Posted on 10/07/2007 8:06:57 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
Way to go Irving,Tx!!!! Anyone here from Irving?
The ICE Man cometh
:)
worked there for 7 years when with sprint
Thats right...
Prove who you are ...
you are American or here legally ...you stay...
You are an illegal alien...you go...
Bye Bye Baby...
Great rant, Terry..
:)
And the MHC of the Week is....
Hillary...
YEEEEEEEEEEEEES
Just as simple as a driver’s license...
...unless you live in New York.
“BIG ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK” coming out regarding the show affiliation...
HILLARY IS THE MHCotW!
‘Horriblize”-
Word of the Week
Terry, Terry, Terry...
... your Hillary imitating voice isn’t shrill enough.
He’s on fire
An excellent choice.
Except for the ones growing dope in our forests, we’re pretty free of them. Our sheriff just doesn’t appreciate their “contribution” to our society.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Heroes
Both (Sheriffs) Riggins and Winters have forged an unique pact between their agencies. The sheriffs decided to combine their numbers and resources in an effort to fight encroaching drug cartels.
“What Sheriff Winters and I did was the best thing to do. In a time of slashed budgets and limited finding from government grants, teaming up against the cartels was the most logical choice,” Riggins said.
It was a choice that caught the attention of many, including Walden and even CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
Dobbs sent a news team to chronicle a raid here in Siskiyou County. That story aired on CNN, in two different segments, garnering national attention.
“That media coverage showed the nation the level of the cartels’ incursion,” Riggins said. “It showed how brazen they are and what we’re up against.”
Many took notice — including Congressman Greg Walden.
On the House floor, Walden said the “task force of over 175 people and 19 agencies led by Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters and Siskiyou County Sheriff Rick Riggins dealt a telling blow on the cartels’ illicit activities on our public lands.”
That “telling blow” included depriving the cartels of more than $320 million dollars and several tons of marijuana plants.
According to Riggins and other law enforcement officials, most of that money goes into the cartels’ other venture: Methamphetamine labs operating in Mexico. Current intelligence indicates that the cartels are transporting meth across the border.
“We’ve sent the cartels a message,” Riggins said. “If they try to operate here in our county — we will come after them. We will shut them down.”
For Riggins, it’s also a matter of public safety.
“The cartels are operating on public lands,” he said. “Hikers and hunters are at risk because some of them can accidentally stumble onto marijuana growing operation.” Riggins said that there have been documented accounts of people encountering such operations.
“Innocent people have been hurt,” Riggins said. “The cartels are ruthless. They don’t care who gets in their way. The cartels will intimidate, hurt or even kill anyone who poses a threat to their operations.”
Which leads to the possibility of escalation. With the cartels’ loss of tons of marijuana — hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth — will they go further to protect their operations with more lethal traps or even put up a fight?
“It’s a possibility,” Riggins stated. “It’s always a possibility. We’ve found weapons and ammunition in the past. The growers ran — didn’t put up a fight at all. Will they change their tactics? They might. But our Special Response Team is trained for that sort of thing as is the Jackson SRT.”
Riggins added that the resolve of the SCSO and its allies is stronger than the cartels’.
“This is our home,” he said. “It’s not their home, their land. We don’t want them here. We will hit them hard at any given opportunity and keep hitting them until they stop.”[snip]
Horriblest clown of the week? Seems so limited.
;0)
Augustin Cebeda, our best fund-raiser...
Does anybody want LA county?
LOL
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