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2006-10-17 Home Front: WoT

Border Patrol, lawmen outgunned by cartels

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Posted by .com 2006-10-17 08:40|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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"The cartels use automatic assault weapons, bazookas, grenade launchers and improvised explosive devices," the House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee report said. "In contrast, U.S. Border Patrol agents are issued 40-caliber Beretta semiautomatic pistols."

The NG boyos have tanks and choppers and missiles. But it would probably be "insensitive" to use tham to smoke us some bad guys on the border, huh?

Might accidentally hit a bunny.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-10-17 16:04|| 2006-10-17 16:04|| Front Page Top

#2 A couple of years ago they posted Marines along the border. They were pulled when one of them shot some kid who was out rabbit hunting. The kid couldn't see the Marine. The Marine saw the rifle and assumed he was in danger. Of course, people claimed the Marine had "murdered" the kid.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2006-10-17 17:06|| 2006-10-17 17:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The 17 year old kid fired on the Marines. Thought the Marines were wolves or other predators going after the goats he was guarding. It could have ended if one of the Marines yelled out to the kid to stop shooting, instead of shooting back. I think those Marines were too young and didn't have the judgement for the sensitive task they were given. The military border surveillance program was terminated at that point, to the detriment of the US public.

Posted by ed 2006-10-17 17:18|| 2006-10-17 17:18|| Front Page Top

#4 "build the fence - faster. This is a recording. It will repeat every time an incident demands it"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-17 18:50|| 2006-10-17 18:50|| Front Page Top

#5 There are several ways to put an end to the border crossing by EVERYONE. The one I prefer is to put about a million men on the border, armed to the teeth with anything and everything the US military has in its arsenal, and start walking south. Mexico needs a thorough flushing, and it needs it now. Clean out Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez, Tiajuana, and the rest of the rats-nests, then clean out the "40 families" so the rest of Mexico has a chance to develop.

We'll also need to flush the cadrones out of most of our larger cities and either kill them or send them home with only one hand. Whether we keep Mexico or allow it to develop a REAL democracy on its own will depend on how the Mexicans respond.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-10-17 20:36|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-10-17 20:36|| Front Page Top

#6 When deer population gets too high (in sane jurisdictions) the game managers open up the season. When vermin or pests such as rats or wild dogs are a problem, authorities authorize payment of bounties. A simple two strand barbed wire fence one mile north of the border, combined with an 'open season' or perhaps a bounty in the free-fire strip, and the whole drug/alien/terrorist smuggling problem would end.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-10-17 22:14|| 2006-10-17 22:14|| Front Page Top

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