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2006-02-04 Home Front: WoT

Sheriff warns of terror threat at the border

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-02-04 00:46|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's only been a matter of time, tick tick tick

protecting the border is now a national security issue NOW??? Well Dah

Officials with the Border Enforcement Security Task Force said they had arrested 28 people and seized materials to make 33 lower-grade explosive devices, such as pipe bombs or grenades. They also seized dozens of assault rifles, machine guns, silencers, hundreds of pounds of narcotics and $1.4 million in cash Woo Hoo!

exchange intelligence with Mexican law enforcement. Now is this really fair?

Posted by Jan 2006-02-04 03:10|| 2006-02-04 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Dang it, I keep saying, there is only *one* way to really seal that US-Mexico border to terrorists, and that is to look at it as a separate problem from that of illegal Mexicans crossing the border.

Pay Mexicans a BOUNTY on any non-Hispanic trying to cross. For a TINY amount of money, that border would be as airtight as an unopened Pepsi can.

Sure, some al-Qaeda would try to bribe them more to help them across. The Mexicans would take their money, and *then* inform on them for the reward. It's a proud custom.

In Mexico, a BOUNTY of this kind would attract as many players as a multi-state lottery does in the US. No illegal foreigner could get within 500 miles of that border without a dozen pairs of eyes looking at them greedily.

$5,000 -- $10,000 -- $20,000 for a really big one. To the Mexicans who live just South of the border, that amount of money looks like MILLIONS of dollars.

The BOUNTY doesn't even have to be offered by the government. Even a private organization could set up a phone line and print a bunch of flyers. The word would spread like wildfire.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-04 09:43|| 2006-02-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 'moose - how do you see the narcos responding to something like this, given their increasing dominance of the coyote traffic?

Posted by lotp 2006-02-04 09:48|| 2006-02-04 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Because the MSM keeps its head in the sand in Iraq, they are unable and unwilling to learn that the link between smugglers, bandits, and terrorists is a natural alliance. Watch them 'discover' the problem after the fact, once again. Explain to me again, why the MSM is protected under the Constitution and the Internet is not?

Posted by Ebbavins Flemp6662 2006-02-04 10:00|| 2006-02-04 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like the feds are suffering again from that malady called "Failure of Imagination".

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-04 14:48|| 2006-02-04 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 This is why the Minutemen are so valuable. they are a force multiplier for both Federal and local authorities, and they cost nothing -- neither funding nor planning effort on the part of the professionals. Give them a shared wavelength, and wait for the phone to ring!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-04 20:33|| 2006-02-04 20:33|| Front Page Top

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