But we won in the end.
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Posted on 02/22/2009 9:31:47 AM PST by djf
Texas State Senator, Dan Patrick, was on FoxNews this morning at 8:45am. He said he had some “breaking news to share”. Boy was it!!! The Texas State Legislature had been trying very hard to get the Obama Administration to respond to a critical situation on the Texas Border. The Administration had not gotten back with Texas as of last night. So the State of Texas told Washington D.C. basically they could go jump, and “we’ll take care of Texas!”. As of last night… the Texas National Guard has been put on High Alert!!! This is the first time in history! Texas tried, desperately to get Washington’s approval… but when they could not get it… they acted on their own. Which I say…. it’s about damn time!!! I personally applaud the guts it took to defy the Fed’s and act in our best interest! In case you are unaware of what the problems are …. Sen. Dan Patrick spelled it out nicely!
1) 100’s of PRO-DRUG CARTEL Mexicans were blocking the entrance to the United States, yesterday and today, banging cars, shouting and holding signs. 10 people were killed Wed. and 12 more yesterday at the border (5 of which were children!!!) 2) They aren’t sure … but they think the Drug Cartel is paying the demonstrators to do what they’re doing. 3) This will spill over into the States! Mr. Patrick, and the other State officials,. are convinced that road-side bombs and car bombs will make it across the border and WILL NOT allow that to happen!! 4) Mexico is breaking out in Civil War in the western part of the border and they expect it to spread the entire border with no end in sight. 5) The National Guard will be activated as the scenario worsens and is on Alert now and will remain so until (and IF) Washington does something to end the danger on the border (Yeah… like that’s gonna happen!).
FoxNews has yet to put this on their website which absolutely ticks me off!!!! I will post it IF they get the stones to do what’s right!
Let’s pray it doesn’t come to this…. but in reality… Texas could be in a Civil War (actually it would be an international incident) with Mexico very soon if this isn’t quelled. Just so you folks know…. the four Militia Groups that are here in Texas will be put on alert this evening. This has gotten REAL, REALLY FAST!
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
The coming civil war in Mexico will spill over to the US beyond what anyone expects, including Obama. Truly a scary time for our border states.
Bout damn time.
Not just the border (southern) states anymore. We’re overrun with illegals here in Michigan too and they didn’t come from Canada.
22 Americans or 22 Mexicans killed? And on which side of the border?
“I personally applaud the guts it took to defy the Fed’s and act in our best interest!”
Don’t reflect too long on this sentence, it’ll depress you...
Be vigilant my friend.
May God bless my fellow Texans, and protect them from the evil to the south.
I can’t answer your question but NOBODY I know goes to Mexico anymore.
Ping.
There are too many of these thugs in the US waiting to join in...
Pardon my ignorance, but exactly what does “High Alert” mean??
Are Texas National Guardsmen in their armories drawing weapons and ammunition, at this moment?? Digging emplacements along the border??
Or is it just a ‘heads-up’ for a possible callup??
Good to hear Texas is finally stepping up....but I fear that pro-illegal/pro-NAU Governor Perry will try to stall and backpedal from this.
Need to do something about Mexico, its illegals, and its potential refugees. Its time to start thinking America First...and not some stupid agreements and/or treaties
Texas Ping.
Zero is not going to do anything for Texas, since Texas did not support the False Messiah. Would he act against Texas, claiming Texas has no right or authority to defend itself? Would not surprise me on bit.
Well, this is not yet confirmed, but it’s circumstantial, with the name of the state senator given. And it builds on news that HAS been confirmed here earlier about border blockades and protests apparently in the interests of the Mexican drug cartels.
I don’t know what those deaths signify. Were they actually at the border in connection with these protests? Or were they simply more drug murders in border cities? Those, regretably, have become a dime a dozen in recent months. Dozens are killed every day—decapitated, chopped up—including women and children. The media have reported this, sort of, but have really played it down. Compare it to the murder of one girl in the Carribean last year, and you can notice the difference—even though this is certainly “interesting” news.
I forwarded this to Drudge. He might run it.
Time to call in the drones....errrr...not the Obama voter kind.
If 0 has no intention to do anything for Texas, then why remain a member of the 50 states? The Texas flag has always looked beautiful to me.
Nor I.
Remember the Alamo? Texas lost that round...
This is the first time that an adminstration has failed to do anything on the border since...
the last administration.
Your probably more right then wrong on that, but it won't surprise me if Zero paid the drug cartels a billion or two undercover of course buried in another damn bill to just have the whole mess disappear overnight. < /sarcasm>
......Let’s pray it doesn’t come to this......
Why? it may very well be that the Texas NG needs to be there armed and ready to repel the invasion of Mexicans fleeing the chaos.
Death solves lots of problems
They ain't blond.
Where on the Texas border is this occurring? I have two sisters in El Paso.
The Kenyan Entity will put a stop to this quickly! Texas is being mean to his voters!
Reality Check:
Yes, Mexico could implode, but this article looks suspect.
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“the four Militia Groups that are here in Texas will be put on alert this evening. This has gotten REAL, REALLY FAST! “
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There are probably more than 4 malitia groups in Texas, and there are a lot of well armed Non-malitia citizens. But the Governor has nothing to do with them. They are not going to invade Mexico.
But if the violence does spill over the Border, rest assured Texas will deal with it.
Mexico is - and has been for a long time - an enemy nation. It has been using this country as a dumping ground for its surplus population and its perverts, etc.
I wonder if KBH is for border control. If so, she’ll have my vote in this next election against Perry. I can never get straight answers from either.
Always standard canned e-mails that never say what they’ll actually do.
Obama has shown he can’t be trusted with our national safety by allowing Texas to be INVADED.
I cannot describe the hatred I have for this man. I need to pray.
'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, noir prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people'....10th Amendment, US Constitution
But we won in the end.
You've got that right!
I want to see Bush's & McAmnesty's face when the wet backs homestead their homes.
You are right. He is insane and his childish grudges showed with the Ice Storm of 2009.
Nose in the wind...
Remember the Alamo? Texas lost that round...
The odds then was about 2400 to 200.
It would be significantly different this time in our favor, in both technology and Texans.
Boy, you make a lot of sense with that statement.
BINGO!
As of today, there are no
On February 22nd, 2009 honorgod says:
As of today, there are no indications that this post is true. Normally, when any level of alert is ordered a complete telephonic alert roster is initiated. These alert orders (WARNO) will warn the individual soldiers to prepare for this or that. I have numerous contacts at various staff levels within the State. Over the past 8 days, I have personally briefed a 2 star General and (deleted as could indicate who I am). Nothing was mentioned or hinted to about a heightened state of alert.
As noted yesterday, yes there is a move to proclaim state sovereignty with the announcement of Bermans HRC50 (resolution). But this has no standing or force behind it. It is equivalent to your New Years Resolutions -in the trash as soon as its declared.
Tim
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/83689
FWIW
Recent border violence tests spillover planRecent border violence tests spillover plan Comments 3 | Recommend 0 February 21, 2009 - 11:15 PM Jeremy RoebuckAs protests and gunfire erupted last week across Reynosa, Hidalgo County authorities stood prepared at the international bridges, ready for any possibility.
With mobile command units connected to statewide intelligence centers and dozens of officers armed to confront potential threats, law enforcement officials responded to Tuesday's violence like they never have before.
The incident prompted state officials to enact for the first time a border-wide emergency plan developed to address threats from Mexico's ongoing war against its entrenched drug cartels.
Dubbed the "Operation Border Star Contingency Plan," Gov. Rick Perry's office drafted the policy with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies last year to prepare for the possibility of violence spilling over into the United States.
"The most significant threat Texas faces is spillover violence from Mexico's drug cartels," Perry's homeland security director, Steve McCraw, told state senators at a hearing Wednesday. "You can never be too prepared."
CONTINGENCY PLAN
Last year, more than 5,700 Mexican citizens died as a result of drug-related violence, according to estimates by the country's attorney general's office. Some 260 more have been killed in cities such as Ciudad Juarez just in the first two months of this year.
And as Mexican President Felipe Calderon continues his administration's three-year crackdown on the nation's crime syndicates, those numbers are only expected to rise.
Texas has yet to see widespread outbreaks of open drug violence on this side of the border, but its status as a primary smuggling corridor makes it vulnerable to potential attacks, state officials said.
"These groups don't care about boundaries," McCraw said. "They don't care about how we organize ourselves."
The protests Tuesday at border crossings in cities such as Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juarez drew thousands of demonstrators but remained relatively calm. A separate Mexican army raid on a suspected Gulf Cartel safe house led to a shootout that killed at least six later that day.
The violence remained confined to the Mexican side of the border, but the incident provided a good test run for the lowest levels of the Border Star contingency plan, said Katherine Cesinger, a spokeswoman for the governor.
"We're doing what we can to fill in the gaps from a state level," she said.
Throughout the day, a central operations center in Austin sent constant intelligence updates to state, local and federal law enforcement agencies up and down the border. They kept in constant contact over a designated radio band as the situation developed.
That state of heightened alert makes up the lowest level of response outlined in the security plan. While individual response policies have been developed for five border regions across the state and Texas' coastal bend, officials remained tight-lipped regarding many of the specifics, citing security concerns.
But local law enforcement officials who helped develop the plans say they address several potential scenarios ranging from violence close to the Texas border to sustained attacks on U.S. citizens and law enforcement in Texas.
At each increasing threat level, different local, state and federal authorities will be called in to establish order, they said. In the direst situations, the governor could dispatch the Texas Army National Guard to help maintain the peace.
"There's no doubt that there's been a slight extension - not a spillover - of (drug) violence into Hidalgo County so far," Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. "But we have to be prepared for more serious situations."
THREAT OF COLLAPSE?
So far, the plan addresses law enforcement concerns only, state officials said. It does not provide for other possibilities such as effects on the local economy or increased levels of refugees and asylum seekers.
But those are all scenarios that should be considered, said Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos, who also helms the governor's Border Security Council.
"You are already seeing the beginning stages of that now," he said. "Some of the wealthy and upper-middle-class Mexicans are buying second or third homes here because they are concerned about the state of their country."
The U.S. Department of Defense went even further late last year when it issued a report that listed Pakistan and Mexico as countries whose governments face a threat of rapid collapse.
Based in part on the report's recommendation, the then U.S. Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, ordered his agency to begin preparing its own border spillover contingency plan. But like its state equivalent, the details have been kept under wraps.
While state and local officials have called a full-scale government collapse unlikely, Cascos predicts the security situation along Texas' southern frontier will only continue to deteriorate.
"Until Mexico gets a handle on the activities going on over there," he said, "these problems are going to continue making their way to this side."
My grandson is in the guard, and this is his weekend to meet. My daughter did not mention this last night when we talked.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread439045/pg1
Link to ATS thread on it. According to some posters, the governor issued the order.
Various Links to this story:
“what does “High Alert” mean??”
Excellent question, sir.
I would also like that question answered.
Thus far, it appears there is no one here on this thread that knows. Thus far, it is all yack, yack, yack (as usual).
I don’t think this article was referring to the GOVERNOR of Texas putting the Militia groups on alert, but the leaders of the militia groups themselves putting them on alert.
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