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In response to Rios’ article in last week’sMiner, I would like to point out that the sheriff, like many of us in Oracle, have very little information about the peculiar happenings at the (SCA) Sycamore Canyon “Academy.”
What many don’t know, and Rios won’t reveal, the SCA employees were forced to sign “Non-Disclosure Agreements” on, or about July 9, prohibiting employees from talking about the activities of that facility. Now this facility is a fully tax supported operation, owned and operated by a for-profit corporation in Minden, Nevada.
We must never forget the fact that there is a considerable amount of taxpayer money changing hands in an operation of this type. How many people benefit by this process?
When the 200 or more people from Oracle and elsewhere in mid-July demonstrated at the Mt. Lemmon crossroads leading to the SCA, we definitely knew what we were doing and we had done our extensive homework beforehand. “Hip Shooters” we are not.
The Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Program is a very political endeavor strongly led and supported by the political left in America. If a person does the internet research, you will find that millions of our tax dollars have been given to many religious organizations for several years to provide aid, shelter and comfort to UACs. This is not a new program. We have politicians who are working very hard to add “diversity” to America and change the political demographic structure at the voting booth. The end result of this activity will be a form of government that many of us never-before considered, along with a loss of personal freedom, and much higher income tax. The numbers of people on every level of welfare will continue to increase in numbers, (as they are now) and the increase in income tax will continue to rise to a level somewhat similar to Europe today. We will have so much government we will lose our identity as a free people.
Back to Rios’ article of November 19th. I fully support Sheriff Babeu and genuinely appreciate the stance he has taken in his recent press release on the serious problems occurring at the SCA.
In response John Hernandez’s article in last week’sMiner.
Your attack on Sheriff Babeu, Ron Thompson and the Oracle Neighborhood Watch (ONW) program is totally uncalled for, unfair, and not in keeping with your position of a Reporter to theSan Manuel Miner. You have a very strong bias on certain matters and you have demonstrated an alliance with Peter Rios on the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) issue.
In my opinion, your attacks on Sheriff Paul Babeu are definitely wrong, unwarranted at best, and not supported by the facts as we know them. With regard to Ron Thompson, one of our principals on the ONW program, I can say that his comments to the news media are supported by those of us engaged in the ONW activity. We are a proactive group of concerned citizens who want to support our first responders (fire and law enforcement) in every way possible. Across the nation we have many effective, established block watch programs. We do not want to wait unprepared for any type of community crisis. Sycamore Canyon Academy is a mysterious, cloaked in-secrecy, operation. We can’t get anyone, government or otherwise, to talk to us about any part of that operation. Certainly, we are not going to the trouble of organizing and implementing this program out of fear and hate.
Many have joined out ranks to provide increased security for our community. Soon we will ask Mammoth and San Manuel to join us in a “Tri-Community Block Watch” program. There is also interest being shown at Eagle Crest and Catalina.
For the record, we are far from being crazy or irresponsible. We know what to do and how to do it. Mr. Hernandez, you can join us anytime you want to as we don’t discriminate against anyone.
/s/ Robert Skiba
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