Posted on 01/27/2009 10:40:51 AM PST by AuntB
The macabre admission is just the latest indication of the depth of Mexico's drug violence. Some US observers say the cartels now pose a direct threat to the Mexican government's survival, and, by extension, a growing security threat to the US.
The state prosecutors' office said it was looking into more than 450 missing persons' cases from the past eight years.
The Wall Street Journal wrote in an opinion piece that the "body count" in drug-related violence in Mexico so far this year is already 354. It noted that a police commander was recently beheaded in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, an "increasingly popular tactic."
As bad as the violence is, it could get worse, and it is becoming clear that the U.S. faces contagion. In recent months, several important American voices have raised concerns about the risks north of the border.
The paper reported that the US Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, "warned recently that an unstable Mexico 'could represent a homeland security problem of immense proportions to the United States.'"
The newspaper said that the US Joint Forces Command report was only one of several alarms being sounded on the security situation south of the border.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, the former U.S. drug agency director, said in a separate analysis on Mexico that the government "is not confronting dangerous criminality -- it is fighting for its survival against narco-terrorism" and could lose effective control of large swaths near the U.S. border.
The outgoing CIA director, Michael V. Hayden, listed Mexico with Iran as a possible top challenge for President Obama.
And former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said this month that Mexico could turn into a surprise crisis for the new president by year's end.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
“Not only that, from a couple friends I know living in AZ and TX very close to the border, most of the news is being heavily filtered onto the national scene with regards to the violence and drugs associated with ‘the unrest’ in Mexico. Cross border hits (murder on US soil, kidnappings, beatings, cuttings) are common place now not to mention local LEO’s are doing very little to stop incoming product. We here do not even get 1/100th of the news of what’s happening now.”
You’re right about that. If not for our retired border agents and their great reports, we wouldn’t see much.
Death and destruction continue to intensify
m3reportNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS ^ | Jan. 26, 2009 | NAFBPO
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It Is later Than We Think!!
Wake Up America!!
Be Ever Vigilant!!
“Looks America is no longer a Republic.. but a democracy..”
The new prez keeps calling it a ‘democracy’...I don’t think he likes that ‘Republic’ thing....
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.” Alexander Tyler
Invade and annex the Baja Peninsula. Build a wall with the U.S. army stationed along the rest of the border.
Can you imagine if Mexico was still at its pre 1840s territory? What a mess that would have been for N. America!
“And I’ve always thought that a belt of landmines should be included with the wall.”
Bouncing Betties, or Toe-poppers? Or perhaps a good mix thereof?
The cops either get the bribe are they get kiled.
failed state
he will say whoohoo... more Democrat voters
Nope. the American people will just curl up in a tight ball and wait for help, while the world beats the tar out of them. Just like they have been taught from grade school on.
I live a few blocks from the border. If I get on my roof, I can see the fence. We could get a potato over the border with a decent potato gun. That being said, They are doing a lot of law enforcement in our sector. On one highway, the border patrol outnumber the regular travelers. That is no exaggeration.
I think what most people don’t realize about sealing off the border is that there is a great deal of desert, mountain land to secure. Even in the places that have fences (our city), the mexicans go under it, over it or through it. We caught a couple of them coming through a double-fenced concrete-reinforced section within a couple of miles of the house.
It is my honest opinion that we need to militarize the border. National Guard should be sitting on the border fence. THAT being said, most of the border here in Arizona is just desert scrub brush. You would literally have to post a soldier every 50 feet, and still some might get through.
This was just to let you know that border patrol is doing something.
Second that, I live right on the border, am always locked and loaded. I think our government is scared to let Americans know the truth about how bad it really is in Mexico for fear of causing mass panic here. Believe me, the violence is heading further N every day. Think Chicago is bad, wait till what’s happening down S hits there.
Not to worry, you’ve got AZ Napolitano to take care of the borders. Don’t forget, she recently said the N. border was a first priority. Guess she’ll sleep through the war down south.
Only a 9-11 type incident will move politicians to build a wall.
“Only a 9-11 type incident will move politicians to build a wall.”
We’ve already had a “9-11 type incident”...it was on 9-11-2001...and the a$$monkeys in the federal government STILL didn’t build the wall!
My specific area of concern is the border along the Tohono O'Odom Reservation. That's a big hole that hasn't been plugged.....almost planned that way.
By the way, it is not difficult to build a double fenced section of wall/fence with automated motion sensors, cameras, listening / vibration sensors.
US ANG units with legs can rotate in and out to fly / police a hot spot quickly.
If illegal traffic warrants, add motion triggered twin 25 mm chain guns that are track locked in their field of fire. Computers using IR / FLIR can identify humans caught in no man's land. Simple actually, but initial outlays are high, but construction jobs are now needed. As a last resort strips between those gun towers can be mined too. (Would hate to see that though) The long term effects would pay itself and the maintenance.
Go overseas to other countries and look at their borders. For that matter Mexico has a fence pretty much along its entire southern border.
This is all political, plain and simple cause the ONAS doesn't want it that way.
BTW, I'm talking a 10 yr build.
It's much cheaper to enforce our laws and imprison American employers that employee illegals and stick the upkeep bill to the taxpayer....now that's the truth and we all know it.
TB, whooping cough, Chargis, hepatitis, etc. are costing us a lot now not to mention 74 bankrupted hospitals mandating into bankruptcy by their own government. Those were lost skilled jobs too.
With respect to US border security, I know what freshly painted bull manure smells like that is peddled by the snake oil salesmen called politicians.
So please do not tell me that it's difficult to build 1700 miles of wall and border fencing. It all could have been done starting in 2002 with an executive order ushered in with blessing from Congress.
It would have made a great public works project for the recession that immediately followed 9/11. Unfortunately, the CFR, TC, ONAS, and the NWO told W not to do it. The gov could have looked the other way using illegal labor sub-conned to have built it. The gov looks the other way now, what's the difference? (Sorry, I apologize, not slamming you personally in the least...just the double-forked tongues that assume everyone is dumb and won't do anything about it.)
I certainly take no offense. You didn’t come across as slamming me personally. My point was not that it was impossible to secure the border, but that the agents who are working now are doing their best with some exceptions, of course. The government has failed us. Interesting fact about the pipeline too. I didn’t know that.
Building the fence needs to be done. We certainly should have started earlier. Unfortunately in today’s political climate, it is not going to get done, it appears.
I would like to say though that I have utmost respect for those who are serving as border patrol. My local police, on the other hand...
Thanks for your reply,
refreshed
Bump!! I know many in law enforcement do do an exceptional job as well as our agents. When you see a known good border agent, tell him thanks for me, please.
It's all in the plan.
Next big terrorist attack will implement http://www.spp.gov/ and this: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/legal/statutes/ieepa.pdf
Big difference in Muzzle loaders and full auto modern weapons.
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