Mexican drug war is tearing up Texas and beyond

[Crappingbear]

For those not aware the Mexican drug cartels war has decimated Mexico and has turned U.S./Mex border towns into a Tarantino movie of gory death. Recently, the Mex approved drug cartels rolled into town in a small Mex town and massacred the entire police force. I have family and friends on the border and they are literally being run off their land by military machine gun fire and explosives. You want evidence of Mexican military/drug cartel incurrsion...how about this South Texas Sheriffs testimony. http://www.click2houston.com/news/18951615/detail.html They showed this clip on tv tonight and I saw with my own eyes the foreign gov vehicle coming to help the drug runners with machine gun fire driving back the U.S. sheriffs dept. The fact that both the U.S. and Mex govs say this didnt happen when its on film means they should be damned to the 6th ring of Dantes hell. You foreigners dont believe it? Come down and let me take you for a drive on the borders.

[Tricky]

sounds like you need to be deploying the army down there!

[AcesandEights]

Crazy article and as shocking as something like this is at first glance it all makes sense and is the sort of thing I expected always went on around such a corrupt and porous border anyway. Can't watch the footage till later, but thanks for sharing the article. "If people in Washington actually knew the truth, that means they would have to do something about it and right now I think we're just playing games," said Poe. What this dude means to say, is if Washington admitted this was going on to the general press and public they'd get tons of pressure to actually do something.

[Mike70]

sounds like you need to be deploying the army down there! i'll second that. even though i'm a foreigner (since i'm not from texas most texans would probably regard me as such) this irritates me, to say the least. a couple of cavalry squadrons need to be deployed in the trouble spots along the border with orders to open fire on anyone on the american side who won't stop when ordered to do so and with the authorization to fire into mexico if they are fired upon by people on the mexican side. the problem in washington is that bush was all buddy-buddy with the bigwig politicians in mexico and obama is probably too much of a pussy to do anything about it. he'll probably try to "reach out" to them or attempt to "reason" with them. even though i am a liberal, this exposes one of the main flaws in some liberal thinking - you can't reason with or reach out to people who by their very nature are unreasonable.

[slickwilly13]

This has been going for a while. Why is it recent news? Little late Channel 2? I have known about this for years. This is one of the reasons I do not watch Channel 2 News.

[_liam_]

Yeah I've known about this for 2 years, but you never see it on the news. I reckon the border will be militarised

[Mike70]

the govt. announced today that security on the US/Mexico border will be beefed up considerably. in addition to deploying more agents from customs, the border patrol and the ATF, the govt. is considering an option to use the national guard if things get much worse. finally and about time. the one thing i really don't want to hear anymore of is the whining from some circles that the US needs pass more gun control laws (which in light of the recent supreme court decision can't really happen anyway) because mexican cartels are obtaining guns here. fuck that. i am not going to have my rights trampled on because of dorks in fucking mexico and i am reasonably sure that the vast majority of americans feel the same way. people that are breaking the law and helping these idiots smuggle guns into mexico need to be prosecuted. regular citizens who are not involved in criminal activity shouldn't have to pay the price for the greed and stupidity of others. interesting bit from the article: Earlier this year, a study by the US Department of Defence warned that Mexico was in danger of becoming a failed state because of the drug gangs. Ms Napolitano said she had not ruled out sending National Guard troops to the border region, and said she would meet Texas Governor Rick Perry to discuss the possible deployment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7961670.stm

[Exatreides]

Yes since American's need fully automatic weapons. Fuck, the weapons in my units armory aren't even full auto. (And you are never authorized to use 3 round burst) Anyway, The border needs to be tightened up, but we should probably extend some effort to help the Mexican government, well whats left of it.

[SRP76]

I'd let the Mexican government deal with it themselves, within their own territory. Simply kill anything that crosses the border. And I do mean anything.

[Mike70]

Yes since American's need fully automatic weapons. i didn't say anything about automatic weapons. i'm talking about the gun control freaks who want to use mexico as an excuse for restrictions on guns. whether or not anyone "needs" an automatic weapon is beside the point. I'd let the Mexican government deal with it themselves, within their own territory. Simply kill anything that crosses the border. And I do mean anything. or at the very least anyone who tries to cross the border with weapons gets shot. period.

[strayrider]

Have no fear! Prez Barry to the rescue! http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6347008.html $700 million and an additional 100 BATFE agents to tackle the Mexican gun runners ... NOT! To hassle Texas gun store owners and, by proxy, Texas gun owners? Yep! "A “large majority” of 100 federal gun agents being transferred to the border region in the next 45 days will be assigned to monitor purchases at the 1,500 gun stores in the Houston area, a federal official confirmed." That crazy Barry ... LOL ... whadda a maroon ... -stray-

[Wooley]

I'm wondering when the refugee crisis starts down there. Refugee camps on this side of the border, as people flee the fighting with gun fights between Mexican Army/Police and the drug cartels and eventually between US military and the cartels with US and Mexican citizens getting caught up in it all. If some of the shit that's happened on that side of the border happened on this side, we will see active US Army units stationed on the border, I'll bet, and probably see some form of cross border operations by those units. On and the cartels are really getting hand grenades, belt fed machine guns, and other military ordnance at Jimbo's Guns and Ammo.

[Crappingbear]

On vacation this week and toying with the idea of running down to Matamoras or Piedras Negras just to see whats happening. To hell with El Paso and Juarez since thats Cambodia these days. Sorta sad I can't go down and drink a cool Dos Equuis and listen to some cojunto music on the south side of the border, but thats life with Shorty being the power broker down there. And here.

[strayrider]

On and the cartels are really getting hand grenades, belt fed machine guns, and other military ordnance at Jimbo's Guns and Ammo. Na, they're getting them from their own porous southern border. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...0,229992.story "Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. The proliferation of heavier armaments points to a menacing new stage in the Mexican government's 2-year-old war against drug organizations, which are evolving into a more militarized force prepared to take on Mexican army troops, deployed by the thousands, as well as to attack each other. These groups appear to be taking advantage of a robust global black market and porous borders, especially between Mexico and Guatemala. Some of the weapons are left over from the wars that the United States helped fight in Central America, U.S. officials said." Wonder if President Barry is aware of all of this? -stray- ps -- UPDATE: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elec...umber-claimed/ 17% total, vs 90% traced. How misleading of the Lefties. (and, of course, Che Obama will use these numbers to press forward with is socialist agenda).

[Yojimbo]

i didn't say anything about automatic weapons. i'm talking about the gun control freaks who want to use mexico as an excuse for restrictions on guns. whether or not anyone "needs" an automatic weapon is beside the point. Gun control freaks will use anything - the phases of the moon, even - to attempt to further their agenda that all guns be banned.