Post by GoTres on Jan 25, 2006 12:27:33 GMT -5
What a polite little word. It's almost like I parked one tire on your grass and I apologize.
I'm trying not to further hijack FR33's thread so I thought I'd post this on a new one. Note that our director of Homeland Security says that these reports are overblown but Rep John Culberson (R-Houston) www.culberson.house.gov reports that there was an al Queda member held in the Brewster County jail for several weeks last year until he was finally picked up by the Feds.
This is an eye opening and interesting read. It's scary and it's more than a Texas problem.
Border Security
www.culberson.house.gov/news.aspx?A=204
Mr. CULBERSON: Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to bring to the attention of the American people the reasons why it is so important the House acted yesterday to pass such a strong border enforcement law and order bill that will bring law and order to our southern and northern borders, but in particular the southern border.
I am a native Houstonian, born and raise in Houston; but I had no idea until recently the scale of violence our law enforcement officers, Border Patrol agents, our local sheriffs are facing along the Rio Grande, and it is the result of a lack of enforcement of our immigration laws, as the Border Patrol has been pulled back and our border has been unprotected at the same time the narcoterrorists and the drug lords have figured out that there is a vacuum there.
A war has developed between the gulf cartel of drug lords and the megacartel. Now, the megacartel extends its territory essentially from, and I am going to use these, Mr. Speaker, to help illustrate for people what I am talking about, this war between the megacartel, the drug lords, and the gulf cartel, is a full-scale battle. The lawlessness is so severe, Mr. Speaker, that the sheriffs in Laredo will not even approach the river at night without turning off all their lights.
And, in fact, when I went down to the river in mid-October with a group of sheriffs, the sheriff sent a marked sheriff's deputy vehicle ahead of me down to the river with the lights out. I asked, why are you sending him ahead of me with the lights out? And the response was, Congressman, we want him to get shot at instead of you. Which really alarmed me. And I asked the sheriff, please tell that young man to turn on the strobe lights on top of his vehicle. They sort of laughed at me and said, Congressman, you do not understand. The violence is so bad down here on the river, that if that deputy sheriff turns on his strobe lights, it will make him a better target and he is very likely to be machine gunned immediately.
This is what our law enforcement officers face every day, and the type of people that they are dealing with is shown in this photograph here. This is a photograph of one of the military style commandos that are being used by the Gulf Cartel as their army of enforcers. This is a photograph of a Guatemalan special forces, they call them kabiles, and their motto, which is difficult to see here at the bottom, but let me read it for the viewers. Their motto is: If I go forward, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. And if I turn back, kill me.
The Gulf Cartel is also using a group of commandos trained in the United States at Fort Bliss called the Zetas that were part of the Mexican army originally, and their commander and 31 of their top troops went over the drug lords, bought out by the drug lords, and the Zetas are now running at least one and probably up to four narcoterrorist training camps in northern Mexico right across the river from Texas. There is one operating out in the open near Matamoros, maybe two or three others in the immediate area, one near Rio Bravo, and another apparently has opened up recently near Del Rio. These are narcoterrorist training camps run and operated by the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel to train and equip these commandos to enter the United States to deliver the loads of weapons or drugs and kill anybody that attempts to stop them.
Let me show people the effect of just a typical arrest. Now, this is just another week at the office for our law enforcement officers on the Texas border. This is on September 27, 2004. This occurred in Nuevo Laredo, just across the river, and this is spilling over in the United States because the drug Lords are fighting over Nuevo Laredo, the Nation's largest inland port, and whichever drug cartel controls Nuevo Laredo will control the most profitable smuggling center in the United States.
On September 27 of 2004, this gun battle ensued, and as a result of this gun fight, there were captured and in this one fight, they found four AK-47 machine guns, two AR-15 rifles, ten grenades, a number of pistols, 12 40-millimeter grenade rounds, and 12 40-millimeter grenade launchers. Now, these devices here across the bottom are 40-millimeter grenade launchers that are supposed to be attached to M-16 rifles, but the Zetas, the drug lords' army, have converted them to handheld pistols, and this is standard equipment that are now issued to these commandos as they deliver their loads of weapons, drugs and even terrorists. The Customs Immigration Service knows that the terrorists are using the smuggling routes established by the drug lords to smuggle Islamic terrorists into the United States. I had the FBI director testify to my committee under oath that there are individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections changing their Islamic surname to Hispanic, adopting fake Hispanic identities and entering the United States pretending to be Hispanic immigrants and disappearing. This is going on in large numbers. These narcoterrorist armies, this is, again, just one arrest; these 40-millimeter grenades launchers can be held as pistols, and they are used to shoot at law enforcement officers, anybody who attempts to stop them.
I applaud the House for passing this strong bill so we can have law and order on the border instead of the law of Plata o Plomo.
"Plata o plomo" the choice given to people in the plaza of Nuevo Laredo. The cartel will pay you plata (silver) if you will work for them. Otherwise you get plomo (lead).
I'm trying not to further hijack FR33's thread so I thought I'd post this on a new one. Note that our director of Homeland Security says that these reports are overblown but Rep John Culberson (R-Houston) www.culberson.house.gov reports that there was an al Queda member held in the Brewster County jail for several weeks last year until he was finally picked up by the Feds.
This is an eye opening and interesting read. It's scary and it's more than a Texas problem.
Border Security
www.culberson.house.gov/news.aspx?A=204
Mr. CULBERSON: Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to bring to the attention of the American people the reasons why it is so important the House acted yesterday to pass such a strong border enforcement law and order bill that will bring law and order to our southern and northern borders, but in particular the southern border.
I am a native Houstonian, born and raise in Houston; but I had no idea until recently the scale of violence our law enforcement officers, Border Patrol agents, our local sheriffs are facing along the Rio Grande, and it is the result of a lack of enforcement of our immigration laws, as the Border Patrol has been pulled back and our border has been unprotected at the same time the narcoterrorists and the drug lords have figured out that there is a vacuum there.
A war has developed between the gulf cartel of drug lords and the megacartel. Now, the megacartel extends its territory essentially from, and I am going to use these, Mr. Speaker, to help illustrate for people what I am talking about, this war between the megacartel, the drug lords, and the gulf cartel, is a full-scale battle. The lawlessness is so severe, Mr. Speaker, that the sheriffs in Laredo will not even approach the river at night without turning off all their lights.
And, in fact, when I went down to the river in mid-October with a group of sheriffs, the sheriff sent a marked sheriff's deputy vehicle ahead of me down to the river with the lights out. I asked, why are you sending him ahead of me with the lights out? And the response was, Congressman, we want him to get shot at instead of you. Which really alarmed me. And I asked the sheriff, please tell that young man to turn on the strobe lights on top of his vehicle. They sort of laughed at me and said, Congressman, you do not understand. The violence is so bad down here on the river, that if that deputy sheriff turns on his strobe lights, it will make him a better target and he is very likely to be machine gunned immediately.
This is what our law enforcement officers face every day, and the type of people that they are dealing with is shown in this photograph here. This is a photograph of one of the military style commandos that are being used by the Gulf Cartel as their army of enforcers. This is a photograph of a Guatemalan special forces, they call them kabiles, and their motto, which is difficult to see here at the bottom, but let me read it for the viewers. Their motto is: If I go forward, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. And if I turn back, kill me.
The Gulf Cartel is also using a group of commandos trained in the United States at Fort Bliss called the Zetas that were part of the Mexican army originally, and their commander and 31 of their top troops went over the drug lords, bought out by the drug lords, and the Zetas are now running at least one and probably up to four narcoterrorist training camps in northern Mexico right across the river from Texas. There is one operating out in the open near Matamoros, maybe two or three others in the immediate area, one near Rio Bravo, and another apparently has opened up recently near Del Rio. These are narcoterrorist training camps run and operated by the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel to train and equip these commandos to enter the United States to deliver the loads of weapons or drugs and kill anybody that attempts to stop them.
Let me show people the effect of just a typical arrest. Now, this is just another week at the office for our law enforcement officers on the Texas border. This is on September 27, 2004. This occurred in Nuevo Laredo, just across the river, and this is spilling over in the United States because the drug Lords are fighting over Nuevo Laredo, the Nation's largest inland port, and whichever drug cartel controls Nuevo Laredo will control the most profitable smuggling center in the United States.
On September 27 of 2004, this gun battle ensued, and as a result of this gun fight, there were captured and in this one fight, they found four AK-47 machine guns, two AR-15 rifles, ten grenades, a number of pistols, 12 40-millimeter grenade rounds, and 12 40-millimeter grenade launchers. Now, these devices here across the bottom are 40-millimeter grenade launchers that are supposed to be attached to M-16 rifles, but the Zetas, the drug lords' army, have converted them to handheld pistols, and this is standard equipment that are now issued to these commandos as they deliver their loads of weapons, drugs and even terrorists. The Customs Immigration Service knows that the terrorists are using the smuggling routes established by the drug lords to smuggle Islamic terrorists into the United States. I had the FBI director testify to my committee under oath that there are individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections changing their Islamic surname to Hispanic, adopting fake Hispanic identities and entering the United States pretending to be Hispanic immigrants and disappearing. This is going on in large numbers. These narcoterrorist armies, this is, again, just one arrest; these 40-millimeter grenades launchers can be held as pistols, and they are used to shoot at law enforcement officers, anybody who attempts to stop them.
I applaud the House for passing this strong bill so we can have law and order on the border instead of the law of Plata o Plomo.
"Plata o plomo" the choice given to people in the plaza of Nuevo Laredo. The cartel will pay you plata (silver) if you will work for them. Otherwise you get plomo (lead).
