In the run-up to Arizona’s “papers please” law and the ugly 2010 tea party midterm elections, Minuteman founder and all-around wackjob Chris Simcox became another Fox News darling. The network gave the bigoted border hawk airtime to launch his highly unsuccessful campaign to unseat Senator John McCain, who Simcox and many others on the far right considered too lenient on immigration (they still do).
In those Fox News segments, Simcox says “people are excited” about his campaign and the money is flowing in. Sure, whatever. He also talks glowingly about his experience as an elementary school teacher, and now we know why he went into that profession: he’s a friggin’ child molester.
Today in Phoenix the former militia nutball and Fox News star was sentenced to almost two decades in the slammer:
Chris Simcox, the former leader of the Minuteman border vigilante group, was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison Monday, bringing an end to a sex-abuse case involving two girls under 10.
A Maricopa County Superior Court jury found Simcox, 55, guilty last month of two counts of child molestation and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor after a three-week trial.
The arrogant jerk represented himself at the trial, and get this: the child predator even wanted to interrogate the young girls on the stand because, he said, the touching and groping was all made up. Those tactics would not serve the former Senate candidate. According to the prosecutor, “He is not to be trusted within society. He is not to be trusted with children… He should be kept away from children for as long as possible.” Heck, Simcox’s former wife called him a “dangerous predator,” since his own daughter was among the victims.
Simcox joins a long list of Arizona militia turds who have exposed their true self, as if we didn’t already know it from their racist rants. They blabber on about freedom and democracy, but they’re nothing more than murderers, molesters and bigots.
Other model Arizona citizens of the militia persuasion include: J.T. Ready, who murdered a family of four in 2012 before killing himself; Ammon Bundy, son of Cliven, who led the standoff at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year and is probably headed to prison, as are fellow conspirators Joseph O'Shaughnessy and Blaine Cooper; and “Tarp Man,” LaVoy Finicum, the now deceased chowderhead.
Some of those old Fox News YouTube clips featuring Simcox were posted by militia groups, and the comments, up until three years ago, used to express support for him. Now, not so much: “Mr Simcox I used to agree with u u rapist scumbag.”