Posted on 04/09/2010 8:37:32 AM PDT by AuntB
The bodies that turned up on a squalid back street in the border town of Reynosa in December were no longer human. The torsos showed deep lacerations and punctures; the severed heads were badly beaten and mutilated. Crudely butchered limbs lay scattered across the tarmac stained by blood.
"See. Hear. Shut up, if you want to stay alive," read a note written - like so many others - in block letters on a splattered poster board.
Beheadings and dismemberments have since become the cartels' signature crime - to punish those who oppose or betray them, to establish their turf, to terrorize the citizenry against testifying against them, and to press community and political leaders to collaborate.
Heads, torsos and severed legs and arms have been strewn along city streets throughout Mexico, mostly in border towns where the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels are in a pitched battle against each other and with Los Zetas.
....dozens of people have been decapitated in recent months. Sometimes, the heads are lined up neatly in rows, displayed along with banners designed to intimidate enemies, rivals and police.
Beheading was a lesson the drug smugglers learned after watching Iraqi insurgents carry out videotaped beheadings, Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said during a 2007 news conference after the discovery of one of the first severed heads.
Zapata County, Texas, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr., who has experienced the border violence firsthand, said his department started seeing beheadings in Mexico about a year after the videotaped beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Pakistan.
....the cartels have increased their efforts to recruit gang members along the southwestern border, including U.S. citizens who are a particularly valuable asset ....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Hi Gang:
The newspaper article I have attached below appears in Friday's edition of the Washington Times and was written by Jerry Seper. a journalist who has been covering immigration and border related issues for many years. His clear understanding of the issues is readily apparent in the news report he authored for today's Washington Times.
The news article raises a number of extremely important concerns that relate not only to the dire situation that Mexico and its citizens find themselves in because of the extreme violence of the competing Mexican drug cartels, but the threat that these cartels also pose to our nation and our citizens.
Clearly these criminals have no rules other than winning is everything and, it is clear that to achieve victory, they will literally stop at nothing. The level of violence demonstrated as a matter of routine by these drug traffickers is unparalleled in the Western Hemisphere and is comparable to the sort of violence that is generally associated with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. As the article points out, it would seem that these criminals have modeled their tactics after the tactics of those terrorist organizations.
What is also worth understanding is the fact that the cartels have already spread their tentacles deeply into our nation. Several months ago Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security stated that some 230 cities in the United States, scattered from coast to coast and border to border have been infested by members of these cartels. The culture of violence and corruption that have become the hallmark of the drug traffickers is crossing our nation's borders. This is clearly evidenced by the fact that Phoenix, Arizona now experiences an average of one kidnapping and/or home invasion each and every day! (These are the crimes that are reported- how many victims and/or their families avoid law enforcement because they are also involved in the drug trade and related crimes?)[snip]
coming to a small american town near you!
News from NAFBPO today.
Border Patrol stops dangerous illegal immigrants
TUCSON - The Tucson Border Patrol says in the past 48 hours, they have stopped five dangerous illegal immigrants from getting into the U.S.
One of the men had been convicted for negligent homicide and another was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
A third man had been charged with felony battery.
Two others had been convicted of sex crimes against children.
http://www.kvoa.com/news/border-patrol-stops-dangerous-criminal-aliens/
U.S. military works with Mexico to fight drug traffickers
Apr. 9 [snip]
U.S. forces are also training Mexico’s military in the rule of law and human rights, skills needed to help transform Mexico’s army from a conventional force designed to counter external threats to a military waging an irregular war where the enemy lives among civilians.
About 20 teams, ranging in size from one to five people, travel to Mexico each year for short visits to assist in training, Renuart said. Most are veterans of Afghanistan or Iraq. Northern Command started sending advisory teams there about two years ago.
Mexican officers have also traveled to the U.S. to observe operations or receive training.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-04-06-Mexico_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomWorld-TopStories+%28News+-+World+-+Top+Stories%29&eid=
These people are ruthless and they are here. It seems our officials are napping, totally unaware of the dangers of not securing the border and enforcing our laws.
More from NAFBPO
Violence on the border endangers Americans
Examiner Editorial
April 8, 2010
A clash with police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a border city overrun by drug gang violence. (Miguel Tovar/AP)
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, hears a lot of disturbing reports from Texas law enforcement officials working along the U.S. border with Mexico. Poe returned from his most recent trip to the Lone Star State claiming to have seen photographs taken by local sheriffs of Mexican military helicopters in action over U.S. territory. One copter was photographed hovering over a building; the other over a recreational vehicle park, according to the Examiner’s Barbara Hollingsworth. “We don’t know what their intention was,” Poe told Hollingsworth, adding: “The Mexican military has no business coming into the United States.”
As troubling as is the possibility that a foreign military force may have violated U.S. airspace on multiple occasions, what is even more disturbing is the escalating violence on the border. It’s no exaggeration to say that the Mexican government is fighting a desperate battle with powerful drug cartels for control of the country. Americans who dismiss fears that this violence will spill over into this country should listen to Poe. He recently contacted sheriffs in the 14 Texas counties that share the border with Mexico and found that more than a third of the people in their jails are foreign nationals who have been charged with committing serious crimes in this country.
The apparent apathy of President Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is inexplicable. Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently asked Napolitano to dispatch unmanned surveillance drones and 1,000 additional U.S. soldiers to boost federal Border Patrol agents and local sheriffs in the effort to protect the border. Instead of heeding Perry’s warning, Napolitano instead canceled the “virtual” border surveillance project approved under the Bush administration. That decision virtually leaves Perry and the governors of Arizona, New Mexico and California to cope with the increasing flood of illegal immigrants, drugs, money and guns coming over the border from Mexico.
Some of the Mexican nationals crossing into the United States from border towns do so in desperation, seeking safety from the horror of towns like Guerroro, a town of 6,000 in which the local authorities recently warned residents to stay inside whenever possible or risk being killed in the crossfire between the drug cartels and Mexican troops. But al Qaeda-linked terrorists from Somalia may also be coming into this country from Mexico, according to the Examiner’s Sara A. Carter. At least 23 Somalis were detained by Mexican authorities for illegally entering that country last year, but then mistakenly released, according to a U.S. intelligence memo Carter obtained. The memo’s author warned U.S. law enforcement personnel “to maintain a heightened level of awareness.” The warning needs to be heard in the Oval Office, too.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Violence-on-the-border-endangers-Americans-90102992.html
People understand the gang scene. But they don’t comprehend them. These gangs around the country could care less about you or your family. Life has no meaning to them. You are just a bug that will be stepped on and killed and that goes for your family. You can never talk to them and convince them to change their ways. It doesn’t work. The only thing they know is violence against you and anyone they meet. They must be met with overwhelming force and eleminated.......one way or another.
So "clear" them out, too...
Your last link includes email addresses. Weird. I’ll add the rest to the Hayworth Vs. McCain file. Thank you and FRegards ....
We have done this in the past, trouble is the cartels pay much better than the Mexican government so most take their training and whatever goodies they receive (weapons, night vision, etc.) and join up with a cartel.
Read the book “Methland” well worth the few days it would take to read it. An eye opener.
Adding this thread to:
Hayworth vs. McCain — Primary Headline Roundup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2456305/posts
“Clearly these criminals have no rules other than winning is everything and, it is clear that to achieve victory, they will literally stop at nothing. The level of violence demonstrated as a matter of routine by these drug traffickers is unparalleled in the Western Hemisphere and is comparable to the sort of violence that is generally associated with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations.”
Rabid animals!!
Sheriff To Texas Border Town: ‘Arm Yourselves’
‘Arm Yourselves’
Last week, residents held a town-hall meeting in Fort Hancock, Texas — a sleepy agricultural town on the border, about an hour southeast of El Paso, that looks like the bleak set of No Country for Old Men.
A couple hundred people crowded into the grade-school gym to hear a chilling message from Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West.
“You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves,” he said. “As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see six people carrying you.”
His warning was prompted by the killing of the Arizona rancher, and the spiraling violence a couple of miles away in Mexico in a region known as the Valley of Juarez. The notorious smuggling territory is being fought over by the Sinaloa and the Juarez cartels.
“One of the men that works for me had five people killed in front of his house over there [in Mexico] this past weekend,” says Curtis Carr, who is a farmer and county commissioner. “And he’s moving his family over here this week. It’s serious over there. Whether or not it’s gonna spill over here, I don’t know.”[snip]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125737965
“coming to a small american town near you!”
If McCain can pass amnesty, EVERY town.
I agree with that. Many will die I fear before we learn that rabid dogs like that can only be dealt with on their level.
Au contraire, it's readily explicable.
The Won hates this country, wants to destroy it, to turn it into a third-world dung-hole.
One step toward accomplishing this goal is to welcome an invading army of foreign barbarians.
Janet Napolitano is but his lickspittle lapdog.
I guess we need to import more murderers, right McCain??
““coming to a small american town near you!”
If McCain can pass amnesty, EVERY town.”
According to John McCain EVERYONE in the world should be able to come here.
Give everyone in the world an opportunity to come to America
“Those who live closest are the ones who can get here. Everyone in the world should have the opportunity through an orderly process to come to this country.”
Source: AZ Senate Debate, in Tucson Citizen Oct 16, 2004
Change rule barring immigrants from running for president?
Q: Should we change our Constitution to allow men like Mel Martinez, born in Cuba, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, to stand here some night as candidates for president?
McCAIN: He and I have many similar attributes, so I have to seriously consider it.
Source: 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC May 3, 2007
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/John_McCain_Immigration.htm
“Q: Should we change our Constitution to allow men like Mel Martinez, born in Cuba, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, to stand here some night as candidates for president?
McCAIN: He and I have many similar attributes, so I have to seriously consider it.”
Despicable!
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