Posted on 02/19/2011 12:17:33 AM PST by RightCenter
On Feb. 15, gunmen on a highway in central Mexico stopped a vehicle with U.S. diplomatic license plates and shot the two men inside. Killed in the attack was Jaime Zapata, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. A second ICE agent was wounded. In response to the attack, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) declared that "this tragic event is a game changer" that "should be a long overdue wake-up call for the Obama administration that there is a war on our nation's doorstep."
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
Just another page in the communist playbook.
Yeah, well... with Gunwalker, this war - against America - is partly being waged by American federal agencies.
What "wake-up call"?
Obama's administration knows what's happening there. However, it seems that the Obama Regime's only interest in it seems to be to use it as an excuse to try and ban certain kinds of firearms in the US.
It’s a totally new kind of war alright. It’s the war where Mexican men are too scared to be police chiefs, thereby letting their women take over, who just simply end up getting killed on the job all the quicker. That kinda war.
Terrorism is funded by the money we pay for foreign oil and the money made by drug cartels. And, we are dancing around the edges pretending to fight terror when we can wipe it out by eliminating that funding. A budding terrorist who is trying to find something to eat won’t be up to much mischief. And, radicals of any kind who are sitting in a sand dune somewhere won’t be sending the bad guys any money, either.
The drug lords have declared war on us so it is time to srtike back.
We know, or should know, where these drug lords live. A MOAB in their living room should send the right message to every wannabe who would step into the vaporized drug lord’s shoes. Repeat as necessary.
A profound and important point.
Right now the blood and treasure of the US is being expended to protect the border security of foreign nations in the Af/Pak/Iraq Forever Wars. Bring our men back to protect our nation, our people. Use those thousands of drone attacks to kill Cartel leaders next door in Mexico instead of goat herders and their kids in goddamn Afghanistan. The fact that our boys are fighting and dying over there instead of protecting us here just goes to show to whom our “leaders” are loyal to. I’ve got news for you. Its not to you or your family.
Well, duh. “FBI: Friendly fire ruled out in Tucson border agent’s slaying.” Also, 3 suspects freed. Did ATF walked gun kill Terry all by itself?
Well, Senator, after two months investigating the Brian Terry murder I can tell you we’ve made about this much progress. Of course, if you ask me specific questions under oath, I’ll have to plead the Fifth.
My thanks to Hugh H. for this link.
Friendly fire was not a factor in the killing of a Border Patrol agent during a shootout in December in a canyon near Nogales, the FBI says.
The FBI’s statement puts to rest speculation about the Dec. 14, gunfight tin which agent Brian Terry was slain.
“There is no evidence of that all,” FBI spokesman Manuel Johnson said Tuesday.
He couldn’t comment on the rest of the investigation, which remains ongoing.
Two months into this and they can’t comment. And the press ain’t particularly interested. Yet. They will be. Trust me. They WILL BE.
LATER: Hugh Holub writing in the Tucson Citizen points out:
This does not answer the question raised by US Senator Charles Grassley who has alleged 2 guns were found at the scene of Agent Terry’s murder that were bought in a Glendale gun shop and slipped to the border bandits under the nose of ATF agents under Project Gunrunner.
OK FBI…whose gun fired the shot that killed Agent Terry?
And where did the gun come from?
Certainly you know this by now FBI…. why isn’t your agency providing that additional information?
Is Grassley’s claim true?
LATER STILL:
“Agent Terry’s murder: 3 suspects arrested will not be charged.” Steve Nuñez reports from KGUN Channel 9:
Nine On Your Side has learned three of the four suspects arrested in the shootout that killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry will not be charged with his murder. In fact, all three suspects could be freed and deported sometime this week.
The FBI suspected bandits shot and killed Terry on the night of December 14th. Agents immediately arrested four suspects. But two weeks after Terry’s killing, KGUN9 News learned the FBI had yet to charge them with murder.
The Federal Public Defender’s office and private defense Attorney Leslie Bowman then sounded off by telling Nine On Your Side if the FBI had evidence it would have pinned murder charges on all four suspects.
“They rarely wait,” said Bowman at the time. “They generally charge it from the beginning of the case.”
On January 5th, the U.S. Marshal’s in Tucson then reported a total of six suspects had been arrested in Terry’s murder probe.
But the FBI denied the claim and confirmed to KGUN9 News it only knew of four suspects.
Then on January 13th, the U.S. Attorney’s office indicted the four suspects but only on immigration charges for illegal re-entry after deportation. The felony charge carries a prison sentence between six months to two years.
Now, exactly two months after Terry’s murder, Nine On Your Side has learned through sources close to the case, three of the suspects will plead guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges and are expected to be released and deported within the next several days.
That leaves one suspect in custody. The Federal Public Defenders office tells Nine On Your Side its yet to receive any type of formal disclosure or word from the U.S. Attorney’s office clearing its client of Terry’s murder.
Therefore, as far as it knows, its client continues to only face illegal re-entry charges. This same suspect was gravely injured and had to be hospitalized after his arrest.
The Federal Public Defenders office also said it’s unusual for the U.S. Attorney’s office to take so long to charge a suspect with murder if it has forensic evidence.
So, I guess that the ATF “walked gun” just jumped up and killed CBP Agent Brian Terry all by itself? When is the mainstream press going to get tired of these serial lies?
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/02/well-duh-fbi-friendly-fire-ruled-out-in.html
The narco gangs have sucessfully taken on and defeated the Mexican military several times. The cartels sees us as an ally of the Mexican government. The cartels now control all the northern states in Mexico. On our border. Our border patrol have found muslim prayer rugs and books written in arabic. The cartels have figured out that Washington will do nothing to defend the border or American citizens. They have taken over a national park in southern Arizona and the response was to put up signs warning Americans that that area was not safe.
Who cares what the situation is called, there is a war on our southern border and the folks with the power to do something about it are ignoring it.
It’s bad enough that the cartel army runs the place, the the ties to islam puts this into a whole new place.
And official dc still does nothing.
did anyone even read the link
You must've awaken to terrorism on Sep 11, in late afternoon.
What about terrorism in Algiers in the early 1960? What about Palestinians taking over a kindergarten and throwing hand-grenades at the kids in the early 1970s? What about the killing of Aldo Moro in the late 1970s Italy?
All of that was financed by oil? Nonsense. None of that had to do with us at all, and it is not just up to America to deal with that. Your exaggerated feeling of self-importance is one of the reasons we are viewed as arrogant abroad.
You must've awaken to terrorism on Sep 11, in late afternoon.
What about terrorism in Algiers in the early 1960? What about Palestinians taking over a kindergarten and throwing hand-grenades at the kids in the early 1970s? What about the Red Brigades' killing of Aldo Moro in the late 1970s Italy? Has the oil consumption and drug habits of Americans financed the takeover of a Russian school by the Chechens just a few years ago?
Nonsense. None of that had to do with us at all, and it is not just up to America to deal with that. Your exaggerated feeling of self-importance is one of the reasons we are viewed as arrogant abroad.
And on top of your vapid arguments you have to descend to calling me names? Clearly that means that even you don't believe your own sh*t. If you did, you wouldn't have to sink to the typical lib/progressive/cloward-piven tactic. You just blew your own case up.
Oh, and one more thing; you only need to post your crap once.
Well worth reading. Thanks!
Having written to you, I inadvertently stepped into a pool of manure. My mistake. Never ever could I have imagined that someone having the hootspah to call himself Paine would be unable even to speak and could express himself only at the level of a poorly trained animal.
My bad. I promise I'll make every effort not to write to you again and avoid touching that mud and that cart with manure which your brain and your soul respectively constitute.
Thank you. Coming from you that is quite a compliment.
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