Fox News Digital confirmed that GoFundMe removed multiple fundraisers set up to help 73-year-old George Alan Kelly.
"GoFundMe’s Terms of Service explicitly prohibit campaigns that raise money to cover the legal defense of anyone formally charged with an alleged violent crime. Consistent with this long-standing policy, any fundraising campaigns for the legal defense of someone charged with murder are removed from our platform," a spokesperson for GoFundMe said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Donors who contributed to the fundraising campaigns for George Alan Kelly’s legal expenses have been fully refunded."
An active fundraiser for Kelly remains on the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo.
"Neighbors say that he had been having difficulty keeping invaders out and say that Mr. Kelly would have acted in good faith," the fundraiser's organizer, Shannon Pritchard, wrote. "It is a tragedy that a simple farmer, who should be protected by the government has been abandoned and had to defend himself."...more
In a distributed email, former high-ranking CBP officer Zack Taylor wrote:
This incident happened during daylight hours. It is well established that the drug cartels brutally control access to the U.S. border from the south. It is reasonable to suspect that anyone passing over the Mexican border into the United States is either of the cartel or at their permission for nefarious purposes for gain. Moreover, being so close to the border a criminal could commit any range of crimes and walk back to Mexico before local enforcement could respond to the area, easily in a few minutes and for sure not the 50 or so minutes it apparently took the S.O. to respond. As stated the Kelly ranch is 150 feet from the border.
This area of the border is particularly dangerous. In June 2005 two Border Patrol agents were shot and seriously wounded near this location near a land mark know as the line shack. I personally observed two men, later identified as Mexican Federal Judicial Police, scout a load of drugs in Brickwood Canyon, well inside the U.S. Both were in plain clothes and carried UZI automatic weapons. The next day they attended a drug enforcement meeting with bilateral agencies wearing the same clothing.
The word corruption does not fully encompass the situation here and a landmark typifies the situation that Rancher Kelly now faces. This was pointed out to me in 1988 by a retired Federal Officer when he pointed to the roof of the 1906 Courthouse on Morley Avenue in downtown Nogales, Arizona, and asked what I saw. I replied that I saw Lady Justice with the scales of justice in one hand and sword of punishment in the other. He asked what else and I replied, “she is not blindfolded.” That is correct he said, “just remember in Santa Cruz County Justice is not blind.”
The facts and history clearly indicate that Rancher Kelly is more likely being made an example of for political purposes than guilty of committing any crime at this point.
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