Posted on 05/20/2007 2:05:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Jose Nemesio Lugo Felix was appointed last month as head of a drug intelligence unit in Mexico's attorney general's office.
Less than 30 days later, he was shot and killed in a sophisticated street ambush that is being characterized as a "planned execution" – another assassination presumably by one of the Mexican drug cartels.
He hadn't even finished unpacking boxes in his new office.
The list of atrocities of this kind in Mexico grows on a daily basis:
Last weekend, two journalists for the Azteca television network who had previously covered the drug wars in Mexico were reported missing and assumed to have been kidnapped in Monterrey.
About the same time, an army captain was kidnapped and killed in Chilpancingo.
A federal police investigator was found shot dead in Tijuana.
A severed head was left at an army base in Vercruz, a day after the central government said it would send troops to the Gulf Coast to battle the drug trade.
Four government bodyguards assigned to protect the children of the governor of the state of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, were killed while taking the kids to the beach. (Column continues below)
Mexico City's El Universal newspaper reported more than 1,000 people have been killed by organized crime in the first five months of 2007.
You want to know about a war that is lost?
Mexico has lost the drug war. Our neighbor to the south is officially a narco-economy now. The gangsters and murderers wield more power than the federal government. They operate with impunity. And they are taking this war across the border – expanding their base of operations and extending their killing fields.
Where are the debates in our country about the instability of our Mexican neighbor and what it portends for us?
How can we be on the verge of another amnesty program for 10 percent of Mexico's population while our back door remains wide open to the chaos to the south?
Why do we expect Mexicans to stay in their country when it is wracked with violence and lawlessness?
When will U.S. national security officials realize what a threat we face from this barbarism?
How many towns and cities in America will need to be taken over by the drug cartels before U.S. officials realize what is happening and take action?
These are not idle questions for a slow news day. These are questions fundamental to America's national security.
The Mexican illegal alien invasion has already changed the character of our country. But there is a second wave coming that will pose much graver problems than bilingualism and institutional poverty.
In that second wave, which has already begun, Mexican crime barons will emigrate north to expand their "turf" and profits and bring this kind of mayhem to America.
It is inevitable unless we have a national strategy to head it off.
We do not.
In fact, no one is even talking about it – except me.
Instead of addressing this crisis as a matter of national security, we are busy repaving highways the drug cartel will use to ship their deadly product north. We are busy making it easier for Mexican truckers to enter the country and travel throughout it like native-born Americans.
As a matter of national policy, we're more interested in severely punishing U.S. Border Patrol agents for indiscretions on the front lines than punishing drug smugglers.
This has got to stop. What's at stake is, quite frankly, everything we hold dear – our way of life, freedom, justice, the rule of law, the will of the people.
The bad news just keeps on coming...
And America stands leaderless...
Coming soon to a town near you.
Thank You Congress for shoving this mess up our butts.
I read this in its entirety and I became afraid. It all seems so clear now....what’s happening all across the country.
It’s about time we started turning this right back on Mexico and started calling for government/economic reforms before any trade agreements or any ridiculous immigration deals like this piece of crap working its way through Congress.
All we ever do is take it in the shorts from this cesspool to the south. Its a cancer that’s moving north in a hurry. A country that exists right next to the most modern and richest country in the world and its still a dump.
Si.
When will the moralistic law and order freaks just simply allow social darwinism to run its course and end the drug war? I can dream, can't I?
It’s called payback. It’s called, your vote/voice does not count. Our leaders are now and have been for quite some time elected by rich corporations, and now it’s time for the payback. Only one thing counts, money. It’s why we are letting the Mexicans flood across our border, the same reason we import most everything from China, even though these products are made by 12 year olds in sweat shops, it’s because the bottom line looks good. The only politicians that make it to high office are the ones bought and paid for. I hate to say this, because to some I may sound like a kook, but I think if the South would have won the Civil War things might be different now. But in that war, State’s rights were defeated by the Federal Government and it has been growing out of control every since. And if these corporations who want the Mexicans here so bad could get away with it, they would turn them into slaves in a heartbeat.
CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
Corporations don't vote, individuals vote. Corporations do provide a good bit of money used to help candidates advertise and help sway those individuals to vote a certain way, of course, but a corporation can't vote. If this country is in a mess, it is because of the voters not paying attention to the issues or to how their elected congress critter has been voting. I think it is safe to say that there is a good portion of this population that is clueless to even the most basic, fundamental issues of the day, but those same people can probably tell you who the finalists are on American Idol (i.e. meaningless trivia).
yeah? well bring ‘em on. lets see how well they “stop” what I and many others here will welcome them with.
Clear and Present Danger, anyone? I hate to say it, but some measure of martial law is required here; a charred druglord’s mansion is a good d start.
“yeah? well bring ‘em on. lets see how well they “stop” what I and many others here will welcome them with.”
We may have to, but I’m with ya all the way!!
And Bush and the liberal congress including our turncoat GOP are helping all this happen in America! Where have all the Patriots gone? Sure you’ll here them all use this word at nausium but are they really with us? NO there not, Did you ever see Bush praise Ted Kennedy and use the word WE. This is truly a three ring circus and they look at us as the clowns. TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS, 2008 IS COMING FAST
Wow. What a graphic!
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