{"id":134288,"date":"2014-07-30T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=134288"},"modified":"2014-07-30T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:04:30","slug":"exclusive-leader-scout-troop-confronted-armed-border-patrol-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/exclusive-leader-scout-troop-confronted-armed-border-patrol-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Leader of Scout Troop Confronted by Armed Border Patrol Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">In an exclusive interview, Jim Fox, the scout leader of the Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111, explained what happened earlier this month at a checkpoint along the Alaska \u2014 Canada border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">At the check point, one of the boys took a picture of the border agent and \u201cthrew the agent into a frenzy.\u201d According to Fox, the agent immediately confiscated the camera, told the boy that he could be subjected to 10 years of prison or a $10,000 fine. The boys and driver were escorted inside the border patrol station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6IkHe8l693Q#t=11\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leader of Scout Troop confronted by armed border patrol speaks out\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IkHe8l693Q?start=11&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\u201cThe border agent tried to bait me. He wanted to get a reaction out of me and I did not give it to him,\u201d said Fox. The border agent didn\u2019t want Fox to follow him while he searched the van because Fox might turn over \u201csearch techniques to the undesirables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">One of the agents asked to see one of the bags of the scouts. One scout knew where the bag was and tried to get the bag to assist the agent. That\u2019s when Fox said an agent had a loaded pistol pointed at the boy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Fox said that the boy thought the agent was going to shoot him and got back into the van. \u201cThey were sitting there scared to death,\u201d said Fox.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">\u201cAnd for our government to take these young men and illegally search them and illegally seize and pull a weapon on these kids \u2013 something is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Benswann.com\u2019s Joshua Cook asked Fox, \u201cDid you feel at that moment that you still lived in America?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\u201cNo,\u201d said Fox. \u201cI didn\u2019t and neither did the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Fox said that they have experienced this type of intimidation before with the TSA in Orlando, FL. In the Orlando one of the eagle scouts accidentally dropped his boots after going through a full search.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">One of the officers said, \u201c..if that boy doesn\u2019t calm down I will arrest him and remove him from this airport.\u201d Fox asked the officer, \u201cwhat did the boy do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\u201cHe dropped his boots in a threatening manner, said the officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">The border patrol agent asked Fox, \u201cI suppose you\u2019re wondering why we are doing this?\u201d While pointing at the teenage boy the agent told Fox, \u201cIt\u2019s our job to protect this border, It\u2019s our job to keep terrorists from crossing the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Senator Chuck Grassley told\u00a0<a style=\"color: #dd3333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2014\/07\/24\/troop-leader-border-agent-held-boy-scout-at-gunpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s outrageous that a border patrol agent would point a gun at a boy scout just for taking a picture,\u201d he told the television station. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cook asked Fox if he thought his Fourth Amendment was violated?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotally,\u201d answered Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Fox had a meeting scheduled with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week to discuss the event, but will not attend without a constitutional attorney from the Rutherford Institute. According to Fox\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #dd3333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.fox2\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>, The Rutherford Institute offered to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>Cook asked, \u201cIs there any video footage of this event?\u201d\u00a0According to Fox, the DHS will not send\u00a0a copy of the video it to him, media organizations or Sen. Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>Fox told Cook that the Rutherford Institute will submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to access the video. DHS claims there is no audio of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Cook asked Fox, \u201cIn light of the open borders and drug cartels going back and forth at the southern border freely, does it anger you at all that the focus of border security is on patriotic groups like the Boy Scouts?<b>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\u201dIt\u2019s frustrating,\u201d said Fox. \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating that we give these thugs that kind of power.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for our government to take these young men and illegally search them and illegally seize and pull a weapon on these kids \u2013 something is wrong,\u201d said Fox.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cBut they\u2019re questioning whether or not they can go back into their own country\u2026something\u2019s not right!\u201d<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Joshua Cook is the acting Chairman for the Republican Liberty Caucus of South Carolina. Joshua Cook&#8217;s articles have also been cited on sites such as InfoWars, Reason.com, WND.com, Breitbart.com, DailyCaller and FreedomOutPost.com. If you have any tips please email me at\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">joshuacook@benswann.com.<\/span><span style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">\u00a0Like me on FB and follow me on Twitter.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benswann.com\/exclusive-leader-of-scout-troop-confronted-by-armed-border-patrol-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">This piece<\/a> was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview, Jim Fox, the scout leader of the Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111, explained what happened earlier this month at a checkpoint along the Alaska \u2014 Canada border. At the check point, one of the boys took a picture of the border agent and \u201cthrew the agent into a frenzy.\u201d According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}