Not to defend the idiot "employer" (Rodarte should be minimally on administrative leave pending an investigation), but the Santa Clara Sheriff's department is following procedure when dealing with what CA's penal codes call "terrorist threats" (PC422)... first jurisdiction is the place in which the threats are received, not originated. Although, they SHOULD have taken a report anyways and forwarded it to their DA as to save time on coordinating with AZ.

Hopefully if the MMP can ratchet up the publicity on this threat, the Santa Clara DA George Kennedy will feel political pressure to fast track an investigation (he can go to the Sheriff's department and kick a few butts). Politics...it comes down to politics. Argh.

BTW, I've decided to try and pin down Hector de la Torre for his "vigilantism" comments. I've emailed him and I'll try and get some answers via telephone next week.

heh

Thank God for the Minutemen and thank God there are still some conservatives in the GOP.
Little did I know when I voted for Bush in 04 that he was a closet liberal? I thought he wanted to win the War on Terror. Not join up with the ACLU (vigilantes indeed) and surrender to Al Queda.

On Larry Elder’s show Wednesday night two weeks ago Larry said that the minutemen had reduced criminal immigration by 75%!. Or the rate of criminals crossing the border was only 25% of what it had been before the Minuteman Project! Sounds very positive!

Rod Stanton

One report this morning, found on FOXNews, says this about the Minutemen; "Critics of the program, including Border Patrol officials, have said the group was little more than a nuisance that attracted significant attention from the media and civil rights groups watching volunteers for possible rights violations." For myself, I wish the Border Patrol was actually doing its job, then they would be attracting the attention of the left-wing media and rights groups and we would know the laws of our nation were actually being enforced.

Bill - I agree!

I'm an employee of the same agency. I sent a couple friends the "Mexifornia" drivers licence joke. I and my friends were suspended without pay for a week, permanent marks to our records for "Equal Opportunity Violations", and this "counseling". This was my first ever incident, and Union "progressive discipline" rules were blatantly violated. The Union, of course, is avoiding doing anything about it. Management did, of course, let a prominet Hispanic employee off the hook with only a warning. Only "white" folks (five men and a woman-who was let off after she was forced to reveal more sources of the "offensive" email-were forced onto leave.

This from an angency where there are self-identified "Mexicans"..not "hispanics", not "hispanic-american or mexican-american, but "Mexican". I won't even get into the way the Agency deliberately avoids wanting to know about illegal (undocumented) immigration status before handing out cash, food stamps and medical services.

Most government offices, from police to City Hall, are pro-Mexican (as opposed to pro-hispanic) and will not do anything about this institutionalized discrimination. The Feds have investigated other issues and let them slide as well.

Thank God for Arnold. He knows right from wrong and has the guts to stand up for the right!

Florencio Rodarte didn't make any threats. He simply expressed his opinion concerning what he believed some immigrants might do in response to the minutemen. Notice his use of "they" as opposed to "I" or "we."

Additionally, it is possible that the SC Sheriff's Dept did check out Mr.Rodarte. How does the original author know that they did not do so?

Although many may disagree with the position of the minutmen and the tactics being implemented, I am in further disagreement with the fact that an employee of the County of Santa Clara, CA., utilized county contolled equipment when, according to Santa Clara County Ordinance A25-301, #7, this practice is clearly prohibited and can result in employee demotion or dismissal. The fact that he was "counseled" for such an agregious violation of public trust, is an even greater travesty and shows that the County of Santa Clara has little quality control over its employee actions.

Mr. Cliff Jamison: That stupid Aztec may have not said "I" or "we" but his statement can still certainly be construed as a threat. His quote "Watch your ass" suggests that he may actually be telling illegals to shoot at, or otherwise try to harm "rednecks" whom are doing the job that the U.S. government won't do. If the roles were reversed here, and a white guy wrote a similar e-mail he would of been put in jail. Just look at the two border guards that were put in jail for defending our border. We do need guns on the border, but they should be pointed towards Mexico!

Oh wah! wah! wah!