Posted on 05/17/2008 8:19:55 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Some countries seem to never have to leave home to fight a war.
Take Mexico.
President Felipe Calderon has just sent thousands more troops into the northern state of Sinaloa to fight the drug cartels, which evidently have taken over both the Mexican side of the border with the United States and large swaths of Mexico proper near the border.
In the past two weeks, six senior police officers across Mexico have been assassinated by the cartels. The latest was Edgar Millan, who had been acting director of the federal police for just 30 days before he was shot outside his home in Mexico City. Up north, closer to the border, the cartels have even taken to decapitating their police victims to add an extra measure of horror to their assassination campaign.
As recently as last week the president promised (again) to take back the streets from the cartels. He's a little late out of the starting gate. Since he came to office in 2006 more than 3,500 people have died in the cartel violence. Drug hit men have even been targeting popular recording artists, who they kidnap and murder as punishment for hit songs that don't paint the cartel hombres in a favorable light.
The whole sorry scene of the border war over control of drug routes has the air of an open insurrection that the government of Mexico seems powerless to put down. It's one thing to blame American drug consumers for the huge power of the cartels, it's quite another for the government to simply fail to stamp out the murderous insurrection with brutal force. It's a challenge to the very manhood of the Mexican government and there isn't a blue pill to cure this impotency.
Americans have had plenty of reason to mistrust the Mexican government...
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I suspect that the answer to this question is that El Presidente is conflicted.
On the one hand, he is faced with bald-faced, open insurrection and criminal gangs thumbing their noses at him. On the other hand, he can’t afford to lose his 5% rake-off from the cartels.
No president of Mexico in recent memory has retired from office with less than a billion dollars stashed away in foreign banks, and Felipe Calderon can’t afford to be the first to retire from office in relative poverty.
End the WOD.
I have major sympathy for the few honest and dedicated police officials left in Mexico. If they too go over to the dark side, who can blame them?
“Take Mexico. “
Every country in the world is ‘taking Mexico’....especially the US. Mexico is the mess it is for one reason...THEY like it that way.
Agreed.
It's full of Mexicans.
The facts speak for themselves.
what? It’s far better to die fighting for right than to join the murderous cartels. Either that or get the hell out of that country.
Not enough drillin' and pumpin'.
Will it happen? Never! It would take large cojones and we no longer have them available, due to PC RATs who removed them with the eager help of leftist lawyers, corrupt judges and environmental whackos who oversee and question the president's every move. We and Mexico are nearing chaos, but most Americans are terminally unaware of the danger. Mexicans and many other nations are shipping us mega-quantities of illegals to assure the ruination our Nation. It's beyond sad, now.
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.
Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.
Wanted for Murder in New York City.
Chicago wanted for Murder
Philadelphia wanted for murder
San Francisco wanted for Murder
New Orleans wanted for Murder
Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC
FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals) Around 40% of the FBI's wanted for murder are Mexican Nationals
There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. He said further that most of illegals in the federal prisons were in for drug related charges. Most of the illegals in jail for murder were in the state prisons. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.
Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article. Also this article from the LA Times. And here. This makes intuitive sense. We see stories regularly of drug gang killings in Mexico but we don't see those same stories in the USA. The reason we don't see those stories is not because its not happening. Rather we don't see the stories about illegals killing blacks because that kind of story is terribly politically incorrect. The populations being displaced in downtown sanctuary cities especially are American blacks. That means that their criminal elements would be pushed aside by Mexican gangs as well. That's also the story that the wanted for murder posters in all the major cities seems to suggest.
Nevertheless, the pattern of non reporting is starting to break. Discovery Channel has a series called Gangland that mentions ethnic cleasing of blacks by Mexican gangs
Reported Foreign Nationals on Death Row in the U.S.
To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.
All that said the true number of criminal aliens is far higher than is revealed by criminal aliens in prisons. Most are simply waived through the courts.DHS Secretary Chertoff, has been quoted as warning that two million people in this country illegally have committed serious crimes. If you check the links you'll notice that its McCain who cites Chertoff. See also here and here Here is more info from Judicial Watch.
However the number of illegals on death row is far lower. Sadly, so many small towns and villages across America have sent their warriors off to war half way across the world only to see communities fill up with illegal aliens.
After the US occupied Mexico City during the Mexican War, the US actually contemplated making it part of the US. However the hangup with dealing with a large Catholic population and people of brown skin prevented it from happening. If the US was culturally ready to incorporate Mexico in the 1840’s, North American history would have been very interesting because we would become a former English nation to become a Anglo Latino nation assuming the two cultures could fuse together and form something totally new. The combined natural resources of Mexico and US would also add an additional dimension to US economic development.
Reminds me of Longshank’s comment at table regarding the problems in Scotland;
“The problem with Scotland is - its full of Scots.”
Considering that we are not occupying Mexico, contrary to the thinking of La Raza, your comment is apropos and to the point.
And yet our own politicians who are for amnesty and open borders will turn us into another Mexico if they get their way.
Well, a giant chunk of Mexico’s population is fleeing to the US. Can’t think of why....
What’s wrong with Mexico? Hmm, maybe the problem is that it is a corrupt stinking ####hole of a third world socialist nation that is only as marginally functional as it is because of it’s proximity to the United States? And that’s just for starters...
What I find incredible is that Mexico is such a stinking third world country and the illegals and sympathizers here want to recreate it here in the U.S.
There is a saying that probably isn’t far from the truth that says you can tell the honest politicians and LEOs in Mexico- they are the ones that are being murdered.
Thanks for the great post. All the political rhetoric in the world cannot change the facts of “immigration” as it is today.
Thanks again.
We ought to invade Mexico, clean it up, then give it back along with a bill for services rendered.
We ought to invade Mexico, clean it up, then give it back along with a bill for services rendered.
(Add in drugs, and it's even more prosperous.)
Mexico is just so utterly corrupt that they cannot find a way to take that wealth and turn themselves into a viable nation.
And closer union with them is far more likely to bring us down than to bring them up. Always much easier to degrade and destroy than to improve and build.
Might be a little more negative motivation than that - he'll get his 5% if he plays, but if he makes any serious effort to shut down the cartels he would be dead in a week. Too many moles in the police and army.
Mexico needs a new revolution. This time the people need to win. The corrupt few need to be put down and a true democracy established —it will in time. It would have happened sooner of the USA had not opened her borders. Mark my words—when the border is really closed—Mexico will blow up in a bloodbath. In the end, Mexico will be a better place. Once they removed the shackles of the corrupt it could be a great nation.
Mexico is a lot more dangerous than Iraq.
Mark my words, within 5 years terrorists are launching rockets into the US from Mexico.
Mark my words, within 5 years terrorists are launching rockets into the US from Mexico.
The problem is that many of them will bring this mindset with them. The “lawless” region along our border with Mexico will be similar to that along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.
The problem with many immigrant groups is that take risks and (initially) work hard to escape their native culture. However, once they start feeling sufficiently safe and prosperous, they get homesick and they to recreate that culture in their new home. In some cases, it works out okay. In others, as in the case of Islamics and Mexicans, it is a disaster waiting to happen. Our melting pot mentality used to shut this down in 1-2 generations. With multiculturalism, we will soon see the formation of cultural reservations and no-go zones for Anglos.
It makes me sick every time I read about an American being killed or raped by an illegal alien. I put the blame for these deaths directly on the politicians who refuse to do the jobs they were elected to do. They don’t care because it’s not them or their family members who are the victims of these criminals.
EVERYTHING
The Mexican nationals who have overrun Los Angeles (and many of its suburbs, e.g. Cudahy and South Gate) chose to elect corrupt socialist leaders who screw the public at every turn.
What makes you think they would install a clean, accountable government in their homeland?
“End the WOD.”
Agree 100%.
Did we learn nothing from prohibition? We are still battling corruption and crime that got it’s start during that time.
The WOD is causing massive corruption, financing criminal organizations and funding terrorist activities.
The cure is FAR worse than the disease.
I can only hope that they will install a reform government. They couldn’t do much worstthan they have—but-—looking at the three stooges we have running who knows?
You may find that the Mexican Army is taking over the job of protecting (their own) cross border drug trade. The cartels keep getting in their way!
John Gibson comes off better in print than he does on television. Whenever, I see him on TV, I keep remembering him for sucking up to Whorealdo during the OJ trial.
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