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The reason I don’t like democrats…. they’ll get me killed

Now that the dimwit-Senate appears to lack the votes to pass Obamacare, Real America—conservative blogs and talk radio, must force our communist President, the cowed intel community and even the United States military to defend us.

As anyone with an IQ half the number of Bawney Fwank’s anonymous sex partners knew immediately when shouts ran out at Fort Hood… it was Muslim terrorism.

There is no need for further evidence regarding the waste-of-skin traitor Hasan.

He must be hanged for his crime by the military, he must not allowed access to civil courts.

In addition, I want the heads of  Fort Hood Commander LtGen. Robert W. Cone and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey on stakes.

How can they fight a war when they can’t even keep terrorists out of the ranks?

And to think that a number of high ranking officers were cashiered because of some grab ass at the Tail Hook convention.

Gentlemen… if your dog tags say “Muslim”, please step over to that line.”

Next, any Muslim who tries to enlist must undergo the most stringent security check in America… and I don’t mean the “move along, nothing to see here” vetting process the Obama used to slip communists into the highest levels of government for the next phase of the coup.

All the casualties last week were aboard a military base, so most of America will just shrug it off as “another terrible tragedy” and a “gun crime”… more on that aspect below.

No…. it was the worst Muslim terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.

Let me repeated for emphasis….. the worst murderous attack by committed Muslim jihadists in the eight years since the mass murder of 3,000 in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and on United Flight 93 by committed Muslim suicide bombers.

My friends, clearly the CIA, the FBI, Army CID and the Army itself is part of a conspiracy to sacrifice American service members and civilians on the altar of hard-core left-wing politics.

“Political correctness”? 

No, we passed that years ago… there is something terribly, systemically wrong when our courts, our law enforcement agencies, our various levels of government, our intelligence community, our military and even the president of the United States refuse to defend America and protect her citizens.

I can cite 100 cases of traitorous, unconstitutional inaction and/or malfeasance on the part of each of the institutions I just listed.

When will the people rise up and take control of this situation… do your own children or grandchildren have to die before we take matters into our own hands?

Oh stop your squirming like a little girl with twisted panties… if we don’t do it, who will? If not now, when?

When are we going to start acting like patriots born of revolutionary forefathers instead of sheep being lead to slaughter?

This terror attack just happened to have occurred at Fort Bragg…. you convince me why the next time it won’t be at the Mall of America… or in your Wal-Mart?

I wrote extensive about the Muslim Beslan Russia school massacre, thinking the lesson was obvious about the vulnerability of our own schools… I learned quickly that no one in the massive government school, union-controlled industry cares.

Every conscientious conservative blog I’m aware of has warned of this as long as blogs have existed.

What price are we willing to pay for our inaction?

Am I advocating armed rebellion?

No… not hardly; we can’t even keep communists from indoctrinating of children in government schools. How are we going to shift into a hard-core revolutionary cadre? Get real.

What I am advocating is the following:

If a million tea-partying 9/12’ers can clog the street of D.C. for a day, five million can shut down the government for as many days as we need to… like Martin Luther… nail our demands to the doors of Congress.

Luther, a monk, was personally fed up. He had had it with Roman Catholic Church, and literally nailed a collections of indictments on the door of the  Schlosskirche (castle church) in Wittenberg

Among his rhetorical accusations was this one:

"Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?"

By changing only a couple of words, isn’t Martin Luther’s clarity just as apt today as it was around this time of year in 1517.

Luther, one man, one motivated individual, thus began the Protestant Reformation and changed the world.

If Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer (left) can’t get to work for a week, it will be the best thing that has happened to our republic since we bombed Japan. 

And is they were forced to resign and special elections held, the slimy politicians would quickly learn that if they want to keep their jobs for another year or so, they do what we say.

In the meantime we begin from the ground up, a take over of our government.

Only those who believe and will protect the originalist view of the Constitution need apply.

I don’t want a democrat or republic merry-go-round government changing masks every 2-4 years; I want a Constitutional Movement that will once and for all relegate the excesses of this bloated federal government and this society to the dung heap of history.

Absolute term limitations… one four-year term in the House, one six-year term in the Senate; one five-year term for president.

We simply take away the political pay offs, graft, corruption, luxuries, high pay… make being a “public servant” not so attractive.

This way, no one “runs’ for re-election as soon as they’re sworn in; they are in long enough to work effectively, but not long enough to do any great damage. Besides, in Real America, impeachment is only a Constitutional violation away… for anyone.

Further:

• Government housing for federal officials will be provided on military bases in the previous enlisted quarters; new quarters will be constructed for active duty member and families and a livable per diem will be paid to military members who must live on the local economy.
• Better yet, the military buys existing apartment buildings to house troops.

This is all stream-of consciousness, I have a million ideas,

But the question we must answer is when do we quit bleating about the systematic destruction of our great nation, get off our asses and do something?

As promised:

The spin is already grinding away to use the Fort Hood Muslim terrorism attack as “proof” we need more anti-gun laws.

And the new villain is—drum-roll, please…..

The 5.7 mm FN Herstal Five-seveN, 10-round semi-auto handgun.

It is already nick-named the “cop-killer”… as if all the other pistols used to gun down law enforcement officers weren’t “cop-killers”.

It is only a matter of time until it is also dubbed an “assault pistol”.

If it was pink, liberals wouldn’t even notice. 

The following is already included in the Wikipedia entry on the FN Herstal.

On Nov.5, 2009, the weapon was again the target of controversy when, investigators believe, the Five-Seven was used by U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan in the shooting at Fort Hood military base, where 13 were killed and 30 were wounded.

Move along citizens… it wasn’t terrorism; just another terrible gun tragedy. We must have more “reasonable” gun laws… this weapon is not used for hunting, it’s just used to kill people.

If the government is really worried about Muslims, they had better keep them in line.

In the end, when all the cards are played, Americans will not go down without a fight.

Greater security scrutiny needed for Muslims in US military

Hellava day… being trying to post this since 10 a.m.; some things might be dated.

With the following, I’m guilty of “burying the lead” (as it’s called in the news business) on the Fort Hood mass-casualty shooting.

I want everyone to know about their commander-in-chief and his compulsive need to make everything about him…. even the shooting of 43 people.

The world waited breathlessly yesterday waiting for the TV mutts to breathlessly report what WWOS… “What Would Obama Say?”.

Knowing he was about to speak of the execution-style, close range killings of at least 13 soldiers and civilian police at Fort Hood were slaughtered and over 30 others wounded, by U.S. Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan, a Muslim, he…:

• He spent the first two minutes of the four-and-a-half minute address in a light-hearted discussion of the “Tribal Nations Conference” on Native American rights he was attending. (I’ll pass on any speculation about how he should be using his POTUS time).

(OBAMA): “Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.”

“I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner (sic). It's good to see you.”

Is there anything more dignified than the President of the United States sounding like he’s presenting the MTV award for best thug-rapper? 

• Once again you stupid son of a bitch, no one “wins” the Medal of Honor…it’s not a game;
• and, there is no such thing as the Congressional Medal of Honor;
• and, Dr. Medicine Crow has never been awarded the Medal of Honor. But he was awarded the “Presidential Medal of Freedom”… you should at least get that right… you gave him the damned thing a few months ago.
• And… since you have also had the singular honor of presenting the Medal of Honor to the grieving parents of Army Sergeant First Class Jared Monti less than three weeks ago, is it too much to act that you at least know what you’re talking about? 

Michelle Malkin reports: “When he finally got around to the purpose for his public appearance, he gave an uninspired and rambling dissertation on the (Fort Hood) tragedy. Even then, he could not keep the topic focused on sympathy for the pain of others:

“I want all of you to know that as Commander in Chief, that there’s no greater honor, but no greater responsibility for me (emphasis his) than to make sure that the extraordinary men and women in uniform are properly cared for…”

And now, back to Religion of Peace News:

Starting now there must be a complete and exhaustive investigation of the Army (and not by the Army) on one simple issue: why was Hasan allowed to remain in the Army, let alone have contact with soldiers needing competent psychological care, let alone not be charged with several violations of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. (Hasan shown left as a young lieutenant.

We all know the reason already, and it has cost 13 lives—probably more—and the severe wounding of dozens more.

• It should outrage all Americans that almost immediately there was an obvious attempt to portray Hasan, an active-duty Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, as anything but what he is… an angry, Muslim-centric mass-killer who supported suicide bombers—equating them with Medal of Honor Recipients—and their killing of US troops.   

Further evidence of the Army’s negligence, and criminal misconduct by allowing a Muslim fifth-columnist to remain in the military in any capacity:

23 March, 2003, Camp Pennsylvania Kuwait:

Muslim Army Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar (formerly: Mark Fidel Kools) at a rear base camp before the invasion of Iraq. In a premeditated attack, Akbar threw hand grenades into a tent before sunrise when most troops were still sleeping. He fired his rifle into the ensuing chaos. 

He was convicted of the murder of Army Capt. Christopher Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone. His first appeal review is now in process; if he loses his faces death by lethal injection. Read more here.

Not to fear, my Muslim enemies… the military hasn’t executed anyone since 1961. It is my belief that Akbar will eventually be released, just like the POWs at Gitmo. ‘Course I know you’re pissed too, if he’s “martyred” he’s a more valuable propaganda tool.

10 September, 2003, Guantanamo Bay:

One, Army Capt. Yusuf Yee (James Yee), a chaplain who converted to Islam after he came in contact with Saudi clerics during an Army tour in that country in 1991.

“Came into contact with Saudi clerics”?

American traitor Lee, a Muslim, is shown right with his parents, insisting he was the victim of… .racial and religious discrimination.

Given his background should Lee have been assigned to work with hard-corps enemies of America imprisoned in Gitmo?

Of course, you bitter, gun and Bible-clingers…. we would rather have our soldiers and civilians die than to take the steps to prevent Muslim zealots from infiltrating of our military.

Yee was caught red-handed with secret material and charged with sedition,aiding the enemy, spying espionage, and failure to obey a general order. However, all charges were later reduced to a single charge of “mishandling classified information” by prosecutors who cited “national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence.”

But Yee was alone… he was the leader of a spy ring.

Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. Halabi (at left in photo), an Arabic translator, was arrested at Gitmo, and civilian translator Ahmed F. Mehalba, arrested at Boston's Logan International Airport as he returned from a trip to Egypt with a computer disc of classified US military information.

Read more here.

Eventually Halabi was found guilty of possessing and transporting classified information, violating a general regulation, and lying to investigators. In September 2004, he was sentenced at Travis AFB a bad conduct discharge, 295 days confinement (essentially time served), and reduction to E-1 rank.

You may ask, well, where is Ahmad I. Halabi today…. well, why don’t you check in on his Linked in Page…. in which he brazenly lists his Air Force experience, omitting just one detail. He appears to be successful “Senior Executive - Customer Business at Dubai Properties” in the U.A.E.

Click here for his profile… perhaps you can leave him a message.

Also:

• Muslim US soldier Hasan Abujihaad was convicted last year of espionage and supporting terrorism in connection with his service aboard the USS Benfold. He provided classified material with al Qaeda financiers which included movements of US ships just six months after al Qaeda operatives had killed 17 Americans aboard the USS Cole in Yemen. Helmet tip: MichelleMalkin.com
• Convicted Beltway sniper and Muslim John Muhammad is scheduled to be executed next week. He was discharged from the U.S. Army at the rank of sergeant in 1994, following the Gulf War.

At right is a frame grab from a Killeen, Texas, convenience store security video that shows Nadal Malik Hasan in early Thursday morning, Nov. 5, 2009. Hasan  shot and killed 14 people at Fort Hood in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base

Hasan’s terroristic past:

This much, beyond the state-controlled media’s attempt at white-wash, is known:

--At least six months ago Fort Hood killer Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.

--Hasan had made “outlandish comments” about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US involvement in them and that “Muslims had a right to rise up and attack Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

--His name appeared on radical Internet postings.

--A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required disciplinary counseling as a medical student because of problems he had with his patients.

(BTW: Hasan’s medical school education was paid for by you, the American taxpayer.)

But before the smoke had cleared yesterday, civilian and military authorities were in lock-step insistence that there was no terrorism involved in the mass-killings.

Did the attack create terror? Was that along with killing as many as possible, the intent?

Then what else should it be called?

One of the great weakness of our nation is the knee-jerk, bending over backwards of our political correct society (even in the military) to whitewash our enemies as just part of the rich fabric of our so-called “diversity”.

Associated Press turned in its usual hard-hitting story:

Officials at the post hospital where Hasan worked said they weren't aware of any problems with his job performance.

"Up to this point I would consider him an asset," said Col. Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of base clinical services.

She described Hasan as "a quiet man who wouldn't seek the limelight."

An imam from a mosque Hasan regularly attended said Hasan, a lifelong Muslim, was a committed soldier, gave no sign of extremist beliefs and regularly wore his uniform at prayers.

An unnamed source… a Muslim imam… said that someone, anyone, was a committed solider and held no radical beliefs? Even in the same story, AP knew this was far from the truth.

I’ll guarantee you that this impression of Hasan will not hold up for another 24 hours as the blogosphere, Glenn Beck, Rush, and a few newspapers try to get to the truth.

The responsibility for this reaches the highest levels of the civil and military leadership of the Army.

We cannot allow it to be whitewashed…. again.

Only about half the murdered Fort Hood soldiers are shown above.

May God rest their souls.

Oklahoma City…. 14 years on, Part I

Back yesterday from Indian Territory… a great time on many levels and a few surprises.

I’ll be back to One Man’s War Against the Obama Coup tomorrow, but I have to write the below piece to feel better; but in the meantime… do your part to make GOP Benedict Arnold Sen. Olympia Snowe miserable:

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I have her on my cell speed dial and through the day I call often (along with thousands of others) so that her phone system melts and the interns quit to save their sanity.It was cold and rainy in the aftermath of a storm front that rumbled through Oklahoma City the previous two days.

I had promised myself that I would visit more than a decade ago, but as I arrived Sunday morning, I was unprepared for the emotional impact of The Chairs.

First….. you notice the absolute quiet and stillness.

The dead of the attack on the Murrah Federal Building are represented by 168 hand-crafted chairs of bronze and stone atop frosted glass cubes which are individually illuminated at night. On the front of each cube is etched the name of one of the KIAs.

When it comes to the casualties of terrorism, I refer to them as one should the war dead… they are not “victims”, they are the killed-in-action.

Likewise, the survivors are not “injured”, they are the wounded; in and near the Murrah Building there were 800 WIAs.

I came to pay my respects to all KIAs and WIAs, but especially to Capt. Randolph L. Guzman, XO of the OKC Recruiting Station, left, and one of his Marines, Sgt. Benjamin L. Davis, below.

The recovery of Capt. Guzman’s body stands as one of the great stories in the history of the greatest fraternity in the world… the United States Marine Corps.

Below, I defer to a Marine who was on deck at the time and acted in the finest tradition of the Marine Corps and the Naval Service. His story, below, was reported by CWO CWO Robert C. Jenks, Headquarters Marine Corps--1995.

Michael S. Curtin, a New York City police officer, and Marine reserve first sergeant activated under the Federal Emergency Management Agency Task Force 1, was part of the search and rescue effort in the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building:

For the first 40 hours there was no rest. Sometime the morning of April 21, Curtin, almost spent of energy and only using adrenaline to keep moving and save lives, came upon a familiar sight.

Deliriously scrambling across and through the wreckage of the Federal building, Curtin (left) saw a body covered by the rubble. He recognized the material of the trousers.

The trousers were deep blue with a broad red strip -- the Corps calls it a “blood stripe.”

He was a Marine.

Officer Curtin knew immediately. He, too, is a Marine. A Marine reserve first sergeant.

"It was like I was driven," said Curtin, who has been a Marine reservist for five years after serving on active duty for 14 years.

"I knew what I had to do." he said.

 After the first sergeant found the dress blue trousers, he cut away part of the fabric and saw that the man was white. He knew then that it had to be Capt. Randolph L. Guzman, the recruiting station executive officer. The other Marine who was still unaccounted for was Sgt. Benjamin L. Davis, and Davis was known to have been of Asian heritage and had darker skin.

Marines are always on duty; and so it was with the Skipper…. once the rubble was carefully cleared, Capt. Guzman was found seated behind his desk.

"When I found the Captain, I started asking around to see who among the rescuers was a Marine," Curtin said. "I found three former Marines who were part of the rescue effort."

Curtin located Manny Hernandez and Juan Garcia, both New York City cops; he needed one more; Ray Bonner, a paramedic, stepped forward;

First Sergeant Curtin now had his fire team.

Curtin approached the FEMA chain of command and told them he and a team of former Marines were taking a special interest in the recovery of Guzman's remains. Permission was granted to the Marines to accomplish this special mission, but they only had a four-hour window of time to work.

"It was something I had to do," Hernandez, a Vietnam veteran who has been a police officer for 22 years. "I had a squad under me in 'Nam and whenever we lost a Marine, he was never left. We have this tradition. We take care of our own."

The excavation took five hours and according to situation reports, involved a great deal of risk. The team was operating on the sub-ground level, with a lot of concrete and steel debris. There were apparently two major structural columns, one vertical and one horizontal, which were the primary obstacles to their recovery. However, removal was not possible because the beams were the only support for the heavy debris above and around the Marines. "We had to use an electric jackhammer to chip the concrete away from the captain," Curtin said. During this effort, the columns dangerously shifted twice before they were able to get Guzman free.

Kneeling beside the captain, former Cpl. Hernandez covered Guzman's face with his hand.

"I closed his eyes," said Hernandez. "For the glory of God and the glory of the Corps. It was just a little thing. We had to keep the tradition alive. The captain deserved the honor and respect -- like all Marines."

After placing Guzman's remains in a body bag, the word spread throughout downtown Oklahoma City the Marines were bringing out one of their own.

With the help of Dennis O'Connor, also a New York police officer; Peter Conlin, whose father served as a Marine in World War II; and Steve Smalls, a structural engineer from New York City, the Marines prepared to take Guzman home.

An unidentified Air Force colonel, upon hearing of the Marines' mission, found an American flag and sent it into the building.

"Before we lifted Guzman up and away from the rubble and carried him out, we draped the flag over him," said Curtin. "When we came out of the building I couldn't believe what I saw."

"Everything had stopped," he said. "You could have heard a pin drop."

"Cranes had stopped. It was completely quiet. Rescuers stopped and looked; people had lined the street outside the building. Everyone was watching in silence as we brought our Marine out."

"We were in a highly visible location ... engines were turned off ... people removed their covers ... bowed their heads ... covered their hearts. You could tell the veterans," Curtin said. "They were the ones saluting with tears in their eyes."

For Curtin, Garcia, Hernandez and Bonner, the scene filled them with pride, but was almost too much for them to emotionally handle.

"When we came out with the flag-draped captain, I saw why I was a Marine once. It is because I know I wouldn't expect anything else from any other Marine if it were me in that body bag," Hernandez said. "It revalidated the esprit and brotherhood that I remember taught to me in boot camp years ago. It lifted me up."

"It was overwhelming. We are a Band of Brothers," he said.

Once Guzman's remains were carried from the building, two long lines of rescue workers and bystanders formed, without any order or direction, that made a corridor leading to the recovery vehicles that was taking remains to the makeshift morgue. "It was one of the most emotional experiences of my life," said Curtin. "People had taken their hard hats off and were offering respect anyway they knew how."

"It was symbolic of all the emotion that everyone was feeling, whether they were a Marine or not, we were all involved. The compassion for all the lost just seemed to surface all at once."

I asked one of the U.S. Park Rangers if he could show me the chairs for Guzman and Davis. He explained that he could not since there was some electrical work going on under the turf that surrounded the 168 chairs—it was open only to family members—but would point out their location.

He walked to the middle of the chairs and I took a shot; he said, “how long do you need?”

Twenty seconds, I said.

He motioned me to hallowed ground. I knelt and placed two of our Medal of Honor Host City Program lapel pins on the seat of each chair. I said “Semper Fi” to each and asked the Good Lord to bless them.

“Thanks… it’s important for Marines,” I said to the Ranger.

“No problem,” he said. “ I’ll take the heat if there is any. Thanks for your service.”

“Thanks for your service…. you’re a good man,“ I said.

On the outside perimeter of the memorial, there is a section of the original fence on which visitors left remembrances.

I searched for 30 minutes; I knew something would be there. And it was…. a USMC sticker and a faded and tattered photo of Capt. Guzman.

Curtin, who retired at the rank of sergeant major, was a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, served with the New York City Police Department for 13 years; he served with Emergency Services Unit Truck 2.

Curtain was killed in action September 11, 2001, along with 71 other law enforcement officers, many of them Marines, from eight local, state or federal agencies by terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.  Read both stories of Capt. Guzman and SgtMaj. Curtain here.

And because Marines never forget and never leave a brother behind, he was accorded the same honors he conducted for Capt. Guzman.

He was posthumously awarded the New York City Police Department's Medal of Honor for heroic action.

He is survived by his wife, three daughters, and brother.

Sergeant Major Curtain, 45, was not alone when he died; the spirits of Capt. Guzman and Sgt. Davis stood with him; there were many Marines coming for him, and legions more who would soon avenge his death.

Semper Fidelis.

 

“We’re pinned down!!”

"We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We've lost today," Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter's repeated demands for helicopters.

Four of Williams’ Special Operations Command Marines lay dead near a fortress-like Afghan village Tuesday—as their comrades fought on, their ammo running low.

America, your sons are being slaughtered—intentionally sacrificed—because Commander-in-Chief Obama and his top commanders want to limit possible civilian casualties in the war-torn country… buying Afghani lives for Americans.

With sniper rounds impacting old inches away, Maj. Williams persisted in his demands for gunships, air strikes, arty… anything that would keep the dug-in rags’ heads down so his people could pull back to a better defensive position.

In early June the new U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal ordered new operational standards, including a directive to refrain from firing on structures where insurgents may have taken refuge among civilians unless their own troops are in imminent danger. Officials hoped the change in ROE (rules of engagement) will reduce tensions between U.S. forces and Afghan citizens, and build a "civilian surge" to improve reconstruction and governance.

But thousands of miles from the air conditioned Oval Office, the four Marines were placed in body bags along with eight Afghan troops and an Afghan interpreter who were killed in the ambush and battle that raged from dawn until 2 p.m. in eastern Kunar province, close to the Pakistan border.

Embedded reporter Jonathan S. Landay, right: 

"This is unbelievable. We have a platoon (of Afghan army) out there and we've got no Hotel Echo," (Army Capt.) Swenson shouted above the din of gunfire, using the military acronym for high explosive artillery shells. "We're pinned down."

Finally, more than an hour after the ambush was sprung, a string of dense smoke, white phosphorus artillery rounds was used to shield the unit’s retreat to better cover.

Of his new policy, Gen. McChrystal has said his measure of effectiveness will be the “number of Afghans shielded from violence” — not the number of militants killed, adding that is our troops taking fire from and they can remove themselves from the area safely, without any undue danger to the forces, then that’s the option they should take.”

During the firefight, Afghan women and children inside the village compound were observed resupplying the Taliban fighters with ammunition.

It’s been a very long time, but America used to be a country of winners, a nation that had the ability to unleash overwhelming, full-on, titanic, and therefore short, low-casualty wars.

Apparently we left all that in the locker after WWII.

Since then untold tens of thousands of American lives have been sacrificed on the alter of politics presided over by superiors unworthy of our troops’ trust.

Korea—only five years after WWII—was fought in exactly this manner. Gone was “go big or don’t go at all”, the unofficial motto of vastly superior armies, and in its’ place Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson would later be personally picking bombing targets in North Vietnam. 

The first choice of today’s limp-wristed, metro-sexual politicians is to not fight at all, become an equal-partner world government via the United Nations…. I call that surrendering without firing a shot.

Barack Hussein Obama is only a little lighter in the loafers…. scared of his own shadow, apologizing for this own country, and hoping that our enemies will eat us last;  you know… the guy that doesn’t like the sound of the word “surrender”; what’s his alternative….? “Yankee, you die!!”, “banzi!!, or perhaps, “do you want a blindfold?”

We can’t fight back, we can’t yell: get the f**k outta that damned mosque! We’re vaporizing it in an hour”; we can’t use certain ammunition, we can’t use our superior firepower.

But what about intel gathering which prevents or reduces loss of life on both sides? Not just “no”, but “Hell no!!!”

such as:

• no shouting, pushing, or taking his library card 
• tell him he’s facing east when he’s really pointed north.
• telling him his mum died.
• Forcing the detainee to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner.
• Placing hoods or sacks over the head of a detainee; using duct tape over the eyes.
• Applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain.
• Waterboarding.
• Using military working dogs.
• Conducting mock executions.
• Depriving the detainee of necessary food, water or medical care.
• Threats to turn the individual over to others to be abused.
• Certain humiliating or degrading treatment.
• Implying harm to the individual or his property.
• Threatening to separate parents from their children.

“Good evening, Mr. Iwishi Hadanaudi. Let me tell you about tonight’s specials here at Club Gitmo.”

So what all this means is that without intel from newly-captured POWs/captives, an important—if not the most important—weapon, is neutralized.

As one jarhead observed last month: “The Iraqis (on the battlefield) already know the game. They know how to play us. Unless you catch the Iraqis in the act, it is very hard to pin anything on anyone; we can’t even use basic police interrogation tactics.”

So……. right now, right this very moment Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, of Hailey, Idaho, has been missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30.

On July 3, officials declared him "missing-captured."

He has been ID’ed in this photo released by the Taliban.

Bergdahl is a member of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and I assure you that he now lives in terror every moment of his young life.

And….. I’ll guarantee you that America will let him die—probably by a slow and crude beheading, because we won't peel back someone’s fingernail(s) to find out where in the goddamedhell he is.

His father would, his mom would, his grandma would, my friends would, I would.

America won’t.

Goodnight, Pfc. Berghdahl, you acquitted yourself with dignity, but your nation failed you.

Rest in Peace.

Realities

Reality finds a way to present itself.

Yesterday I was testing a new telephoto lens about 70-80 meters off I-35 outside my town.

By rapidly taking shots of the passing 65-mph traffic, I was  judging the the lens’ “quickness.”

My attention was quickly drawn to this old veteran in cammo, bearing the outward signs of long and arduous service.

After I got home and started running my shots through my photo software I was surprised to learn that this up-armored six-by (although The Ninja reports: “We just called 'em five tons.  I guess they could pull five tons or something. Globalsecurity.org calls 'em M939s.”) had seen its share of recent combat and as a result was headed to destinations unknown.

There were two closely-spaced, large-caliber hits obviously directed at the driver.

Neither of the shots appeared to have penetrated the bullet-resistant windshield,and there were other battle damage on the frame and hood.

Thanks to the free market and American ingenuity, 42-pound multilayered glass and polymer laminate barriers are installed as side window kits on the workhorse military transports, which requires four per vehicle. Humvee windshield sections, for example, weighing 260 pounds each. 

This type of increased protection has saved an untold number of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So… even on a quiet, hot, muggy morning in North Texas there are reminders of the sacrifices of our servicemen and women now in harm’s way… most of them unknown, unheralded and sadly, largely unappreciated.  

Take just a moment to study the photos, remember, and give thanks for those who stand between us and death and slavery.

And now, back to the madness which we join still (unfortunately) in progress.

Today I’m reminded of the man twirling the plates on sticks…. most often seen on the Ed Sullivan Show or a circus.

Barack Obama is that man; he is obviously out of his depth and experience, yet he maintains a flurry of activity that is “all hat and no cattle” as they say down here in Texas. He insists on twirling an enormous number of foreign and domestic plates and 90% of them are wobbling, yet in response, he adds more plates or one of our foreign enemies throws another at us.

The disaster is obvious and near upon us.

Where are the results from the near-$800 billion stimulus which to not just important, but critical to our very economic survival?

Better yet, where is the damned money…?

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5.

The number who strongly disapprove inched up another point to the highest level measured to date and the overall Approval Index is at the lowest level yet for Obama.

 

Governor Palin sounds off in the current Time mag:

“President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it's immoral and it's uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America. His plan to "put America on the right track" economically, incurring the debt that our nation is incurring, trillions of dollars that we're passing on to our kids, expecting them to pay off for us, is immoral and doesn't even make economic sense. So his growth of government agenda needs to be ratcheted back, and it's going to take good people who have the guts to stand up to him, stand up to him and debate policy, not personalities, not partisan politics, but policy to effect the change that we need there.”

Where are the Republicans—especially male GOPers—when it comes to calling a spade a spade…?

Clearly, the best man in the Republican Party is a woman.

And here are Jackson Five who actually deserve our respect: 

By Columnist Chuck Goudie…

“The cause of Mr. Jackson's death was obvious to anyone who saw him.

Really, no autopsy was necessary.

It was cardiac arrest. Caused by a roadside bomb.

I'm not talking about Michael Jackson, the supposedly drug-addled entertainer whose death has dominated every waking moment these past few days.

Instead, as we head toward Independence Day, I found a few other Jacksons whose deaths didn't receive the attention they should have….”

Read the rest here:  They died for us: A Jackson Five you never knew

May God bless them and their families.

Here, there and everywhere....

I finally got to mix it up with a A-rab who hates us.

Overall, it was disappointing, but then no more so than dueling with the typical U.S. leftist citizen who hates America. There's a lesson there somewhere.

Her website.....:

America - I HATE YOU -- "I hate everything you represent, everything you stand for, everything about you...EVERYTHING. I f**king hate you."

.... drew my attention and so I fired one across her bow:

June 9, 2009 at 7:05 AM, <leatherneckm31@suddenlink.net:

I don't give a damn if you like Americans or not; we're used to being condemned by ragheads who would rather live under a 14th century dictatorship than stand up and fight their oppressor. In the end we will kill as many of you as it takes until you cease being a threat to this country. Why don't you quit whining and go get fitted for a suicide vest?  Currently we're in need of more targets.

GA

 Layla Anwar laylaanwar@gmail.com June 9 3:37 pm

Thank you for your wonderful mail and making my task easier -- you keep confirming what an asshole of a people you are. Hell, you even do it better than I.

Best regards

Layla Anwar

June 9, 2009 4:57 PM, <leatherneckm31

Glad to help.

Gotta go... there are a few others like you that need to be bitch slapped this morning.
Regards,
G

June 9, 5:22 pm <laylaanwar@gmail.com> wrote:
Americans have destroyed my country... carrying their d**ks and their guns on their shoulders.

Okay then f**k off ---you sound like a real retard of a moron, like all americans...lol.

 

June 9, 2009 5:57 PM, <leatherneckm31

That's the best you got.... a gutter mouth and "retard of a moron"...?

"Carrying their d**ks and guns on their shoulders...."?

.... thanks, we do equally well with both.

Regards habibtee,

g

 

Layla June 10 2:18p

I doubt you do well with either...and that's the best you deserve you sick moron...

Just in case you don't understand what f**k off means...since you are such a dumb American, maybe you need to get that putrid ass of yours in Iraq and we will show you the exact meaning of the word

Best regards dear

Layla

 

June 10 4 pm

Would that I could, dearie; I'd pay my own way to Iraq just to blow you bottom feeders straight to hell. ... but rest assured my friends and I tried to kill as many commie wastes of skin as possible in Vietnam.

Which prompts the obvious question: You're still a relatively young pseudo-jihadists... why hide behind a keyboard when the IslamoNazi subhumans could certainly put you to good use on a one-way bomb run. 'Course you'd have to walk because they don't let your kind drive. That would be a win-win for the U.S. and the ragheads --- we'd get rid of your dreadful writing and the rags hate women which is understandable in a nation of faggots.

Lemme know when you're ready to put your dinar where your pie hole is.

In the meantime here's the link to the latest Apache 30mm gun run videos... http://gotwarporn.com/labels/30mm.html ---new and improved, and now with added Jihadi mist....

Allah Snackbar, G

Layla June 10 4:18p

You keep proving that you're not only an ignoramus Nazi, but also a dumb fuck.

What can I say --  except block your stupid red neck name...

Go get yourself a life and an  anti psychotic medication, all viet vet are deeply imbalanced.

so long sucker...

I suspect Layla the pseudo-revolutionary lives in the basement of her mom's house and goes about 240; and as you can tell, she is very angry and near incoherent.... sort of like Rosie O'Donnell. In fact, she made be Rosie O'Donnell.

Good one from Politico.com complaining about Obama's mix of "frothy mix of glamour and domesticity."

President Obama could become in the public mind something he never sought to be: the Martha Stewart of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

And political veterans say the fine line between what’s inspiring and what’s annoying can be difficult to spot in advance.

Ridiculous, didn't take me more than a few seconds... two and a half years ago.

You'll recall yesterday that I posted the U.S. Army directive that forces our soldiers to break off a firefight if the Taliban duck into houses and other structures that may be inhabited by civilians.

Humm, I wonder what the ragheads will do when engaged?

Here's audio/video proof of how many restrictions there are on our troops before they can open fire.... listen as Apache pilots ask six times for clearance before lighting up a squad of Taliban who helped enormously by bunching up like a gaggle of 1400 A.D. idiots.... wait, they are 1400 A.D. idiots. 

Don't forget to contact your members of Congress to oppose "cap and trade" legislation which is subject of a sneak vote Friday.... why Friday, you ask?

You've been asleep.

Also the Obamacare legislation looms; if we don't hack up these socialist/fascist tentacles, we're as good as economic slaves.

Here's the one-stop link to make it easy... at USA.Gov

Iranians whacked, Obama snacked

The young man at the right is a patriot. He would rather die fighting than live on his knees.

His courage in the face of the IslamoNazi subhumans who rule his country has cost him dearly, but every revolution must have a Patrick Henry. 

"Nine years ago, Ahmad Betebi appeared on the cover of The Economist.This photo during the student demonstrations made Batebi famous. It also made him a target of the regime.

"Ahmad Betebi was sentenced to death by the evil regime in Iran after the student protests of 1999. He was severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran. During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through a free Iraq to Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC." (Read and view in-depth interview via Gateway Pundit.com.

Here's what the new generation of Iranian freedom fighters think of Dear Leader's cowardice in the face wholesale murder in the street of Tehran. 

"His (Obama) lack of response will not be regarded lightly. We will watch for how much his response will help the people or the regime. We will know more this week... Obama can hold talks with the regime in Iran if he wants.

Is it morally correct for Obama to support the regime? Does he actually believe the people of Iran will appreciate that? The social movement requires support. If the world really wants the advent of terrorism to disappear in the Middle East, if they want peace with the Palestinians and Israel, if they want nuclear technology to be developed for peaceful things and not nuclear weapons... They only need to support the people of Iran right now. This regime has the most dangerous of ideologies.

"They're killing the opposition."

Meanwhile, despite Iran, the NoKor weapons ship, an economy fast resembling that of the Weimer Republic, unemployment beyond 12% and a well-planned fiscal suicide.... Obama sets up a propagandist's photo op with his kids; proving the adage, that when the going gets tough, the tough buy ice cream.

As HotAir reported:

Obama Snacked, Iranians Got Whacked

Below is a graphing video of the murder of a young woman dubbed Neda ("The Voice") gunned down by Iranian security forces. Now a decade later, this Iranian uprising for freedom has its own martyr.

She went to the rally with her father and died instantly of a bullet to the base of her throat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This should be a pinnacle moment for the world's oldest true constitutional republic to stand side-by-side with those who face the guns of an oppressive government, just as we did 230 years ago.

It is in our DNA.

All people in the world striving to be free look to America.... the students in Tiananmen Square erected a State of Liberty before it and they were crushed under the treads of communist tanks.

We could once again provide hope for an oppressed people, but we won't because we have a weak and incompetent leader incapable of doing anything but stroking his own ego.

If we actively backed regime change in Iran, make and fulfill our promise of support to the opposition movement and topple the present government of, half the world's terrorist activity or more, would grind to a halt.

But that would take common sense, vision and courage... both political and moral.

Barack Hussein Obama lacks all three, unmoved by people young an old, male and female, facing down automatic weapons with sticks and rocks and guts.

He is a moral and physical coward.

Not long ago I suggested to some folks that "68 million people were responsible for this" meaning the current domestic and foreign tar babies Obama has created in only six months.

Some were actually offended when I suggested that just as words have meanings, votes have consequences.

Lastly, this is the way the current CnC proposes to ferret out the subhumans in Afghanistan and kill them in their numbers:

Shades of Vietnam? New US Rules of Engagement Says Troops Must Disengage if Taliban Enter Homes....

KABUL – The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.

The order would be one of the strongest measures taken by a U.S. commander to protect Afghan civilians in battle. American commanders say such deaths hurt their mission because they turn average Afghans against the government and U.S. and NATO forces.

No army ever won a war by giving sanctuary of any kind to the enemy, or by placing concern for civilian casualties above its soldiers' lives. 

Now, courtesy of the cyber patriots at ApacheClips.com (via The Big Zip over at Weaselzipper.com) here's his Monday Morning War Porn which is fast gaining popularity with LM31 faithful readers.... which means soon you will all end up on a fed list of some kind; I've been on it for some time and was getting lonely. 

This would seem to indicate that the remotely-flown UAV involved here might just be better shooter than pilots and gunners on choppers and A-10s which is total logic. And these are the kids who were "wasting their lives playing video games" 15 years ago.

Hell... we're best at everything.

Allah Snackbar!

Okay, so I wish it was Friday.....

This is one of those days when I I'd rather go to the range with the driver and five buckets of balls than play 18 holes.

There's something about just knockin' the holy crap outta something and leaving the mental game in the bag.

Shall we begin?

Apparently Obama's Hair Club for Men Czar cannot make up his mind whether the socialist puppet should affect the gracefully aging, gray-at-the-temple POTUS or the testosterone-laden young executive who who has female and male admirers equal numbers who experience "thrills up the leg" just at the sight of him  coming out of the surf.

Some call it man love, others call it "bromance"... I call it---"democrats are a bunch of faggots."

Oh yes, He is The One we've been waiting for:

The various pix of His Highness taken no more than months apart over the last two years reveal the obvious... that instead of the usual---dying the gray to be more youthful---The Big O dyes his hair gray to be seen as a more experienced, seasoned community organizer... more silverback, if you will.

This is just one more example of The Empty Suit's victory of only style over all substance.

For 68 million American voters this is all they require.... talk softly and carry a big flyswatter.

He's like Rock Hudson... looks good on the outside, but inside he wants to give your brother-in-law a make-over for Queer Eye for the Fabulous Guy.  

And just remember, He's not just the president... he's also an asshole.

If you wanna keep up on POTUS--The Hairing Impaired--check out the coverage from US Mag and the NYT via Sweetness & Light.com--click here.

Now turning to orthopedic news:

I understand that Hillary! fell and fractured her elbow yesterday.... are we to conclude that a wise Latina woman would have been able to avoid the clumsiness of The Woman Who Is All But Forgotten? Oh, wait, the wise Latina fell an fractured her ankle just a few days ago. Can you imagine if Hillary had broken her ankle... talk about yer major surgery.

To my knowledge and close reading of  history... I've never heard of a male Sec State being so stupid as to fall and break bones; this proves that females are far more likely to miss work because of health issues... not to mention clumsier than they throw like girls.   

Now for an ADD Update:

I'm going out on a limb here... I support the Iranians (especially those on the left there) protesting Ackmadenawhackjob (right) and the Mullahs.

 

 

 

 

 

She's the only person who could convince me to go "green".... and in a big way.

The Big Weasel via Shawarma Mayor.com has some pertinent questions about those raghead subhumans which Obama, their butt-boy, ordered released to the hell that is Bermuda.

Not terrorists, just good fellahs caught fighting American troops in Afghanistan spend the rest of their lives in paradise. Makes sense

• Proper punishment for those who train with Al-Qaeda... Paradise Island
• The "Change" America voted for.
• Free Obama T-Shirts to all Gitmo detainees
• Not terrorists. Just a bunch of Chinese who happen to train with Bin Laden and caught fighting American troops are now enjoying paradise with a $200 a night room. CHANGE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope they choke on their mahi-mahi... if not, I'd volunteer to take a vaca in Bermuda and slit their gawdamned throats.

But hey, that's just me.

At a sometimes contentious Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), had a request for Army Corps of Engineers division leader, Brigadier General Michael Walsh.

During a terse exchange, as Boxer pressed Walsh on why the levees in New Orleans are still not repaired nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina, she said to Walsh:

"Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it."

The general's response? "Yes, Senator."

If I was a field grade officer like Mike Walsh I would have said,

"I understand something about the hard work attaining ones goals. So from here on I would appreciate you referring to me as Brigadier General in order to show proper respect to the great men and women who serve in this country's military which keeps you safe at night.

"That meet with your approval Senator?"

But fortunately, I am an eternal Corporal of Marines so I would say....

"Fine with me Bitch; you can call me Dude. Now why don't you shut your pie-hole so I can get back to doing something that matters? The smell in here is getting a little hard to take.

Senator?

And people wonder why there are many of us who would like to storm Congress, block the exits and set it on fire.  

Please, oh please click below to hear her and see her in full Arrogance-o-Vision ................! 

Thursday War Porn

And lastly.... ya gotta love good ole American-made 30mm rounds.... now with new and improved impact and concussion, and enriched Allah Mist for your viewing pleasure

Allah Snackbar!!!!!

The fast and steady march to disaster

Rushisms: too good not to pass along first.

How God and Obama are alike:

--Neither has a birth certificate.

How God and Obama are not alike:

--Obama gets better press.

--Liberals love Obama.

--God doesn't think he's Obama.

--God only demands He be worshiped once a week.

Feel free to submit your own.....   

Headline of the day---

    Rev. Wright on Obama: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me”

And Obama says he didn't have a clue....; in 20 years of church going, he never heard Wright say such things. It's curious that a devout Christian such as Obama hasn't been able to find a church to replace his membership in Wright's racist, anti-American flock.

Government Motors

By his own admission Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. without knowing anything about the auto industry.

Whitacre built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career.

“I don’t know anything about cars,” Whitacre, 67, said yesterday in an interview after his appointment. “A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I’m not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.” (Read more here.)

It's easy to use this quote to ridicule Whitacre's selection, but I imagine it's pretty sound; he's a solid businessman with a good track record with AT&T.

And considering that Brian Deese, a 31-year-old not-quite-graduate of Yale Law School who has as much business and executive experience as Obama is dismantling General Motors Corp., remaking the US automotive industry, and rewriting the rules of American capitalism..... the new chairman is a God send.

Whitacre's 43-year business career is 12 years longer than Lil' Bri has been on the planet.

This just in:

Obama has ordered that high value terrorist POWs be Mirandized.

Yes, you read that correctly. Now murdering, psychotic ragheads have the some of the same Constitutional rights as you do. Access to the Fifth Amendment won't be far behind.

And that almost insures they will never reveal any intelligence which will help protect and defend Americans at home and abroad.

Now terrorists can lawyer up, and free of charge at that, and add another ring to the Biggest Show on Earth that is now performing inside the Beltway. Changes of venue, juries of the terrorists' "peers", endless appeals paid for by the ACLU, special prison accommodations, probation, hung juries, death threats directed at potential jurors and absolutely no chance of execution.

(The Weekly Standard) -- Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.

When does the treasonous charge of "providing aid and comfort to the enemy" come into play? 

American servicemen and women will die as a direct result of this and other policies of this renegade administration.

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This should be mandatory viewing in all public schools (private school and home schooled kids already get it):

In case of an emergency, call Janet Napolitano

"One is a slow collapse, an economic collapse of Mexico in which hundreds of thousands would come here over a period of time.

"The second is what I call a Colombian collapse of Mexico, an assassination of the president, the drug cartels taking over the country, civil war breaking out on the streets, people fleeing for their lives, not for a job.

"We have to be prepared in the United States for both and Texas must be prepared.  -- State Sen. Dan Patrick

There are rumblings in the Texas State Legislature—at least among the Republicans—that the Obama Administration is ignoring the mounting crisis in Mexico that threatens to spill across the border into Texas.

Governor Rick Perry has requested another thousand troops to guard the border, saying he doesn't much care if those slots are filled by soldiers or border patrol officers. But Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano seems to believe that the all but open warfare hasn't moved north far enough to trigger a security plan drawn up during the Bush administration.

Napolitano said she wants “more detail from Perry” before responding directly to his request.

Quite an observation from someone who lives 2,500 miles from El Paso.

Let me help you Madame Secretary, I wasn't aware the "details" were hard to come by:

• Last week as thousands of protesters gathered along in several towns just south the Texas-Mexico border. Five people were killed at the Reynosa border crossing Tuesday.
• More than 6,000 died last year in Mexico's drug war—almost one-third in Ciudad Juárez across from El Paso.
• Only two months into 2009, the death toll has already hit 1,000.
• Beheadings are becoming routine on the border with 20 in just the lat few weeks.
• It is becoming routine that the pitched battles against the federales, the cartels use hand grenades, RPGs and IEDs.  

See here for Napolitano's idea of a secure homeland free of alien threat.

Top Cop Assassinated

Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, the public face of Mexico's offensive against drug cartels, was assassinated in his Mexico City outside his home last May in an obvious hit by the Sinaloa cartel. His family is in hiding and under police protection.

The brazen murder gave new confidence to drug cartels blamed for 6,000 killings in the past three years, and embolden other anti-government in Mexico.

"EL PASO -- Police are investigating threats against Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, who moved his family to El Paso for safety, El Paso police Detective Carlos Carrillo said Monday.

"We received information that the Juárez mayor lives in El Paso, and that possibly they were going to come to El Paso to get him," Carrillo said. "He has not asked us for our help, but it's our duty to protect any resident of our city who may be under threat."

Many of the Mexico border police and government officials live or their family members reside in the U.S.

Assassinations of federal, state and local police officers are routine. The cartel has such a free hand that, using sophisticated radio equipment, they broadcast the names of officers marked for death on the law enforcement frequency, then shoot them before backup can arrive.     

According to the Washington Times, such hit squads have been dispatched as far north as the Carolinas.

"And in a specific example of the spread of Mexican drug-gang violence across the U.S., a confidential Department of Homeland Security advisory said an assassination attempt on a South Carolina deputy sheriff was the work of three illegal immigrants as part of the Mexican-American gang "SUR-13" with ties to the drug trade.

"Lexington County, S.C., Deputy Sheriff Ted Xanthakis and his K-9, Arcos, both survived the ambush by three men armed with a 12-gauge shotgun during a Feb. 8 incident in West Columbia, S.C."

The State Dept. has already issued a travel alert updating security information for U.S. citizens traveling and living in Mexico. If you allow your kid to go anywhere in Mexico for spring break, you are an idiot and should be arrested for child endangerment. 

Hell, even the Marine Corps has put Mexico off limits for all personnel.

Narco Armies

There are on-going daily demonstrations by protesters paid, and in many cases forced by the drug cartel to demand that the Mexican Army leave Mexico's streets.

The recent protests and related violence against the Calderón government's militarization of its war on drugs broke out in the border towns of Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, and Ciudad Juarez. In Reynosa, a military raid on an alleged drug lord's home left at least six people dead

The Gulf drug cartel and its well-armed enforcers--the Zetas--have blocked main avenues, slowed traffic across international bridges into the U.S. and clashed with federal police.

Mexico is fast  becoming a narcostate, and the violence that impacts the residents of "Borderland" is a very serious problem, but not near the calamity that the collapse of President Felipe Calderón's would cause, perhaps triggered by a presidential assassination.

It is hardly an exaggeration therefore to believe that more than a million war refugees could flee north, and soon, literally overwhelming towns from Southern California to Louisiana.

Senator Patrick said yesterday that the Obama Administration calls this potential debacle a "mass migration" as opposed to the collapse of Mexico. And we need a plan here in Texas…."

Assault Weapon Ban for U.S.? 

Following the doctrine of his attack dog Rohm Emanuel, "Don't let a crisis go to waste," Obama is going to reinstate the "assault rifle" ban that President Bush allowed to expire five years ago.   

Just when border states residents may damned well need them, Obama AG Eric Holder said yesterday:

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.

"Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.

Look for gun sales to spike again in a couple of days.