Brazen Mexican incursion stretches American credulity — and patience (McAllen,TX - Good read!)

The McAllen Monitor ^ | 02/02/2006 | The Monitor View

[sarasmom]

Are you forgetting Waco and Ruby Ridge?
Those were not LEO SWAT teams...
They were paramilitary JBTs, without UCMJ Code of Conduct restrictions, in action.
The only place I see a role for the BATF in the USA, is on the border, looking outwards.

[HiJinx]

http://www.kfoxtv.com/index.html

Second story on the left side...also has a video link. It's on tape.

[Itzlzha]

Video would be a nice start. A picture is worth a thousand words, you know.

Then the bullet-riddled bodies of Mexican Military involved in an incursion/invasion of sovereign US Soil while aiding/abetting smuggling operations against the US should be worth a Steven King Novel!

[GarySpFc]

Now is the time to start raising hell with your senators for twin 15 foot fences. The word out of the senate is they are going to resist putting up the twin 15 foot steel fence on 700 miles of the border the House authorized. Without the fence that means it will be business as usual. We need to hold their feet to the fire.

[Sybeck1]

First I had seen this. Is Hannity or someone at least getting this out at the bational level?

[arthurus]

You have a point but only if we could convert the whole org into border security troops. We don't need any more of these types. Lord knows- when this war winds down great numbers of these folks will be released on society and many will head for police departments to offer their services. The demob after VN is what injected the last ìnfection into the body politic. All those ex green-beanies going around to the Podunk police dept and hey you want to have a SWAT team like the Big City? You want to look like Big Time? It didn't die out as they retired. Podunk trained up some more to continue feeling like Bigg City and now they smash the house two doors down from you and shoot folks and break mucho things and then say gee it was the wrong address, sorry bout that and then fight the homeowner in court about payng for it.

[sarasmom]

I'm getting the impression you do not understand the nature of the "players" here.
Or my point.
"Ex-green beanies" are not the problem here.
Frankly,I highly doubt many, if any at all, former DOD Special Forces personnel(green,black, blue or red) are employed by any LEO.
Wannabees, probably.
Wannabees are those who could not meet the stringent minimum of the actual "special forces" standards.
Or those who got kicked out, for dereliction of duty.
Wannabees are actively recruited by the BATF, and various State and local level LEOs.
Actual former "experienced, highly trained and qualified" former special forces people"...not a chance.

[dljordan]

"The only place I see a role for the BATF in the USA"

I'd like to see them in the unemployment line.

[ChefKeith]

A few of these should solve the immediate problem and get the message across.

[arthurus]

I know some ex berets who worked for Florida state and local forces. They are retired from that now. One is a relative and a war hero turned a****le. When the Army got "downsized" after VN he didn'tget "fired" as it were but discovered that there would be no further advancement so he left for greener pastures along with a bunch of others.