Posted on 03/25/2006 11:11:01 AM PST by nj26
If you don't have access to Texas newspapers or the internet, you may not have heard the sensational news about the enormous cache of weapons our government recently seized in Laredo, Texas. U.S. authorities grabbed two completed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), materials for making 33 more, military-style grenades, 26 grenade triggers, large quantities of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, silencers, machine gun assembly kits, 300 primers, bullet-proof vests, police scanners, sniper scopes, narcotics, and cash.
That sounds like a war is going on in Texas! If bomb-making factories and firearms assembly plants are ordinary day-to-day business in the drug war along our southern border, the American people need to know more about it.
The Val Verde County chief deputy warned that drug traffickers are helping terrorists with possible al Quaeda ties to cross the Texas-Mexico border into the United States. A government spokesman in Houston said "at this point there is no connection with anything in Iraq." Well, we are not so easily reassured. We wonder what our government is doing to fulfill its duty to "protect each of them [the states] against invasion," as called for in the U.S. Constitution, Article IV.
The Department of Homeland Security now admits that there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military or police, or drug or people smugglers dressed in military uniforms, during the last ten years, including 63 in Arizona, and several Border Patrol agents have been wounded in these encounters. This admission comes after years of pretending that such incursions were just "accidents."
Homeland Security sent a confidential memo in January to our Border Patrol agents warning that they could be the targets of assassins hired by alien smugglers. The alert states that the contract killers will probably be members of the vicious MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang (whose 17-year-old killers will be protected from capital punishment by a recent U.S Supreme Court decision).
There is, indeed, a drug war going on between rival drug gangs, but the U.S. government seems to be just a bystander without manpower or weapons to take action. Are we going to continue to leave our Border agents sitting ducks for Mexican snipers?
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) reported that sheriff deputies spotted a military-style Humvee near El Paso, Texas, with a mounted .50-caliber machine gun escorting a caravan of SUVs bringing illegal drugs into our country. Our outgunned and outmanned sheriff deputies and state highway patrol couldn't do anything except take pictures.
The Mexican government is unwilling or incapable of doing anything to stop the wide-open lawlessness on the Mexican side of the border. Our Border Patrol agents say they are often confronted by corrupt Mexican military units employed to protect and escort violent drug smugglers.
Meanwhile, the news media have shown us pictures of the just-discovered sophisticated 2,400-foot tunnel running from Mexico under our border to a warehouse in San Diego. U.S. authorities recovered more than two tons of marijuana, and it is unclear how long the tunnel has been in operation or how many tons of drugs already passed through. It is now believed that the drug cartel started building the tunnel two years ago.
The Bush Administration whines that it can't (i.e., won't) do anything to implement border security unless its guest-worker/amnesty proposal is part of the legislative package. When is our government going to protect us from the crime, the drugs, the smuggling racket, destruction of property, the endangerment to U.S. residents along our border and our undermanned Border Patrol?
In charge of protecting Americans against this war is 36-year-old Julie Myers, to whom President Bush gave a recess appointment after her Senate confirmation bogged down because of her total lack of law-enforcement experience. Her qualifications are her connections: she is the niece of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers and the wife of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's chief of staff.
When Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke to CPAC in Washington, DC on February 9, he said: "We have to work with Mexico because, like it or not, we are joined by a common border. We are in a sense married, and we have to make the marriage work because we cannot get a divorce."
Cornyn seems to have forgotten that Texas was once married to Mexico, and Texas didn't like it. Texas fought a war for independence, successfully "divorced" Mexico, and later came into the United States. Not many Americans want to be "married" to any other country, but some powerful people are working for open borders among all North American countries. When they talk about "comprehensive" reform, that means including guest-worker/amnesty as part of any border-security legislation.
Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) says that if you visit the border, you will find that almost everyone who lives there is armed for protection from illegals. Just imagine if you had to carry a gun when you go to the grocery store or take your kids to school!
For the best up-to-date analysis of what our government should do, read Rep. Hayworth's new book called Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror. He calls for a security fence, 10,000 border agents, enforcement of penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens, cooperation between the feds and our 700,000 local and state police officers to enforce our immigration laws, more detention centers to keep illegals until they can be deported, and an end to the racket of giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens.
I know, but how many Bots can we ping? :-D
Dubya Bush's dereliction of duty of protecting U.S. sovereignty and security is responsible for allowing various plotters and planners to go about their business of the Mexican Invasion unfettered.
How this man can be such a passionate advocate of liberty and fighting evil overseas while acting like Vicente Fox's lap dog domestically is an unexplainable enigma (unless one believes in a NWO conspiracy.)
El Presidente Bush is the real head of the INS. And, it is obvious he likes the situation or he would take the issue strongly to Congress and to the American people.
The answer to this crap is to bus every illegal that is caught to the neighborhoods where our "leaders" live and let them out. Let them handle it right in their front yards. Texas, Arizona & California should make a huge effort to transport the illegal problem to Washington D.C. & it's 'burbs.
Your money might be taken from you, under threat of governmental force against you, and given to the illegals?
It makes NO sense.
Of course not to us, but...
The New World Order/Globalism Agenda makes "sense" for the anti-sovereignists (sadly, some of our own who infest the GOP) who deem a strong America a threat to the ICC, Kyoto, a World Resource Tax, etc.
Diluting patriotism and conservatism is THE modus operandi of those who permit the unfettered illegals flooding our America.
The person directly responsible for this is Michael Chertoff, i.e. our hands-off Homeland Security director, so you should probably address your complaints to him, although I doubt he'll be that responsive to your criticism.
Unless you happen to be an illegal alien from Mexico, or a wealthy Dubai businessman/Muslim cleric.
Then, he'll be all ears.
Don't know whether we should laugh or cry ;-)
"The answer to this crap is to bus every illegal that is caught to the neighborhoods where our "leaders" live and let them out. Let them handle it right in their front yards. Texas, Arizona & California should make a huge effort to transport the illegal problem to Washington D.C. & it's 'burbs."
Another alternative would be to send the Bush ladies (Laura and his two daughters) to Santa Ana or Van Nuys for a few days. Let them spend a few days in these formerly middle-class communities that have been overrun by illegals.
GW always says that he listens to the women in his family. They might be able to impart him with a new perspective on the issue of the illegal immigration.
"Don't know whether we should laugh or cry ;-)"
Well, the fuse is lit here, with illegals marching on our streets, demanding rights..lets hope they do more such marches I have a hunch the American public is fed up.
Same report out of Iraq would have been headlined as proof we can't control the "insurrection".
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"How this man can be such a passionate advocate of liberty and fighting evil overseas while acting like Vicente Fox's lap dog domestically is an unexplainable enigma (unless one believes in a NWO conspiracy.) "
I wonder the same thing and come to similar conclusions This President started out so strong in his first year. Now he's letting all hell break loose across our southern border and he seems like he's in another world.
Then "Skull-and-Bones" lore comes back to my mind, and his Dad hobnobbing with Clinton and W holding hands (literally) with the vehemently anti-Christian Saudi Prince. No kidding - there was a picture of them in the news walking along HAND IN HAND! Puke.
If the government were run like a business, it would be bankrupt... Oh wait, what's the national debt?
Simple friggin solution:
1) Build the wall (the Pentagon was built in 18 months in a swamp in 1942)
2) Deport every illegal alien
3) Dissolve Homeland Insecurity
4) Monitor and report monthly to the DoD
DONE
But then again Bush has kissed more men in public than any other U.S. president.
It appears to be something he's inclined to do.
The government's primary resposibility is to protect this country from invaders...and this is happening on our own soil?! What a bunch of bullship! Someone in the government better start getting off their dead a$$es and do something about it! After 9/11, there is no friggin' excuse for this!
big fat bump
Oh, c'mon.
They're just here to commit the terrorist acts that American citizens don't want to do.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.