[AuntB]

Two 5-gallon backpack sprayers were used to spray pesticides directly on the buds of marijuana plants, California officials said. Toxic chemicals are just one of the problems in national forests, where drug cartels have infiltrated to grow illegal crops

This photo is from a few years back. But ties well into the above article. The irony seems lost on the liberals and McCain wing of the GOP, who claim to 'protect the environment', while pushing for more 'wilderness' (Thank you UN agenda 21!), and more illegal immigation year after year.

Mexican pot cartels sully U.S. forests, parks Wilderness areas polluted by toxins, pesticides used in marijuana trade

Oct. 2008

PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals used to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

The grow sites have taken hold from the West Coast's Cascade Mountains to federal lands in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.

Seven hundred grow sites were discovered on U.S. Forest Service land in California alone in 2007 and 2008 — and authorities say the 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest is the hardest hit.

Weed and bug sprays, some long banned in the U.S., have been smuggled to the marijuana farms. Plant growth hormones have been dumped into streams, and the water has then been diverted for miles in PVC pipes.

Rat poison has been sprinkled over the landscape to keep animals away from tender plants. And many sites are strewn with the carcasses of deer and bears poached by workers during the five-month growing season that is now ending.

"What's going on on public lands is a crisis at every level," said Forest Service agent Ron Pugh.[snip]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27134226/

[AuntB]

This is one of the best articles on the subject of property rights and organized Mexican crime I’ve seen.

“Few could have predicted that the agenda of the environmental movement and the actions of the federal land management agencies would create a perfect conduit for the pipeline of drug flow into the United States. The designation of wilderness seemed like an honorable and harmless endeavor except to the few Americans who were unfortunate enough to have duties, responsibilities, and private property rights in its footprint. Congressional leadership agreed and federal legislation was enacted.

The urban centers were the initial ports of entry but that changed when American wilderness areas were discovered. The corridors created there allowed unlimited expansion of business and the turf war erupted into a revolution to control drug movement. “

Today, the environmental groups and the cartels have a continuing mutual interest in the land. The wilderness areas and the large federally managed lands offer opportunities for each. To the environmental camp, the designation of wilderness remains the gold standard for preserving lands into perpetuity. To the cartel camp, the designation of wilderness is continuing to be the gold standard for delivering drugs across the border onto American sovereign territory.”

Several more stories, photos here:
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Armed Mexican Cartels take more US land, resources
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2010/10/armed-mexican-cartels-take-more-us-land.html

[tiki]

And right here on the New Mexico, Texas, Mexico border they are putting a huge chunk of land into wilderness soon. It is already the middle of nowhere but the agents can get around on 4-wheelers but when they put it in wilderness they will no longer be able to get in there.

[AuntB]

" Today, the environmental groups and the cartels have a continuing mutual interest in the land. The wilderness areas and the large federally managed lands offer opportunities for each. To the environmental camp, the designation of wilderness remains the gold standard for preserving lands into perpetuity. To the cartel camp, the designation of wilderness is continuing to be the gold standard for delivering drugs across the border onto American sovereign territory."

ping!

[mmercier]

years of pesticide sprayed on the weed and the propensity of most leftists to stay stoned could be connected.

perhaps a trillion dollar multiyear study and some brain crossection analysis could shed light.

[GladesGuru]

“The future of communism in America will be the environmental movement.” Gus Hall, National Chairman, Communist party USA.

The “Great Unnatural Acts” (Wilderness, Endangered Species, Clean Water, Clean Air) were designed from their inception to further the collectivist/statist goal of destroying American capitalism with socialism.

Largely, they have succeeded.

The cure is simple - repeal the Great UnNatural Acts.

The Constitution does not allow such Federal land ownership or such Federal intrusion into land management.

Remember Paul Johnson’s “If the American experiment in self government fails, that which comes after will be unspeakably worse”.

“Unspeakable” now defiles the White House.

Ditto for all too many CongressCritters.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Google Street View captures dead bodies—real ones
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2600687/posts
“Whenever Google sends its Street View cameras to a new country, there is always more revealed than was anticipated. And so is the case with the launch of Google Street View in Brazil. Just a day after the service launched, up popped a couple of corpses. One, on the Avenida Presidente Vargas in Rio, the other in Belo Horizonte. The images, which first reportedly surfaced on Gizmodo Brazil are disturbing because of their apparent normality. They are not in deserted areas, but in places where people and cars can be seen, places where city life just goes on.” [snip]

[KeyLargo]

911 Tape Released in Mexican Pirate Attack on U.S. Couple

Published October 03, 2010 | FoxNews.com

FOX NEWS.COM

A Colorado tourist was shot in the head and thrown from his jet ski as his wife frantically tried to dodge bullets and escape from Mexican pirates marauding on a U.S.-Mexico border lake, according to a transcript from a 911 call released Saturday.

Search teams over the weekend combed the U.S. side of Falcon Lake for David Michael Hartley, 30, whose wife told police he was shot in the the head Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen on boats.

The gunmen are suspected pirates who have turned Falcon Lake, a water-skiing and bass fishing hotspot down the border from Laredo, into uneasy waters for fishermen and boaters. There have been at least five reported run-ins with pirates on the lake this year, though prior holdups had never been deadly.

In a 911 call made to deputies on Thursday, Tiffany Hartley, 29, describes how her husband was thrown off his Jet Ski after he was shot in the back of the head. Hartley told authorities that she was forced to leave her husband in the water as pirates in three boats fired shots at her.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/01/search-teams-seek-man-shot-mexican-waters/print

[MileHi]

What a nightmare.

Thanks for the link