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	<title>Comments on: Arizona Sues Minuteman Group Leader, Alleging Property-Tax Scam</title>
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		<title>By: jeri</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-111968</link>
		<dc:creator>jeri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am so glad i don&#039;t live in Arizona, there is so much hate, stupidity--yes, i do know, that&#039;s not the only place in America where people act as such but it seems like,  these behaviors are like their jobs.  God, please help,]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i am so glad i don&#8217;t live in Arizona, there is so much hate, stupidity&#8211;yes, i do know, that&#8217;s not the only place in America where people act as such but it seems like,  these behaviors are like their jobs.  God, please help,</p>
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		<title>By: Betsy Ross</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-110432</link>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I also would like for you to know that the legal Mexican Americans in Arizona are about as outraged as the rest of the population, and actually use a racial slur to refer to many of the &quot;border hoppers&quot; which have no intention of becoming citizens or contributing to this counry at all, simply taking or stealing what they can get.

Minuteman was never anit-immigrant either, simply anti-criminal border hopping, which is what 3/4&#039;s of those that actually come over those borders in Arizona actually are.

They are there for &quot;commerce&quot; and the &quot;commerce&quot; they are most engaged in is theft, and drug trafficking.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And I also would like for you to know that the legal Mexican Americans in Arizona are about as outraged as the rest of the population, and actually use a racial slur to refer to many of the &#8220;border hoppers&#8221; which have no intention of becoming citizens or contributing to this counry at all, simply taking or stealing what they can get.</p>
<p>Minuteman was never anit-immigrant either, simply anti-criminal border hopping, which is what 3/4&#8242;s of those that actually come over those borders in Arizona actually are.</p>
<p>They are there for &#8220;commerce&#8221; and the &#8220;commerce&#8221; they are most engaged in is theft, and drug trafficking.</p>
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		<title>By: Betsy Ross</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-110431</link>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a former 45 year Arizona, the original Minuteman group was a lifesaver for many Arizonans in the border towns and even Tucson and Phoenix, and did what the border patrol should have been doing but instead were simply posted at the official ports of entry.  They parolled the over 500 miles of desert in which the automobile theft rings and drug cartels operate, and the human smugglers.  

And were never a &quot;terrorist&quot; group at all, but protecting their state and state residents, and their own lands, from being trespassed for illegal purposes.

So SPLI you are flamers and hate baiters actually, and would love for all of you to live in one of the Arizona border towns for just one year.

Then let&#039;s see you change your tune.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a former 45 year Arizona, the original Minuteman group was a lifesaver for many Arizonans in the border towns and even Tucson and Phoenix, and did what the border patrol should have been doing but instead were simply posted at the official ports of entry.  They parolled the over 500 miles of desert in which the automobile theft rings and drug cartels operate, and the human smugglers.  </p>
<p>And were never a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; group at all, but protecting their state and state residents, and their own lands, from being trespassed for illegal purposes.</p>
<p>So SPLI you are flamers and hate baiters actually, and would love for all of you to live in one of the Arizona border towns for just one year.</p>
<p>Then let&#8217;s see you change your tune.</p>
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		<title>By: majii</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-110042</link>
		<dc:creator>majii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Constitution Matters--what&#039;s your beef with SPLC?  This matter is being investigated by the Arizona Attorney General, not SPLC.  There is also no mention of an investigaiton of Geithner in the article.  I would think that anyone would be interested in seeing that no citizen is duped by any organization.  This is not a conservative or liberal matter, only an investigation into someone breaking the law in Arizona.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Constitution Matters&#8211;what&#8217;s your beef with SPLC?  This matter is being investigated by the Arizona Attorney General, not SPLC.  There is also no mention of an investigaiton of Geithner in the article.  I would think that anyone would be interested in seeing that no citizen is duped by any organization.  This is not a conservative or liberal matter, only an investigation into someone breaking the law in Arizona.</p>
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		<title>By: GENO</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-109963</link>
		<dc:creator>GENO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mercer talks about how she is for &quot;the rule of law&quot;. I&#039;m not even sure which laws she supports or which ones she doesn&#039;t.  One cannot be for &quot;the rule of law&quot; if you&#039;re simply supporting immigration laws per se. We have a wide range of laws that needs to be enforced other than the immigration laws. And when it comes down to large organizations like the minuteman, anti-racketerring and anti-corruption laws are crucial in preventing incidents of white collar crime like these. Now it appears all 3 states are filing federal charges against MCDC. It certainly doesn&#039;t look good for Mercer:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/08/20/20090820minuteman0820.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Mercer talks about how she is for &#8220;the rule of law&#8221;. I&#8217;m not even sure which laws she supports or which ones she doesn&#8217;t.  One cannot be for &#8220;the rule of law&#8221; if you&#8217;re simply supporting immigration laws per se. We have a wide range of laws that needs to be enforced other than the immigration laws. And when it comes down to large organizations like the minuteman, anti-racketerring and anti-corruption laws are crucial in preventing incidents of white collar crime like these. Now it appears all 3 states are filing federal charges against MCDC. It certainly doesn&#8217;t look good for Mercer:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/08/20/20090820minuteman0820.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.azcentral.com/news/.....n0820.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: YumaAZ</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-109937</link>
		<dc:creator>YumaAZ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO FELL FOR THIS SCAM. Little did we know when it looked very official. I even called the telephone number on the form because I own more than one piece of property which would have been effected in a tax reduction.
I hope we can file in the legal action.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO FELL FOR THIS SCAM. Little did we know when it looked very official. I even called the telephone number on the form because I own more than one piece of property which would have been effected in a tax reduction.<br />
I hope we can file in the legal action.</p>
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		<title>By: Snorlax</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-109725</link>
		<dc:creator>Snorlax</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supposedly these militias are against the Federal government.  That&#039;s not true.  They&#039;re a bunch of liars.

The SPLC report notes that militia activity came to a virtual standstill after Bush got elected.

The federal government did not magically transform into a militia paradise when Bush got elected.  In fact, Bush did a lot of things that directly threaten militias, such as the Patriot Act with its &quot;snoop and poop&quot; warrantless searches, and the FISA Reauthorization Act, which okayed warrantless wiretaps of domestic phone calls and internet.

Those things can be used by the Feds to track down and prosecute militias.  Bush and the GOP supported them.  The reich wingnuts have NEVER complained about them.

I am convinced that the militias are NOT anti-government.  They are partisan political groups who are pro-GOP and anti-Democrat.  I would not be surprised if the GOP is surreptitiously funding these militias in order to undermine the Democrats.

Armed militiamen are starting to show up at the Dems&#039; town hall meetings for health care reform.  Obviously they want to chill the discourse by intimidating people.

Militias are phonies.  They&#039;re not anti-government because they support the Republicans.  And the Republicans probably support them, too.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Supposedly these militias are against the Federal government.  That&#8217;s not true.  They&#8217;re a bunch of liars.</p>
<p>The SPLC report notes that militia activity came to a virtual standstill after Bush got elected.</p>
<p>The federal government did not magically transform into a militia paradise when Bush got elected.  In fact, Bush did a lot of things that directly threaten militias, such as the Patriot Act with its &#8220;snoop and poop&#8221; warrantless searches, and the FISA Reauthorization Act, which okayed warrantless wiretaps of domestic phone calls and internet.</p>
<p>Those things can be used by the Feds to track down and prosecute militias.  Bush and the GOP supported them.  The reich wingnuts have NEVER complained about them.</p>
<p>I am convinced that the militias are NOT anti-government.  They are partisan political groups who are pro-GOP and anti-Democrat.  I would not be surprised if the GOP is surreptitiously funding these militias in order to undermine the Democrats.</p>
<p>Armed militiamen are starting to show up at the Dems&#8217; town hall meetings for health care reform.  Obviously they want to chill the discourse by intimidating people.</p>
<p>Militias are phonies.  They&#8217;re not anti-government because they support the Republicans.  And the Republicans probably support them, too.</p>
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		<title>By: Snorlax</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-109531</link>
		<dc:creator>Snorlax</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is nothing new.  These militia or patriot or whatever groups have been doing scams since the 1980s.

All that &quot;sovereign citizen&quot; tax dodging, printing up phony money and filing nuisance liens.  They used to run seminars where they&#039;d reel in the suckers with phony claims about not having to pay taxes anymore.

That&#039;s how the feds finally shut some of them down.  They were running all kinds of illegal scams and ripoff schemes.

We even had a nutcase out here in Colorado who made her own license plates out of wood and tried to drive around with them.  Cuckoo bananas.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is nothing new.  These militia or patriot or whatever groups have been doing scams since the 1980s.</p>
<p>All that &#8220;sovereign citizen&#8221; tax dodging, printing up phony money and filing nuisance liens.  They used to run seminars where they&#8217;d reel in the suckers with phony claims about not having to pay taxes anymore.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how the feds finally shut some of them down.  They were running all kinds of illegal scams and ripoff schemes.</p>
<p>We even had a nutcase out here in Colorado who made her own license plates out of wood and tried to drive around with them.  Cuckoo bananas.</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan the non-Aryan</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/08/18/arizona-sues-minuteman-group-leader-alleging-property-tax-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-109516</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan the non-Aryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We could eventually see an end to the MCDC. Given the severity of its white collar crime(organized crime). Either their &quot;donations&quot; or funds will be usurped for RICO or refunded payments to those who have gullibly donated to the criminal organization. Its likewise.

On the History channel which aired the history on the KKK. It was the IRS back in the 60&#039;s that took down the once powerful United Klans of America. It did enough damaged to that organization was dispersed into fractions of smaller autonomous groups up until this day.

We can see the same fate happen to MCDC. It may destroy the organization into bankruptcy and dissipated into attrition. The MCDC is already on a path to a disastrous end. And the weakest link can be traced to Chris Simcox. But who knows whats in store for him if he should ever run a campaign to seek John McCain&#039;s seat?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We could eventually see an end to the MCDC. Given the severity of its white collar crime(organized crime). Either their &#8220;donations&#8221; or funds will be usurped for RICO or refunded payments to those who have gullibly donated to the criminal organization. Its likewise.</p>
<p>On the History channel which aired the history on the KKK. It was the IRS back in the 60&#8242;s that took down the once powerful United Klans of America. It did enough damaged to that organization was dispersed into fractions of smaller autonomous groups up until this day.</p>
<p>We can see the same fate happen to MCDC. It may destroy the organization into bankruptcy and dissipated into attrition. The MCDC is already on a path to a disastrous end. And the weakest link can be traced to Chris Simcox. But who knows whats in store for him if he should ever run a campaign to seek John McCain&#8217;s seat?</p>
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		<title>By: Constitution Matters</title>
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		<dc:creator>Constitution Matters</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to know if the SPLC is planing to file a law suit against our treasury secretary (timothy geithner) for his tax scam?  Or is your hate only focused on conservatives?

Predictions:  
1) No.  They will not.
2) Yes. They will censor this post because it does not fit their political agenda.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to know if the SPLC is planing to file a law suit against our treasury secretary (timothy geithner) for his tax scam?  Or is your hate only focused on conservatives?</p>
<p>Predictions:<br />
1) No.  They will not.<br />
2) Yes. They will censor this post because it does not fit their political agenda.</p>
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