Kidnapping in Candelaria: Jon Dougherty on recent battle in escalating border war with Mexico

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, December 5, 2003 | Jon Dougherty

[JohnHuang2]

Kidnapping in Candelaria

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Posted: December 5, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Ever hear of a place called Candelaria, Texas? Few have, but it's the most recent battleground in the escalating border war between Mexico and the United States – the one officials on both sides of the Rio Grande try desperately to ignore, even as their own citizens become further entangled in a mess that gets worse by the month.

Details are sketchy, but they are clear enough to know that essentially this is what happened.

According to law-enforcement sources I spoke with, a squad of armed Mexican paramilitary police or soldiers crossed into the U.S. near Candelaria Nov. 24 around 5 p.m. and took a five-member family – a husband, a wife and three minor children – captive at gunpoint. The Mexicans then brought the American family back across the border into Mexico, where they held them for several hours.

Eventually the wife and children were released and the following day they reported the incident to local authorities, who then passed the buck to Washington, via the FBI. As of Dec. 3, sources say, the husband was still being held in Mexico.

Bear in mind this family was on their own property and were well inside the boundaries of the United States. They were shooting rabbits on their own land and, according to those in the know, were not threatening any Mexican military or police units and did not fire their weapons across the border.

Getting local authorities or the FBI to talk about this incident was virtually impossible, and that in an of itself should be an affront to every American, no matter where you live. That an entire family can be captured on U.S. soil by armed foreign insurgents is an outrage that should illicit threats of retaliation from the Oval Office all the way down to the park benches, barber shops and living rooms in every city across this great land.

But instead of outrage and threats of retaliation, our government and the useful idiots who serve Washington on the local level are instead harassing and arresting American landowners and volunteers who are furiously trying to stem the tide of illegal aliens, and now foreign incursions, into our country – a job Washington should be doing in their place.

Why did Mexican forces even cross into the U.S. and kidnap an American family? Maybe the answer is simple: Because they can.

Why are hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops overseas instead of on our borders, when we have foreign troops invading our soil and kidnapping our people? Maybe the answer is simple: Because few American powerbrokers give a hoot about the sanctity of U.S. borders.

Why are we not stomping the goose feathers out of Mexican President Vicente Fox for allowing these invasions to take place on a regular basis? Maybe the answer is simple: Because we'd have to stomp President Bush's behind as well – U.S. and Mexican leaders are equally responsible for neglecting borders and the conditions along them.

It should be noted this latest Mexican incursion was no accident. Mexican military and police cross into the United States all the time, according to federal and local authorities, as well as border residents. On occasion, Mexican forces have even fired upon easily recognizable U.S. Border Patrol agents along the border. Other times, U.S. authorities have simply spotted Mexican military and police personnel inside the United States.

Instead of arresting American volunteers who are working without assistance, without pay, without the luxury of government benefits, and with almost no support, Washington should be encouraging, supplying and training Americans willing to grab a rifle and stand a post on the border to prevent further outrages like this.

The same goes for tyrannical local authorities who retaliate against duty-bound Americans trying to stem this invasion. There is no way a three- or four-man sheriff's department can effectively serve the vast counties bordering Mexico, let alone spare personnel to intercept well-armed Mexican soldiers. Yet plenty of local yokels get upset when some "damned volunteer" shows up to help the very community the locals are there to serve. They should be organizing and managing these "posse" volunteers, not running them off or jailing them.

There was a time when Americans were expected to take up arms to defend themselves. If armed kidnappings and incursions by foreign personnel are being sanctioned by our own government, we've got enemies on both sides of the border.

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[JohnHuang2]

Friday, December 5, 2003

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[Paul C. Jesup]

JustPiper, looks like WND has confirmed this previous Newsmax story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1033388/posts

[Fledermaus]

If Bush doesn't do something about our southern border, he's a fool and a failure.

How can you convince the public to suck it up, spend money and have troops die in Iraq because we don't close it's borders with terrorists sponsors like Syria and Iran (while we treat Saudi Arabia like friends...even my idiot, left wing, Clinton loving mother brings up the Saudis while she's spewing the latest DNC talking points to me on the phone!).

I don't understand why we can't put 5,000 or so National Guard or real Army soldiers along our border with Mexico. Heck, I'm cranky enough to give shoot to kill orders.

This stuff is an act of war. But our elected leaders don't care about defending the country any longer. All they care about is getting their $100,000 for a Bee Museum named after them in their dinky hometown in some backwater city no one gives a hoot about.

I once thought Republicans had principles. I once thought the third party folks were crazy when they said, "the GOP and the Dems are no different" when I hear the crap coming from the Dems and some logic from the GOP. I no longer think they were crazy.

So now, when I hear someone tell me that not voting or voting a third party is a "waste of my vote", I finally disagree. If I vote, as is my right, it's never wasted.

And if working my tail off for almost 30 years to get more GOP candidates elected gets me Dem-lite (1980's) and Dem-PLUS (expanded bureaucracy and "entitlements" in 2000's), then what's the point?

[claudiustg]

---And if working my tail off for almost 30 years to get more GOP candidates elected gets me Dem-lite (1980's) and Dem-PLUS (expanded bureaucracy and "entitlements" in 2000's), then what's the point? ---

Well, they're ot screaming to take your guns away. That's a start.

[claudiustg]

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Sort of like not.

[Fledermaus]

Well, they're ot screaming to take your guns away. That's a start.

No, they whisper.

[JustPiper]

Let's share this Paul ;) For all the Dougherty naysayers ;)Thanx for the ping!

[Robert Drobot]

BTTT

[rebel]

Never again will I vote for anyone who expands government power, encourages dependency, refuses to enforce the 2nd Amendment, or refuses to defend our borders.

I will vote third party before I vote for a socialist in republican clothing.

[blanknoone]

I know they wouldn't do it, but in my ideal world, one of the 'vigilante' border groups arms themselves, invades mexico and frees the man from a mexican jail while issuing a press release: "You invade America, and kidnap someone, we invade you and take him back...even if the government won't."

In my dream world, the 'international incident' stirs up attention and a controversy that leads to the American government actually protecting its border.

[4Freedom]

First, our 'Hispanderer in Chief' would have all the Americans arrested, jailed and possibly executed.

Then he'd use the incident as an excuse to bend over and grab his ankles, again. He'd give amnesty to all the illegal aliens, completely erase our borders, give Mexico tons of money and make a public spectacle of kissing Vicente Fox's butt in front of the entire U.N. assembly.

[Destructor]

This is the shape of things to come. Gun owners will be targeted with extreme prejudice in the New World Order.

[jokar]

BTTT

[janetgreen]

I will vote third party before I vote for a socialist in republican clothing.

Many Americans have come to this same conclusion. This outrage isn't mentioned on the network news, and Bush remains mute.

[PRND21]

...according to those in the know...

Phffft!

[B4Ranch]

Ping

[B4Ranch]

If armed kidnappings and incursions by foreign personnel are being sanctioned by our own government, we've got enemies on both sides of the border.

[B4Ranch]

"I will vote third party before I vote for a socialist in republican clothing."

That is a decision I made when it became obvious that Presidente Bush would not protect our borders from illegal aliens.

I wonder where the Presidente Bush supporters are today?

[Paul C. Jesup]

You're welcome.

[glock rocks]

Unfreakin believable.... and the leftmedia remains mute as well. the slide is accelerating. damn.