Posted on 03/25/2006 11:11:01 AM PST by nj26
If you don't have access to Texas newspapers or the internet, you may not have heard the sensational news about the enormous cache of weapons our government recently seized in Laredo, Texas. U.S. authorities grabbed two completed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), materials for making 33 more, military-style grenades, 26 grenade triggers, large quantities of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, silencers, machine gun assembly kits, 300 primers, bullet-proof vests, police scanners, sniper scopes, narcotics, and cash.
That sounds like a war is going on in Texas! If bomb-making factories and firearms assembly plants are ordinary day-to-day business in the drug war along our southern border, the American people need to know more about it.
The Val Verde County chief deputy warned that drug traffickers are helping terrorists with possible al Quaeda ties to cross the Texas-Mexico border into the United States. A government spokesman in Houston said "at this point there is no connection with anything in Iraq." Well, we are not so easily reassured. We wonder what our government is doing to fulfill its duty to "protect each of them [the states] against invasion," as called for in the U.S. Constitution, Article IV.
The Department of Homeland Security now admits that there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military or police, or drug or people smugglers dressed in military uniforms, during the last ten years, including 63 in Arizona, and several Border Patrol agents have been wounded in these encounters. This admission comes after years of pretending that such incursions were just "accidents."
Homeland Security sent a confidential memo in January to our Border Patrol agents warning that they could be the targets of assassins hired by alien smugglers. The alert states that the contract killers will probably be members of the vicious MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang (whose 17-year-old killers will be protected from capital punishment by a recent U.S Supreme Court decision).
There is, indeed, a drug war going on between rival drug gangs, but the U.S. government seems to be just a bystander without manpower or weapons to take action. Are we going to continue to leave our Border agents sitting ducks for Mexican snipers?
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) reported that sheriff deputies spotted a military-style Humvee near El Paso, Texas, with a mounted .50-caliber machine gun escorting a caravan of SUVs bringing illegal drugs into our country. Our outgunned and outmanned sheriff deputies and state highway patrol couldn't do anything except take pictures.
The Mexican government is unwilling or incapable of doing anything to stop the wide-open lawlessness on the Mexican side of the border. Our Border Patrol agents say they are often confronted by corrupt Mexican military units employed to protect and escort violent drug smugglers.
Meanwhile, the news media have shown us pictures of the just-discovered sophisticated 2,400-foot tunnel running from Mexico under our border to a warehouse in San Diego. U.S. authorities recovered more than two tons of marijuana, and it is unclear how long the tunnel has been in operation or how many tons of drugs already passed through. It is now believed that the drug cartel started building the tunnel two years ago.
The Bush Administration whines that it can't (i.e., won't) do anything to implement border security unless its guest-worker/amnesty proposal is part of the legislative package. When is our government going to protect us from the crime, the drugs, the smuggling racket, destruction of property, the endangerment to U.S. residents along our border and our undermanned Border Patrol?
In charge of protecting Americans against this war is 36-year-old Julie Myers, to whom President Bush gave a recess appointment after her Senate confirmation bogged down because of her total lack of law-enforcement experience. Her qualifications are her connections: she is the niece of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers and the wife of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's chief of staff.
When Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke to CPAC in Washington, DC on February 9, he said: "We have to work with Mexico because, like it or not, we are joined by a common border. We are in a sense married, and we have to make the marriage work because we cannot get a divorce."
Cornyn seems to have forgotten that Texas was once married to Mexico, and Texas didn't like it. Texas fought a war for independence, successfully "divorced" Mexico, and later came into the United States. Not many Americans want to be "married" to any other country, but some powerful people are working for open borders among all North American countries. When they talk about "comprehensive" reform, that means including guest-worker/amnesty as part of any border-security legislation.
Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) says that if you visit the border, you will find that almost everyone who lives there is armed for protection from illegals. Just imagine if you had to carry a gun when you go to the grocery store or take your kids to school!
For the best up-to-date analysis of what our government should do, read Rep. Hayworth's new book called Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror. He calls for a security fence, 10,000 border agents, enforcement of penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens, cooperation between the feds and our 700,000 local and state police officers to enforce our immigration laws, more detention centers to keep illegals until they can be deported, and an end to the racket of giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens.
A good reminder as wimpy RINOs in the Senate and the Administration prepare their amnesty bill...
Good God! For god's sake...straighten this out, you RHINO as@@oles!! What is going on with Homeland security? this is beyond belief. Shoot to kill!
But the president said we've beefed up border security. How can this be?
As far as I am concerned, any "conservative" that votes for this amnesty bill deserves to be tossed out of the Senate on his behind.
I get to ping you for a change . . .
If this were happening in Iraq, the MSM would have labeled it a quagmire and a civil war.
Bush is a traitor to the republic as far as this goes. I think the bordering states need to activate the militia and coordinate some cooperation between them and the border patrol.
If, after this, we as Americans are not actively exercising our Second Amendment rights -- while we still have them -- we get what we deserve.
This is not an instance of the innocent, oppressed peoples of the third world, courageously clawing out a desperate foothold in a new, hostile land to build a better life. This is an armed invasion by an enemy force.
The president, the administration, the congress and neither party will lift a finger to keep this country safe and secure. It's up to each and every individual American citizen to defend his or her home and family.
It's our home, dammit! We live here!
I agree!!!
Enforce our laws! Now we have illegals demonstrating....what next?
"I think the bordering states need to activate the militia and coordinate some cooperation between them and the border patrol."
Sadly, the Republican party is ceding this issue to the Democrats. While Janet Napolitano (D-AZ) and Bill Richardson (D-NM) are declaring a "border emergency" and "deploying" the National Guard to the border (albeit basically as a publicity stunt), our party sits on its hands (or worse, it advocates amnesty.)
Ditto that.....
"Now we have illegals demonstrating....what next?"
If the police would do their job and threaten to arrest any law-breaking protesters and turn them over to the INS for DEPORTATION, those protests would end real soon.
Quising opened the Norwegian border to the Nazi troops in 1940, and they took the country. Who is leaving our border open today, obviously those in political power today, Dems and Republicans both. As Roosevelt said in another situation, "a pox on both their houses."
Well, I guess since we HAVE to be "married" to Mexico (rolls eyes), in a sense it IS a civil war.
This our homeland, but the illegals lay claim to it. (Have you seen some of the banners and signs held by the "peaceful demonstrators" who were -- ahem -- marching in support of the American Dream in Phoenix this week? The sentiment was more "Yanqui Go Home to Europe" and "We Hate Whites." More La Raza than American Dream, if you ask me.)
Who put them there , why the Minutemen - the offshoot group tied to the John Birch bunch, of the bad old days.
There is a lot to be concerned about, but I don't think it has quite gotten to 'an invading army' yet. In a few years, if nothing is done, it may be an entirely different matter - perhaps past fixing, if not past fixing now.
With 11 million (or more) in country now, how can it be fixed?
Traitor and a coward.
You are quite correct..Why would you want to get that up close and personal with..shudder..Her Heinous?
Dangerous holes?
Holes?
Holes indicate there is an attempt at stopping something.
There are no holes.
Paging the usual suspects.
Holy COW ping!
Wow. I'm out of words.
"straighten this out, you RHINO as@@oles!"
Sir... sir, our President has asked us to carry on a "civil debate." Please refrain from showing emotions about your country being over-run by illegals and God-knows-what else. Please allow your Republican White House, Senate, House of Representatives and Supreme Court to figure this out for you. As you know they have your best interest in mind and always act and behave "civilly"
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Just aiding terrorist Americans are unwilling to do..gag me, the GOP is going to pay a high price for this lax immigration and open borders..Mr BUSH is missing in action here.
If it isn't already, it will be soon enough.
So who is the head of the INS? We should start a movement to demand his firing.
I live in Mesa (a suburb of Phoenix), and that little stunt the illegals pulled is going to bite them badly. People here are livid seeing Mexican flags in our streets, tying up traffic and preventing us taxpayers from getting our work done. That crap might fly in LA or SF, but you DO NOT do that in Phoenix. I've heard from Kerry-voting Dems who are LIVID about the protest.
Since they were ostensibly protesting Sen. Jon Kyl, I think he just gained about 10 points in his margin of victory in November.
The illegal aliens and the criminals who hire them and the criminals who harbor them are getting out in the street making their desires known. It is way past time those of us who support the rule of law and secure borders did the same.
Join Veterans for Secure Borders, The Minuteman Project, Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and other groups protesting amnesty for these criminals, and demanding the government protect our borders.
http://www.areckoning.com/
FReepers should be at this rally in strength. Saturday, May 6, in Crawford, TX.
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Coming soon to more middle class neighborhoods.
Evidently, "conservative talk show host" is one of those jobs that Americans just don't want to, or aren't able to, do.
Sure, that could be done- but, have you considered the environmental consequences? /s
there's more than that.... :)
You're living in a fantasy world where you imagine our party leaders putting America's interests first instead of their pocketbooks and their fear of taking action.
Sounds good to me.
Phyllis Schlafly Ping
I know, but how many Bots can we ping? :-D
Dubya Bush's dereliction of duty of protecting U.S. sovereignty and security is responsible for allowing various plotters and planners to go about their business of the Mexican Invasion unfettered.
How this man can be such a passionate advocate of liberty and fighting evil overseas while acting like Vicente Fox's lap dog domestically is an unexplainable enigma (unless one believes in a NWO conspiracy.)
El Presidente Bush is the real head of the INS. And, it is obvious he likes the situation or he would take the issue strongly to Congress and to the American people.
The answer to this crap is to bus every illegal that is caught to the neighborhoods where our "leaders" live and let them out. Let them handle it right in their front yards. Texas, Arizona & California should make a huge effort to transport the illegal problem to Washington D.C. & it's 'burbs.
Your money might be taken from you, under threat of governmental force against you, and given to the illegals?
It makes NO sense.
Of course not to us, but...
The New World Order/Globalism Agenda makes "sense" for the anti-sovereignists (sadly, some of our own who infest the GOP) who deem a strong America a threat to the ICC, Kyoto, a World Resource Tax, etc.
Diluting patriotism and conservatism is THE modus operandi of those who permit the unfettered illegals flooding our America.
The person directly responsible for this is Michael Chertoff, i.e. our hands-off Homeland Security director, so you should probably address your complaints to him, although I doubt he'll be that responsive to your criticism.
Unless you happen to be an illegal alien from Mexico, or a wealthy Dubai businessman/Muslim cleric.
Then, he'll be all ears.
Don't know whether we should laugh or cry ;-)
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