Watching the Roger Barnett Trial – FAIR’s Legal Arm, IRLI, Helps for the Defense
By Dan Stein, President of FAIR
As many of you know, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) has been harassing rancher and brave American Roger Barnett for years over his efforts to prevent his ranch land from being used as a virtual superhighway for illegal border crossers. FAIR’s legal arm, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), has been assisting with Roger’s defense. MALDEF has for years filed legal cases using trumped up stories to try to force states, cities and counties into settlement agreements that have helped make illegal immigration an institutional process in America. Here, FAIR’s legal institute says “not this time.” By taking this case to trial, Roger Barnett has made MALDEF prove these wild allegations are true. My opinion: It’s time to challenge these sorts of lawsuits and defend the Americans who are standing tall in defense of their property and communities. The judge dismissed the conspiracy to violate civil rights and negligence complaints against Roger. The judge granted the Barnett motion to dismiss all plaintiffs who had not testified, on the ground that expert opinion as to the psychological injuries they were alleged to have incurred was not evidence. This leaves about nine plaintiffs left, out of the original sixteen. In making his ruling, Judge Roll reportedly made some important statements from the bench: He reaffirmed his ruling on a prior evidentiary motion that illegal aliens do not have a constitutionally protected right to travel. He explained that because Southern Arizona was (and is) “ground zero” for illegal immigration into the United States, and that the overwhelming amount of illegal entry is made using guides or coyotes, it is reasonable for a person encountering a large group in the desert to assume that the felony of alien smuggling is occurring. He stated that under Arizona’s citizens arrest law, if a property owner chose to make a legitimate citizens arrest, with the burden of risk on the citizen, no federal civil rights violation occurred. Roger’s defense team is working on the remaining claims right now. It could wrap at any time. In the end, it appears that the only criterion on which the jury may find for the plaintiffs on any of the remaining claims will be whether Roger used “excessive force” to detain the aliens, under the circumstances out in the desert. The case should go to the jury on Thursday. Read the article about this case at Investor’s Business Daily Web site, and stay tuned for more.
A possible answer to SE's question posed above.
This may be pertinent.
I was reading some financial pages regarding our current situation and came across this short article, 1 short page regarding WTO rules on trade. As I read the article by Dr. H. Salari, I started thinking that if these WTO people can approach trade in this manner it certainly could approach immigration, legal and illegal in the same manner. It is a quick but revealing read. Pay close attention to the last sentence of #4, read #7 twice and pay close attention to the last 2 sentences.
article is here:
http://left.ru/inter/2006/salari2803.phtml
Consequently I searched for WTO rules regarding immigration and while I did not find something as specific as I had wanted I did run across this article
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2962
from November 2005 and there is a lot of good info here. In the section entitled "Advocates for Reduced Immigration", (FAIRUS and Center for Immigration Studies are our advocates mentioned here),
CSI " raises the additional concern that by including visa matters in the WTO, U.S. trade officials open the door for other countries to challenge U.S. immigration laws as barriers to trade in services subject to the WTO dispute resolution mechanism."
Now I don't know if the US has included Visa matters to the WTO, but it would not surprise me if they had, with all of the closed door meetings they have but, this might be the reason that Mexico is now constantly trying to sue citizens and organizations and the country in order to get their hands on what we, Americans past and present, have worked for and fought to preserve.
Now after having read these 2 articles I am now more convinced than before that much of what we see going on in congress is not the actions of representatives of the American public for the good of the Republic but a lot of Kabuki theater that is essentially doing the will of the WTO to our detriment and our country's foundations.
If you read these closely you will realize as I do that when these jigsaw puzzle pieces are put together, if in fact they can be put together, that the puzzle picture you will see is not the one on the cover of the box you bought.
And if you watch how this financial mess is going down I feel pretty confident that this too is part of a planned coup in favor of the WTO.
I pray for us all. God help us.
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