Allen started his day in Roanoke, where he focused on illegal immigration. He picked up the endorsement of Chris Simcox, founder and chairman of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which is battling illegal immigration along the U.S. border with Mexico and elsewhere. Minutemen have been in Herndon videotaping day laborers and would-be employers after the Town Council there approved setting up a controversial center to host day laborers seeking work.
First, let's start with what his second wife (since divorced) had to do to protect their child. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
The truth is more complex and troubling. Court records obtained by the Center's Intelligence Project show Simcox's second ex-wife, Kim Dunbar, filed an emergency appeal in September 2001 to obtain full custody of their teenage son because she feared that Simcox had suffered a mental breakdown and was dangerous.*** The court ruled in Dunbar's favor, ending the joint custody arrangement and awarding Dunbar sole custody of their son.
See: Custody petition informing court of ex-husbandGÇÖs mental state
http://www.splcenter...
HeGÇÖs possibly a child molester GÇô his own child by his first marriage! http://www.splcenter...
In separate interviews with the Intelligence Report, two of Simcox's former colleagues at Wildwood and his first ex-wife gave the same account. They said that Simcox helped his daughter get a job babysitting for a Wildwood School employee and that one night, Simcox's daughter showed up unexpectedly at her employer's house, visibly upset, alleging that her father had just attempted to sexually molest her."He tried to molest our daughter when he was intoxicated," said Deborah Crews, Simcox's first ex-wife and the girl's mother. "When she ran out, he tried to say he was just giving her a leg massage and she got the wrong idea."
Contacted by the Report, Simcox refused to answer four direct questions about the molestation allegations. "I would never answer those questions to you. You can't ask those questions," he said. "You're on a witch hunt and you're trying to discredit our movement, which is to secure the borders. ... My personal life has nothing to do with anything that goes on here."
No charges were filed against Simcox, but Crews said she and her daughter immediately broke off all contact with him.
"He's a drastic, chaotic, very dangerous guy," said Crews. "I'm surprised he hasn't shot anybody yet. I see him on TV and I have to turn if off, because it makes me sick to see him getting all this attention."
According to this Washington Times article (and they're usually friendly to these anti-immigration groups) there is lots of suspicion as to how Simcox handles money, i.e., it's not being accounted for.
Several of the group's top lieutenants have either quit or are threatening to do so, saying requests to Minuteman President Chris Simcox for a financial accounting have been ignored.Other Minuteman members said money promised for food, fuel, radios, computers, tents, night-vision scopes, binoculars, porta-potties and other necessary equipment and supplies never reached volunteers who have manned observation posts to spot and report illegal border crossers.
Here's what the SPLC says:http://www.splcenter...
The pivot point on which Simcox's own kind turned against him is his refusal to account for the $1.6 to $1.8 million in private donations he estimates MCDC raised, including $600,000 for the "Minuteman Border Fence," -- a slick fundraising campaign with a stated goal of $55 million. Simcox pledged the money raised by the campaign would go to build a high-tech security barrier along 70 miles of private ranchland on the Arizona border. Mass-mailed MCDC solicitations and full-page color advertisements in The Washington Times since mid-April promoted the Minuteman Border Fence as an "Israeli-style" barrier "based on the fences used in Gaza and the West Bank." Fundraising illustrations depict a 6-foot trench and coils of concertina wire backed by a 15-foot steel-mesh fence crowned with bulletproof security cameras. Estimated cost: $150 per foot.Construction began Memorial Day weekend with much fanfare. Since then, MCDC volunteers erected just over two miles of five-strand barbed wire attached to short metal posts. What they built is a standard cattle fence, costing about $1.50 per foot, or about one one-hundredth the cost of the advertised "Israeli-style" barrier.
So far, in other words, the Minuteman Border Fence hasn't come to much. "It wouldn't stop a tricycle," American Border Patrol's Glenn Spencer posted in a recent online tirade. "It's shameful that [Simcox] would deceive the American people in this way."
So, is Allen connected to a big fraud artist? Ha.
The day hijacked jets toppled the World Trade Center, Simcox left phone messages for his second wife, Kim Dunbar, according to transcripts filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in connection with custody proceedings.In one voice mail, according to the transcripts, Simcox said: "I purchased another gun. I have more than a few weapons and I plan on teaching my son how to use them. I will no longer trust anyone in this country. My life has changed forever, and if you don't get that, you are brainwashed like everybody else."
Dunbar sought sole custody of their son, claiming in court that her ex-husband had suffered a breakdown. She also worried for their biracial son because, she alleged, Simcox had announced that African-Americans "don't deserve the benefits they receive under the Constitution because they've never suffered discrimination."
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Simcox did lose custody of his son. And, as word spread of his apocalyptic diatribes, private students dropped out of his tutoring program, he says.
Is Allen that crazy, to seek an endorsement from this guy? Maybe Allen really is that far out -- he did seek Tom Tancredo's "blessing."
Where is the Washington Post on this? Mike Shear couldn't even Google the guy's name before he wrote the article?
That is also an issue for these cats because it massively increases the temporary migrant population within the US and is a notorious cause of fraud.
Allen is about as serious about border security as a corporate cheap labor lobbyists' wet dream.
He doesn't want to enforce employment law or any safeguards for the American worker, so in spite of this endorsement,
the ones really concerned on this issue are voting Webb.
Allen is a corporate shrill.