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State Department: Mexican Drug Cartel Activity Is ‘Consistent With’ Terrorism
CNSnews ^ | October 17, 2011 | Edwin Mora

Posted on 10/18/2011 8:12:41 AM PDT by opentalk

Actions by Mexican drug cartels are “consistent” with what the U.S. would consider to be “terrorism or insurgency” in other parts of the world, a State Department official told lawmakers on Thursday.

“I do acknowledge that many of the facts on the ground, the things that are being done by those organizations, are consistent with what we would call either terrorism or insurgency in other countries,” William Brownfield told a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on emerging threats and security in the western hemisphere.

Brownfield, assistant secretary at the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, was responding to a question from Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs western hemisphere subcommittee.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; beheadings; borderwars; clinton; fastandfurious; gunrunning; hillary; hillaryclinton; holder; kidnapping; mexicandrugcartels; statedepartment; statedept; terrorism; wod; wodlist; zetas
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To: opentalk

Which makes arming them state-sponsored terrorism.


21 posted on 10/18/2011 6:35:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
So how is it OK for the USA to do this?

Because Mexico isn't powerful enough to come here and hunt down the criminals who did this to them.

22 posted on 10/18/2011 6:40:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Molon Labbie

>IMHO, we are going to continue this cranial copulation until they find a mass grave on OUR side of the border.
>Then it may be Peoples Militia of (Insert Border State Name Here) getting the job done.

Yep; of course there’s a bit more that said states can do — a single one can force the issue:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698298/posts


23 posted on 10/18/2011 7:52:23 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: TigersEye

>Which makes arming them state-sponsored terrorism.

Indeed it does; and that was the justification for removing Saddam, no?
So then, if we apply the same logic, it is justification for removing our own government...
in fact, the law says it is our responsibility (”duty”) to do so: http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/organiclaws.txt


24 posted on 10/18/2011 7:55:03 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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