Posted on 02/10/2009 11:10:30 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Texas crafts plan for Mexico collapse
I would think they are waiting for the Mexican government to give them the go ahead. So far they have resisted having our law enforcement and military operating on their soil. They are a sovereign nation. We're probably not going to conduct any operations there unless they ask us to do it.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst ping!
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I’m beginning to wonder if American citizens are going to have to band together with weapons and converge on the border with Mexico to defend our country when things do collapse in Mexico. It’s apparent our government will do little or nothing to protect its citizens from cross border hostilities.
Things have collapsed in Mexico I was told by a Border Patrol Agent the Border looks like a disturbed ant hill all coming this way!
“The WOD has failed, and it has had some nasty side effects. End marijuana prohibition, and they’ll be deprived of the bulk their profits.”
It has been apparent for some time that the cure is worse than the disease, just as it was during prohibition.
Is that an invite? I'd love to attend; I'll bring sandwiches and sunscreen.
Oh and guns. Lots of guns.
It may very well come to it. Someone has to protect our nation. It's appears the government is not up to the challenge.
Maybe those FEMA camps will be good for something after all.
Could you imagine if Mexico was a nuclear power and the Cartels took control of them?
“Buy our cocaine, or else”
I get the notion that everyone who is quoted in that article doesn’t have a clue about this at all...
Smart move, because certainly the One will be clueless. He will ignore it as long as he can and then assemble some people in suits to surround him on TV and announce that he is “confronting” the problem.
He will then put the head of La Raza in charge of it.
Proly not.
According to reports I read a couple of years ago, Oil was Mexico’s number one source of income, and money sent home from the US had moved into second place. Considering that most of the drug money that comes from the US is unreported, I’m sure US money is tops. Tourism is third.
The cartels have been running Mexico at least since President Miguel de la Madrid.
For the life of me, I can’t remember this guy. From his Wiki page, sounds like he went through a presidency similar to Bush 43.
“During de la Madrid’s presidency, he introduced liberal economic reforms that encouraged foreign investment, and widespread privatisations of outdated state-run industries and reduction of tariffs, a process that continued under his successors, which immediately caught the attention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international observers. In 1986, Mexico entered the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty, following its efforts of reforming and decentralising its economy. All told, the number of state-owned industries went down from approx. 1,155 in 1982 to 412 in 1988. This is enough to bring him some strong support, but his administration’s mishandling of the infamous 1985 earthquake in Mexico City damaged his popularity for initially refusing international aid, and it placed Mexico’s delicate path to economic recovery on an even more precarious situation, as the destruction also extended to other parts of the country.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_la_Madrid
None of this would be in Wiki. I travelled a lot in Mexico back then, and lived there beginning with Salinas.
During the de la Madrid presidency, the Mexican drug industry consolidated into large gangs or cartels. Military roadblocks were common throughout the country, which was one of the ways the government got its hands on drug money. During his presidency, in parts of the country, when the army would search and find large marijuana crops, they would harvest them and turn them over to the dealer who paid the most for it.
The Mexican drug industry is much more above board than it is here in the US. Here, with the collusion of the MSM, drug killings are not reported as such, but are called “gang violence.” At base, gang violence is all drug turf wars. Even the notion of cartels is covered up here, where they are referred to as gangs.
Lopez Portillo, who preceded de la Madrid, was also permissive regarding drugs, but dealers were pretty much small time then. Salinas de Gortari, who followed de la Madrid, reformed the government still more, and institutionalized the cartel payoffs. The drug cartels were so strong under Salinas that they assassinated Donoldo Colosio, who was the heir apparent to Salinas.
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