First "Vigilantes", Now Denied Access

First, President Bush called The Minutemen Project 'vigilantes', and now "newspaper publisher Chris Simcox, who helped organize last month's Minuteman vigils and promised more in the future, was denied access to a Department of Homeland Security press conference in Arizona last week."

Jerry Seper wrote 'Homeland Security bars organizer of Minutemen' for THE WASHINGTON TIMES.

Mr. Simcox, who writes for, edits and owns the Tombstone, Ariz., Tumbleweed, wants the American Civil Liberties Union to determine whether his First Amendment free-press rights were violated.

He said the Border Patrol refused to let him attend the Thursday press conference featuring Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who spoke in Douglas, Ariz., on the need for additional agents and increased technology to gain control of the Arizona border.

This continual and wanton disregard for our countrys' borders and blatant disregard for the safety of our citizens and apparent affinity for having a country with no sovereignty is driving me INSANE......INSANE, I SAY. And, when citizens feel this way and try to stand up for themselves..... to do want our government should so .... but has no interest in doing, they are ridiculed and then shunned. What a great government we have.