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Posted on 07/13/2011 8:16:54 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The scandal-plagued, tiny New Mexico border town of Columbus is dissolving its police department and asking the county sheriff to protect its citizens.
An employee at Columbus City Hall confirmed to The Lookout that the police force has been dissolved. The Luna County Sheriff's Office will now take over patrolling the town.
The town has been upended since federal authorities arrested Police Chief Angelo Vega, Mayor Eddie Espinoza, Village Trustee Blas Gutierrez and nine other residents for conspiring to smuggle hundreds of guns to drug cartels over the border in March. All of the accused have pleaded not guilty, and their trial is expected in October, according to the Las Cruces Sun News.
The Associated Press presciently reported in May of 2009 that a law enforcement "vacuum" had made the town attractive to drug smugglers who moved over the border to settle down in Columbus. The "four-man police force in Columbus has turned over seven times in three years because of scandal or apathy," the AP reported, adding that more residents of the formerly modest town were driving flashy cars and buying fancy homes. Vega, who had then just nabbed the police chief job, told the AP that no illegal activity would be tolerated. "This is a new day for Columbus," he said.
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Liberalism corrupst everything it touches.
This has nothing to do with the gun walker thingie, they have had dozens of officers and they have fired dozens of officers. Columbus is a totally dysfunctional town.
Only arrested because they were cutting in to the Fed's own deal with the cartels...
On March 9, 1916, Columbus was attacked by Mexican irregulars under Pancho Villa’s command—which, as far as I know, was the last attack by enemy ground troops on the continental United States.
In 2002, I visited the tiny county library in Columbus, which was still using a card catalog.
Vega, Espinoza, Gutierrez...
No pattern here to see.
New Mexico ping?
In 1953 I visited Columbus and spent a couple of weeks staying with my Grandparents who lived in the Section Foreman’s house on the Southern Pacific. In the evenings my granddad and I would sit on the front porch and smoke our pipes...his filled with tobacco and mine with coffee grounds. They retired to Deming and when passed left me enough money to go to college.
O.K., I will admit that I, too, have used the term "liberal" to refer to the compulsion driven egalitarian socialists, intent on building a totalitarian monolith over the grave of a free America. But, frankly, these people are not "liberal" in any classic sense. Classic liberals--like Daniel Webster--were much closer to real American Conservatives than many of the so-called "moderates" who keep frustrating our efforts to restore American values.
The problem with continuing to use the term "liberal," is it does not really communicate what these people are really all about. It does not highlight the compulsive aspect of their motivation: Their Compulsion For Uniformity.
Their arrogance or hubris in the pursuit of Humanist Egalitarian goals (Return To Babel.)
Their embrace of a pernicious premise, the make believe notion of human interchangeability--Egalitarian fantasy--The Greatest Mischief Ever Wrought.
We need to find ways to break through the effects of the systematic indoctrination of a generation by the Academic/Media Leftists; and that means exploring all sorts of ways to actually make people think; to break out of the hypnotic trance that has "educated" American youth, chanting like so many Nazis at Nuremberg, "Yes We Can" in unison with the chief demagogue. They are not "liberal," and calling them such will not wake any of them up.
I agree that what you call "Liberalism" does corrupt everything it touches.
William Flax
I used to have an original photograph of Poncho filled with bullet holes drapped over the front hood of his car, la Cacarucha (cockroach).
Oh yes there is. Amish all...
They need to bring back the old Regulators or Vigilantes. That’s where we are headed any way.
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I believe it is the bodyguard hanging out the window. Pancho is slumped over the steering wheel. The third photo shows where at the bottom of the photo.
I like that guy’s white hat in the last pic.......
That is, Pancho is slumped back behind the steering wheel.
How the heck is that related to all the corruption and smuggling?
I covered Columbus city government for the Deming paper in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s.
I missed the best meeting of the year of the village council.
One of the counselors insulted another and the insultee’s wife grabbed the clunky old tape recorder from the table and hit the insultor over the head with it.
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