Posted on 03/25/2009 8:15:08 AM PDT by pissant
On Tuesday’s Newsroom program, T.J. Holmes because the latest CNN on-air personality to forward the dubious claim that guns from the U.S. are a major factor in the rampant drug violence plaguing northern Mexico: “I don’t want to say enabling, maybe not the best word. But still, so many of the guns that are being used in Mexico are guns that come across the border from the U.S.”
His guest, columnist Sam Quinones of the Los Angeles Times, wholeheartedly agreed: “...[W]e can do a lot about the guns.....If you talk to Mexican officials, pretty much they don’t want to talk about anything but all the guns that are coming....down to Mexico and into the hands of cartel guys who are then killing cops, terrorizing a population, and killing off each other and so on.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Hillary’s on the hunt for another nice kickback like the Clintons got from the Red Chinese.
Chinese Foreign Ministry says arms shipment bound for Zimbabwe .... will be returned to China because there is no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in southern Africa, China said Thursday.Mexico isn't landlocked.
The weapon most available, and preferred by terrorists and other bad guys, is the AK-47.
CNN = Communist News Netwrok.
FOX is putting out similiar stories. Remains to be seen which media group does some fact checking to find out real origin of guns. So far it’s just based on off-hand comments by local yahoos.
Please correct me if I’m wrong and provide references.
THX
Fox News is also proclaiming this with their coverage of “outbound enforcement”. I have heard that most of the weapons are actually coming from South and Central America.
They are probably being shipped in from Chavez. He bought 100,000 AKs from Russia and I think their armed forces are issued m16s.
I suspect the communications found on that computer last year when they busted FARC were enlightening in this respect.
You just confused the hell out of congress.
Even if this were true, those buying and selling the guns to Mexican drug lords or whatever, are criminals, and more to the point, ILLEGALS! Mexicans themselves. And they obviously are not coming by those guns legally.
The problem is that the general populous is unarmed. Mexico won’t release the serial numbers of the guns they’re talking about because those guns come from the US gov’t directly to the Mexican police. They then go to the highest bidder or get ‘lost’ in the paper work shuffle. And we’re gonna give’em more. Inconvenient facts. As for the AK-47’s and grenades ... look to China.
Yep. Seal the border and let the mezcans sort it out.
The Mexicans are coming over the border and buying rocket launchers and grenades at the local Walmart and all you guys can do is criticize. Why don’t we have laws to prevent illegal aliens from purchasing automatic weapons and high explosives in this country? This must be one of those “loopholes” that the Brady bunch is always complaining about.
Where is the outrage?
Watching the morning news[sic] programs today I noticed something I had never noticed before. All of them move in lock step, the same stories at the same time on all the channels. Flip the channel half way through the story to see the same story on another channel. They are even at the same point in the story.
The Mexican gun story, which has been discredited by FOX news is still being told with varying degrees of USA involvement. 90% - 95% of all Mexican guns come from the USA. So says ABC, CBS, NBC and they even had President Felipe Calderon parrot the same statistics. As did Secretary Janet Napolitano.
We should be watching ABC, NBC, and CBS and not only watching FOX or the internet for news. We should be calling them in every case where they site bad data. Particularly when it involves such a sensitive issue as this.
When they frighten the masses with the WWII .30 cal machine gun by calling it an .50 cal anti-aircraft gun, we should call, email and complain that their reporters are wrong, incompetent or lazy. Don’t let it stop there, take the editors to task for allowing the reporters to be wrong.
The worst thing to do is to say you won’t watch their news anymore. Think it through, what you are tell them is you won’t complain if they get it wrong, again. SO they can keep saying the same thing and next time you won’t see it, won’t complain, problem solved and we the people loose.
As Americans we often think we can influence companies by not spending our money with them. Which does work, to a point.
This is not that point. This is a systematic assault on our basic freedoms by a well trained, well oiled machine which knows exactly what it is doing. We cannot be effective as individuals who hide from the truth by not watching their propaganda. We must watch their propaganda and call them on every issue, every time.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance - T. Jefferson
A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth - Big Brother
Every revolutionary should have a 19” color TV - Jerry Rubin
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