Pot-laden truck creates armed standoff (at the Mexico border)

El Paso Times ^ | nov 19 | Daniel Borunda

[Prime Choice]

Pot-laden truck creates armed standoff (at the Mexico border)

Liberalitarians and Hippies hardest hit.

[beyond the sea]

Pot-laden truck creates armed standoff (at the Mexico border)

Cheech and Chong waiting with baited breath.

[dennisw]

[thoughtomator]

Did the Mexican army perform an armed raid into US territory to gain control of this truck? Sure reads like that.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[DoughtyOne]

One of these types of incidents is going to blow up some day, and when it does, the U.S. populace is going to be furious that something hasn't been done to prevent this sort of thing.

We're just one itchy trigger finger from melt-down.

[Moonman62]

"Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting."

Maybe it would have been better if they had.

[King Prout]

Pot going INTO Mexico???

aside from that - yet more indications that Mexican legal and military authorities might NOT be interested in law and order and peace between our nations...

[litehaus]

"We're just one itchy trigger finger from melt-down."

Might not havum outnumbered re 308s, but sure as hell do when it comes to 50s...........Reach Out n Touch.....

[King Dopplepopolous]

It sounds like they DID cross the border, because i think that border officials would have the presence of mind not to cross in to mexico.

[johnny7]

As soon as I saw this I thought... 'Up in Smoke'.

I'll still watch it when it shows up on cable... brings back 'vague' memories and lot'sa laffs.

[thoughtomator]

If they did then this looks like proof that the Mexican army is involved in border smuggling - not that that should surprise anyone.

[Thombo2]

Armed Mexican police and/or Mexican military in the US?I'd say that is a serious incident.Do you think this will make the evening news?

[balch3]

The one area which this administration can be faulted is its lack of control over the border. I'm not a tinfoil hatter, but the way in which they completely ignore what's going on down there is hard to explain.

[tillacum]

The Mexican army personnel are probably as well trained as a bunch of dogs in a pack.

[Captain Rhino]

Well, we should be seeing a report on this incident almost any time in the MSM. < /sarcasm>

[Prime Choice]

One of these types of incidents is going to blow up some day, and when it does, the U.S. populace is going to be furious that something hasn't been done to prevent this sort of thing.

You mean the same way the American public was "outraged" when Mexicans went on a high-speed car-hockey spree on California roadways and endangered the lives of American citizens with depraved impunity?

Last I saw, those illegals were rewarded with millions of dollars from our courts when they got the ass-whipping they deserved at the end of the chase.

The American public has the attention span of a puppy on crack. They didn't wake up to the dangers we face on 9/11 and you think a border clash is going to do anything?

Bottom line: it's going to take the loss of an entire American CITY for anyone to even consider doing anything meaningful on an appreciable scale.

[wyattearp]

Did the Mexican army perform an armed raid into US territory to gain control of this truck?

The Rio Grande is the border. The river in between the banks is kinda like the 'neutral zone'. The northern bank is US territory, the southern bank is Mexican territory, but right smack dab in the middle is more of an 'either-or'. It sounds like the Mexican Army wanted the pot more than the BP did, and got a bit more creative in their method of retrieving it.

[downtoliberalism]

I thought that our Federal Government was here to protect the individual States from being invaded?