Posted on 08/20/2009 5:05:48 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Edited on 08/20/2009 5:07:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
MEXICO CITY
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I say just avoid Mexico altogether! There are plenty of places to visit in the US!
What state is Guadalajara in? Two of our test team may have to go down there this winter.
“I say just avoid Mexico altogether! There are plenty of places to visit in the US!”
Their war is already here, how do we avoid that?
Headline today: Record marijuana grow pulled up by the roots in Siskiyou County
http://www.ktvl.com/articles/marijuana-1191647-siskiyou-county.html
full version video: http://www.ktvl.com/video/?videoId=34835560001&play=now
What is truly interesting about this story is that the local CBS TV , KTVL Channel 10 affiliate finally ‘gets it’. They actually did some reporting on these pot farms being run on public lands by organized Mexican Drug Cartels after years of many of us pleading with them to inform the public of this danger. What is frightening, is how real that danger has become.
This marijuana grow stretched 2 miles. For years, our local sheriffs have fought these incursions, only to watch them grow more widespread. Siskiyou county is a conservative, quiet sparsely populated huge land mass. Along peaceful country roads that have been settled by old families, independent, self reliant types, late in the night citizens now hear voices in Spanish conversing as they walk up and down ‘patrolling’.
We knew the cartels were armed, that they contained the worst elements of Mexican organized crime; the Zeta’s, various cartels, MS-13, awol military.
What we didn’t know, is now that their enterprise of growing on millions of acres of USA land became so successful , is that now the cartels are at war with each other over ‘territory’ and contraband crops. One group may go in and cultivate the crop, only to have it taken with force by a better armed gang.
We have been warned for years in the counties of No.California and So. Oregon to stay clear of the ‘woods’, to never approach anything that looked like a pot farm.
Now we are being warned of the war between the cartels taking place on our peaceful country lanes. It is easier for the cartels to recruit laborers, with less risk to grow on these ‘protected sanctuaries’ than it is in Mexico. Where shall we go to escape?
Last week these cartels burned 860,000 acres in California. Will we become ‘collateral’ damage to their fires or their bullets? Unlike Mexico, in what has become an every day occurrence , we’ve had no beheadings...yet.
Our Department of Homeland security is spending billions in Mexico to help them fight these cartels there, to keep any of our guns from entering Mexico. But they say they don’t have the money to stop these invading armies from crossing the border and infiltrating our property. This congress refuses to fund a fence, but they’ll fund our people to go to Mexico and tell you this entire problem is the fault of the USA because some of our guns go to Mexico. When their criminal cast-offs are stopped from coming in, our guns will stop going out since the same people are working both sides of the border.
yeah...me thinks I’ll just avoid the WHOLE country!
You know if all that land was privately owned it would be better cared for and managed. Seen any stories of mass pot farms on Texas land?
“You know if all that land was privately owned it would be better cared for and managed. Seen any stories of mass pot farms on Texas land?”
True that! Do you know the forest service refused to let a group of citizen hikers walk a marked walking trail in Oregon recently...they said it was too much ‘foot traffic’.
also see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320904/posts
Jalisco
At first glance, I thought the headline said to avoid MICHIGAN. LOL
No problem for me either way.
Thanks, looking at our company policy, an armored car must be ordered. I’m thinking, no thanks.
My alma mater’s (Texas A&I) Fight Song!
“Jalisco”
Ay, Jalisco, Jalisco
Jalisco tu tienes
Tu novia
Que es Guadalajara.
Muchacha bonita
La perla mas rara
De todo Jalisco
Es mi Guadalajara.
Ay Jalisco no te rajes
Me sale del alma
Gritar con calor.
Abrir todo el pecho
Pa’ echar este grito
Que lindo es Jalisco,
Palabra de honor.
Now, I’ll be whistling it the rest of the day!
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