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I'm not writing a thesis, now you are basing your whole argument on a couple words in one sentence.

"JD spent 10 yrs in congress and then lost to the Dem opponent in my district, the biggest Mormon contingent outside Salt Lake, 60% republican."

In context it references voting demographics, has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the magnitude of JD's loss, this wasn't San Fransisco or Seattle.

Anyway through various posts on different topics I have referenced all your questions, I'm not wasting time posting them again. I was correct in everything I said, sorry you can't understand.

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Wee bit of overlap here,....re: Military Bases,.....

But the news about the attacks in Tabasco and Campeche are , I think fresh......

Damn shame, that's a really fine part of the World,....Friendly folk,Mariachi music and Great food. Used to tear around down there and enjoy same.

I miss "La Pura Vida"

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8 gunmen die in attack on two army bases in Mexico
Seven assaults in two northern states take place almost simultaneously, apparently marking a major escalation in Mexico's drug war.


The Associated Press

March 31, 2010 | 10:58 p.m.



VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.

The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases -- part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across two northern states -- appeared to mark a serious escalation in Mexico's drug war, in which cartel gunmen attacked in unit-size forces armed with bulletproof vehicles, dozens of hand grenades and assault rifles.

While drug gunmen frequently shoot at soldiers on patrol, they seldom target army bases, and even more rarely attack in the force displayed during the confrontations Tuesday in the border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon -- areas that have seen a surge of bloodshed in recent months.

The violence mainly involves a fight between the Gulf cartel and its former allies, the Zetas, a gang of hit men. The cartel -- which has apparently formed an alliance with other cartels seeking to exterminate the Zetas -- has been warning people in the region with a series of banners and e-mails that the conflict would get worse over the next two to three months.

Gunmen staged seven separate attacks on the army, including three blockades, Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Wednesday. He called the attacks "desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities" against Mexico's drug cartels.

Villegas said gunmen parked trucks and SUVs outside a military base in the border city of Reynosa trying to block troops from leaving, sparking a gun battle with soldiers. At the same time, gunmen blocked several streets leading to a garrison in the nearby border city of Matamoros.

Another gang of armed men opened fire from several vehicles on soldiers guarding a federal highway in General Bravo, in Nuevo Leon state.

Troops fought back, killing 18 gunmen, wounding two and detaining seven more suspects. One soldier suffered slight injuries.

Soldiers also seized 54 rifles, 61 hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, eight homemade explosive devices and six bulletproof vehicles used by the attackers.

Mexico's northern states are under siege from the escalating violence involving drug gangs.

The U.S. consulate in the northern city of Monterrey warned American citizens who may be traveling for Easter week about recent battles in the states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Durango. The consulate said U.S. citizens traveling by road from Monterrey to Texas "should be especially vigilant."

One of the clashes between soldiers and gunmen killed two gunmen on the highway connecting Monterrey and Reynosa, which is across the border from McAllen, Texas.

Less than two hours before that shootout, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina had assured citizens that authorities regained control over the state's highways.

"I've found the highways calm. We ask that if citizens have plans to go out and enjoy these vacations, they should do so," Medina said.

Also on Wednesday, authorities in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco announced that the nephew of one of Mexico's most-wanted drug gang leaders was captured, together with a police chief accused of protecting a notorious cartel in a key port city.

Federal police detained Roberto Rivero Arana, who identified himself as the nephew of reputed Zetas gang leader Heriberto Lazcano, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement issued late Tuesday.

He was arrested along with Daniel Perez, the acting police chief of Ciudad del Carmen, an oil hub in neighboring Campeche state. The statement alleged Perez received 200,000 pesos ($16,000) a month for protecting the Zetas.

The arrests come as the Zetas are under pressure from a bloody turf war with their former ally, the Gulf cartel. Authorities blame that fight for contributing to a surge of violence in Mexico's northeastern border states north of Tabasco and Campeche.

Perez was acting chief pending a permanent appointment, Ciudad del Carmen Mayor Aracely Escalante said Wednesday.

"He's an agent who had been with the police force long before we took over the town government," Escalante said. "We had given him our trust."

The two men were found with 10 assault rifles, a grenade, ammunition, drugs, police uniforms and worker suits with the logo of Mexico's state oil company, Pemex, the Attorney General's Office said.

Last week, Tabasco Gov. Andres Granier warned that the arrests of several suspected Zetas over the past several months could stoke turf battles in his region. He asked the federal government to send troops.

Meanwhile, the Mexican government announced that federal police will take over the anti-crime campaign currently headed by the army in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez.

The army deployment has come under criticism from those who say soldiers are not trained for police work, and complaints they conducted illegal searches and detentions. But perhaps more important is the fact that killings have continued apace, even with troops in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas.

An unspecified number of soldiers will remain in Juarez to help combat drug gang violence that killed more than 2,600 people last year, and 500 more so far this year in the city of 1.3 million.

Starting Thursday, "the Mexican army will start gradually transferring responsibility for public safety to civilian authorities, to federal authorities at the beginning and gradually to state and local" forces, the Interior Department said in a news release.

The statement said 1,000 federal officers will be added to the police deployment in the city, bringing the number of federal agents to 4,500.

More than 7,000 troops had arrived in Juarez by mid-2009.

The department said the change was part of a new strategy to focus on social programs as an answer to the continuing violence.

Elsewhere, four severed human heads were found early Wednesday in Apatzingan, a town in the western state of Michoacan. Residents found the heads, with eyes still blindfolded, lined up at the foot of a monument along with a threatening message, state prosecutors said.

In Morelia, the Michoacan state capital, police reported finding the bodies of three young men who had been shot to death. The bodies had messages stuck to their chests with knives, The contents of the messages were not released.

Police in the border city of Nogales reported finding the bullet-ridden bodies of three men, including a city transport official, on a rural road along with three burned-out vehicles.

Wednesday marked the beginning of Mexico's Easter Week vacation, and police in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero reported that gunmen had held up two motorists on the highway leading to the resort of Acapulco. The gunmen stole the victims' vehicles, but they were not injured.




Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-mexico-army1-2010apr01,0,5207133.story?page=1&utm_medium=feed&track=rss&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20latimes%2Fnews%20(L.A.%20Times%20-%20Top%20News)&utm_content=Google%20Feedfetcher&utm_source=feedburner



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Communist News Network even had a piece on this today, finally. Though, go figure, it was HEAVILY slanted as pro-Janet/Hussein/illegals.




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I went out for hang time / lunch,......a Chinese joint,.....
the "Chicken" (Cat) Soup was awful,.....but it was good to speak to some neighbors,......consensus,.....?

....there is none,...just tension, and dis-satisfaction. No belicose fist waving, ....more like COLD anger, and lotsa' determination.

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Without magazines in their weapons, .....of course

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Link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/03/31/20100331new-mexico-orders-guard-to-border.html

N.M. governor orders National Guard to border


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The New Mexico National Guard is planning how to put more troops along the state's border with Mexico to beef up surveillance after Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday ordered guardsmen to patrol the area.

The order came days after an Arizona rancher was shot to death. Authorities believe he was killed last weekend by an illegal immigrant who fled to Mexico.

Details are being worked out for how many troops will be sent to the border and where they will be based.

A spokesman for the New Mexico Guard, Lt. Col. Jamison Herrera, said the timeframe and scope of the operation will determine how many soldiers will be activated.

Their focus will be observation posts and using infrared tools that can detect body heat and movement during the night, he said.

A spokesman for Richardson, Gilbert Gallegos, said troops will not be apprehending immigrants.

In 2005, then-President George W. Bush ordered 6,000 National Guard troops to New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California to help the Border Patrol cut illegal immigration. Troops were deployed in observation posts along the border until Border Patrol ranks were beefed up.

Last August, the four border governors asked congressional leaders to fully fund a long-standing program in which National Guard troops help with anti-drug efforts at the U.S.-Mexico border. They told House and Senate leaders additional manpower was needed as violence associated with drug trafficking intensified.

On Tuesday, Richardson's office said state police and county sheriff's departments have increased patrols along the border and that the U.S. Border Patrol also has boosted its presence.

The guardsmen will work with the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, which is coordinating law enforcement along the border.

Also this week, members of New Mexico's congressional delegation asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to increase the Border Patrol's presence in the Boot Heel of New Mexico, which is about 10 miles from the spot where the Arizona rancher was killed.



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So, Grijalva wants to Boost Border Security, and Amnesty at the same time ?

An idiot, that, a VERY political idiot.

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Congressman Grijalva Statement on Death of Arizona Rancher Robert Krentz
Written by Yuma News Now
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Washington, DC - Congressman Ra�l M. Grijalva today released the following statement on the death of well-known rancher Robert Krentz: �My heart goes out to Robert Krentz�s family.

Though I did not know Mr. Krentz, he had a reputation as a caring and kind soul. His active role as a member of the Malpai Borderlands Group, an organization of conservation-minded ranchers, is a testament to his commitment to sound approaches to the management of our borderlands. Mr Krentz�s death should move us to solve our border security problems, not exploit them for extreme political agendas.

The safety of the Arizona border region is subject to multiple conflicting factors, including the prevalence of organized criminal groups with little regard for human life. We must reach across the border and develop better cooperation with Mexican authorities to address smuggling activities in these isolated regions. Congress must stand up and address comprehensive immigration reform so that our border agencies can focus on isolating and preventing criminal activities along the border.�


Link: http://yumanewsnow.com/content/view/1805/2/


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Tucson, Az........Northwest of where a LOT of folk are left ,....azzes hangin' out in the wind.

Health Care Campaign trumps sovereignity issues,....what?

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Breaking News: White House responds to Guard deployment call

Reporter: Steve Nunez
Web Producer: Forrest Carr

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - After a second day of trying, KGUN9 News has finally obtained a response from the White House on Governor Brewer's request to send the National Guard to patrol Arizona's border. While not directly addressing the deployment question, the statement promised that the administration will continue "monitoring" the situation.

On Wednesday KGUN9's Steve Nunez documented how Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has made five written requests for such a deployment over the last year and a half. The governor said none of those requests elicited a reply. Since the murder of prominent southeast Arizona rancher Robert Krentz on Saturday, many other politicians on both sides of the aisle, along with many ranchers and law enforcement officers, have echoed the governor's request. Nunez tried repeatedly to get a response from the White House to those calls on Wednesday. He spent the day being shuffled from one agency to the next and ended the day with a score of zero.

On Thursday Nunez tried again, retracing his steps and asking the same questions of many of the same people. Among the questions 9 On Your Side wants to know: What is the President's stance on sending troops to the border? Why has his administration simply ignored the requests from Arizona's governor? What does the President have to say to Arizona citizens and politicians who are now renewing that call and asking for his help?

By the end of the business day, Nunez was able to obtain this carefully worded statement from White House spokesman Adam Abrams: "The President is firmly committed to ensuring our borders are secure. It is why the Administration has taken important steps � including deploying additional law enforcement resources to reduce illegal flows across the border and supporting Mexico's efforts against drug trafficking organizations. We are carefully monitoring the situation and will continue to ensure that we are doing everything necessary to keep communities along the Southwest border safe."

The statement sidestepped the question of why the administration has simply ignored Governor Brewer. Adams told KGUN9 News that the statement quoted above is all the White House will have to say on this issue for now.

Calls for National Guard deployment erupted anew over the weekend following the Krentz murder. Someone shot Krentz to death Saturday at his ranch about 25 miles northeast of Douglas. Investigators have no suspects and no confirmed motive, but have said the most likely scenario is that Krentz encountered an illegal border crosser.

Ranchers along the border have been complaining for years that they're overrun with border crossers. On Sunday Cochise County Larry Dever confirmed that burglaries, home invasions and even kidnappings are now a routine occurrence along the border corridor.

In doing research for these stories, KGUN9 News found in its files a 1999 interview from a rancher in that area who lamented that no one was listening. It's the same complaint ranchers have today -- but in the wake of the Krentz murder, ranchers are making the complaint more forcefully. This time, at least some politicians are making a point of listening. On Wednesday night, hundreds of ranchers and area residents turned out in the border town of Portal to meet with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on the issue. Giffords, a Democrat, is among those calling for National Guard deployment.

On Thursday Nunez also pursued the story through the Department of Homeland Security, now headed by former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. While she was governor, Napolitano had a reputation of being fairly accessible to citizens and the media. A department spokesman told Nunez today that if he wanted to question Napolitano about the border security situation in Arizona, he should put in a request, and expect to wait at least a month.

Nunez will have full reports about today's efforts on KGUN9 News at 6 and 10.


Link: http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12244731


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Krentz family releases a statement,

God Bless and keep these folks,....

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Link: http://www.kvoa.com/news/hold-for-now-krentz-family-releases-statement/

Krentz family releases statement on ranchers death

Posted - 4/1/2010 at 1:58PM
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Krentz family releases statement on ranchers death

The Krentz family released the following statement regarding the recent shooting death of Robert Krentz on his Southern Arizona ranch.

On March 27th, our Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother and Uncle was murdered in cold blood by a suspected illegal alien on the Ranch.

This senseless act took the life of a man, a humanitarian, who bore no ill will towards anyone. Rob loved his family instilling in them the importance of honesty, fair dealing and skill managing all aspects of a large 100 year old ranching operation producing food to make our country strong and healthy.

He was known for his concern and kindness helping neighbors, friends and even trespassers on his ranch with compassionate assistance in their time of need.

We hold no malice towards the Mexican people for this senseless act but do hold the political forces in this country and Mexico accountable for what has happened. Their disregard of our repeated pleas and warnings of impending violence towards our community fell on deaf ears shrouded in political correctness. As a result, we have paid the ultimate price for their negligence in credibly securing our Borderlands.

In honor of everything Rob stood for, we ask everyone to work peacefully towards bringing credible law and order to our border and provide Border Patrol and county law enforcement with sufficient financial resources and manpower to stop this invasion of our country.

We urge the President of the United States to step forward and immediately order deployment of the active U.S. military to the Arizona, New Mexico Border.

Thank you for all for honoring Rob. We want the truth known.




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Disingenuous John, and the Political dance,....God, how do these people look in the mirror?

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Link: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-35821-Immigration-Reform-Examiner~y2010m4d1-Why-the-sudden-call-for-tough-border-enforcement-from-John-McCain

Why the sudden call for tough border enforcement from John McCain?
April 1, 4:55 PDave Gibson

U.S. Senator and open borders lobbyist John McCain
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Since last weekend�s murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz by an illegal alien, Sen. John McCAin (R-AZ) has been calling for troops to be sent to the U.S./Mexican border �immediately.�

Of course, for McCain, it is an election year, and he is facing a tough primary challenge from conservative J.D. Hayworth.

A brief examination of McCain�s actions over the last several years is enough to show us where his true loyalty lies�and it is not with the American people.

The 2007 Amnesty Bill written by McCain would have merely required illegal aliens to pay a $5,000 fee in order to stay here and gain legal residency. The fact that American citizenship is now valued at roughly the same cost as a 2003 Volkswagen is insulting, the fact that our own Congress and President arrived at that estimation speaks to how little respect our elected representatives have for this nation.

Under McCain's bill, even members of Mexican drug gangs would have received amnesty by simply signing a statement in which they renounced their gang affiliation, the so-called 'background checks' that illegal aliens would have received were only of the 24-hour variety, which reveal very little (if anything), and they would then be given a six-month worker card. Even violent members of MS-13 would be given legal status based on nothing but their promise to become upstanding citizens.

In 2008, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain told the crowd at annual National La Raza Conference: �I don�t want to fail again to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.�

Of course, �comprehensive immigration reform� is nothing more than code for amnesty for illegal aliens.

After the massive illegal alien protests in 2006, in which millions of law -breakers demanded their �rights� and trampled upon American flags, McCain made the following statement: �If such demonstrations continue, I think we will have a bill for the President to sign soon. The more debate, the more demonstrations, the more likely we will prevail.�

John McCain has spent the last quarter-century in Washington D.C., and for many of those years, he has spent his time working on behalf of illegal aliens and the unscrupulous companies which hire them. He has also sat by and watched as thousands of Americans were murdered, raped, and robbed by those same illegal aliens.

Now, six months out from election day, he expects us to believe that he stands for the strong defense of our borders.

To John McCain�you�re too late, we don�t buy it!


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VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!

That means in your state too!

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Good Lord,.....HOW can they just LIE like this ?

DEA Cover Up?

TV Interview Raises Serious Questions

American Patrol Report -- April 2

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"A drug war south of the border has killed thousands of people. So what's fuelling the bloodshed? " So began a special report aired on Tucson's KVOA-TV on Wednesday.
The report focused on a claim by American Border Patrol that drug killings in Mexico started when the U.S. began building new fencing and barriers, cutting off prized smuggling routes. Glenn Spencer, head of ABP, praised KVOA report, "Reporter Wing did an excellent job," Spencer said. "Any reasonable person watching this report would agree that what we are saying makes sense."
What doesn't make sense, Spencer says, is the reaction by the Drug Enforcement Administration to the drug war theory. Interviewed by Wing, DEA spokesman Anthony Coulson denied there was a link between the fence and the Mexican drug war.
"The drug trafficking organizations are not fighting over control of the corridor," says Drug Enforcement Administration's Asst. Special Agent in Charge Anthony Coulson. "Last year that was the case."
It is incredible that Coulson would make this statement when he knows that the Internet is replete with recent stories by major news organizations that the cartels are fighting over control of smuggling corridors.
Coulson says that the drug killings in Mexico spiked when the Mexican government began cracking down, but this doesn't make sense. Why would the cartels begin fighting each other because of a government crackdown? It would make more sense for them to join in an all-out fight against law enforcement.
Coulson goes on to say that the best way to fight the drug problem is to help people who are addicted to drugs. "I hope that we can get there but it's going to take a long time for us to dig this out." Could it be that Coulson and many in the DEA hope that it takes "a long time" to solve the drug problem so they can keep their well-paid jobs?

Link: www.americanpatrol.com


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This AM.....Sad, here.

"He's an individual I called a friend but he was really a brother, and a person you admired."

A gentle giant who will be sorely missed."

Golly,...

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Link: http://www.kvoa.com/news/only-on-4-krentz-family-talks-about-losing-rob/

Krentz family talks about losing Rob


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NEAR DOUGLAS - It's been five days since Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz was shot and killed on his family's cattle ranch. The 58-year-old was tending to waterlines Saturday when he and his dog were gunned down. Krentz and his brother Phil were handling different sides of the ranch when Phil heard Rob call over the radio "illegal alien" and "hurt." Investigators are still trying to determine if Rob came across a hurt illegal immigrant or if he was hurt by an illegal immigrant.

A few hours later, when Phil couldn't find his older brother, the family contacted authorities and friends who immediately started searching the Krentz' 35,000 acres of land. The Cochise County Sheriff's Office launched its search and rescue squad and called on the state helicopter for assistance within minutes a DPS ranger helicopter located Krentz's body and that of his dog, both had been shot.

Authorities tracked one set of footprints from the murder scene to the Mexican border but have yet to locate a suspect. Sheriff Larry Dever believes only one person was involved in the fatal shooting.

The Arizona Cattleman's Association is offering a $15,000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Krentz' killer and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are adding another $25,000 as a reward in the case.

Sue Krentz, Rob's wife of 32 years said, "I have been seriously violated and am very angry." The couple raised their three children, Frank, Andy and Kyle on the family's cattle ranch. The Krentz ranch has been in operation for more than 100 years, and was inducted into the Arizona Farming and Ranching Hall of Fame in 2007.

The Krentz family has lived on the homestead on the San Bernardino valley for more than six generations. Sue said her husband was especially proud of the water line he and his family established on the ranch's 35,000 acres of land for the 800 head of cattle and other wildlife in the area.

For the last five years, Sue and Rob petitioned Arizona's political leaders asking for more security along the border, "The issue is that in this area of the border we are not safe and that's not fair. Article 4, Section 4 of the constitution says it is the obligation of the federal government to defend us from invasion both foreign and domestic."

In the last year, Rob had undergone hip and back surgery. Sue fears her husband did not have a chance to defend himself, "With his health issues I'd always tell him you got to take care of yourself cause I don't know I'd do without you. He'd say I'd be strong and my kids would help me."

Kyle, was Rob's only daughter. She said, "He was just a great man, he would do anything to help us out he was kind of like John Wayne he could do anything and everything."

John Zamar, one of Rob's friend said, "He's an individual I called a friend but he was really a brother, and a person you admired."

A gentle giant who will be sorely missed.

Memorial services for Rob Krentz will be held Friday, April 9th at St. Luke's Catholic Church in Douglas at 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 10th at 10 a.m. in the Douglas High School gymnasium. Donations can be made to any Wells Fargo Bank.






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This crap cost us 3.5 million per mile,...and the materials that were supposed to go into it were available here stolen, on the black market.

PALLETS of 7018 rod, and BUNDLES of the square stock pictured.

How would I know anything about that.....?

Link: http://www.americanpatrol.com/ABP/PHOTO-OF-THE-DAY/2010/ARCHIVE/100402.html


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We've got a "Mesiah" warning us about "Inflamatory Rhetoric"

Get ready, Community Organizer,.....GET READY !

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Rancher Robert Krentz didn't deserve to die on his own land in the USA

MY OPINION: Plenty of blame

By Lionel Waxman, Inside Tucson Business
Published on Friday, April 02, 2010
Robert Krentz was a good man. People who knew him say he was a humanitarian and a Good Samaritan. He didn�t deserve to die in the dirt - on his own land - at what law enforcement investigators believe was the gunpoint of an illegal border crosser. His family didn�t deserve to lose him. The nearby Cochise County communities of Douglas and Portal didn�t deserve to lose him. But all did some time on March 27. And why?

There�s plenty of blame to go around.

Let�s allocate some of that blame. Maybe it will become obvious what we have to do to make sure we don�t lose more good people in this fashion.

Most of the blame falls on the Mexican drug cartels. They are willing to do anything for money. The Mexican government has been unsuccessful in curbing their reign of terror. It is almost as though the cartels are fighting it out to prove one or more of them is the government.

Next, blame goes to the United States government. Notwithstanding many requests, federal officials have failed and refused to militarize the border which desperately needs military control. When Janet Napolitano was governor of Arizona, she seemed to understand the problem, not that she ever did anything about it. Now that she is in Washington, she serves only her beltway masters. No Army troops for the border. Not even National Guard troops are allowed.

One way the feds ensure that Arizona will not put National Guard troops on the border is by calling them up for deployment to Afghanistan. And that�s where members of the Arizona National Guard are headed this month to Afghanistan when they are needed in Douglas.

But President Obama has bigger plans for the border. Heap blame on him. He wants illegals to flood across the border because he has plans to grant them amnesty so they can vote. They will vote Democratic, and that�s more important to him than the lives of a few Americans living on the border.

To be fair, we ought to assign some small amount of blame to the farmers and ranchers who refuse to get out while the gettin�s good. They are living in a war zone. That�s not a good idea.

What can we do about it? There isn�t much we can do about the Mexican government or even the Mexican drug cartels. But there is something we can do about the U.S. government. We have to make it clear to the bozos in Washington that we will no longer tolerate being deprived of the services of our National Guard. If the feds want to fight a war in Afghanistan, that is what the regular Army is for. We must demand that the Arizona National Guard be released for service in Arizona. And we must demand they be adequately armed to meet the challenge.

And we must make certain the Washington politicians understand that we will not permit illegal aliens to vote. We�ll do this by denying them entry.

This is the only way we will ever get our state back. Otherwise, we�ll wake up one day and find ourselves living in Aztl�n with bandits running wild in the streets.

And if we don�t do that, then the bulk of the blame must fall on ourselves. This is still the United States of America. This is our country. We make the rules. We must enforce them.

Contact Lionel Waxman at territorialwaxmanmedia or visit his website: www.newflashpoint.com.

Copyright � 2010 Inside Tucson Business

Link: http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2010/...nel_waxman/doc4bb60acc99971640880419.txt


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This one WE win.

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