How I miss the days of the Bush administration. He knew how to secure our borders and crack down on this illegal alien invasion! Don't mess with Texas!
Posted on 02/07/2009 4:23:45 PM PST by restornu
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border are breaking into police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war.
"You're next, bastard ... We're going to get you," an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio in the city of Tijuana after naming a policeman.
The man also threatened a second cop by name and played foot-stomping "narcocorrido" music, popular with drug cartels, over the airwaves.
"No one can help them," an officer named Jorge said of his threatened colleagues as he heard the threats in his patrol car.
Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads.
Cartels killed some 530 police in Mexico last year, some of them corrupt officers who were working for rival gangs. Others were killed in shoot-outs or murdered for working against the gangs or refusing to turn a blind eye to drug shipments.
"These death threats are part of the psychological warfare that organized crime is using against officers," said Tijuana police chief Gustavo Huerta.
"Before, the gangs began infiltrating the radio after a police execution, which was bad enough, but now
Some gangs sarcastically offer their "condolences" over the air after an execution, broadcasting messages like: "We are so sorry
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This would be a good area for practice for our new Raptor Squadrons.
And the lefties wonder why we want the bored sealed up like a drum. Mexico is in pure chaos, and the drug dealers are in charge.
How would the libs get their drugs if we really sealed the border? That would be fascist!
Have you forgotten there were more than lefties who wanted amnesty for illegals not so far back - let alone sealing up the borders (which for far too many politicians representing us have no concerns whatsoever regarding border issues). Glenn Beck has been bringing border issues to light on a daily basis on his new show.
You racist you. George Bush re-assured us, this is just family values, chicano style.
Why the use of such inflammatory names?
They are not "drug gangs"...
No, no, no!
They are Community Organizers!
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We could stop this in one day: end the “War on Drugs(TM)”.
There are websites claiming illegal drug money keeps US financial wheelers and dealers above water. Given government lack of concern regarding drug cartels making cities like El Paso virtual war zones, it's a point to ponder (druggies ultimately get their just desserts and banks ultimately get funds to keep them afloat).
Meanwhile the borders might as well have "Welcome" signs over them.
And the lefties wonder why we want the bored sealed up like a drum. Mexico is in pure chaos, and the drug dealers are in charge.You don't understand lefties. Lefties, especially the union ones, want the border sealed as tight as you do. You're mistaking them for the groin leeches in washington who get paid off by the amnesty lobby.
The right could actually make a lot of inroads by finding common ground with leftists increasingly disenfranchised by democrats. Many leftists are already moving towards things like participatory economics and away from socialist ideology.
By the time they do anything it will be too late. I’ve got my solution and it looks like a flying ashtray.
How I miss the days of the Bush administration. He knew how to secure our borders and crack down on this illegal alien invasion! Don't mess with Texas!
If the U.S. legalized drugs like the libertarian party wants how would that affect the drug cartels in Mexico? Anyone care to explain this to me. I presume that it would take the wind out of their sails, right? Drugs would be cheaper too, right?
Yep, sure could. Or at least I know I could. Post the reserve down there and let them take up target practice.
The biggest difference would be that criminal organizations would no longer be the financial beneficiaries of drug transactions. And you’ve got to like that - unless you like strong, rich criminal organizations, that is.
if you don’t build a fence due to illegal aliens then build it to keep the drug gangs out. because if they get to the U.S. our police will lose because they are handycapped by our legal system. Mexican cops aren’t restricted like ours and they are still taking horrific loses.
Ah, the legacy of El Presidente Jorge Boosh and his day laborer pimp Vincente Fox...
The problem would be a gimme for some competent radio direction-finding activities, but my solution would be to just decriminalize drugs. Fight the problem, not the symptom. The problem is drug prohibition.
Wouldn’t change a thing in Mexico. The war down there is for control of the country’s profit engine, which is the drug trade. If drugs were legalized it would just intensify the war for control of the trade.
I’m actually for some limited legalization, but I still don’t think it would change anything down there.
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