and then, using our God-given Free Will, choose to earnestly strive to do that which is moral and righteous for ourselves and our fellow man, connecting ever more with our Father and Creator of ALL that exists." -- Mary Schneider

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yid kidz
by x Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006 at 2:22 PM

Where lies thy allegiance?
*: partial list of members of bush admin with israeli passports
* *Paul Wolfowitz *
* *Richard Perle *
* *Douglas Feith *
* *Michael Chertoff *
* *George Tenet *
* *Elliot Abrams *
* *Donald Kagan *
* *Richard Haas *
* *Kenneth Adelman *
* *Edward Luttwak *
* *Robert Satloff *
* *Dov Zakheim *
* *David Frum *
* *David Wurmser *
* *Steve Goldsmith *
* *Marc Grossman
How does one get Top Secret US security clearances while holding a
foreign passport?

Isn’t there an OBVIOUS conflict of interest?

One could argue these men were great patriots -- but for which country?

If you're planning criminal acts, there is one major benefit of carrying
an Israeli passport -- if you can make it to Israel before you're
arrested, Israel will not extradite its own citizens.

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Communications between Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. to AIPAC
by Jeff Fisher Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006 at 3:16 PM
americanpatriotjefffisher@gmail.com 240-386-7314 Washington D.C.

Please if you want the war to end now then click on this link, read and then scream bloody hell to all the media to cover it.

http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/47455.php

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