Posted on 04/12/2010 6:36:17 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Here we go!
How can there be a drug problem in Mexico? The government legalized it last year and we are told legalizing drugs gets the crime out of it.
What a summer this may turn out to be. Prayers for those Texan souls at the frontlines. Border security, even Texan-style, is going to need REAL reinforcements.
I also pray for the many good and law abiding Mexican citizens caught up in this. There are going be thousands of them needing sanctuary somewhere.
They’re already here.
And no effort, or very little, is being expended by the Federal government to stem the flow. It is as if this country is self-mutilating, by binding itself up in chains, then using a knife to cut the chains. It is easier to cut the flesh beneath than to cut through the chains.
Time to go for the bolt-cutters.
The really big money is made exporting drugs to the USA, so decriminalization in Mexico did not kill off the drug cartels.
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More like, “We are on our own here”.
My question is why did NPR write this and what is their angle. This seemed very factual and not biased to the left. What did I miss?
“You know it’s bad when people are fleeing for safety to Juarez — the most murderous city in the hemisphere.”
BTT
Bill would put border volunteers in Cochise. It's time to get serious.
“What a summer this may turn out to be”.
Great point.
All you snowbirds keep an eye out on what’s happening on the border. Come this fall, check the local papers on line from El Paso and Mcallen. I hate to see us lose winter Texans, but better safe than sorry.
We have family in Brownsville. They’ve basically been told it’s a matter of time before their area is caught up in a revolution violence from Mexico.
We need to say to hell with the treaty and put troops on the border.
for later
Thanks to “Hoot” for the NPR heads up.
“Appears that the Sheriff sees the handwriting on the wall.”
Its an access war now and I’m not ready to erase the border in hopes that the violence will simply vanish.
Until their market dries up, nothing will change. Their Market is in the United States.
Elsewhere in the world and in other times, some very long and destructive wars have begun on less pretext than THIS
"Arm Yourselves" should apply to all of us. And, not only arm ourselves, but learn to use the weapon with consumate skill in all weather and at all times of the day and nite.
It is entirely possible that we will have to go against professional people who train with all manner of weaponry all the time (US Army National Guard, US Army regulars, State Police SWAT units, State and Local Police forces, etc.)
These folks are fully trained and stay fully trained in the use of weaponry.
We have no choice but to match these skills.
"Expect the best; prepare for the worst."
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