Posted on 03/12/2010 6:30:59 AM PST by BradtotheBone
BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings — and rumors of drug killings — in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he'd reviewed photos of the chopper flown by armed personnel Tuesday over a residential area known as Falcon Heights-Falcon Village near the binational Falcon Lake, just south of the Starr-Zapata county line. He said the helicopter appeared to have the insignia of the Mexican navy.
“It's always been said that the Mexican military does in fact ... that there have been incursions,” Gonzalez said. “But this is not New Mexico or Arizona. Here we've got a river, there's a boundary line. And then of course having Falcon Lake, Falcon Dam, it's a lot wider. It's not just a trickle of a river, it's an actual dam. You know where the boundary's at.”
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"What? You saw a Mexican army helicopter over your house? And you didn't shoot?? What kind of citizen are you?"
But, of course, our government's reaction would not quite fall along those lines.
Isn’t this an act or war or do they have to fire on us from that helicopter for it to be considered so?
On a lighter note - would the helicopter be a Taco Bell???
I am with you on that. Of course I think if Obama were going to try to declare martial law he would do it with foreign troops.
Why are no Army or Air Force commands involved? One wonders how far it could fly north until some one responded?
A Mexican helicopter? That’s a joke, right? There are no helicopters in Mexico.
Are you kidding? We paid for them. See “Merida initiative.”
You ask a very pertinent question.
There are all sorts of radar warning areas, military and FAA.
Incursions from outside the borders are supposed to be intercepted.
So does this mean someone was asleep or does it mean that the US is winking at Mexican incursions?
Or was this a training flight of some kind with US approval?
Mexico is our friiieends!
Why, don't you know that they contribute to our Social Security system, supplement our tax revenue and provide us with good quality oil for processing into our lifeblood?
Are you not in the least aware of the economical impact that Mexico has on our nation?
You need to travel to Los Angeles, for example, and see the wonderful neighborhoods the immigrants have created.
Or perhaps to, well, someplace like south of Collinsville, AL, close to the chicken processing plant.
Why, it is a virtual paradise of housing that is manufactured especially for the hispanic immigrant, with the intention of providing a pleasing living area for those workers that are necessary and that have the requisite skills to prepare chicken for the consumption of our America.
There are many, many of these areas, some for the comfortable housing of the professional produce handlers that are required to travel from farm to farm, in order to provide succulent produce such as lettuce and tomatoes, to the consumer at the peak of freshness.
Why, whatever would we do without them?
An accidental incursion of our sovereign borders by an armed gunship of the Mexican Army is not a problem, when one considers the contributions of the people.
Shame on you for even questioning the event.
You know only 5% of the people will get that. LOL Where is a good M 72 LAW when you need one.
BINGO!!!
Prolly was a UH-1. LOL.
I think they actually have to fly the thing into a building before the gov’t gets concerned.
Then they will blame it on a right wing tax protester.
Any Mexican military plane flying over the US should be shot down ASAP.....more than likely it is running cover for one of the Mexican cartels
Of course, there will be whining from Liberals, Open Borders America-Haters in both the DNC and GOP, and the La Raza/Hispanic Ku Klux Klan crowd....but America has a right to defend itself. Anything less of this amounts to treason
There is a Border Patrol check station less than one quarter mile west of the village which is manned 24/7. There are always about 10 people working there and they would have to had seen it.
Just makin’ a drug delivery!
Mexican military has crossed over into the U.S and fired on American border patrol.
Thought this was an act of war- however nothing was done about it by our PC crippled govmt.
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