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See that flag cartoon? It's an op-ed cartoon by a guy named Daryl Cagle and, man...has it got Mexican officials steamed.
Good. They need to be. And it's good other folks outside of Texas and Arizona are starting to understand just how dangerous this situation is with Mexico's drug cartels. The rest of the nation is just now seeing what we’ve been witnessing for about 15 years now. 28,000 people killed in what, 7 years? Oh, yeah it's the perfect time to make a movie about a Mexican 'Machete' killer! Very sympatheic audiences here in the states, now...
Robert Rodriguez's childish, racist fantasies aside, the reality is Main Street America is starting to awaken to just how bad this situation realy is. Thinkgs like a bomb going off this week in a Cancun bar killing 8 people can do that. That's a huge tourist town. Now, the bomb didn't kill any tourists, it did go off in a local bar a few miles from where the gringos visit, but the fact is the violence is creeping in on places like that, an irreplaceable tourist cash cow for Mexico. Now, when the tourist trade starts drying up in places like that and Acapulco (because the cartel will go there eventually – they’re too good of targets not to) due to fear, then expect Mexico to do what all third world nations do when they admit defeat – they’ll ask America to move in and solve the problem for them.
Except now it's probably too late to help them because no one is left that has the political will to do what needs to be done. These are Mexican cartels and when they shoot at you, you have to shoot back – which means you are shooting Mexicans. And what politician is going to advocate shooting at hundreds of folks that belong to the same demographic as the fastest growing demographic in the US?
Can't you just hear CNN? "US soldiers today shot and killed 238 Mexicans in Coahuila today..." Oh, that's great for the ol' poll numbers, isn’t it?
Being from Texas and having contacts in law enforcement that have worked the Texas-Mexican border, I can say without question the problem is far, far worse than the outside world knows. It's an open war.
Mexican drug runners, coyotes (running illegals) and corrupt military members doing escort duty are going as far as 50 miles or more into American territory to protect their trade - brazenly, openly and without fear. Because they know no one on either side has the stones to do anything about it.
Anyone who thinks this isn't an open border war just doesn't know the truth. There are many places in South Texas that US lawmen will not go due to being fearful for their life or, more to the point, they are simply unwilling to get caught up in the political powder keg of shooting Mexican nationals or Mexican soldiers, even if it is on our side. It isn't worth it when they believe the politicos on this side will just throw them under the bus. Want proof? Thousands are dying on border and Washington is filing a suit against Sherriff Joe Arpaio. An American. Who is trying to shut down the illegals and the cartel in Arizona. That’s their solution? Sheesh, no wonder we're in deep fertilizer.
A big part of the problem is the cartel knows Americans are hooked like junkies on the cheap, below-market labor that the illegals bring to the agricultural, livestock, construction and service industries. This of course makes for cheaper goods and services, which we just can't live without, right? They know shutting the cartel down means shutting down the border, which means giving up the all cheap goodies open borders bring.
And what politician in an severe economic downturn is going to advocate closing the border when he knows it will almost instantly bring higher prices, more unemployed folks on the dole (legal or not) and the appearance of 'racial intolerance' by turning Mexicans away at the border or sending them home? To the politically timid, that's a disaster.
The cartel has Mexico by the balls because it is so disgustingly corrupt (and has been for decades) and full of politicians that sold out years ago. Mexico’s government no longer has the moral will or the integrity to attack the cartels full force and end the problem. In a few years, the cartels could be openly running the entire nation of Mexico (which they have been by proxy for awhile now anyway) because nothing is left to stop them from simply buying the leadership of the nation. The cartel's intelligence units (they have them and they are damn good) are better informed on all the politicians in Mexico than Mexico's own state intelligence is. And they’re better armed and better trained, too.
And now the cartel has America by the balls because of our demand for cheap housing, clean hotel rooms and affordable groceries and cheap services. (Gee, isn't this Walmart Worldview how we got so upside down with China, too?)
And the transparent, soulless, scheming political slime on our side are too cowardly to stand up for what's right; they'd rather just hide behind duplicitous yowls to 'fix the dang border!' while they take huge campaign $$$$$ from same damn companies that HIRED the illegals in the first place! (Hello, Rick Perry? Anyone home you yellow spined, lying, corrupt, elitist jerk?)
No wonder so many ranchers in the Southwest are arming themselves to teeth when they check their property. Because our government, businesses and media have betrayed them for ethnic political pandering, cheap quick-return profits and 'diversity and tolerance.'
This situation is going to turn into the American equlivalent of the British/IRA war if it's not ended soon. It is that bad. But when reminded of it, what does Mexico do? Whine about an ‘offensive’ cartoon. You know, when tens of thousands of people are getting slaughtered in an open border war the rages on a daily basis and the only thing the idiotic Mexican government can to find scream about is a cartoon of a flag, I'm not in the mood to listen to it.
Ok, flame off. I've powered down now.
Breath in, breath out…
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