Posted on 04/18/2009 3:46:22 PM PDT by AuntB
COLUMBIANA, Ala. – Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year....
A type of crime, and criminal, once foreign to this landscape of blooming dogwoods had arrived in Shelby County . Sheriff Chris Curry felt it even before he laid eyes on the grisly scene. He called the state. The FBI. The DEA. Anyone he could think of.
"I don't know what I've got," he warned them. "But I'm gonna need help."
The five dead men lay scattered about the living room of one apartment in a complex of hundreds.
Some of the men showed signs of torture: Burns seared into their earlobes revealed where modified jumper cables had been clamped as an improvised electrocution device. Adhesive from duct tape used to bind the victims still clung to wrists and faces...
"We became a hub without knowing it," Sheriff Curry says. "We've got to wake people up because we're seeing it all over the place. It is now firmly located throughout this country."
Unless you have a 50-foot wall around your town, no one should feel immune from this. The citizen in me says, `I can't believe this is happening in my town.' But the cop in me says, `Well, it's only a matter of time' ... because there are high-level drug traffickers in the area.
"They moved their home bases to these little pockets."
One reason for that shift is the ability these days to "blend in in plain sight," as the Atlanta DEA chief puts it. The flood of Hispanic immigrants into American communities to work construction and plant jobs helped provide cover for traffickers looking to expand into new markets or build hubs in quiet suburbs with fewer law officers than the big cities.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Then they won't fell protected and will have to obey the law!
Wake Up America!
Ping!
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Forgot to ping you to this one.
Grisly Slayings Brings Mexican Drug War to US
One reason for that shift is the ability these days to "blend in in plain sight," as the Atlanta DEA chief puts it. The flood of Hispanic immigrants into American communities to work construction and plant jobs helped provide cover for traffickers looking to expand into new markets or build hubs in quiet suburbs with fewer law officers than the big cities.
Amazingly honest for an AP article.
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Counting On Illegal Aliens
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Who Counts?: The next U.S. census chief wants to count people who aren’t
there. The acting director wants to count people who shouldn’t be here.
And Acorn will help do the counting.
Back when he was the Census Bureau’s associate director of statistical
design, Robert M. Groves, nominated to be the next director of the bureau,
recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to correct an
alleged undercount of minorities in urban areas — areas that tend to vote
heavily Democratic.
Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher overruled him, saying the use of
“statistical sampling,” as it’s known, was a form of “political
tampering.” The Supreme Court later ruled in 1999 that statistical
sampling couldn’t be used to apportion House seats among the states, but
didn’t rule out using estimates to redraw district lines within a state.
Statistical sampling is a technique akin to polling. You select what you
consider a representative sample and extrapolate your findings over the
general population.
The problem is that Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution forbids
it. It requires an “actual enumeration” of all Americans every 10 years,
not a guess based on statistical sampling. That means counting real, live,
breathing people. The Founding Fathers weren’t fools. Sampling techniques
have changed, but human nature has not.
If the Census Bureau were allowed to use sampling, it would have to
develop formulas for its samples. How you structure the formula affects
the results. It’s possible a party in power might determine the desired
result first, then determine the sampling formula needed to achieve it.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says there are no plans to use statistical
sampling in the 2010 census, but there will be enormous pressure to do so.
Remember that Judd Gregg withdrew his nomination to be Commerce Secretary
when plans to run the census out of the White House under Chief of Staff
Rahm Emmanuel were revealed.
On April 1, Secretary Locke joined several activist groups, including the
National Council of La Raza and the League of United Latin American
Citizens, at a press conference to talk about efforts to ensure a full
count of Latinos in the 2010 census.
After the press conference, acting director Thomas Mesenbourg said the
Census Bureau intended to reach out to illegal aliens through “trusted”
community organizations.
“It’s more than just the Census Bureau telling them that it’s safe,” said
Mesenbourg. “We need somebody that they view as a trusted voice — somebody
in a community organization that can assure them it’s safe.”
One of those trusted organizations, the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now, infamous for its documented participation in
vote fraud, signed on as a national partner with the Census Bureau in
February. It will help recruit the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to
go door to door. Acorn has helped ensure “people” like Mary Poppins and
Jive Turkey were registered to vote. We wouldn’t want the census to miss
them.
Groves has spent decades researching how to improve response rates, and
apparently one of the ways being considered is to remind people of the
federal goodies that come along with being counted.
Page 24 of the Census Bureau’s 351-page 2010 plan for the census advises
that “messages that increase knowledge of the benefits of filling out the
Census improve motivation and favorability towards Census participation.”
People should be reminded that the “Census determines how over $300
billion per year in federal funds get divided among states and local areas
of the country.”
This is even if the people are illegally here or are just estimated to be
here.
The nation depends on an accurate count of who and where we are. But it
shouldn’t be used to create a permanent class dependent on government and
the drawing of lines to create a permanent Democratic majority.
As a final touch, throats were slashed open, post-mortem.”
“Agents described it as friendly competition turned deadly among a group of distributors from Atlanta and Birmingham that often sold and shared drug loads when one or the other group was running low. At some point, about a half-million in drug money went missing. One group suspected the other of taking it, and went after the five men at Cahaba Lakes.
The money was never found.”
I am much more concerned with the sherrifs deputies that these guys have bought off, and the CBP and DHS corruption. Google Dallas county Sherrif deputy charged with cocaine. The killing has just begun.
If and when we the people wake up to what is happening, it may well be too late. The DEA, ICE, and FBI all feed the problem. Build your wall on the Mexican side of the border. You will not because you would rather impose on fellow Americans that happen to be Texans, because you fear Mexico. Remember the Alamo, Come and Take It.
The people have been complaining in earnest about just this sort of problem for 10 years and more. The Federal government doesn't want a wall and does everything it can to help the illegals immigrants and the criminals among them to blend. Now Mexico's internal drug is slowly becoming our internal drug war and NOW the cops and officials react with surprise and shock.
“Buying weapons is legal in Texas, but the purchaser must fill out a government form that indicates whether the purchaser plans to keep the gun for himself or give it to a third party.”
Do you advocate making the purchase of weapons illegal in Texas?
If so, we shall have no further discussion.
“Do you advocate making the purchase of weapons illegal in Texas?
If so, we shall have no further discussion.”
Why on earth would you even think that? I didn’t write the article. I must say that is something I’ve never been accused of and I thought I’d heard it all.
Are you just looking for a reason to argue? If so you “shall” have to find someone else.
bookmark
Sorry. I did not intend to appear argumentative.
The gist of the main article, and the source that was quoted in your post appeared to slam Texas.
Pride seems to go before a fall ;)
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