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Maybe they can stop eating rotten fish now.

jazz_music says

FBI Arrests New Mexico Border Militia Leader Larry Mitchell Hopkins

Hopkins runs an armed border militia group that spreads far-right conspiracies.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-arrests-larry-mitchell-hopkins-leader-of-united-constitutional-patriots-border-militia

The FBI arrested a 69-year-old New Mexico man who allegedly illegally detained immigrants crossing the border under the guise of working for the United States Border Patrol.

Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who runs The United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), an armed border militia group that spreads far-right conspiracies and rounds up asylum seekers on the border, was arrested by FBI in New Mexico Saturday on charges of possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon.

Recent video footage released by UCP shows two members holding what appear to be...

This is what happens when We the People don't make our government do their job. The small portion of the people that are pissed about it and can stand up, Will. If they are on private land and these illegal aliens are crossing the border into the USA, without BP/ICE oversight, why is it wrong for them to help enforce our immigration law? The illegals are trespassing on the property and have gained entry to the country illegally. This is not a HATE crime, nor is it promoting intolerance of anything we shouldn't be intolerant of.

Trying to vilify semi-auto as something scary and dangerous by mentioning it in the article is a bunch of BS.

But did someone die?

ForcedTQ says

why is it wrong for them to help enforce our immigration law?

It's not. Militias are a specifically guaranteed right.

Idk anything about this guy, but the article reads like a garbage hit piece. If they have a real case against this guy, they could simply lay it out. I wonder why the author didnt do that?

Quigley says

But did someone die?

Dignity of this hit piece writer.

It is absolutely clear that these militia extremists are trillions of times more dangerous than Easter Bombers, who killed a few hundred Easter Worshipers.

Finally, she has bought my vote with somebody else's money!

What about that losing bet on the Rams?

CBOEtrader says

Idk anything about this guy, but the article reads like a garbage hit piece. If they have a real case against this guy, they could simply lay it out. I wonder why the author didnt do that?

It is a hit piece. I read the story from a reputable site, they published the facts, not the garbage posted in the OP, but the OP came from The Daily Beast, so now you know it's total garbage.

Apparently the OP's subscription to the Rachel Maddow daily journal expired..

You do realize these SJW Liberal self serving DOJ activist that have gone after Militia often with deadly consequences.
Always were found to be in the wrong by time it made it's way to the SCOTUS where it mattered?

These people think they can make up the law as they go along because they don't like the Constitution.

Ruby Ridge
David Karesh
The Bundy Ranch

All found the DOJ were in the wrong 100%.

jazz_music says

QAnon

WTF is that?

Hugolas_Madurez says

jazz_music says

QAnon

WTF is that?

Some sort of 4chan nonsense

jazz_music says

Another article about the same group of people tell us about them planning to assassinate Obama, Clinton, and Soros, possibly others too.

Either the article author is full of shit or these para military groups with all these dangerous DANGEROUS guns are remarkably ineffective. All those targets still soil the air with their breath.

jazz_music says

All these fine patriots with their arsenals can finally get their jollies and feel manly with their paramilitary gear.

Of what crime is this guy accused?

CBOEtrader says

jazz_music says

All these fine patriots with their arsenals can finally get their jollies and feel manly with their paramilitary gear.

Of what crime is this guy accused?

I think the only thing they may have him on is felon in possession of a firearm/ammunition.

RC2006 says

Hugolas_Madurez says

jazz_music says

QAnon

WTF is that?

Some sort of 4chan nonsense

Is it big among pinkos?

Hugolas_Madurez says

Is it big among pinkos?

Anything they can use to slander the perceived opposition is big amongst the pinkos.

I'll bet Jazz couldn't explain Q anymore than he can explain why the MSM is freaking out over these (seemingly legal) militias.

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@Patrick

Karthik1k is a spammer

jazz_music says

By improperly holding people against their will, whether those people legally crossed the border or not, members of the United Constitutional Patriots have opened themselves to charges of assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping and impersonating law enforcement officers.

By the time this case reaches the court none of the supposed "victims" will be available for testifying, because they will be released from the custody until their bogus asylum claims can be heard by an immigration judge and they will disappear into the bowels of some "sanctuary state" never to bee seen again. With no victims and no witnesses the prosecution will be left standing with their dicks in their hands. Not to mention that the jury most probably would not convict even if they somehow manage to find and drag one or two "victims" into the court.

Perhaps State should do its part in upholding law and then private citizens should not have to step in. Alternatively, if State is not doing its part, perhaps taxes should be decreased to 0.

willywonka says

What about that losing bet on the Rams?

You should be taxed twice.

Weaver made bank. Too bad he had to lose his family because the FBI "was doing recon" on his property without a warrant, which started the whole affair.

That and trying to entrap him several times into illegally modding guns using an ex-Hells Angel Drug Addict snitch.

Militia according to our constitution (supreme law of the land) do have the right to do that.

jazz_music says

Another article about the same group of people tell us about them planning to assassinate Obama, Clinton, and Soros, possibly others too.

The leader likes those QAnon conspiracy theories.

All these fine patriots with their arsenals can finally get their jollies and feel manly with their paramilitary gear.

Sounds like your main problem with these people is how they think. You really want a Minority Report society, where pre/thought-crime is reality? Have you ever lived in China or England?

Some people are fine with authoritarianism as long as it goes along with a “worker’s revolution.”
I don’t know why they bother to stay in the USA and not move to North Korea or China or Cuba or Venezuela where the worker’s paradise is realized.

jazz_music says

Human dignity used to be an advertised feature of capitalism before it came out that we can't afford it.

In theory, yes; in practice, never. Ancient Greeks have said that there is one law for the rich, and another one for the poor. We can somewhat rephrase today in that not only the mega-rich, but also the political elite have dignity and protection FROM the law.
BTW import of illegals by a bipartisan coalition of D's and R's will destroy the remains of labor movement in US of A. Why bother with trade unions if you can just hire illegals without any rights working for peanuts?

This might actually lead somewhere, unlike the stupid TRUUUMPRRUSSIA collusion story.

Wait, Trump took out loans from a German bank? Holy shit! How could he? Nobody has ever done that before!!! IMPEACH!!!

Quigley says

Wait, Trump took out loans from a German bank? Holy shit! How could he? Nobody has ever done that before!!! IMPEACH!!!

Try to find a clean RE business, especially in NY which is a mafia town (or at least was until 90's).

Atlantic City is too much of a has-been town to be popular. And NYC is so overrated.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=196&v=pxLwzYVZYgY

Trump is guilty until proven innocent, and then, he is STILL guilty. Everybody knows that. It's known as the Trump exception to Napoleonic Law.

IMPEACH TRUMP!

Wait... so someone at a bank may have committed underwriting fraud by giving Trump a loan because his casino went under... and 4/1000 of his businesses failed so that’s a clearly unacceptable risk.
Reaching much?

I remember the olden days when AF was funny.
Le sigh...

Deutsche Bags!

Quigley says

I remember the olden days when AF was funny.
Le sigh...

Triggered much? When he was aiming at Obama, it was funny, when he points the barrel at Trump, ur feelz get hurt. Right Wingers are such thin skinned cry babies

Ceffer says

Trump is guilty until proven innocent, and then, he is STILL guilty. Everybody knows that. It's known as the Trump exception to Napoleonic Law.

I do not think that way. Reality of life is that no RE business in country will be clean. RE in NY, I am sure, is even worse than in other states since until 80's or 90's mob was heavily involved. Is Trump organization spotless? I'd say no, because if they are, that would be extremely unusual. I am sure they have plenty skeletons in closet. Is this impeachable or Trump going to jail offense? Probably not, I doubt that he is stupid enough to leave paper trails. If they dig into this, his "rogue" lawyer, his "rogue" accountant, etc will go to jail. However, investigating Trump organization finances will give ammunition to D's for next election. May be that is reason why they did not start digging right after the election. Then again, may be it is mutually assisted destruction and nothing will come out of it.

HEYYOU says

How pleasant are state prisons?

Club Fed is a much better option. But I hear the Ecuadorian Embassy in London currently has a vacancy for an asylum seeker, complete with walls textured with feces.

But yes Trump fears his financials being looked at. I agree the business he came out of and the areas in which he operated have always been fraught with thievery and corruption. And with Trumps moral and ethical standards, draw your own conclusions why he would want to keep this info private.

With Trump its been about sex and money and now power. Nobody cares about sex anymore, raw dogging and paying off porn stars and playboy bunnies is simply a sign that he has been sent by God, the end times are near, the barbarians are at the gate, Jesus take us now. But the money is his weak spot. Follow the money.