American Civil Responsibilities Union, Inc.
1442 E. Lincoln Avenue, #336, Orange, CA 92665
For a Better Balance between Civil Liberties
and Civil Responsibilities
The "ACRU TV Report" (714) 998-6225
Program Host: Dr. Howard Garber, Dir. (fax) 282-VOTE
American Civil Responsibilities Union, Inc. Email: Office Box 17099, Anaheim, CA 92817 Web site: www.acru.com
Adelphia Communications, Cable TV, (714) 632-9222
Preston Hazlette, Production Superv, and Public Access Coord.
3041 E. Miraloma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92806
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To: Participating guests of The ACRU TV Report
Scheduled half-hour cable TV interviews for Thurs. July 21, 2005
2:00 P.M. - (Part 1) Interview with Jim Gilchrist, Minuteman Project Founder (www.minutemanhq.com). Subject: Continued Administration failure to halt ongoing US invasion by illegals, - program host, ACRU Director Dr. Howard Garber
2:45 P.M. - (Part 2) Interviews with Jim Gilchrist, Minuteman Project Founder and Steve Eichler, J.D. ACRU board member Subject: Proposed solutions re continued Administration failure to halt ongoing US invasion by illegals, - program host, ACRU Director Dr. Howard Garber
ACRU Report production assistants: Evelyn Miller, John Mancino, Bruce Crawford, Steve Eichler, J.D. and Paul Robbins, JD
Programs are aired each Mon. at 6:00 PM in No. Orange County and Wed. at 6:30 in Los Angeles. Selected programs are viewed at www.acru.com "TV Archives"
O.C. Program channels: Anaheim, Villa Park (Ch97); Yorba Linda (Ch 98); Buena Park, Fullerton, Placentia and Santa Ana (Ch95); Brea (weekdays, Ch95)
Directions to Ch 3 Studio: From North or South Orange County and L.A.: 91 Fwy to Kraemer, North 4 lights to Miraloma West, (left) 1 block to Adelphia Communications. (Large TV tower is visible from a distance)
Please contact Dr. Garber at (714) 998-6225 or Cell 393-1315 if unable to appear as scheduled.
From DrHG -- www.ACRU.com
Re: Minuteman Project Press Release
The ACRU TV Report on 7/21 will tape 2 half hour programs with Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project. Dir Garber will interview Gilchrist 1st half hour, and both Jim and Steve Eichler (of ACRU Board) for 2nd half hour. (Steve ran for Anaheim Council in '02, and recently rec'd his JD)
Complete ACRU Program taping schedule details to be posted shortly.
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PS to LGPWR -- www.CuttingEdge-atalkshow.com
You've probably been informed of error in your Release re publisher of the Tombstone Tumbleweed. He is Chris Simcox, co-foundr of the Minuteman Project. It might be of interest that Simcox joined with ACRU Bd member John Mancino and me in front of the Yuma City courthouse on 10-3-03 to protest the arrest & conviction of two CA youths who did a citizen's arrest of six illegals as they came over the border in the Yuma AZ Area. Protest was given front page attention in the (biased) Yuma Sun. (Ref following News Release and Yuma Sun news converage.)
Subj: Illegal Immigration Demonstratration over Judicial Outrage
Date: 10/5/03 4:44:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: ACRU4U www.acru.com
From: American Civil Responsibilities Union, Inc. (ACRU)
Re: Illegal Immigration Rally over "Judicial Outrage"
Yuma Sun Reporter Falsifies Coverage of Event
The following is a front page article by Louie Villalobos re an anti-illegal immigration citizens rally led by Dr. Howard Garber, ACRU director, Chris Simcox editor of the Tombstone Tumbleweed, and John Mancino, for ACT, Anti-Crime Taskforce. Garber and Mancino traveled to Yuma AZ for a "Mitigation Hearing" for 2 "law and order" advocates who had apprehended 6 Mexicans entering the US illegally near Yuma for INS disposition. (Ref. ACRU News Release of Oct. 2, 2003 directed to Yuma and AZ authorities and distributed at rally.) Mathew Hoffman (23) of San Diego and Alex Dumas (26) of Big Bear had been arrested, jailed and charged with multiple felonies for their beneficial and warranted citizens arrests of the 6 illegals.
I'll not detail their outrageously unjust treatment by Yuma authorities prior their felony convictions by Judge Andrew Gould who reportedly has decided to sentence each to 6 months jail time. Following Hoffman's hearing, almost 100 outraged anti-illegal immigrationYuma citizens gathered in front of the Courthouse for a rally and demonstration opposing the convictions and demanding a reversal for each.
Villalobos refers to 75 people at the rally instead of our count of over 100. Only 3 "open borders" advocates (shown in the Sun photo) were there at the start, and 2 or 3 others arrived later*. Yet Villalobos gives much attention to Jesus "Pedro" Landeros" allegedly an illegal, "open border" advocate. Never mind that the disruptive Jesus Landeros was the ONLY outspoken dissenter. The Sun's Top News headline "War of words" is total nonsense and Villalobos biased reporting demands correction and an apology. The only really heated confrontation came after Dr Garber had identified himself as a first generation Jewish-American whose folks "waited in line to come here". When Garber approached an older Latino standing in the rear of the crowd to hand him the ACRU release, the man shouted anti-Semitic defamations.
PS It is noteworthy that the front page Sun photo failed to show the large anti-illegal crowd, but rather the brief confrontation between the Garber and Jesus "Pedro" Landeros", the only outspoken "pro-illegal" dissenter in the entire crowd.
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Front Page News
YUMA SUN
War of words mark protest
BY LOUIE VILLALOBOS
Oct 4, 2003
More than 75 people stood in front of the Yuma County Courthouse Friday evening to listen as two anti-illegal immigration groups voiced their disapproval of how Alexander Dumas and Matthew Hoffman are being treated by the court system. From California, representing the American Civil Responsibilities Union (ACRU, Inc.) were Dr. Howard Garber and John Mancino of California. Chris Simcox, publisher of the Tombston Tumbleweed co-chaired the protest event, and suggested to the crowd that the only way to resolve the illegal immigration issue is
through a level-headed discussion, but the yelling that started off Friday's protest was anything but.
(Photo: Yuma resident Jesus Landeros (left) listens as Howard Garber, Director of American Civil Responsibilities Union Inc., argues a point during a rally in front of the Yuma County courthouse Friday. Both men will be sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to detain the six illegal immigrants.)
But before anyone could lend their support to the men, a very loud argument broke out while several Yuma Police officers watched. On one side was Simcox's Tombstone-based Civil Homeland Defense, the California-based American Civil Responsibilities Union and several locals. On the other side were three members of the Tucson-based Humane Borders group and local resident Jesus Landeros, who kicked off the yelling.
"Are we going to be able to go to the river without being bothered?" Landeros said, referring to the possibility that Yuma County will soon have a citizens' border patrol group. "If it wasn't for the wetbacks, their wouldn't be any lettuce pickers." While Landeros was booed and laughed at, Dr. Howard Garber, president of the ACRU, fired back.
"When you come over the border that way, illegally, it's a crime," Garber shouted. "To stay here illegally is another crime. And, our government is doing nothing to stop it. That's why we're organizing and supporting such citizen efforts to turn illegals over to the US Border Patrol for deportation." After a few more minutes of yelling, both sides eventually calmed down and the official protest was allowed to begin.
Garber was first to speak and said Dumas and Hoffman were getting railroaded by the court system and were tricked into a plea bargain with the Yuma County Attorney's Office, which he said promised the men probation. Now, he said, family members are worried Dumas and Hoffman will be given jail time because of political pressure put on the judge by local anti-Dumas and Hoffman groups. "I think we ought to all make sure we stay until the very end and let the judge know that he's not going to be a dictator, and he's not going to let the justice system here intimidate those doing warranted citizens arrests as in this case."
Garber encouraged attendees to create a plaque honoring Hoffman and Dumas' actions and said they should be considered heroes, not criminals. That drew cheers from the crowd and Simcox, who then offered the crowd the opportunity to create a local patrol group for the area. His comments drew a response from a man identified only as Roy, who was handing out flyers that show a Mexican man standing on a corner, states he is looking for a job, his wife is receiving free medical treatment and his four sons are gang members.
The man in the flyer is identified as "Good 'Ol Harmless Pedro"
"That's Pedro over there," Roy said while pointing to Landeros. "There's 11 million over here that aren't doing a damn thing." After that, Simcox stepped in and showed the group pictures of some of the more than 1,600 illegal immigrants his group has turned over to Tucson Border Patrol agents.
He said locals fed up with the government's failure to secure the country's borders should tell everyone from local officials to the President of the United States of their anger. Then he took questions from several local residents who expressed interest in creating a local patrol. "When another community along the border rises up to take this job into their own hands, that will send a message to President Bush and Governor Napolitano," he said. "Governor Napolitano should be recalled immediately for not putting the National Guard on our border."
Reporter Louie Villalobos can be reached at lvillalobos@yumasun.com or 539-6858.
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In a message dated 7/14/2005 10:22:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, From LGPWR www.CuttingEdge-atalkshow.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2005
2003-2004 Golden Web Award recipient..CuttingEdge-a talk show..proudly announces the release of our latest program-now available on the web; entitled: "Whose Watching Our Border?" filmed at LA County Federation of Republican Women in Montebello, CA.
Chris Wilcox, (sic) publisher/editor of the Tombstone Tumbleweed, and co-founder with Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen, shares the history and future of the organization along with their experiences on the Arizona Mexico border.
Chris is actively setting up chapters nationwide and has received 20,000 requests to join the Minutemen , whose Mission Statement is to "Secure our Borders."
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