This is not about race, or ethnicity.
This is about safety, the safety of people on both sides of the border. Everyday, normal people, who work and raise families and and go to church and school and don't have any involvement with the drug culture.
That is to say, most of us.
From the MP3 report--OS adds the bold type.
Mexican Marines seized a load of 230 grenades of 40 mm. caliber, a weapon also used by NATO forces, and of a destructive power considered as “very high.”
Also seized were 64,950 rounds of ammunition and either 10 or 17 firearms (the reports contradict each other). The exact location of the house where all this was found was not disclosed, and it was only identified as a “safe house” for the “Zetas” criminal group in the city of Matamoros (right across the Rio Grande River from Brownsville, Texas.)
And up that river, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila (across from Eagle Pass, Texas) military personnel seized 202 kilos of weed, 5 long barrel firearms, 2 handguns, 3 hand grenades and 265 rounds of ammo. Also found elsewhere in the same town: 6,434 kilos of marihuana, and empty boxes of grenades and ammunition.
OS hopes you visit the MP3 site. It dispassionately gathers, translates, and shares news reports from Mexico and Central America, including the account of the drug bust in Atlanta, the operations of a gang from the state of Michoacan. Michoacan is located deep in the interior of Mexico, south of Jalisco, where Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta are located.
The governors of the border states are paying attention, and asking for help. The Obama administration is either looking the other way, or attempting to prevent them from addressing the problem.
Only an administration dedicated to the idea of damaging the country, or at least damaging states that dare to vote against the HopeyChangey agenda, would act like this. No other explanation accounts for the behavior.
The federal government is risking the lives of innocents on both sides of the border.
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Shootouts In Juarez, 20 October 2010
Fox News offers a brief report of today's events.
OldSouth posted an article on the subject, including a link to an in-depth interview about the situation in Northern Mexico.
This is not a gloating 'I-told-you-so' sort of moment. It is a wake-up call. Do we really think this sort of stuff won't jump the border into the US?
We sorely need some grown-ups in Washington to finally make some adult decisions, before a lot of people get killed.
And, let's remember all those folks caught in the crossfire, who just want to live their humble lives not terrorized by either the cartels or the government.
OldSouth posted an article on the subject, including a link to an in-depth interview about the situation in Northern Mexico.
This is not a gloating 'I-told-you-so' sort of moment. It is a wake-up call. Do we really think this sort of stuff won't jump the border into the US?
We sorely need some grown-ups in Washington to finally make some adult decisions, before a lot of people get killed.
And, let's remember all those folks caught in the crossfire, who just want to live their humble lives not terrorized by either the cartels or the government.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
These Things Matter: The Impact Of The Federal Government's Refusal To Control Our Borders
What has been obvious to those paying attention to Mexico is beginning to peek above the radar of life in the United States.
There is a huge problem on our southern border.
The Wall Street Journal is now covering the carnage, in what has become an outright civil war. The narco-gangsters are bidding for power, in the way they know how, and the government, after nearly a century of corrupt rule, has little left in the way of credibility. Even a cursory glance at the history is chilling.
The mayor of one of the suburbs of Monterrey was murdered this week. He's not the first mayor to be thus dispatched, by the way.
Check your map. Monterrey is about a three-hour drive from Laredo, Texas, if OS's memory serves.
Remember how OS has ranted: What do we do when the headless bodies begin to show up in places like Kansas City? Or the local county sheriff's deputies confront organized armed gangs with their patrol cars and sidearms?
Well, take a peek at this feature, prepared by the Nashville Tennessean.
It's a county-by-county map of gang activity. In Tennessee. Including the gangs tied to the narco-gangsters south of the border. This is what the county sheriffs and city police departments now contend with. The entire feature goes into chilling detail. And, this, OS reminds you, is the paper whose editorial board long ago drank from the AlGore Kool-Aid. Even they admit there is a problem. Hard to explain away all those bodies stacking up, even if you are a hopeless liberal.
OS has a friend who used to be a journalist in a county near Nashville, where the gang activity is high. He covered drive-by shootings every week. In a formerly bucolic county seat. The tipping point was the day he covered the murder of a fifteen-year old boy, who was already the father of two. At that point, OS was insisting his friend was soon to endanger his life in his line of work. He found another paper to work for, in a quieter (for now) location.
True, not all of this can be laid at the feet of the government refusing to enforce the border. But, a lot of it can. And, it would be a great place to begin to tackle some of our challenges.
Before local Tennessee mayors are kidnapped, murdered, and have their headless bodies dumped behind the WalMart.
There is a huge problem on our southern border.
The Wall Street Journal is now covering the carnage, in what has become an outright civil war. The narco-gangsters are bidding for power, in the way they know how, and the government, after nearly a century of corrupt rule, has little left in the way of credibility. Even a cursory glance at the history is chilling.
The mayor of one of the suburbs of Monterrey was murdered this week. He's not the first mayor to be thus dispatched, by the way.
Check your map. Monterrey is about a three-hour drive from Laredo, Texas, if OS's memory serves.
Remember how OS has ranted: What do we do when the headless bodies begin to show up in places like Kansas City? Or the local county sheriff's deputies confront organized armed gangs with their patrol cars and sidearms?
Well, take a peek at this feature, prepared by the Nashville Tennessean.
It's a county-by-county map of gang activity. In Tennessee. Including the gangs tied to the narco-gangsters south of the border. This is what the county sheriffs and city police departments now contend with. The entire feature goes into chilling detail. And, this, OS reminds you, is the paper whose editorial board long ago drank from the AlGore Kool-Aid. Even they admit there is a problem. Hard to explain away all those bodies stacking up, even if you are a hopeless liberal.
OS has a friend who used to be a journalist in a county near Nashville, where the gang activity is high. He covered drive-by shootings every week. In a formerly bucolic county seat. The tipping point was the day he covered the murder of a fifteen-year old boy, who was already the father of two. At that point, OS was insisting his friend was soon to endanger his life in his line of work. He found another paper to work for, in a quieter (for now) location.
True, not all of this can be laid at the feet of the government refusing to enforce the border. But, a lot of it can. And, it would be a great place to begin to tackle some of our challenges.
Before local Tennessee mayors are kidnapped, murdered, and have their headless bodies dumped behind the WalMart.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Car Bomb In Juarez: No Worries, Our Southern Border Is Secure
News of a car bomb set off on a major thoroughfare in Juarez, courtesy of the BBC.
This was not a home-made 'drive the car through the barricade/pull the lanyard/blow yourself up' affair. It was triggered by a cell phone, indicating some, shall we say, sophistication in approach.
16 July 2010 Last updated at 16:28 ET
Investigators in Mexico say a deadly attack by suspected drug cartel members in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez was a car bomb set off by mobile phone.
It is believed to be the first attack of its kind since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006, promising to curb powerful drugs gangs.
Two police officers and two medics answering an emergency were killed.
Police said the attack was retaliation for the arrest of a leader of the La Linea drug gang, Jesus Acosta Guerrero. La Linea is part of the Juarez drug cartel.
"There were 10kg (22lb) of explosives, activated from a distance by a cellphone," Enrique Torres, a spokesman for the army in Ciudad Juarez, said. At least 16 other people were injured in Thursday's attack, police said.
Ciudad Juarez is just across the border from El Paso, Texas. It has long been the battleground for cartels fighting for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes into the US.
More than 7,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico so far this year. Almost 25,000 have died in the past three and a half years, according to figures released by the office of Attorney General Arturo Chavez on Friday.
El Diario de Chihuaha also covered the event, and in typical Mexican fashion, led the story by blaming the US for its lax laws on possession of C-4 explosive, never contemplating that the explosive could have arrived from any number of locations in the world. It is a long-established practice in the un-free Mexican press: If things go well, credit El Presidente; if things go badly, blame the Americans.
Then they got around to describing the bombing:
El auto explotó anoche sobre la avenida 16 de septiembre y Bolivia, en la zona centro, dejando un saldo de cuatro muertos y 11 heridos, así como el cierre de las calles aledañas al lugar del ataque.
El comandante expuso que de acuerdo con el peritaje, se encontraron residuos de 10 kilos de explosivo, al parecer del conocido como C4, así como restos de un aparato celular.
Indicó que aunque hasta este momento no se ha determinado exactamente cómo detonó el vehículo y si estaba armado como un coche-bomba, lo que si se puede determinar es que el artefacto se activó mediante una llamada a algún teléfono celular.
Indicó que el peritaje continúa a fin de determinar cómo fue que el vehículo se impactó contra el convoy de policías federales, si estaba estacionado o alguien lo iba conduciendo.
Confirmó que un agente de la Policía Federal y uno de la Municipal murieron, así como un médico y un rescatista de la Cruz Roja, en tanto que siete elementos federales, tres paramédicos de la Cruz Roja y un camarógrafo del canal 5, resultaron heridos.
Precisó que la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) investiga el asunto, y son apoyados por efectivos de la Sedena y especialistas en explosivos.
Old South repeats his question: Does this have to occur on the streets of Dallas or Kansas City before the United States develops the will to address the problem?
This was not a home-made 'drive the car through the barricade/pull the lanyard/blow yourself up' affair. It was triggered by a cell phone, indicating some, shall we say, sophistication in approach.
16 July 2010 Last updated at 16:28 ET
Investigators in Mexico say a deadly attack by suspected drug cartel members in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez was a car bomb set off by mobile phone.
It is believed to be the first attack of its kind since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006, promising to curb powerful drugs gangs.
Two police officers and two medics answering an emergency were killed.
Police said the attack was retaliation for the arrest of a leader of the La Linea drug gang, Jesus Acosta Guerrero. La Linea is part of the Juarez drug cartel.
"There were 10kg (22lb) of explosives, activated from a distance by a cellphone," Enrique Torres, a spokesman for the army in Ciudad Juarez, said. At least 16 other people were injured in Thursday's attack, police said.
Ciudad Juarez is just across the border from El Paso, Texas. It has long been the battleground for cartels fighting for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes into the US.
More than 7,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico so far this year. Almost 25,000 have died in the past three and a half years, according to figures released by the office of Attorney General Arturo Chavez on Friday.
El Diario de Chihuaha also covered the event, and in typical Mexican fashion, led the story by blaming the US for its lax laws on possession of C-4 explosive, never contemplating that the explosive could have arrived from any number of locations in the world. It is a long-established practice in the un-free Mexican press: If things go well, credit El Presidente; if things go badly, blame the Americans.
Then they got around to describing the bombing:
El auto explotó anoche sobre la avenida 16 de septiembre y Bolivia, en la zona centro, dejando un saldo de cuatro muertos y 11 heridos, así como el cierre de las calles aledañas al lugar del ataque.
El comandante expuso que de acuerdo con el peritaje, se encontraron residuos de 10 kilos de explosivo, al parecer del conocido como C4, así como restos de un aparato celular.
Indicó que aunque hasta este momento no se ha determinado exactamente cómo detonó el vehículo y si estaba armado como un coche-bomba, lo que si se puede determinar es que el artefacto se activó mediante una llamada a algún teléfono celular.
Indicó que el peritaje continúa a fin de determinar cómo fue que el vehículo se impactó contra el convoy de policías federales, si estaba estacionado o alguien lo iba conduciendo.
Confirmó que un agente de la Policía Federal y uno de la Municipal murieron, así como un médico y un rescatista de la Cruz Roja, en tanto que siete elementos federales, tres paramédicos de la Cruz Roja y un camarógrafo del canal 5, resultaron heridos.
Precisó que la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) investiga el asunto, y son apoyados por efectivos de la Sedena y especialistas en explosivos.
Old South repeats his question: Does this have to occur on the streets of Dallas or Kansas City before the United States develops the will to address the problem?
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