Patriots Border Alliance Accused of Lies and Neo-Nazi Ties
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It’s been a bad month at Black Rock for the Patriots Border Alliance, a border vigilante group formed last year by disgruntled former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps officials.
First Phoenix New Times blogger Stephen Lemons unearthed a photo of Patriots Border Alliance leaders and members posing with a wheelchair-bound Elton Hall, a septuagenarian neo-Nazi and past Arizona organizer for George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party who still frequently attends racist skinhead festivals and anti-immigration demonstrations in the Phoenix area. Hall was injured in February when he was struck by a car while participating in a Patriots Border Alliance-sponsored protest outside a day labor center. The photo of him surrounded by adoring Patriots Border Alliance activists was posted on the group’s website accompanied by this caption: “PATRIOTS BORDER ALLIANCE HONORING ELTON HALL: In appreciation for your service, devotion, commitment to securing American border and promoting THE RULE OF LAW.”
Three days after the Hall photo surfaced, the El Paso Times ran a story in which Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier debunked several outlandish claims made by Patriots Border Alliance president Bob Wright at a recent meeting of the far-right Eagle Forum in Alamagordo, N.M.
At that meeting, Wright claimed that he’d been shocked during one recent mission on the Texas border when he’d spotted “hundreds” of people massed on the Mexican side of the line, waiting to cross.
Mosier told the Times, “We have never seen anything like that, nor have we even heard of anything like that.”
Wright also repeated the common border vigilante legend about “rape trees” on the border (Wright called them “sex trees”), to which women are supposedly tied and gang-raped by Mexican bandits.
“Again, we have never heard or seen such a thing,” Mosier said. “I am sure if this was factual, we would have at least heard something about it. … We know that some [women] are attacked. But trees? No. That is not true.”
on May 8th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
How do we know some of these claims about Mexicans trying to cross the border en masse and “rape trees” weren’t really fabricated under the influence of Al Cohol?
(BTW, Alamogordo is in New Mexico, not Texas.)
on May 9th, 2008 at 10:37 am
The blight presence of old Elton Hall was also one reason why that little anti-Hispanic-Hispanic lady(formerly of You Don’t Speak For Me) Anna Gaines and others decided to form another so-called non-nazi patriotic group called American Citizens United. But of course, they’re all in the same “nazi” boat, no matter how hard they try to deny the fact that they’re not associated with neo-nazism. Rusty “the KIA dealer” Childress whose ties to the White Power in the valley is obivious to anyone living in the valley like myself. He is the one who supposedly helped the ACU get organized. Hence, they all work under the same banner of hate.
How many ridiculous little bands of dastardly natavists have to keep forming these little “patriotic” groups using many different names???
Its pathetic!! But at the same time, its also funny! Lol.
Without any respect to their recall petition aimed at our respected mayor Phil Gordon which was started up by members of ACU isn’t working!
And thus, the clock is ticking on them, they’re not gonna achieve their goal of ousting our mayor other than to make themselves look like a bunch of retards that they really are.
May FREEDOM prevail!!
on May 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Living in a border city (El Paso, Tx.) I have seen groups of Illegal Aliens running across our border highway. The Border Patrol has units stationed every mile all along the border here but you still see these people run across. I have spoken to Bordor Patrol agents who live near to me and they have told me about how some women have been gang raped. Maybe Mr. Mosier doesn’t want his agency to look bad. Although I have never been a member of any type of border allience or Minutemen I do believe that all mexicans who cross our border illegally have violated our laws and should be prosecuted. There is a lawful way for these people to cross and they should use it. People who would call me a Nativist or a neocon or whatever most likely don’t have first hand knowledge of the burden illegal aliens place on the citizens of this city. The crimes that most of them commit and the resource they utilize such as free medical service at our county hospital that I have to pay for with my taxes.I had a serious accident 5 years ago where my wife was injured and taken to our county hospital, I am still paying that bill. You may not see how your “native born” child is not allowed to attend pre-school because they speak english and the room is needed for non english speaking kids “native” or not. You may not see the vast number of kids brought over from Mexico to attend our public schools, and I have to pay for with my taxes that they don’t pay. I am an hispanic (who does not speak spanish) who married a woman whose parents entered this country legally and we both don’t want Illegal aliens coming into our country. You don’t see how these people come overhere illegally and will still look down on me because I don’t speak spanish. If having these feelings makes me a “Nativist” or a neocon or whatever then so be it that’s what I am. I always thought that putting this country first was just called “PATRIOTISM,” which has now apparently become a dirty word.
on May 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
To Madjailer: Don’t apologize for saying you’re a nativist, Madjailer. Every country in the world, but Western Nations are Natavists, and they make no apology for it.
The only ones here who use it as a pejorative term are those who are naive and out of touch, and are too dim-witted to know the score.
I’m of Latino extraction myself, and I would like to tell the Jews in the US that I wish they would stop comparing the emigration of Hispanics to themselves, thinking that by fractionalizing the US they’re going to prevent another Holocaust, because they’re disliked south of the border more than they are by any Anglo I know. They could just be marching to the ovens in 50 years to a Mariachi beat instead of the polka.
Let the illegals come in here as my grandparents did: By legal immigration. What part of that doesn’t the oi vey crowd understand?