Arizona bill to fund armed militia advances

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2012/02/14/20120214arizona-bill-fund-armed-militia-advances.html

by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez - Feb. 14, 2012 09:30 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com

Arizona is one step closer to funding an armed, volunteer militia to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border for undocumented immigrants and drug traffickers.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday narrowly passed a revised version of Senate Bill 1083, which would create and fund an Arizona Special Missions Unit.

If the bill passed, the unit would help secure the border and help local law enforcement pursue, detain and arrest those involved in "cross-border criminal activity," according to the bill's language

[Major Nikon]

1. Wingnuts pandering to bigots

Whodathunkit?

[zipplewrath]

2. Trouble written all over it.

This is basically a "possee" and by funding it, the state becomes responsible for what they do. This can go bad a couple of ways, and one is obviously a way in which the state ends up in a huge lawsuit. Strangely, the other is the formation of a new bureaucracy, which supposedly should piss off the wing nuts.

[LadyInAZ]

3. lol

we already have corrupt border protrol officers... now you want to get an volunteer militia (possible armed civilians) to shot at 'will' at anything that moves... we do like to follow Texas footsteps... this isn't the 'wild west days' shoot first and call the sheriff / coroners office

[NAO]

4. AZ also has bill to prevent teacher cussing and

gov. Scott Walker flew in last week to kick off a more comprehensive union busing drive than his litttle trial baloon in WI. The AZ bill would destroy even the police and firefighters union.

[Historic NY]

5. What happend to their Minuteman project...

wasn't it the same stated purpose that actually killed innocent people.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/shawna-forde-trial-will-mainstream-m

[gratuitous]

6. What could possibly go wrong?

Such a terrific idea, embodying all the best aspects of the United States as currently, er, constituted. No pun intended.