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An editorial at the Jewish News questions Arizona politicians' lack of comment about an armed menace on the border:

We’ve written before about Jason “J.T.” Ready. In an editorial back in March 2008, we noted that the then-precinct committeeman from Mesa had made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s intelligence report on hate groups in this country, listed as a “nativist extremist” and “outright neo-Nazi.” Just two months before that editorial, at the Maricopa County Republican convention, Ready had distributed fliers calling the Holocaust a “myth.”

Ready is no longer a precinct committeeman. But he hasn’t stopped trying to foist his worldview on others. These days, armed with an assault rifle and accompanied by other heavily armed “patriots,” he’s patrolling the area of Pinal County where a sheriff’s deputy was shot back in April. He calls the effort “the Minutemen on steroids.” You can read about his patrol’s exploits, and see photos, on a blog called “Just Another Day…,” written by a man named Harry Hughes. From that blog, you can also link to the National Socialist Movement site, where you can read “A Frontline Report” about how the NSM is patrolling the border in two states.

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Yes, the Anti-Defamation League has issued a press release – but where are the other voices? Should it fall only to Jewish organizations to point out the dangers of allowing members of the NSM to arm themselves and “enforce” the law? Where are the statements from Arizona politicians denouncing this vigilantism and the threat it poses not only to Latinos, to Jews – in short to anyone who is not “white” – but also to the rule of law and civilized society?

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Read more here.

Harry Hughes' blog cited above,“Just another Day..,” is here. The photo above is from the Hughes' blog, apparently exhibiting people detained by his armed gang.


Credit where credit’s due—Sheriff Paul Babeu received praise from the ADL for speaking out against J.T. Ready and his ilk. Quoting from the ADL announcement, as published by New Time’s Stephen Lemons:

Phoenix, AZ, July 20, 2010…..The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the recent activities of neo-Nazi J.T. Ready and his “citizen patrols” of the border, and lamented the lack of community outrage over those patrols. Ready has long held ties with neo-Nazi groups, most recently the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a group ADL calls one of the largest of its kind in America. The NSM clings to an ideology that only non-Jewish, white heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn’t white should leave the country “peacefully or by force.”

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At the same time it condemned Ready and the patrols, the ADL commended Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu for his weekend comments discouraging Ready and “those who espouse hatred or bigotry such as his” from continuing the patrols.

Lemon’s article is here.