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Having enjoyed a good run with joining fair and honest casinos i my luck finally run out when i joined Allfraud...i mean Allslots casino . My quick fling with this casino began well . Dont get me wrong the slots are fair ...i raced to abive $4000 then as i tend to do wrongly chose to gamble on ,dropping just as quick to $1300 . It was at this point that i withdrew , or at least thought i had . My verification documents had been sent and expecting them to take 48 hrs to process awaited my confirmation email . Well the email i got stated that i had to send again as it was not clear....fair enough although if its good enuff for more honest and reputable casinos to accept why not ALL***** CAS . So i sent a new and improved photo of my PP...and low and behold i got another email saying i had to resend my id photo as when taking the photo of my passport previously i had left a corner out of passport out of the phot, .that must have been the important corner of the passport that actually identifies me . So i took another clearer , full PHOTO of my PP .....NOT 48 hrs but 3 days later another email asking the same thing .....resend ID PHOTO . What a load of BS....Whats worse is they claim to be an Australian casino... no true Australian company would rort fellow honest Aussies for only $1300 . I have sent another photo today ...what excuse will they have next time...
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I'm Roberto, representative of All Slots Casino; i had no chance to verify the quality of your documents, but don't worry, sending documents it is a one time process, once accepted you will have no problems in the future to make any withdrawal...this issue could be already resolved as I write you...
Sometimes customer support is a bit picky in approving documents: make sure you (and any other player that read this) send them the best quality possible (but not too heavy in size) and i'm 100% all will be fine: all is done to protect player privacy and to verify their identity: as in most real casinos you can enter only with an ID, the same applies to All Slots Casino
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Roberto ,
Good to see that someone aligned with ASC actually replied within a day . As i belong to several top online casinos , i have built a good relationship with many of the VIP managers and support staff who work at them so i was able to send my failed passport photos through to them to ask for their opinions as to why my first three were not accepted .. What i was told by the majority was that while the first was perhaps the most unclear , it was still readable , and as for the next they could not understand why it was rejected . I have sent the new passport photo through today and this was also given the thumbs by other casinos before i sent to ASC . What has amazed me the most Roberto is that if my withdrawal has been rejected , should those funds still be in my account . I logged on today to access my account so i could find a contact phone number , for the purpose of talking to John Williamson ( head of finance dept ). As i went through my account i noticed that with the withdrawal being rejected , i still did not have the funds in my account either to play with or to reverse withdraw...Where are the funds? As if the crims from the game Bust tha Bank came to life and stole my money , the funds are no where to been seen .Isnt the usual procedure for withdrawals to be that until accepted for withdrawal , the funds remain in the account , either in the available account or in reverse withdraw ? ....Am i to believe that i am being fairly treated when evrybody i liase with at other casinos says other wise ... I joined NOV6 and enjoyed my time until this episode ended that ...as other casinos can testify my withdrawals , or a good portion of them , are usually put back into the casinos they were taken from....i hope this is sorted out asap.....LUCKY 247 CASINO here i come ..DANaconda
There's no need to start new complaints for every new message, DANaconda?! If you have something to say, please use the reply link, which you may use as many times as you want. ;)
This is not a new complaint but a continuation of my previous complaint . It appears that i may have made an error . It wasnt $1300 that i was waiting on ...but $1000 . The mistake was made simply because i have been waiting on three withdrawals and got the amounts confused ..so i apologise for that ....if there is any need to do so .
So what i have done is gone over all my email correspondance with ALLSLOTS CAS ( i advise others to keep on file exactly for this purpose) , and here are the facts of my relationship with them....NOV5- i signed on wih ASC.......NOV8- i completed my financial obligations concerning the welcome package....NOV9- i received a congratulation email after winning $1660 on karate pig NOV9- sent my first lot of docs thru.....NOV11- asked to provide additional proof , so i do......NOV12- told my last docs not good enough , so i sent again.....NOV13- told by by support staff that my last docs i sent were ok and they were being sent directly to financial dept......NOV14-asked by a Mr John Williamson ( not head of financial dept) to send further proof of id as the last were not good enough......NOV16- sent through my id photos which are exactly the same as the others yet again . Now i sit here waiting fir the next excuse not to pay me the $1000 that i rightfully and fairly am due .again i ask where is my winnings ?
Any update? A remark: Why you keep on sending the same documents if they were not clear enough according to the financial department?
Maybe a good idea, if the documents are not approved, is to make a clearer scan and send it to them: i know it is annoying, but this solve the problem
Roberto....have you taken the time to actually look at my documents . I say not because if you had you would see that only a blind man would see them as unclear . I have submitted these documents only the once and they were deemed as acceptable . What was unacceptable , apart from ALLSLOTS CASINO 's business practice , was my passport phot which was deemed as unclear . This i have done , on each occasion , what was asked of me and retaken and resent following the instructions given to me and on each occasion it has been the same result. Why has every other casino i belong to accepted them . Am i to believe that their casino is some how less reputable than yours . I dont buy into that because as i have seen their appears no complaints about them on this , and any other forum ,yet ALLSLOTS casino has a complete listing of complaints about the same subject as mine . Putting eCOGRA on your casino doesnt give you the right to say all customers are wrong and that ASC is holier than thou . No it gives you cover for the fraudulant dealings that go on , and knowing that it is merely impossible to get our money back , this practice continues . Further more i received an email from on sunday saying that my documents had finally put through to the finance dept , however because a weekend they were unable to process then . It is now wednesday and i have yet to hear back from anyone involved . Even after being on livechat today i was still unable to get an answer as to where or when my funds would be cleared . Tell me Roberto , isnt it ASC oractice of allowing 48hrs to process . What happens when it drags on for over a week and a half.....ASC arent saints and a culpible for the fraudulant acts they commit......It is also worth noting that the other JACKPOT FACTORY casino ALL JACKPOTS gets accused of the same issues . Surely Roberto , you dont think all of us who have had bad dealings with these casinos are illiterate and unintelligent . Oh wait maybe we are coz we dont have an eCOGRA logo to hide behind . STill waiting for my money and im not going away...
according to my experience 99% of the issues involving documents get solved eventually...it is just a matter of patience, I know we are not the quickest to process documents, but if they say they are waiting to be processed, we need to wait for them to be processed
so please wait a few more days, i'm positive you will get a reply from financial department saying that all is in order
Wait a few more days and your sure the financial dept will contact me saying all is in order....Roberto can you tell me where in the ALLSLOTS writeup , that tries to entrap punters to your casino , is that statement as i didnt and still havent seen that in any of the advertising that promotes ASC casino when i first signed up ......from my recollections it states 48hrs process time . So having been told that the finacial dept got my documents monday , and today being thursday....that would make it 96 hrs...and you ask me to be patient . This is near on two weeks now ROBERTO . How patient must i be Roberto ? This has been a farce from the start and i can no longer control my anger . ...you sit there extolling the virtues of honesty and fairness in ASC , as their own advertising does , yet at no point , and i mean NO POINT has anything or anyone involved within ALLSLOTS a shown as much as an inch of these traits...... . CRIMINAL , FRAUDULANT , SCAM , AND nothing but utter BS are the only things that come to mind and for some reason it continues to drag on...Stop the lies and tell me the facts as not just me but many others have witnessed ...that ALLSLOTS is nothing but a scam luring trusting gamblers into its web promising nothing but a long drawn out process designed to make people give up the fight in trying to get their money.......this aint over ROBERTO...YOU WILL BEAR WITNESS TO MY PATIENCE ....until i get my payout then you will hear from me no longer
As I wrote yesterday, please wait a few more days...I know it can take time, but it a one time process only...
On a more personal note, I've been working in the gaming for several years, i've a reputation to protect and I won't be able of assisting any further if such language is used towards me - I understand the frustration but I need the communication to be carried forward with more respect for me
Roberto , i refute your claim of bad language used towards you personally , as i have only refered to ALLSLOTS in such a manner . What is frustrating is the fact that i am being talked to like an illiterate uneducated fool who doesnt have a clue as to what i have been doing...i replied earlier as i was emailed saying that if i didnt then this complaint would be closed and ALLSLOTS would be vindicated in their actions . While i certainly havent been in the game for as long as u , i have built a reputation of my own in only 6 short months . I belong to over 20 online casinos , from which i play daily and have built a ethically strong relationship with the behind the scenes people ( support ) who keep them running , through live chat and daily phonecalls . It is these relationships that has enabled me to gather opinions and advice on how to deal with this situation . I know the procedures involved with withdrawals so to imply that i have followed requests improperly is truly wrong . I am a VIP at most of them and can speak highly of them all . My daily use of these casinos does not mean i am rich . I was lucky enough to enjoy a huge win in the first few wks of my " online casino career " which has not only enabled me to provide for my family abroad , but also continue to play . I put at least 50% of my payouts back into the casino they came from , sometimes more .
I apologise if you thought i was being personal in my accusations , i am sincere when i say i wasnt . All i ask is that ASC be honest in its dealings coz as it stands now they have a long way to go...
Roberto ..... You say that your reputation is at risk to due my constant berating , well let me tell you that my patience and sanity as well as my relationship with my family is already at risk due to this FRAUDULANT becahaviour of ASC . As you asked i have waited for what stated was SURE TO SORTED OUT SOON . Well Mr I HAVE A REPUTATION TO KEEP, the email i received today 23NOV , has taken the fraud comitted just a little bit further . Now i have committed the fraud apparently as some detail on my registration matches the same as someone elses . All this after i rang ASC before registering my account to see if i had forgotten a past sign up with them ....the answer i got was no so i signed up . Now after winning i have been told that i need to send my documents agiain for clarification , the 5th time so i can be scrutinised again ....Are you people serious in thinking you run an honest and fair online casino . Iv seen card games in prison that have been more honest and fair than what you are putting me through at ASC , and i cant stress enough that my patience is at breaking point . I will send what they require AGAIN , and let me say if this BS continues it might be a nice time of year for a holiday to Malta , or to whichever gutter this casino belongs in . I am a sane fair and honest man ROBERTO but it is my integrity and honour that is at stake hear not your reputation .....I look forward to the next excuse that you and ASC put up as a part of eCOGRA PROCESS ....IT SEEMS ALL MY OTHER CASINOS ARE NO GOOD AS THEY CONTINUALLY THANK ME FOR MY HONESTY AND RESPECTFUL WORDS WHEN DEALING WITH THEM.......AGAIN I AM NOT GOING AWAY.....=o
Please let me know your account number, so it is easier for me to locate the status of your issue
Hi Roberto...my username is DANaconda , the same as it is here....i have no idea as to what the problem may be with my account now , as i did the necessary checks with ASC support before registering . Now i am told my details have similarities with another . Does that mean there is another player from PERTH at ASC , or another from the tiny slums of KOONDOOLA where i live , oh no i must be fraudulant...cmon guys give me a break..... Roberto while i do at times get angry and sometimes abusive please understand that this is the product of juggling my working life in Australia , and trying to support my family overseas in Vietnam .While saving my wages to enable my family to be together ,the casinos provide me with a way to get extra funds to support wife and child while continuing to play but It seems that ASC may have beaten me into submission with these delays and now i will just go along with the neverending flow of delays , all the while depositing money into other casinos . I will send ASC the new documents as requested AGAIN , and if the delays continue then i will just forget about it . I have never felt so disappointed in the workings of a casino as i am now , but i thank ASC for teaching me that just because a casino states it is honest and fair , and hiding behind the ECOGRA standards , that may not always be the truth . I joined ASC in good faith , following the recommendations of a friend , who obviously didnt ask for a withdrawal =) , and enjoyed my short time there . This episode has left a terrible taste in my mouth and along with the pressure coming from my wife , and separation from child i am at the end of the line i feel , regarding ASC . Roberto i dont know if you have ever felt the wrath of a 4ft Viet woman , but let me tell you it aint pleasant , and the the probs that ASC has caused seems like childs play .
Roberto , i will send the new docs off asap , and i hope that ASC finally warms its cold heart and reviews its treatment of paying customers . I will continue to deposit sums of money into casinos in the hope of shortening time apart from my family , but sadly ASC will not be one of them .As for yourself Roberto , thanks for whatever it is you do . I am not sure if your help has done anything to help the situation , but please accept my most sincerest apologies for any abuse you may have received . Dont misconstrue it as personal , i just hate when honest people are treated as fools and left out of pocket such as my self . For anyone reading this out there in the online casino world...........Avoid at all costs the two casinos from jackpot factory....Allslots casino and all jackpots casino are not very player friendly , and will try whatever they can to not payout your winnings .You will be better off flushing your money diwn the toilet , or better yet give it to me , so I can be reunited with my family..Hahaha if you do join allslots , then please be nice to roberto , no doubt you will soon meet him online , coz he does a sterling job at defending those that have refused to pay you . Dont abuse him as his reputation outshines both you and I ......time to send off my documents for the umpteenth time in the hope there is a good hearted person at ALLSLOTS , and i can finally get my rightful winnings from them......DANaconda=)
Apparently the issue is that the credit card you have been using, has been used by other two persons not connected to All Slots Casino: that's not a big deal, but according to eCOGRA reguloation you just need to explain the reason why 3 people shares the same credit card to customer support and all will be fine: have you received an email with such request?
Roberto , the card in question belongs to me and has been solely used by myself since about 10 or so months ago before i even started using online casinos . A friend of mine , who introduced me to online casinos was staying at my house at the time , and unable to get ukash at the time asked if he could use my card to put funds on his ROYAL VEGAS account . When my card was locked as i tried to deposit funds into my first ever account , i have vowed never to allow anyone else the use of my card , and i have kept that vow to this present day . That brings me to the question ? Why wasnt this first given as the reason for my delayed payment instead of giving me the runaround about an unclear passport photo . As i hav stated from the beginning i am an honest and fair player who has provided ledgible , clear documents from the outset . I hope that this is the last time i here about this issue until im paid out my winnings , but before i go can you please answer this ...I have many friends who play online casinos so to dispel any mistrust I now have with them , can you tell me how I find out who used my card . One I know of , mr farahmand had my permission so I need to know the last name of the other and when it was used . How can I access this info ?. Thanks again and i hope my payout and the answer to this question arrive soon..
It is pretty simple: explain this to the casino and you will have no problem with the withdrawal...and never let anyone else use your credit card/neteller/moneybookers to deposit in a casino, as it can (and it will) create problems
The casino is simple worried of a chargeback, that's why they want only the owner to use the credit card: having multiple people using the same credit card raise for the a big red flag, as they may think that it is an unauthorized use of the credit card...and that's why they become extra suspicious with the passport, and they want an extremely clear copy (i'm sure the last copy you sent was ok)
Again, just explain this to customer support via email, and all will be sorted out
Roberto ,
Have had a phone call from ASC a few days ago , stating card was blah blah blah.....have sent a new set of documents ( forgotten how many that was now ) plus an email stating the knowlrdge of only 1 use of my cc , and gave them details . Received reply email saying that the information they have is exactly sme as mine....further mire the new set of documents had been sent to that LABRIYNTH OF DELAY otherwise known as the FINANCE DEPARTMENT at ASC where im sure my WITHDRAWAL REQUEST will be buried amongst the QUAGMIRE of moulding fetid remains of WITHDRAWAL REQUESTS LOST LONG AGO.....im sure by FRIDAY or maybe SUNDAT good ol JWILL down at FD might HAVE perused my docs for a glimmer of a second........NOTE TO JWILL= TURN THE PASSPORT CLOCKWISE HALF A TURN....ITS MORE CLEAR WHEN IT ISNT UPSIDE DOWN......Im sure that the brains trust at the FD are all in war council now strategising there next delay....." We could tell DANaconda that its XMAS TIME...and that his payout has gone on holiday " etc etc etc etc whatever the excuse may be Roberto , im sure it would be just as laughable as the last ...sorry for the melodramatic portion of the email....im just gettin bored of ASC s delays..instead of typing emails /livechat/and phonecalls . . All the time spent with these could have been spent depositing funds into ASC and playing the pokies , making both parties happy.....Thanks for the use of your ears once again ROBERTO
Ok, so you have explained them clearly that you have authorized someone else to use your card...you didn't mention this below, you just said that All Slots Casino was just refusing you a payment cause documents were not clear...
As it appears, there was a reason why All Slots was suspicious: but it won't be a problem: if you explained everything, the withdrawal will be fine
I want to repeat it: never let anyone else use your credit card to play casino (and for a lot of other things, like plane tickets for example): credit cards frauds are more common than we think...
Roberto..... Well how many times must i have to do this ....now i have been told that my withdrawal request has bee deposited back into my casino account as i failed to send in the documents"..... This provez to me that ALLSLOTS CASINO IS BY FAR THE MOST CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULANT CASINO ONLINE ....i sent documents after document as they requested only fr the m to find other reasons to deny me my rightful wins .....Explain to me Roberto what the problem is now as i have explained every aspect of my online casino history and answered all questions that have been raised....No more excuses yeah tell me when am i going to get my payout . ....and dont say when i send documents because i have done that multiple times already ......Your so called reputation aint worth a cent ....your alignment with ASC sees to that and your reputation does not exist as working for as fraudulant a casino as you do unfortunately paints you with the same brush.....your give it a few days , m sure it will happen speech is as hollow as the honesty and fairness dribble that spews from the ASC website ......WHAT A SHAM
I have just been notified by support that my withdrawal was finally processed last nite ..i must wait 3 to 5 days till it hits my bank so time will tell if this happens or not . Almost finished here , will let you know asap if they have kept there word...DANaconda
perfect, again this is a one time process, so you won't need to repeat it again...
Perfect ?????? EASE UP TURBO . hahaha Roberto while this announcement sounds good i wont believe it as real until i see funds in my bank account . Perfect is probably one of the last words i would choose to use...i would probably use words such as. FINALLY , AMAZING or AM I DREAMING . This has been the most annoying , mind numbing and mystifying experience i have encountered with any online casino . I even have deposited into ASC as a sort of goodwill , makeup handshake , never again . No wins from $100 Aud at low bets . Oh wait now i get it... Thats why you said perfect lol...All the best Roberto , thanks for making up excuses for ASC . I have never doubted your integrity and honour , just your choice of employer......what casino can i play on now...hmmmm SILVER OAKS sounds like a good one hahahahahahahahaha
did you receive the payment?
Allfraud casino has changed its name for the festive season and hopefully beyond....It can now be found under allslots casino.....Time to start clicking get my spin on........Case closed payout received
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Amid rising protests in Tamil Nadu against Sri Lanka over its alleged war crimes against ethnic Tamils, the tourism industry in India has taken a big hit. The number of travellers from the island nation has fallen by 10-15 per cent in February-March, compared to the year-ago period, according to the Indian Association of Tour Operators (Iato).
We have already witnessed a drop of around 15 per cent in incoming traffic from Sri Lanka. The main concern is the fact that it may become even worse as the government is still in a dilemma on the whole issue," according to Gour Kanjilaal, executive director, Iato, which has over 1,600 members nationwide.
Sri Lanka's national carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines, has decided to cut its service by 50 per cent in the Colombo-Chennai route after some Sri Lankan nationals were recently attacked in Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan government had also issued a travel advisory to its citizens to "exercise caution" when travelling to Tamil Nadu.
Not only the incoming traffic, but Indian travellers also visit Sri Lanka. The impact of this crisis would be felt on both fronts.he crisis has also taken a toll on bilateral trade. Many Buddhist priests from Sri Lanka also travel to India to visit religious places,and Sri Lankans also visit India due to medical reasons.


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She says her next record is more adventurous, ambitious and daring.
Ellie Goulding says her forthcoming record is almost finished.
Goulding hasn't shared new music with us for a minute. Since 2012's Halcyon to be exact, home to her monstrous "Anything Could Happen" and "I Need Your Love" featuring Calvin Harris singles. She's remained relevant in music anyhow, finding major recent success with "Love Me like You Do" from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, "Beating Heart" from the Divergent franchise, her Skrillex collaboration titled "Powerful," another with Calvin Harris on "Outside" and, according to Sam Smith, is up for singing the new James Bond theme.
While her one-off singles became some of radio's most oversaturated tunes, it bought Goulding some time to record a new studio record, and we're not far away from its impending release. She tells Billboard it's almost finished, and out later this year.
You're currently working in London on your forthcoming third studio album. Given how hyper energetic your live performances are, is it a struggle to get the same level of passion and intensity when working in the recording studio?
It's a complete contrast. Onstage is just so energetic and then in the studio a lot of it is brain power because I really want to say what I feel. When I'm in the studio I can always tell if I haven't really made an effort on something or put enough emotion in something as I should have. So it never ends up being good enough for me if I know I haven't put enough emotional detail into it. It just so happens that I'm writing with someone at the moment — we're two girls that obviously over think a lot. When we get together we both think the same way and I feel like we come from the same universe. We'll just sit there and just think and think and think and nothing ever comes easily. Then all of sudden we'll get to a lyric and go: 'Oh, my God. That's it!' And you just know and get a connection. It's rare to find a songwriter like that, so I feel quite privileged to work with her really. She is called Laleh and she was recently taken on by Max Martin. She is an incredible artist in her own right and we have a really great connection.
Can you talk about what direction the new album is going in?
I don't really know why this word seems appropriate but it's definitely bigger. Whether that means it's more adventurous, or a bit more ambitious, or a bit more daring, I don't know. But I'm certainly taking on something a lot bigger than I have before and sonically it's a lot bigger. I feel like there were maybe certain restrictions on the last album. But I'm at a point now with this album where it's just taken on a new life now of its own and I can't stop it. So that album is coming out and what people make of it I don't know, but it is coming. It's nearly finished and it will be out this year. Even if it's out on 30 December, which is my birthday, it will be out this year.
In addition to Laleh, who else are you writing with on the album?
I've worked with Diplo. I've worked with producers that I have known for years – Jim Eliot from my last album. I love working with him. I thought the stuff that we did together was something really special, so I had a 'you don't fix what isn't broken kind of attitude.' He's just wonderful and I got to go back to my home town [Hereford], which helps the writing process a lot. But then also I've been adopted into the Max Martin camp and I love them all dearly.
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Last updated 3/28/2018 at 10:42am
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Public Works Department PUBLIC NOTICE
The Colville Tribes Land Use Review Board will be holding a public hearing to make a ruling on the following shoreline development conditional use permits:
Pacific Aquaculture has submitted a land use and development application for a shoreline conditional use permit to construct an 81'x177' brood stock facility, a 40' x 50' office building, 100' x 10' exterior raceway, install a water intake and return lines, drill a new 12" well with associated pumping and electrical and a drain field. The water supply will be a combination of a well and intake pipe from the Columbia River, sewage disposal is through two septic tanks and a drain field. The property is located at 3378 Columbia River Road, Nespelem within Township 31 North, Range 30 East, Section 33 – Okanogan County Parcel 3130330003 and is within the boundaries of the Colville Indian Reservation.
A public hearing for the above- mentioned Shoreline Development Conditional Use Permit will be conducted on Wednesday April 4, 2018 at the Lucy Covington Government Facility (Colville Indian Agency) starting at 9:30 a.m. Written comments will be accepted until Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 4 p.m. or comments can be made verbally at the public hearing. All comments may be sent to Pete Palmer, Land Use/Shoreline Administrator, Public Works Department, P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155 or they can be emailed to her attention at email@example.com Contact the Tribal Public Works Department at the aforementioned address or phone number to request a copy of the permit documents.
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Parks and Natural Resources Board Meeting
To the Citizens of the Town of Coulee Dam, notice is hereby given that the Parks and Natural Resources Board of the Town of Coulee Dam will hold regular meetings at Town Hall every 4th Wednesday of each month at 9:00am until further notice.
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Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan
Comment Period & Public Hearing
Okanogan County is updating the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) in accordance with RCW 70.95. This is a 5-year update. The plan identifies solid waste and moderate risk waste management practices within Okanogan County and associated service areas. The plan will ultimately be approved by the Washington State Department of Ecology and then subsequently adopted by Okanogan County.
The preliminary draft SWMP may be viewed or downloaded on Public Works website at http://www.okanogancounty.org/PW/solid_waste_recycling.htm or by visiting the Public Works Administration Office at 1234-A Second Ave. South, Okanogan, WA 98840.
Comments must be submitted in writing, or attend the public hearing. Comments shall be accepted until the Board of Okanogan County Commissioners close the comment period. The Board of Okanogan County Commissioners scheduled a public hearing on April 17, 2018 at 3:30pm. The hearing is located in the Virginia Grainger Commissioners Hearing Room at 123 5th Ave North, Okanogan, WA 98840. Direct questions and comments to: Ben Rough, Administrative Officer, Okanogan County Public Works, 1234-A Second Ave. South, Okanogan, WA 98840, (509) 422-7335, or by email at email@example.com.
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Coulee Area Park and Recreation District
Coulee Area Park and Recreation District (CAPRD) is seeking a vendor for grounds maintenance at
North Dam Park, Grand Coulee, WA
The timeframe for 2018 contract runs from mid-April through the end of October. The selected vendor will provide maintenance of the park in the areas listed below. The budget for this seasonal project will not exceed 18,000 dollars. We reserve the right to extend this contract for up to two years.
Mowing of all cultivated lawn areas — picnic shelter and adjacent grounds and both ball fields.
Some adjunct tall grass and weed cutting.
Provide for the operation of the park-wide irrigation system, adjustments and replacement of sprinkler heads as needed (may require working with Bureau of Reclamation employees regarding irrigation timers and water pumps, etc.)
One spring fertilization of lawn areas
Weed eradication in public areas
General trash pick-up in all public areas and the Gehrke Windmill Garden
All interested vendors should submit a letter of intent to CAPRD. The letter will list the vendor's proposed work schedule and cost breakout for the items listed above for North Dam Park. Include copies of vendor's Company Liability Insurance and Washington State Business License as well as a list past work experiences relevant to this type of work. Letters of intent must be received by Friday, March 30, 2018. A final selection will be made by the second week of April 2018.
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CIHA Board of Commissioner Opening
Nespelem District Position
The Colville Indian Housing Authority (CIHA) is seeking individuals that may be interested in applying for a Board of Commissioner (Board) position for the "Nespelem District". The Board is composed of five persons that make policy decisions in accordance to the Native American Housing and Self Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA). The Board duties include but are not limited to policy development, review and approve the Annual Indian Housing Plan, Annual Performance Report and financial management for submission to HUD/Northwest Office of Native American Programs, Seattle, WA.
In accordance to the CIHA Ordinance adopted by Resolution 1977-59 and Chapter 11-2 Colville Indian Housing Authority:
• The Board member shall be appointed and may be reappointed, by the Council. A certificate of the Secretary of the Council as to the appointment or reappointment of any commissioner shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of the commissioner.
• A commissioner may be a member or non-member of the Tribe, and may be a member or non-member of the Business Council.
• No person shall be barred from serving on the Board because they are a tenant or homebuyer in a housing project of the Authority; and such commissioner shall be entitled to fully participate in all meetings concerning matters that affect all of the tenants or homebuyers, even though such matters affect them as well.
• The term of office shall be four years and staggered.
Regular Board meetings are held monthly, with an occasional Special Meeting scheduled. Applicants must possess an interest in housing matters and be able to attend the scheduled meetings. Interested applicants are requested to submit a detailed Letter of Interest and/or resume describing your interest and area of expertise involved with providing safe, decent and affordable housing. Successful applicant may be subject to credit and/or criminal background inquiry.
You may contact Douglas R. Marconi Sr., CIHA Executive Director at 509.634.2284 for additional information. Please mail letter of interest/resume to Colville Indian Housing Authority, P. O. Box 528, Nespelem, WA 99155 with attention to Douglas R. Marconi Sr.
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All work and materials will be detailed in the Contract Documents and Specifications for this project. For additional information or to request copies of the complete RFQ, scope of work and project documents, contact Mr. Dale R. Schrock Jr. at 509.634.2160 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Cash was stolen from a Harpenden restaurant by thugs wearing hoodies.
At about 4.30am on January 31 three men broke into the Cinnamon restaurant in Thompson Close before making off towards The Putterills.
Herts police are appealing to potential witnesses to the incident.
The men were described as slim to athletic and wearing hooded tops. One of them was carrying a bag and another was sporting a bright badge on the left-hand side of his chest.
Investigating PCSO Tom Perrin said: "We know that the offenders made off towards The Putterills and were also in the Westfield Road area.
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"It's the media that's the other half of the problem in this country for not covering the story THE WAY IT REALLY IS!!!!" the hard-ass fireman yells.
Sitting at long rows of picnic tables, the Minutemen -- the civilians who have been so publicly patrolling the Mexican border to spot illegal aliens -- start thunderously whistling and jeering. This is the closing barbecue for the Minuteman Project's monthlong patrol, and they're basically going apeshit.
The hard-ass fireman, a third-generation Mexican-American ("They came in the right way!") is vividly infuriated. The press, apparently, has avoided him as a face of the Minuteman Project, instead focusing on the many, many more white participants, some of whom have been labeled racist in some newspapers.
Taking a quick visual inventory, estimating with complete impartiality, I'd have to say it's pretty fucking white here. Mainly, it's a crowd of hardened elderly white men with big potbellies, some of whom have brought their wives.
The irate third-generation Mexican-American points in the direction of the media -- which, in this case, are composed of myself, several well-groomed local reporters, various photographers, a few documentary crews, and, of course, Fox News -- and screams, "SO WHY DON'T YOU FOLKS PACK UP AND GO SOUTH OF THE BORDER WHERE YOU WANT TO BE CONTROLLED!"
I'm not exactly sure what that means, but the very white crowd (plus one third-generation Mexican-American man) starts throwing out angry taunts and heckles.
"Like Bush said, you're either with us or against us!"
"Sorry excuses for Americans!"
"Media bye-bye!"
We, the media, shift uncomfortably from foot to foot, staring at our shoes. (Actually, I think we're expected to take off, running. Honestly, I think someone is going to yell, "GET THEM!")
But wait a minute, Minutemen. Didn't the media make the Minuteman Project? Wasn't the Minuteman Project, in one way, a big publicity stunt to bring attention to its border concerns? And so I ask, Minutemen: Where did the love go?!
Before I was faced with the proposition of going south of the border where I want to be controlled, I came to Tombstone, Ariz., to meet the men and women behind the Minuteman Project. (Surprisingly, no Minutekids.) Sure, I heard the news description of vigilantes hunting down illegal aliens like angry villagers chasing the Frankenstein monster. Sure, I heard others saying the Minutemen were a bunch of harmless senior citizens spending their twilight years sitting in lawn chairs along our borders, backed by beloved Gov. Arrrrrnold (who, in Predator, also chased aliens). To me, it just sounded like a big, three-ring, anti-immigration circus, with the Minutemen as the ringmaster under the Mexican-border big top. And I never miss the circus.
With my videographer/drinking buddy Brad in tow, I arrive for the morning Minuteman orientation session, on the 28th day of the Minuteman Project's monthlong jamboree. (Note to readers: The Minuteman Project should not to be confused with the Alan Parsons Project.)
"I'm going to ask you a pertinent question: Are you armed?" a large, intimidating man with a gun strapped across his chest asks us before we enter the office of the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper (the local institution of the independent press whose duty is to tell the story how it really is), a few blocks from the historic OK Corral. Though I'm dressed as a Minuteman (but even more so, with aviator shades and matching Army-fatigue shirt/shorts/hat), I do a visual inventory of my body.
Firmly, I answer: "No!"
After a short wait, they allow us into the newspaper's back yard, where 18 people, with serious, almost grim, looks on their faces, are assembled. (All are men, except for a hardened grandmother and the unhappy female part of an unhappy couple.) Most are dressed like me and display nervous uneasiness, as if they are about to be shipped off to war -- and some might not return!
Being members of the media, the photographer and I receive the same warm welcome granted to a fresh outbreak of genital herpes.
"Does anyone feel uncomfortable having members of the media here?" bellows the large, intimidating man as a historic Wild West stagecoach and its horses clop by; there is tense silence as future Minutemen, not sure how to react, turn their heads toward one another. "If anyone feels uncomfortable, raise your hand, and I can ask them to leave!"
No hands go up. I take a chair in the hot sun, behind an old guy whose T-shirt reads "Retired -- I Can Play With My Trains Anytime I Want."
But we're still not in the clear. Making intense eye contact, the large, intimidating man asks, "Do you have any recording devices on you?"
Letting out a nervous chuckle, I shake my head, hoping the tape recorder doesn't fall out of my pocket. The large, intense man has one other demand. "You can't quote me directly!" he says to absolutely no response from me.
"This is not about skinheads. This is not about the KKK," his orientation continues, as if these statements are necessary to weed out trigger-happy fanatics. (I look to see if anyone is disappointed.) "We are here to observe and report."
The Minuteman mission statement is laid out: "The Constitution says protect our borders from the threat of invasion. We have the right to freedom of assembly." The intimidating man points to the gun strapped around his own neck. "If anyone has one of these things -- no monkey business. We're not about this," he sternly states. "No rifles! No shotguns!"
Mustachioed Tex, wearing a cowboy hat and boots, speaks up. "Is that a Minuteman rule or an ACLU rule that you can't return fire if fired upon?"
"We want the operation to be clean," the intimidating man answers.
"If I'm fired upon, isn't that imminent danger?" Tex asks. "I've been fired upon, and it's not a good feeling."
"I can't tell you what to do!" the large man says as the wind flaps his green shirt, exposing his large belly.
A series of relevant Minuteman questions follows.
"How about night vision? What's the visibility?"
"If I have an American flag, should I bring it?"
"Where's the FREQUS?" (At first I think he's referring to freaks and hippie-bashing; actually, he means radio frequencies.)
"Do you know how many contacts they've made?"
After the leader answers, the group's token dumb guy pipes up: "What's better, to have them see us and go around, or shine a light and scare them back to Mexico? What's preferable?"
The answer: Shine a light and let them know you're there.
"What if you shine a light on them, and then they come after you?" the dumb guy asks. He is quickly cut off when he segues into a rambling political diatribe.
"If you don't have a question, can you save it for later?!"
The final rules. "No contact. Anyone has contact, they're gone," our orientation leader stresses, explaining that Minutemen have been kicked out of the project for giving water to illegal aliens who have traveled on foot for days through the hot desert.
The reason?
"You jeopardize the whole program," the large man insists.
"I'm going to look everyone in the eye and I'm going to ask two questions: Do you agree to stick with the rules and what we're about, which is about the Constitution and securing our borders?" the leader says. It's really only one question, but everyone agrees. Then comes an all-important step: the signing of the liability waiver, which includes a final loyalty test for the Minutemen.
"Please don't steal my pens. Please," the large leader pleads. "People have been walking away with them."
How can they secure borders, after all, if they can't secure pens?
Video camera. ("If you have a spotting, it's to prove you haven't done anything wrong.")
Border Patrol number set to speed dial on cell phones. (Why speed dial? "We've seen ladies get so excited when they spot nine or 10 of those [immigrants].")
At the last, hot, dusty outpost before the border, I stand among concerned citizens in triple-digit heat, next to a burly guy whose T-shirt reads "Be There in a Minute ... Man!" Most in the group are lone men who came out here on their own, from all parts of the country; they felt a call of duty. Fox News is taping, crew members exuding the attitude that they're the popular kids of the media contingent.
"The Border Patrol managed to seize 17 bundles of cocaine! (Or, as they playfully call it, 'not-pot')," says a line supervisor who has a gray beard and a Fidel Castro hat. Clapping ensues.
The night shift -- 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. -- is the busiest time to patrol, but also the most unpopular, the supervisor notes. "You may get a bit lonely. You might have a few Mexicans to keep you company. The coyotes sit on the hills watching us, where we don't have people," he says, referring to the guides who charge money -- anywhere from $300 to $1,100 on this part of the border -- to lead immigrants from Mexico into the United States. "Since we've come out here, we heard the price has doubled."
There have been problems, though, with the opposition, also known as the ACLU, an acronym that the Minutemen often expand to Anti-Christian Lawyers Union. It's explained that the ACLU is getting desperate; the group has, supposedly, proclaimed on its Web site that it will find "something" wrong with the Minuteman Project. The Minutemen consider the ACLU's opposition to be un-American.
"We got them smoking pot on camera," Fidel says with a sly smile.
We're taken to Papa Bear, another line supervisor; he's wearing tinted shades and slightly resembles the Robert Duvall character in Apocalypse Now. Papa Bear wears a gun prominently on his belt, and there are radio wires and military insignias on his vest. Strangely, this 64-year-old former member of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division drives a Miata.
With clipboard in hand, Papa Bear commences with his briefing. I know it won't happen, but I'd love to hear him say, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
"Anyone armed?" asks Papa Bear.
Most hands go up.
"Be cool. If you have side arms, don't touch it unless you are certain that you're about to be killed," Papa Bear says, pointing to a kindly old woman. "Phoebe assisted in a capture after midnight. Thirteen were captured."
Phoebe smiles proudly.
"We spotted a few coming under the wire. We called the Border Patrol. It was great for us to know that actually we got to assist in a tactical maneuver, as opposed to hearing about how someone else did it," he adds. "Made my day. All of us were calm, cool, collected during the operation. But when it was over, you had that prize, that package of 13 captured; the adrenaline was flowing."
A young couple from San Diego are already bored. "There's sure a lot of standing around," one of them says.
Papa Bear explains, "I'm not against a guy coming over here trying to make a buck. I respect that. I respect any man who walks 50 miles through the desert to feed his family."
But Papa Bear's concerned about the dope smugglers, the human flesh smugglers, and, of course, the terrorists. "They found copies of the Quran and Arabic ID cards in the cleanup area," he says.
After the briefing, an old guy with a gray T-shirt tells Papa Bear, "I was in town today, and I almost wanted to catch some of the Mexicans who are already over here!"
"That's enough of that!" Papa Bear says, sharply shutting him down and, once the old guy is gone, adding, "You have to deal with fresh people every day, and some might be a little overzealous on how they want to protect America. And I have to calm them down and get them in line."
We're eight people in seven vehicles following a convoy of large trucks down a dusty dirt road, headed to the Naco Line (so named for the Arizona border town). The bumper sticker on the truck in front of me reads "Charlton Heston Is My President!"
"Are there a lot of rattlers out here?" the concerned grandmother of the bunch asks over the radio.
"Rattlesnakes aren't aggressive if you don't step on them," the Naco Line leader counsels. "They migrate around the corner, and they conceal themselves in the mountains." (I wonder: Is he referring to rattlesnakes or Mexicans?)
"Please move the radio away from your mouth when you talk into it," the Naco leader then advises the old lady. "Don't get stressed. Have fun."
The Naco Line is basically a barbed-wire fence along the border, torn open at numerous spots, in such a way that a blind toddler could crawl through. In fact, I'm shown the now-famous Hannity Hole, where Fox News poster boy Sean Hannity stepped through for his cameras.
"Historically, this is one of the highest traffic areas," the line supervisor says, pointing to a large span of desert and mountains in the distance. The wind embeds dust between my teeth.
What's the relationship between the Minutemen and the Border Patrol, I ask.
"Super-friendly. Last night they let me look through their night scopes," the supervisor says with a giddy smile, but quickly adds, "If you were to cross the border, the Mexican police would love to catch a Minuteman as a trophy. You won't get out of jail!"
And there's a last bit of advice before we're off on our own: "When you leave here, make sure you don't back over any migrants, 'cause they'll be right behind you."
The group doesn't dramatically jump into action like the A-Team.
"It's actually been kind of boring, because nobody has tried to cross since we've been here," says a Texas trucker who has his rig parked in front of his tent. "But I like camping, so this suits me."
"The big problem I have with it, they're dragging the U.S. down," a guy in an NRA hat shares.
"We're not getting a lot of action, but we're making a lot of new friends," someone from Michigan says. "We're going to make the ice cream run."
This is fun, I decide. It feels almost like illegal-immigration-spotting summer camp.
"I just love being here every minute," says a friendly guy named Ed who shares homemade deer sausage with us in his trailer. His sister is an immigration lawyer; he plans to bike across the country on his 60th birthday.
"If they ask leading questions," he says, explaining his method of dealing with the press, "I'll videotape them, ask where they're from."
He then continues his explanation in a way that almost sounds like a warning: "If you misconstrue me, we'll have a chat. We'll have a chat."
Ed, too, mentions that some Minuteman has found copies of the Quran and Arabic flight schedules. Then a Jeep pulls up and delivers a kindly old lady named Mary, a local rancher who brandishes a pistol on her hip.
"I'm like Teddy Roosevelt," Mary says. "I walk softly and carry a big stick!" She thanks the Minutemen for what they're doing, then makes small talk about jams and jellies.
Soon, we learn of a couple of guys from San Jose who caught a rattlesnake and paraded it around on a forked stick. They are considered to be "overzealous" types who might have slipped by the project's weeding-out process. Bypassing a much-anticipated Minuteman ice cream run, we search for and find the Minutedudes, sitting by their car.
"I said I want to touch a rattlesnake's tail. I never touched one before," the dude with glasses remarks, looking at his buddy, who's wearing a Dead Kennedys T-shirt; both are a good 40 years younger than your average Minuteman. "It feels like fingernails."
Taking time off from not exactly pressing commitments -- one is unemployed, the other in the National Guard -- the Minutedudes came here because of what they read in the press. "The newspaper said it was like a war zone down here, that there were militiamen running around, there's firing squads and shit like that," the Minutedude with glasses elaborates. "That's not what these people are about down here."
"Yeah," pipes in his Dead Kennedys T-shirt-wearing buddy. "It's an armed rebellion down here, and no one knows it. George Bush is fucking over everyone, dude." He wildly gestures with his hands, suddenly becoming especially animated. "Some people just see this as old people with guns and shit on the border. But that's not it. If you read the little pamphlet, it's all protesting George Bush. If people knew that, I'm sure you'd have hippies out here. Hippies!"
"I don't want fuckers like Osama bin Laden, and fucking Mohammed Atta, the guy who crashed the plane into the World Trade Center, being smuggled across the border here," the one with glasses elaborates, claiming that he and his friend could get a guided tour of terrorists into America for 20 grand.
Again, there's mention of someone finding a copy of the Quran. (And what's with these lost Qurans? Why do these terrorists have so much trouble holding onto their holy books?!) One of the M-dudes offers his solution to illegal immigration: "I think you catch them, stick them on a chain gang. Give them six months, then send them home."
Overall, the M-dudes insist, they have enjoyed their tour of duty.
"There's a lot of really cool patriots out here," one says.
"There's some hot-ass ACLU chicks," adds the Minutedude in the Dead Kennedys T-shirt.
The ACLU chicks, though, gave them weird looks, because the two came fully armed. To demonstrate the extent of the arming, the Dead Kennedys T-shirt-wearing dude excitedly puts on his green Army flak vest and gun belt.
"See, we got the whole George Bush thing, we're going to be like, 'Yeah, we hate George Bush, too.' And everyone will be like, 'Oh, cool.'"
Awesome! I almost expect the two to start air-guitaring.
Venturing off the border for a much-needed break from the Minutemen, we enter a Mexican restaurant that is, by sheer coincidence, inhabited by a sea of ACLU volunteers -- all adorned in ACLU "Legal Observer" T-shirts. This is the feared opposition, as mentioned -- and feared, and despised -- by the elderly Minutemen? This ACLU is composed almost entirely of zitty-faced college girls. The Minutemen are letting themselves be picked on by a bunch of hairy-armpitted college girls who most likely scribe their own poetry?! These are the people chosen last in gym class.
It's a sheer battle of the titans.
For example, and I shit you not: Among the rare few males in the ACLU infestation of the Mexican restaurant are two over-the-top effeminate guys who are actually playing patty-cake. Together they chant in singsong voices, hitting each other's hands.
"We don't want no fucking war!"
I try to make eyes at one of the few cute ACLU girls, flashing a smile. (Cut me some slack, I've been around only Minutemen for the last couple of days.) I'm greeted with the reaction I'd get if I just did a bad smell. Several other ACLU-ers also give me dirty looks. Then it hits me -- I'm dressed exactly as a Minuteman (but even more so). I get the hell out of there before explanations are in order.
But as it turns out, it isn't just the way I'm dressed. The ACLU-ers, like the Minutemen, despise the press. Back on the border, I sense tension as we approach two frumpy girls who are sitting in lawn chairs and wearing "Legal Observer" T-shirts. To break the ice, I give a friendly smile and wave.
"What's your experience been like with the Minutemen?" I ask one of the frumpy ACLU girls, who's reading Pablo Neruda. I explain that I'm an esteemed journalist, mentioning several times that I'm from San Francisco. The girls tense up even further. The one with the huge cold sore on her lip remains utterly closed-mouthed.
"It's been ... kind of unremarkable," she mumbles, barely dignifying me with the effort of forming words. "We heard about the Minutemen, heard they were training people to be legal observers."
"What's your purpose out here?" I ask.
The girls look at each other hesitantly.
"If there was any violation of the law, we would observe it," the head frumpy one says.
"Have there been any violations?"
[Pause] "No ... we say a boring day is a good day."
I ask how they feel about the situation on the border. The one with the huge cold sore sharply cuts in: "We have a policy not to talk about politics, because we are here to observe!"
"We're here for the Minutemen!" adds her frumpy friend.
Strange. An organization focused intensely on the politics of human rights has a policy about not talking about politics?! At least the Minutemen shared deer sausage with us.
The head frumpy girl gets curt now, insisting, "Guys, you're going to have to talk to Ray [the head of the ACLU border operation] about that."
Before leaving, I ask what they do when not legally observing the border.
"Uh ... well ... having a life ... doing normal things ...."
I press further.
The head frumpy one finally confesses to being unemployed, noting, however, that she's taking a Spanish class. I mention, before departing, what we've been told about the rattlesnakes, gesturing to the girls' tennis shoes.
"They can bite through those you know."
The scrutiny of the press turns on me when I ask a lady wearing a homemade macramé bonnet the location of the Minuteman daily briefing. "There's a flier being distributed through Mexico by the Mexican government that says 'Danger: Vigilantes,'" the bonneted lady says, sarcastically waving her hands around. "Big, scary people here!" Then she says, "While here, I've taken pictures of 10 types of birds, 25 types of plants. I have a songbird tape. Yeah, you should be scared of me!"
I am!
Then I'm just awe-struck when the bonneted woman digresses into a rant that approaches sheer insanity: "We really need to work on the diversity out here, because we really haven't had the GLBT [i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender] community well-represented. Neither has the African-Americans."
Yes, she's actually surprised the gay community hasn't come out in droves to support the Minuteman Project.
"There were three black gentlemen from Tennessee who stayed for a week," clarifies a man from Waco who's dressed as a cowboy. "No Hispanics volunteered. Maybe they didn't want to seem like race traitors." To explain what he means, he animatedly shares his philosophy on race and immigration: "You always hear 'African-American' or 'Mexican-American.' How about loving America first? 'American-American.' 'American-Mexican.' Why is that?"
I shrug my shoulders.
Driving down the dusty border road, I find it fun to wave at the Minutemen, who always joyfully wave back. We park next to a van with two cardboard, hand-scrawled signs in the window reading "Badges. We don't need no stinking badges! WE HAVE THE CONSTITUTION" and "THEY IMPEACHED Nixon & Clinton FOR LESS."
"A boring day is a good day," remarks Ken, oddly echoing what a frumpy ACLU girl said. A truly likable guy with a wry sense of humor, Ken is an ex-cop from Arkansas who, with his long white hair and thick mustache, looks like an old hippie. Recently, he was responsible for stopping 40 pounds of not-pot from coming across the border by reporting movement at an abandoned ranch nicknamed the Naco Hilton. Smoking a pipe, he points to the gun on his belt. "There's no rounds in it. This helped us get this press coverage. That's the reason why we're here, not to use them," he says. "'Oh, men with guns!' That's much better than, 'Oh, men with walkie-talkies -- they might throw them!'"
Ken claims the Minutemen's presence put the "bored" back in "Border Patrol."
"When the Border Patrol first heard we were coming, they said, 'That's great; all we need is a bunch of hillbillies out there, drinking, waving guns,'" he remarks with self-deprecating humor. "But after the third day they knew that was not what it was.
"They thought we'd come out, get all the press, and melt away by the end of the week. They had a pool going, guessing when the last Minuteman would be out there. And almost nobody was guessing past two weeks.
"Because we stuck it out, night after night, day after day, shift after shift, [the Border Patrol] came to have a lot of respect for us."
As we're walking toward the gate of the Naco Hilton, another Minuteman -- one you might describe as an asshole -- drives up, gets mad at us for leaving tracks by the gate, videotapes the license plate on our vehicle, then drives away.
"Do you want to see some garbage left by people who have come by?" asks a male nurse from Utah excitedly; he'd come out to the border alone, despite his wife's disapproval.
"Sure!" I answer enthusiastically. (Maybe there will be a copy of the Quran?!)
We go to the spot. There's a plastic bag weighted down by a rock and one tiny shoe. We stare at it for several seconds. It's a plastic bag and tiny shoe, all right.
The Utah nurse talks about the only major incident so far. "There was this guy. He called himself 'The Jokester.' He made a T-shirt that said 'I Caught an Illegal Alien at the Border & All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.' The Jokester then found an illegal alien, made him put on the T-shirt, and took photos," the nurse says.
Oh, the laughter!
The night shift is not unlike sitting in one's car and being extremely bored. After a while, though, I get a little jittery, a little shaky, and a little jumpy from drinking loads of caffeine. I start seeing things in the dark void that is the border. (Good thing I'm not armed!)
We get some action. A message comes over the walkie-talkie: "I'm going to move my car. Don't panic if you see some lights."
With a chuckle, another Minuteman replies, "I'll try not to get too trigger-happy."
I push the talk button on my walkie-talkie: "I'M FREAKIN' OUT MAN! I'M REALLY FREAKIN' OUT HERE!"
Silence from the other end. Then, finally, "Do you need some security backup?"
Trying to get my car radio to work, I accidentally flash my car's lights. "There's someone flashing their lights towards the border," an urgent-sounding man going by the call name "Wisconsin" blurts over the radio. He thinks someone might be signaling coyotes.
"Do you want backup?" answers base headquarters.
"CALL IN THE AIRSTRIKE! CALL IN THE AIRSTRIKE!" I scream into my walkie-talkie.
There're more potential sightings: "I just saw some lights. I'm going to go investigate!"
This time it wasn't me. Maybe we've actually spotted our first illegal alien of the evening?! The radio transmits again: "This is Gooseberry Down, just south of you; I didn't see no lights, but I'm walking towards ya."
A few moments later, there're big chuckles over the radio concerning the light. "I just moved my position from in the trees, and it turned out to be the moon."
A couple of seconds later, to add drama to the affair, I scream, "MAN DOWN! MAN DOWN!"
"Don't wear full camouflage wear. We want to present a non-military, non-threatening image for the press" reads a sign outside the door to the cafeteria of a dilapidated bible college that serves as the Minuteman Project's dormitories. Being as I am a member of the press, I'm sure it's OK that I'm dressed head-to-toe in military fatigues.
The 9 a.m. briefing's already in progress, and several heads swerve with suspicion as we enter the cafeteria. At this meeting, there are fewer of the earnest, lovable Wilford Brimley-type Minuteman senior citizens, and more of the hardened older men in the sea of plaid and military green.
Jim Gilchrist, a salt-and-pepper-haired man in charge of the 800 to 1,000 Minuteman volunteers (the number seems to vary, depending on who's talking), takes to the center of the cafeteria.
"We are not common criminals," he says with a tinge of bitterness in his voice. "We are asking for an apology from the president about the Minuteman Project!"
President Bush, it seems, has referred to the Minutemen as vigilantes.
Big applause.
"We are asking the president to meet with us and give a personal apology!"
Bigger applause.
Then, with major bitterness built up from a month of presidential unappreciation, Gilchrist adds, "I don't think we're going to get it."
The bible college cafeteria grows silent.
"If we stop now, we'll be seen as a 30-day dog-and-pony show. We have to continue," he says, his voice rising and his metaphors mixing madly. "We have just lit the fuse to keep this bomb rolling!"
The Minutemen eat this up. A large, steely-eyed man with a bowie knife on his hip moves next to me and looks over my shoulder, intentionally trying to intimidate, eyeballing me as I scribble in my notebook.
"Anyone here with military background?" Gilchrist asks.
A sea of hardened elderly hands rises up in the bible college cafeteria.
"This was a battalion-sized operation. In October, this has to be an army-sized operation!" Gilchrist cries.
"Let's hope we don't have reveille!" an old guy quips. Big laughs. (Ah, Minuteman humor.)
Yes, the Minuteman Project hopes to patrol four Mexican-border states, with further plans to cover the northern borders (fucking Canadians sneaking over, taking our jobs!), plus the grand, overall Minuteman master plan of citizens patrolling in 12 border states.
"This is going from a 1,000-person operation to 12,000," Gilchrist says.
More night-vision goggles will be needed. More infrared. Plans are made to sweep the entire Huachuca mountain range for illegal aliens.
"I'd do that 20 years ago," a large, mustachioed man who has a baby-fat face and is wearing green Army clothes leans over to tell me. "Now I have to bring my blood pressure medicine."
In seeming conclusion, Gilchrist says, "The media is not your enemy." Then, in sincere disgust that trumps the false ending, Gilchrist curses the members of the press who have criticized the Minutemen. "It's dirty journalism!" he says. "They will get theirs from their peers, who will shun them!"
"You're our Patrick Henry!" spontaneously exclaims a patriotic grandmotherly woman to a round of applause. "A 21st-century Minuteman!"
"How about Paul Revere?" suggests an old codger to significantly less applause.
The patriotic woman, taking his lead, puts her hands in the air, riffing, "The Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are coming!"
The baby-fat-faced man leans in again: "If Bill Clinton were president, he'd have Janet Reno send the FBI to shoot us out!"
Afterward, the steely-eyed hard-ass with a bowie knife on his hip approaches. "I don't think I met you guys," he says, offering a hand and continuing the strong eye contact that is supposed, somehow, to be intimidating.
"I'm part of the media that isn't your enemy!" I crack with my ice-breaking wit. His leathery hands remain in a death hold around mine, gripping a little longer than one should.
Is it dirty journalism to say such a thing?
On the Mexican side of the United States Border Station, three vividly angry Hispanic youths and one older woman in a brown beret scream at the cars going into the United States.
"Fuck the Minuteman Project!"
"Chicano Power!"
"Down with the Minuteman Project!"
"Can we help you guys?" asks a worked-up, shirtless protester, gripping the metal border fence, noting our video camera.
I've changed my look, uncovering my dreadlocks. I approach to get their take.
"The Minutemen try to say, 'We're nice, we're peaceful.' But when the media goes away, and the cameras are off, and nobody is watching them, it's a way different story," the shirtless protester says. "Basically, it's kind of messed up."
"We're here to push them away," interjects the older woman, who's a member of the Brown Berets, an organization founded in the late 1960s and one of the most militant groups in the Chicano liberation movement. She thinks the government shouldn't allow the Minutemen to come to the border. "They don't get paid. The government has special people to do that. That's why we've come here," she adds. "If the Minutemen are allowed to be out there, then we should be allowed to be out there. If that's what's going to keep on doing, then that's what's going to happen."
"We're just here to protect our people by any means necessary. With no weapons, with no guns. We come unarmed," the shirtless guy passionately retorts. "We're not here to start no violence. They're the ones who want violence. Not us."
I nod with intense, journalistic professionalism, taking all this in with absolute impartiality -- and suddenly we're overcome by a huge swarm of bees. I take off like a little girl, screaming, "Ah, bees!"
When I regain my composure, the shirtless kid tells me, "We found this guy taking pictures of one of my people with a shirt saying 'I'm not from here. I was captured by the Minutemen by force.'"
The Jokester!
"He made him wear the shirt," the kid says. "That's messed up."
We're told of a peace rally going on in the town square on the Mexican side of the border. We go take a look; the rally's composed overwhelmingly of white ACLU members. Onstage, a waifish guy recites poetry to the crowd about his solution to the border problem. "The graceful way to jump the border is to fly over with golden wings ...."
A smiling, laid-back Hispanic guy with a goatee and a black hipster T-shirt tells me that a Guatemalan gang is also observing the Minutemen. If there's an incident in which a Minuteman happens to kill an illegal alien, the Guatemalan gang will avenge, with three Minutemen paying the price.
"If they call themselves Minutemen, maybe they should be more concerned about their wives," he suggests. "They should put more effort into their personal lives and stop fucking around with people they shouldn't be messing around with."
Our new friend came to the United States as an illegal immigrant. Now he has his residency card and feels the Minutemen are only creating division and tension in the U.S. "What it's doing is creating stereotypes of people thinking now that everyone can be a Border Patrol and reporting everybody," he says. "What it does is it creates this ideology of superiority, that they think they have the right to do this. They put themselves at a position where they think they are authorities at a place where they are not."
In the background, little kids gleefully swing at an M&M's piñata hanging from a tree with a large "M" across the front (or is it a Minuteman effigy?!).
"They're dangerous," he adds. "Not dangerous themselves, but dangerous in the ideologies that they are creating. Most of them are veterans of war, right, and supposedly they fought for this country. But at the same time they are people who don't have anything to do.
"If they can come for a month and sit around with binoculars and cameras, what does that tell you about them?"
The Minuteman Project's closing barbecue is a big clappity-clap fest, with a lot of patriotic American flag-waving and God blessing of America. The turnout is good, with a lot of large trucks in the parking lot with a lot of bumper stickers that make profound statements like: "CNN Lies; Don't Worry, the King of England Didn't Like the Minuteman Project Either" and "Hanoi Jane 1972, John Kerry 2004."
Like the last day of a militaristic summer camp for the elderly, there's a lot of handshaking, pats on shoulders, and thanks for coming outs. Television cameras from a variety of news agencies videotape.
A man with one of the group's bigger bellies proclaims to a guy wearing a "Tyranny Response Team" T-shirt, "I got an e-mail from some people in Australia who want to put together a Minuteman Project there, 'cause they got a big illegal problem. They want to secure the coast."
A rotund documentary filmmaker, who just had his camera pointed at someone, gets mad at me. "Don't film me without permission," he whines. Now even the media hate the media.
The closing starts with the Pledge of Allegiance. Then a pastor is brought up to give a valediction in the name of Jesus Christ. (But what about the Jewish Minutemen?!) Some Nuremberg-style cheerleading is kicked off by Minuteman founder Chris Simcox, who's wearing a red button-down shirt and looks like a thinner Jeff Foxworthy. But instead of uttering, "You might be a redneck," he proclaims, "We did this together. We the people. We all inspired millions of people to follow us, so you're all leaders."
If the American flag could smile, it would be grinning from ear to ear, as rows of lunch tables loudly applaud.
"I have almost 20,000 new volunteers that will follow our lead and that will make sure we lead the way," Simcox states firmly. "As I said, the only honorable thing to do at this point is to relieve us of duty by sending out Humvees filled with National Guards to protect our borders!"
Yah! screams the crowd.
There's more. Gilchrist, the bad cop to Simcox's good cop, sarcastically proclaims himself proud to be a vigilante. (Take that, George Bush!)
The guy with the beard and Fidel Castro hat announces, "I have stood shoulder to shoulder with heroes of America -- you are it!"
A mustachioed guy who works in the office, adorned in a jean vest with red sleeves popping out, feels Bush should hold a press conference and say, "We expect all other countries in the world to respect our borders. Those who do not respect our borders shall be repelled by force if it is necessary!
"If he would do that, it would begin the change. But I'm afraid the president is not a Minuteman."
I think he's expecting a Dead Poets Society-style, slow, building round of thunderous applause, with people eventually standing on the lunch tables, but it doesn't happen. Instead, the guy adds, woodenly, "People ask, 'Aren't you afraid of getting killed?' I tell them, 'Fear is for those who sit home and watch reality television. THE MINUTEMEN HAVE NO FEAR!'"
"You ain't seen nothing yet, we've just started."
"There's no telling how far this thing will go."
After a speaker mentions the Minuteman plan to patrol the California-Mexico border in October, a video camera is shoved in my face.
"What do you think of the situation on the border?" asks a cameraman from the Minuteman Project's own news organization.
"What part of 'illegal' don't they understand!?" I reply, reading my response off the woman's shirt.
An Arizona grandmother goes to the podium, leans into the microphone, and starts screaming, "We want President Bush personally to come out and pick up every bit of illegal alien garbage!"
More yahs. ("Illegal alien garbage" could be taken two ways, the second being very racist. And what about all those aforementioned copies of the Quran?!)
"Mr. Bush, we got your garbage bags, come pick it up!" she says, raising her arms in triumph.
This is the part where it gets really ugly and, with patriotic-adrenaline pumping, the crowd turns on us, the media.
The oldest man here (so old he looks like he's about to fall over), a religious broadcaster since 1961 ("I've been battling the leftists ever since!"), who's wearing an ill-fitting baseball cap, grabs the microphone, sternly raising his voice to the point where I think he might wind up clutching his heart.
"I went into religious broadcasting so I could TELL THEM WHAT I THINK OF THEM!"
"The left-wing media is the biggest problem we got in America. If it wasn't for them, our president and a lot of these other politicians would stand up and tell the truth, but they're afraid of these guys!
"But you don't be afraid of them!"
"Don't be afraid!" someone in the crowd repeats. "Don't be afraid!"
"Woo! Yah!"
After the diatribe, a smarmy, well-groomed reporter from Tucson takes flak from several Minutemen who've surrounded him.
"Aren't you that guy who had the hidden camera and walked around?" an old man asks.
The well-groomed reporter defends himself. "I've been on this story since day one, and I've been nonbiased," he says, standing his ground.
It's not pretty when a well-groomed local TV reporter becomes unnerved. In a tizzy, he snaps, "I'm done with this!" He motions to his production assistant and storms off, reporter-panties in a huge bundle. I follow. He gains composure, readying himself to interview a random Minuteman with some well-groomed and ultra-hard-hitting questions. "It started out with protest. It ended peacefully," he says with a big grin and an almost goofy giggle one would expect if he were covering a story on a Teens for Christ community bake sale. "How good is that?"
After the interview, I ask the reporter why he freaked out earlier. He explains the effort he'd put into the story, the depths he'd plumbed. "I came out here. I sat with the Minutemen in the lawn chairs!" he notes.
Looking at the desert dust beneath my fingernails, I ask, "What was the last story you covered?"
"The popularity of Texas Hold 'Em," he says, pausing uncomfortably. "It was sweeps week."
And as a journalistic peer, I know immediately what to do. I shun the well-groomed TV reporter, because what he's just described is, my friends, some dirty motherfucking journalism.


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You can easily change it so the error message shows up in an existing div you have for that purpose, instead of using alert as I did in my example.
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