Congressman Poe represents a district on the east side of Houston to Beaumont.
Posted on 10/14/2010 6:52:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Lets just stick to this Hartley issue. The Hartleys gambled with their lives and lost.
Personally, I would never vacation in Mexico—but I don’t think we should write off our own citizens simply because they visit Mexico.
“Oh, well then. I guess we shouldn’t be concerned.”
Correct.
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I’m sure you’ll hold that view until it’s your own ox being gored.
Stupid people do stupid things all the time. You can’t save stupid people from themselves.
You won’t catch me in South Central Los Angeles at 2am singing Toby Keith songs.
I've read a couple of Friedman's books, and if I was going to guess I'd say he's probably a democrat, but it's pretty hard to tell and he doesn't show any bias that I could pick up on.
Sounds like we have a writer for the SAE that is bought and paid for by the CARTEL. But hey she has given HILLary a an excuse to do NOTHING.
What struck me was the the statment
“His report concludes “halcones,” or Zeta scouts, noticed Mexican tags on the trailer towing the Hartley’s personal watercraft, mistook them as spies for the rival Gulf Cartel and sent radio messages buzzing across the lake. “
The cartle had spies on the lake, the cartels have mountain top spotters near Fenix (AZ) to monitor drugs/human shipments and to warn of police activity.
That level of planning/activity should scare the avg American.
The lake provides flood control as well as water and recreational opportunities. Draining it isn’t an option. I agree with the cordon sanitaire, but I think they should also blow up the island they use for a staging area and send in some Apache helicopters to assist the blanket-coverage Coast Guard operation. Kill them all, create a dead zone on the Mexican side of the lake.
You might think you’re safe from the Mexican thugs in Nevada, but you’re probably not. You need not go into known dangerous areas to find yourself in the middle of things. These thugs are just about everywhere. In an earlier post, I wrote about how they are threatening Oklahoma law enforcement and their families. Let me add that they are also moving into private land. A local rancher was threatened after he discovered marijuana growing in a remote area of his ranch. He’s since sold out, and who knows if it’s in the cartel’s hands, or if someone else is being threatened.
Congressman Poe represents a district on the east side of Houston to Beaumont.
Ah, the good old days.
“These thugs are just about everywhere. In an earlier post, I wrote about how they are threatening Oklahoma law enforcement and their families. Let me add that they are also moving into private land. A local rancher was threatened after he discovered marijuana growing in a remote area of his ranch. He’s since sold out, and who knows if it’s in the cartel’s hands, or if someone else is being threatened.”
Lets just stick with the Hartley issue. They were in Mexico in a known area of drug running... they knew the score.
US law enforcement can and will deal with crime in the US, regardless of the perps race.
>>The Hartleys gambled with their lives and lost.<<
It’s that kind of attitude that has led to the state of capitulation that this country is in today. If we can’t even depend on our citizens to act with outrage and action when our borders are as dangerous and porous as they now are, why would the elected officials listen? That statement is indicative of the lack of spine all to evident in American citizen ideology.
As one might say, the fools outnumber the sane.
The Hartleys are nothing but a number in a very long list of stupid people doing stupid things in other countries. The only difference is that the other country is on our southern border.
I use to go to Mexico, but when I heard that people were being decapitated in places like Cancun, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Valarta, I decided that it was just too dangerous and unpredicatable. Others may want to take their chances and go there.... more power to them. But if they get their head chopped off, don’t go on TV and start crying that they got their head chopped off.
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