Posted on 02/22/2009 9:31:47 AM PST by djf
Texas State Senator, Dan Patrick, was on FoxNews this morning at 8:45am. He said he had some “breaking news to share”. Boy was it!!! The Texas State Legislature had been trying very hard to get the Obama Administration to respond to a critical situation on the Texas Border. The Administration had not gotten back with Texas as of last night. So the State of Texas told Washington D.C. basically they could go jump, and “we’ll take care of Texas!”. As of last night… the Texas National Guard has been put on High Alert!!! This is the first time in history! Texas tried, desperately to get Washington’s approval… but when they could not get it… they acted on their own. Which I say…. it’s about damn time!!! I personally applaud the guts it took to defy the Fed’s and act in our best interest! In case you are unaware of what the problems are …. Sen. Dan Patrick spelled it out nicely!
1) 100’s of PRO-DRUG CARTEL Mexicans were blocking the entrance to the United States, yesterday and today, banging cars, shouting and holding signs. 10 people were killed Wed. and 12 more yesterday at the border (5 of which were children!!!) 2) They aren’t sure … but they think the Drug Cartel is paying the demonstrators to do what they’re doing. 3) This will spill over into the States! Mr. Patrick, and the other State officials,. are convinced that road-side bombs and car bombs will make it across the border and WILL NOT allow that to happen!! 4) Mexico is breaking out in Civil War in the western part of the border and they expect it to spread the entire border with no end in sight. 5) The National Guard will be activated as the scenario worsens and is on Alert now and will remain so until (and IF) Washington does something to end the danger on the border (Yeah… like that’s gonna happen!).
FoxNews has yet to put this on their website which absolutely ticks me off!!!! I will post it IF they get the stones to do what’s right!
Let’s pray it doesn’t come to this…. but in reality… Texas could be in a Civil War (actually it would be an international incident) with Mexico very soon if this isn’t quelled. Just so you folks know…. the four Militia Groups that are here in Texas will be put on alert this evening. This has gotten REAL, REALLY FAST!
Boy, you make a lot of sense with that statement.
BINGO!
As of today, there are no
On February 22nd, 2009 honorgod says:
As of today, there are no indications that this post is true. Normally, when any level of alert is ordered a complete telephonic alert roster is initiated. These alert orders (WARNO) will warn the individual soldiers to prepare for this or that. I have numerous contacts at various staff levels within the State. Over the past 8 days, I have personally briefed a 2 star General and (deleted as could indicate who I am). Nothing was mentioned or hinted to about a heightened state of alert.
As noted yesterday, yes there is a move to proclaim state sovereignty with the announcement of Bermans HRC50 (resolution). But this has no standing or force behind it. It is equivalent to your New Years Resolutions -in the trash as soon as its declared.
Tim
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/83689
FWIW
Recent border violence tests spillover planRecent border violence tests spillover plan Comments 3 | Recommend 0 February 21, 2009 - 11:15 PM Jeremy RoebuckAs protests and gunfire erupted last week across Reynosa, Hidalgo County authorities stood prepared at the international bridges, ready for any possibility.
With mobile command units connected to statewide intelligence centers and dozens of officers armed to confront potential threats, law enforcement officials responded to Tuesday's violence like they never have before.
The incident prompted state officials to enact for the first time a border-wide emergency plan developed to address threats from Mexico's ongoing war against its entrenched drug cartels.
Dubbed the "Operation Border Star Contingency Plan," Gov. Rick Perry's office drafted the policy with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies last year to prepare for the possibility of violence spilling over into the United States.
"The most significant threat Texas faces is spillover violence from Mexico's drug cartels," Perry's homeland security director, Steve McCraw, told state senators at a hearing Wednesday. "You can never be too prepared."
CONTINGENCY PLAN
Last year, more than 5,700 Mexican citizens died as a result of drug-related violence, according to estimates by the country's attorney general's office. Some 260 more have been killed in cities such as Ciudad Juarez just in the first two months of this year.
And as Mexican President Felipe Calderon continues his administration's three-year crackdown on the nation's crime syndicates, those numbers are only expected to rise.
Texas has yet to see widespread outbreaks of open drug violence on this side of the border, but its status as a primary smuggling corridor makes it vulnerable to potential attacks, state officials said.
"These groups don't care about boundaries," McCraw said. "They don't care about how we organize ourselves."
The protests Tuesday at border crossings in cities such as Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juarez drew thousands of demonstrators but remained relatively calm. A separate Mexican army raid on a suspected Gulf Cartel safe house led to a shootout that killed at least six later that day.
The violence remained confined to the Mexican side of the border, but the incident provided a good test run for the lowest levels of the Border Star contingency plan, said Katherine Cesinger, a spokeswoman for the governor.
"We're doing what we can to fill in the gaps from a state level," she said.
Throughout the day, a central operations center in Austin sent constant intelligence updates to state, local and federal law enforcement agencies up and down the border. They kept in constant contact over a designated radio band as the situation developed.
That state of heightened alert makes up the lowest level of response outlined in the security plan. While individual response policies have been developed for five border regions across the state and Texas' coastal bend, officials remained tight-lipped regarding many of the specifics, citing security concerns.
But local law enforcement officials who helped develop the plans say they address several potential scenarios ranging from violence close to the Texas border to sustained attacks on U.S. citizens and law enforcement in Texas.
At each increasing threat level, different local, state and federal authorities will be called in to establish order, they said. In the direst situations, the governor could dispatch the Texas Army National Guard to help maintain the peace.
"There's no doubt that there's been a slight extension - not a spillover - of (drug) violence into Hidalgo County so far," Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. "But we have to be prepared for more serious situations."
THREAT OF COLLAPSE?
So far, the plan addresses law enforcement concerns only, state officials said. It does not provide for other possibilities such as effects on the local economy or increased levels of refugees and asylum seekers.
But those are all scenarios that should be considered, said Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos, who also helms the governor's Border Security Council.
"You are already seeing the beginning stages of that now," he said. "Some of the wealthy and upper-middle-class Mexicans are buying second or third homes here because they are concerned about the state of their country."
The U.S. Department of Defense went even further late last year when it issued a report that listed Pakistan and Mexico as countries whose governments face a threat of rapid collapse.
Based in part on the report's recommendation, the then U.S. Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, ordered his agency to begin preparing its own border spillover contingency plan. But like its state equivalent, the details have been kept under wraps.
While state and local officials have called a full-scale government collapse unlikely, Cascos predicts the security situation along Texas' southern frontier will only continue to deteriorate.
"Until Mexico gets a handle on the activities going on over there," he said, "these problems are going to continue making their way to this side."
My grandson is in the guard, and this is his weekend to meet. My daughter did not mention this last night when we talked.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread439045/pg1
Link to ATS thread on it. According to some posters, the governor issued the order.
Various Links to this story:
“what does “High Alert” mean??”
Excellent question, sir.
I would also like that question answered.
Thus far, it appears there is no one here on this thread that knows. Thus far, it is all yack, yack, yack (as usual).
I don’t think this article was referring to the GOVERNOR of Texas putting the Militia groups on alert, but the leaders of the militia groups themselves putting them on alert.
From paranoid fantasy in 1993 to reality 16 years later. Kind of amazing, isn't it?
And the media said nothing. NOTHING.
The drug dealers were the dead ones. The stealth guys dressed in black were the good guys. I think it is a running battle between the two. The border was closed, the protests are (it sounds like) promoted by the drug cartels to cause chaos.
Yeah we know that and we don’t like it.
So what else is new? Tired of the Bush thing. Give it a rest, please.
The United States has been the most tolerant nation probably in the history of the world. Yet the new multi-culturalists are often nasty, rude and downright un-American. Plus liberals pander to them for votes and they bring their 3rd world socialist victimization attitudes here...that's why the DemRats have total power now!
That may be, but I doubt that the “Malitia’s” are going to do anything at the border.
I can see the time coming when they might become active, but not from a threat from Mexico.
If we had any other man in the Whitehouse than Obozo, this would not even be an issue.
Bush made excuses for Mexico’s incursions into the U.S., but if push came to shove would have handled any real threat of incursion.
There are citizens along the border who are prepared to deal with those threats to their family. I knew some of them in NM over 20 years ago who had class III gun licenses and automatic weapons. If I lived that close to the border, I probably would have also.
to them you are. Irritating isn’t. Wonder what would happen to an American who went to Mexico illegally? And then started demanding that the Mexicans speak English?
High alert means be ready to move: those designated to be on high alert to move anywhere in 72 hours or less.
This is the San Jacinto Monument for all of you out there that dont know....
This is the site that Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna and the Mexican army, gaining our independence from an oppressive regime. It was on April 21, 1836 - a day that is still celebrated here in Texas and taught to all Texas kids in school.
This is the highest monument in the USA - higher than the Washington Monument.What a beautiful site....I always love seeing it as I drive back into Houston from the east.
One of our favorite state mottos gives fair warning to all who would try: DONT MESS WITH TEXAS
Thanks for posting such a beautiful picture.
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