I wasn't very surprised when I read this story about me Wednesday morning.

I knew my bickering over my blog photographs with Tim Gaffney, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer, would jump off my blog and find its' way to other forums and media outlets. I discovered using the right key words gets your story out.

Steve Lemons of the Phoenix New Times posted the following story. . . Sometimes I wonder who “they” like less, the N.S.M. Or the anti-illegal immigration sheriff's offices.

Paul Babeu's PIO and Neo-Nazi Harry Hughes Have At It Over BFF Photos

A couple of weeks back, I blogged about how Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's spokesman Tim Gaffney had apparently borrowed some stills of desert barricades taken by National Socialist Movement member Harry Hughes, otherwise known as the world's "nicest neo-Nazi." Or so I've dubbed him.

Well, hell hath no fury like a schutzstaffel-wannabe scorned. See, Hughes also had posted a pic of himself and Sheriff Babeu taken at a Tea Party event in the town of Maricopa, and that photo had gotten around both Pinal County and the Internet, with folks claiming Hughes and Babeu were BFFs.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/04/paul_babeus_pio_and_neo-nazi_h.php

Needless to say, Steve Lemons hit a few nails on the head. If it weren't for freedom of the press, where would either of us be? Certainly, not blogging. Sharing the same F.E.M.A. camp with Mr' Lemons would not be my idea of an ideal vacation.

Another forum picked up the story. . .

Tim Gaffney just couldn’t leave it alone -- as a dog returneth to his vomit. It’s easy to see how he might think it’s a good idea to pick a fight with Harry L Hughes III, if only to undo the impression of cooperation with odious fringe characters he himself has left. Anyone who can’t stage a dispute with -- apologies to Hughes -- a uniformed neo-Nazi kook and come away looking unambiguously like the good guy really has no business being a propaganda officer. But somehow Gaffney’s managed a botch. Will Babeu, for whom personal marketing requirements are the main thing, go on tolerating this kind of fecklessness forever? In his PIO, of all things? If he wanted that kind a subtle touch, he would’ve put his thug brother back East in the job.
http://az.newszapforums.com/forum26/112157.html

I must have said them interesting things to have such groups as the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, Pinal County Government and various other “alphabet agencies regarding my blog. I've always said, it's not the number of “hits”. It's who's doing the “hitting”.

Meanwhile, back to the Vekol Valley. . .More load vehicles & UDA's

110425167 Attempt to Locate
Incident Address : I-8 EB M 148 MARICOPA
Time Reported: 18:08
Time Occurred between: 18:05:41 04/25/11 - 18:05:41 04/25/11
Cad Info: I-8 EB M 148 APPX 1756 HRS. ON BRO JEEP 1998 AZ/LIC. LOADED 10+ UDAS. DPS HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. GIVE ATL TO MPD ALSO WILL PROBABLY TAKE 347 NORTH. ATL VOICED ON MPD

110426089 Traffic Violation (Citation) TRAFFIC OFFENSE
Incident Address : W HIGHWAY 84 & W I-8 MARICOPA
Time Reported: 13:36
Time Occurred between: 13:36:26 04/26/11 - 13:36:27 04/26/11
Cad Info: 1 UDA DETAINED IN MY TRUCK, SECOND OUTSTANDING, WILL BE ATL SOUTH OF THE VEJA T. BP HAS BEEN ADV OF ADDR OF NEW LOCATION. CGPD SEE IF THEY CAN TAKE SUBJ IF BP IS NOT CLOSER. CGPD ADV THEY HAVE NO UNITS TO TAKE SUBJ CGPD STONE GARDEN UNITS ARE 10-6. BP SAYS THEY CAN'T GET OUT THERE, REQ WE BRING THE UDA TO THEIR STATION 84 & GWEN AT FRANSICO GRANDE, IF BP CAN 45. BP ADV ALL AGENTS ARE 10-6 REQ WE BRING SUBJ TO CGBP THEY WILL PROCESS THERE. ADV OF TRAFFIC

From the “Just another day. . .” shopping network: For Sale
One handshake photo w/rights of myself and Sheriff Paul Babeu, starting bid $1500.00

NSM Media Spokesman vs. PCSO Public Information Officer

My little exchange with Tim Gaffney of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office is beginning to attract lots of attention. His attempt to get me to delete what are nothing more than generic “file photos” from my blog has failed.

The image of the police vehicle looked like those one might find in the weekly Auto Trader. The photo of the sheriff was taken at local tea party. Neither were particularly outstanding or noteworthy.

Oddly, I have not received any further correspondence from Tim Gaffney regarding this matter. Apparently, he realized, he overstepped his boundaries. Regardless of this fact, I'm an agitator and will continue to agitate wherever I see fit. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I don't want this incident to diminish the great job most of the rank and file deputies perform on a daily basis. I have no issues with them. It's the higher ups that have future political ambitions, I'm most concerned with. I think law enforcement should be “apolitical”.

"Is the police censoring the press and the internet?"

The "Constitution" trumpeting Sheriff Babeu and his sidekick Gaffney are trying to restrict what SGT Harry L. Hughes III (NSM-AZ) posts on his Internet blog. It appears Babeu and Gaffney don't feel the First Amendment applies to Hughes.
http://az.newszapforums.com/forum26/112157.html

When I asked people to write Tim Gaffney, I didn't anticipate people actually would. As it should happen, people are putting in their “two cents” and I would like to thank each of them.

In other news. . .

While I was attending the NSM National Meeting in Trenton, New Jersey, the Vekol Valley drug corridor became the scene of another gun battle involving Mexican drug gangs. On April 14, 2011, two Mexicans were shot, one fatally.

I'm not sure why, but the media immediately places a “victim” label on anyone that gets shot or killed. I don't see them as victims. I see them as enemy combatants that got what they deserved for attempting to destroy our country with drugs and violence.

Antelope Peak shooting victim: Rip Crew member or smuggler?

On April 14 at 2:15 a.m. the Arizona Department of Public Safety responded to a 9-1-1 call regarding a shooting at a rest area near mile post 150 and Interstate 8. When DPS arrived, they found a 35-year-old male victim with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

The victim reported he ran through the desert towards the rest area and called his daughter in Phoenix. The daughter in turn called 9-1-1 to report the shooting. The victim was transported by air ambulance to a Phoenix area trauma hospital where he immediately went into surgery for his gunshot wound. http://www.inmaricopa.com/NEWS/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=430&&ArticleID=10080

From the Pinal County Sheriff's Office:

110418011 Traffic Violation (Citation) TRAFFIC OFFENSE
Incident Address : W I-8 & S SMITH RD MARICOPA
Time Reported: 02:46
Time Occurred between: 02:46:36 04/18/11 - 02:46:37 04/18/11
Cad Info: CTC BP HAVE 14 IN CUSTODY. BP ADV. WILL CALL BACK WITH ETA. BP IS RESPONDING GETTING ETA WILL CALL US BACK BP 15 MIN ETA. IS THERE A VEHICLE AND IF SO ARE WE TAKING IT BP WANTS TO KNOW. SUBJECTS INVOLVED FROM EARLIER 10-40. CTC BP HAVE THEM 45 AT STF I8. BP ADVD WILL 45 AT STF AND I-8, 5 MINS.

110414199 Suspicious Person/Circumstance SUSPICIOUS PERSON
Incident Address : N STANFIELD RD STANFIELD
Time Reported: 20:13
Time Occurred between: 20:10:39 04/14/11 - 20:10:39 04/14/11
Cad Info: RP ADV THEY HAVE FOUND A NARCO SPOTTER POSITION.

Kudos to the volunteers and law enforcement officers that bravely act to protect our country from criminal Mexicans.

"All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal." --John Enoch Powell