Posted on 06/01/2011 11:40:18 AM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
For some time now, the schools in Mexico have been having “shoot out drills” along with the “fire drills.” In the shoot out drills, the children lay flat on the floor. The teacher will have them sing songs, etc. to help them not get too worried about all the gun fire outside and the bullets flying through the windows.
Juarez across from El Paso, Texas, had three thousand deaths last year. In the last six years, the total has now reached over seven thousand. Since 2006 31,000 deaths in Mexico can be laid at the feet of the drug problem . It is worst than Afghanistan. The police have captured a small home made tank in one shoot out. A FBI officer has been indicted for selling guns without a license. While stationed in El Paso, he bought a 50 cal. rifle and sold it to a county deputy the next day, who then sold it to Harry who sold it to Pedro until it was taken by police in a gang shoot out in Mexico. A U. S. federal agent has been killed in Mexico by a weapon the ATF allowed to be smuggled into Mexico.
In Reynosa across from Weslaco, TX, the drug gang warned the newpaper that if it continues to report gang shootings, some thing terrible might happen. So the newspaper company thinks no news about gang shootings is good news for the newspaper. So much for freedom of press in Mexico. You will no longer hear about the shootings in Reynosa. This is not uncommon. In many areas of Mexico there is no public reporting of gang activities. Newspaper reporters are threatened with death if they report on gang violence.
One Mexican town had built a new police station. On the third day in the new station, a drug gang shoots up the new jail and tossed hand grenades in for fun. All seven policemen immediately resigned.
In February, Steven C. McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said “We know that many of our winter Texans enjoy traveling to Mexico, but they should understand that we cannot guarantee their safety after they cross the border.” Translation: Do not go to Mexico it is too dangerous. This came after the death in Mexico of an American missionary. She and her husband had worked in the Mexican border states helping churches, teaching the Bible and she worked as a mid-wife for thirty years.. They went into Mexico to help a church and on the way back, a truck with armed men began following them. This was about 87 miles south of the border. Their trip back was a car chase that would make a movie director proud. He made it across the Rio Grande but she was shot in the back of the head.
Gang violence has become so common it happens every where. A week ago there was a three day gun fight in one town. The townspeople, about 800, began evacuating to the next town. They waited out the fight then went back home. While this was going on another shoot out in a different location left 28 dead. A gang shot a police helicopter down injuring four officers that same week.
The Mexican state of Tamaulipus has been lost to a drug cartel. “La Familia is the de facto go-to governance system in communities that are largely abandoned by the state. If you need anything, from medicine to loans, they are the ones people turn to,” said Mr. James McDonald. He is a professor at Southern Utah University and he lived in Michoacan for several years. Now the state of Michoacan is about to be lost. The Mexican government thinks this is bad because to get from Mexico City to Guadalajara, the second largest city, you must drive through Michoacan.
In April, the U. S. issued from Monterrey a warning to their employees in north Mexican cites, “…information that Mexican criminal gangs may intend to attack U.S. law enforcement officers or U.S. citizens in the near future in Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí.” It was rescinded after a week.
In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said drug activities had begun to look like a “narco-insurgency.” Guess what the boss, El Presidente, said a few days later, ‘taint so.’ There are opinions in Mexico that the drug cartels are planning to take the government. It has gotten to the point that the three major political parties are setting aside their party differences and joining together to fight this problem.
The question is, “Can the Mexican government get control of their country?” I don’t think they can. Drug cartels have infiltrated the police, armies, state and federal government. It is a big business and has fingers in all the pies.
The don/peon system is not working. Rich land owners no longer control Mexico. The peon criminal element is dominating. They have the money and they are evil enough to crush the weak don system. As the conflict becomes worst, the U. S. can look to millions more of Mexicans flowing north. This time they will be looking for a safe haven, not a job.
Next, question, “What is El Presidente Obama going to do?” You can’t cure the patient by treating the symptoms, you have to root out the cause of the illness. He will probably need to go play golf.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Afghanistan? Lets put it into some perspective that even the commie donks might understand.
That level of casualty rate is about double what we had in Viet Nam.
But it is "not a war" and the "borders are safe."
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Imagine if they put as much effort into teaching them not to immigrate illegally.
Thats the honest truth and it is by design. It is unreal what goes on daily across the border, much worse then almost all the atrocites over the past umpteen years.
And the feds/politicians along with their ministry of truth ignore it as well as cover up their role in it.
We really are screwed unless the Nation allows Jesus back.
But illegals and muslims whom we are at war with are welcome with open arms and as much welfare as a man of your stature can carry off.
It’s time to shrug.
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