Posted by
Betsy Ross on Friday, March 27, 2009 12:00:00 AM
It was reported by the mainstream media that Hillary Clinton had met with President Calderon of Mexico for about an hour today in preparation for the scheduled trip of Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano with the President within the next several weeks.
In press interviews carried across the nation, Ms. Clinton accepted U.S. responsibility for the "insatiable" appetite of the American people for Mexico's largest and most profitable export - hard core and addictive drugs marketed throughout the U.S. by the Mexican drug cartels. Mr. Calderon has been waging war on the drug cartels since his assumption of office, and the battles rage on both in Mexico and now on the U.S. side of the border.
Such a statement to me as an ex-Arizonan who left after more than 20 years living with the crime in both the drug trafficking, and property thefts due to those open borders as a fellow countryman who was victimized on several occasions, and who personally saw the drug dealers which hung around the local schools marketing their wares to young, impressionable kids to increase their market base and entrap a new generation, some for life with their wares, the word "offended" doesn't even begin to describe it my reaction.
Nor that the sole blame for the increased arsenals with which these drug cartels are equipped are the fault of the United States. Such weaponry more than likely is primarily coming from South America than the U.S. In Mexico, foreign travelers are prohibited from bringing any guns into the country. It's pretty difficult in this country anymore to obtain such a stockpile, especially of the type of weaponry it appears favored by those cartel members.
Several months ago, a border agent was killed on the Mexico/U.S. border by some illegal crossers attempting to cross in the desert. There were no guns or bombs involved. They simply used their pickup truck to run him over.
If this country has an "insatiable" need for Mexico's drugs, it's only due to ongoing federal negligence in fencing and securing our borders since the Mexican American War. The "need" is due to the fact that they are addictive drugs, and the segment of the population most often approached are the young in order to build that market base. Once addicted you've almost got a customer for life.
I do agree that that it is partially the responsibility of the United States, in that respect Ms. Clinton is correct. But for a entirely different reason. By failing to secure America's borders and our federal government's continuing negligence in this respect, Washington has been in collusion with the drug dealers in promoting this "free trade." And in violation of it's Constitution in it's failure to "provide for the common defense."
I wonder if Hillary would have been so diplomatic if she was aware that the Mexican Constitution only affords the office of El Presidente to males?
Build the fence, Hillary, and they won't come. These drug cartel members do not stop at the U.S. border entry points, but in the middle of the desert in the dead of night.
Save the country the 1.3 billion and the Black Hawk helicopters that will simply be used eventually to bring in more once the drug cartels hit the military bases there. Mexico's government is also not free of corruption, similar to our own.
As far as the 6,000 deaths which have occurred, I'd recheck those stats if I were you. Ms. Napolitano has a tendency to fudge on the numbers, as most Arizonans can relate. And so does the Mexican government when it comes to foreign aid, and Americanos dollars.
Where are the stats on the number of border state residents and the lives and property lost within the past twenty years since the last "amnesty," and those also lost since the Mexican American War due to those open borders?
Including those stats would actually give a more factual picture of the impact of those open borders and which citizens truthfully have actually suffered the most loses.
Or is this Merida Initiative simply hush money for the underground "free trade" agreement that stimultes the economies of the funeral directors, medical care professionals, insurance and legal industries and provides work for those new DHS "jobs created" under the stimulus package and state and federal public employees in the criminal justice system?