PMSNBC announced on their website that Chris Simcox, leader of the Minuteman group, will run against Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2010 Republican Primary.
Is this the best the 'BORDER NUTZ' can do? Even a far right blog says he has ZERO chance against McCain!
Let's take a look into Mr. Simcox:
Minuteman Leader has Troubled Past
Angling for Power Never modest, the cigar-chomping Simcox is a hyper and relentless self-aggrandizer who comes across with the smug egotism and fiery conviction of a former nobody who has long suspected that he's destined for greatness.
"I didn't choose this cause, it chose me," he said during his "America First" address. "But the Minutemen are now a force to be reckoned with, and I will continue to lead these proud and patriotic Americans until we achieve total victory. We're not leaving the border until we're relieved from duty by the U.S. military or National Guard. There will be no compromise."
While Simcox has been interviewed for hundreds of newspaper articles and television shows, little has been reported about his background except that he used to be a private-school teacher and that he claims to have been a hip-hop music producer and a professional baseball player who was once drafted by the Cincinnati Reds but had to quit the game after he had part of a lung surgically removed.
During interview after interview, Simcox has told the same story of his political awakening. It came, he says, during a 40-day solo camping trip at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in October 2001, during which he encountered platoons of illegal aliens and witnessed "five paramilitary groups of drug dealers just driving caravans of vehicles right into this country." After that, according to his account, Simcox moved to Tombstone, Ariz., and rededicated his life to national security.
Threats, Anger and Paranoia
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.
Dunbar declined to be interviewed for this article, but her sworn affidavits speak for themselves. In one, Dunbar testified that throughout their 10-year marriage, Simcox was prone to sudden, violent rages.
"He once took a knife from the kitchen and threatened to kill himself," she testified. "When he was angry, he broke furniture, car windows, he banged his head against the wall repeatedly and punched things."
Dunbar said that when their son was 4 years old, Simcox slapped him so hard that a mark remained on his face for two days. Another time, she testified, she grabbed her young son in her arms and jumped out a window because Simcox was throwing furniture at them.
After such episodes, she said, Simcox would become despondent. "He would stare at walls, mumbling to himself." In the affidavits, Dunbar said she repeatedly pressured Simcox to seek professional help and even tried to have him hospitalized. But he persistently refused treatment.
"Eventually," she said, "the only thing I could do was file for divorce."
Simcox and Dunbar initially shared custody of their son. There was no legal dispute until shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, when Dunbar suddenly filed a flurry of emergency appeals.
"While Chris has always been prone to strong opinions and ranting behavior, this last episode has gone even farther," she told the court. "I am convinced he has had some kind of mental lapse and I am now, more than ever, afraid for my son to be in Chris' care."
Dunbar grew frightened after Simcox left her a series of bizarre voicemail messages beginning that Sept. 13, in which he went on angry diatribes about the Constitution, patriotism, and impending nuclear attacks on Los Angles, and talked about training their 15-year-old son in the use of firearms.
"I will begin teaching him the art of protecting himself with weapons," Simcox said in one recorded message he left for Dunbar. "I purchased another gun. I have more than a few weapons, and I intend on teaching my son how to use them." Simcox added, "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."
In phone conversations with his son that his ex-wife recorded and submitted to the court as evidence of Simcox's mental instability, he challenged the boy to become "a man and a real American."
"You better stop playing baseball, buddy, and you better do something real, 'cause life will never be the same," Simcox thundered. "I'm going to go down to the Mexican border and sign up for the government for border patrol to protect the borders of the country that I love. You hear how serious I am."
Simcox's son asked his father what would happen to his cat, Moe. "Moe may end up on the dead pile, " Simcox said.
More to come on this story........
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