Posted on 07/12/2011 6:41:25 PM PDT by Nachum
Just finished watching the news on Univision.
They show the president of Mexico thanking Obama for demanding that US weapons sellers report multiple sales to the same individual. Meanwhile the film shows piles and piles of military weaponry, as if this could be bought at Walmart.
They report the capture of several Mexicans smuggling 50 caliber weapons and ammo in two different parts of the country, and report that the mafia claims that its easy to buy their weapons in the US.
No mention of “Gunwalker”. No mention that US weapons sellers did report multiple sales to shady characters and were told by the government to let them go through. No mention that the US government itself was directing that these weapons be sold to the cartel over the objections of the sellers themselves.
So the news is hopeless. They are covering up the fact that Obama is not stopping the sale of weapons to the cartel, but rather ordering it. The news lays blame for the deaths of 40,000 Mexicans at the doorstep of American weapons companies while ignoring the fact that the weapons shown were clearly military issue. The distinctive feature of Mexican drug cartels is not that they are armed, every crime gang in the world is armed; what is notable about them is that they are armed with military hardware, rocket launchers, machine guns, hand grenades, and have the Mexican military outgunned. They aren’t getting this stuff from your average sporting goods store.
Thanks for the heads up. I agree with you. A couple of guns sold is a sting operation. A thousand guns is foreign policy. I agree with your suspicion, that this is O’s gang supporting the Chavists in Honduras.
I haven’t really looked at the time line of the Honduras mess.
Is this scenario possible-
CIA wants to oust Chavez in 2007 using Davila (known CIA asset at one time) and his son. Chavez controls a certain amount of drug trafficking.
Obama gets elected.
Puts the Cabash on it.
Zelaya is buddies with Chavez. The CIA not Obama takes out Zelaya . Pisses off Obama.
The Truth Commission in Honduras now claims it was an illegal coup. But there is something in their laws that prevents Zelaya from coming back - at least for now.
Or....after someone (CIA?) helps oust Zelaya...CIA arms the resistance against the new guy.
Just because they want Chaos.
Yes. The news is hopeless. There is also the possibility that the Mexican government wants to use gunwalker to invite direct US military intervention.
So many lies are flying, it is hard to know where the truth is found.
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