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...many Americans who believe citizens have the right to defend their property and privacy with firearms, these ranchers are true patriots, doing a job the government is too weak-kneed to carry out. Ranchers such as Roger Barnett from Douglas, who boasts of capturing illegals on his property--his record is 170 in a day--have become the heroes of anti-immigration activists around the country. Such groups as the American Patrol and the California Coalition for Immigration Reform often liken the ranchers in their literature to the Minutemen of the American Revolution...
...fences and let out cattle, deliberately break water pumps and litter the pasture with garbage that chokes the cattle. Sometimes the coyotes and drug smugglers crossing through are armed. "Out here," says Cochise County sheriff Larry Dever, "any rancher would be a fool who isn't prepared to defend himself." But the sheriff insists that so far, no "vigilante action" against the illegals has taken place in Cochise...
...level of irresponsibility and selfishness, the degree to which people defend their own imagined rights and don't look at their responsibilities as the flip side of that, the impact that it's having on their children. You bet I've become more ferocious in response to what I see as society's giving up self-evident truths of goodness and kindness, compassion, caring and selflessness, the needs of children for nurturance, attention and support. The more those are disassembling, the more ferocious I'm getting in banging the pot to get people to realize what's happening...
Dr.Arese U. Carrington, a graduating student from the School of Public Health, inspired the crowd with her call for students to "defend the defenseless" in her Graduate English Address. Carrington's family was divided during civil war in her native country of Nigeria, leaving her and her mother to care for Carrington's younger siblings for nine months...
...While John Paul II may struggle to defend Pius IX on his treatment of the Jews, the 19th-century pontiff's beatification is being championed by the conservative bishops John Paul appointed to the Curia. Beatification, an advanced step along the way to canonization (sainthood), is one of a number of battlegrounds in the church's centuries-old conflict between theological liberals and conservatives, in which neither side can afford to drive their opponents entirely from the fold - a church that suffered life-threatening breakaways first by the Eastern Orthodox and then by the Protestants can afford no further splits...