OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS

They should re-name it Operation Dumb and Dumber.





Exposed: The Secret Guns Sting That Backfired on the US

America's firearms watchdog allowed weapons to flow in, failed to catch ringleaders, then tried a cover-up

By Guy Adams

from the UK Independent, Thursday, 16 June 2011

The lethal fallout from a botched operation by the US Department of Justice which allowed almost 2,000 illegally purchased firearms to be transported from the streets of Arizona to drug gangs in Mexico has been laid bare in a scathing Congressional report, which concludes that it resulted in countless deaths.

A mixture of arrogance, over-confidence, and staggering ineptitude by the Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF] was outlined in a 51-page investigation by two Republican members of a House panel charged with getting to the bottom of what went wrong during a two-year operation called "Fast and Furious".





This is news now - the alternative blog media has been reporting on this situation since at least 4 February 2011


It tells how, between 2009 and this year, the ATF instructed agents to turn a blind eye to hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles, sniper rifles, and revolvers purchased from gunshops in Phoenix and en route to Mexico. They hoped to eventually recover them from crime scenes and build a complex conspiracy case that might take down the leaders of a major drug cartel.

In the event, the operation resulted in the arrest of a handful of small-time crooks. But it exacerbated an already-huge spike in violence on both sides of the border. Two of the guns allowed to "walk" into the hands of criminals were used in a shoot-out that killed a US border patrol agent, Brian Terry.




Marine Corps veteran and former police officer, slain US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Credit: U.S. Border Patrol


Bear in mind this insanity was perpetrated by the same people who think Ronald Reagan should have been impeached over Iran-Contra. Congress needs to find the idiots who dreamed up this nightmare, give them a fair trial, then lock them up and throw away the key - S.L.



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WORLD COMING APART

AFRICA: After Nigeria Elects Christian President, Muslims Torch 40 Churches, Kill 100 Christians




The daily slaughter continues.


(All Voices) — Muslim rioters in Nigeria protesting the just concluded presidential elections have killed more than 100 Christians and burned down more than 40 churches in an attack that began yesterday.

This revelation is contained in a report by the Regional Manager for Africa, International Christian Concern (ICC), Jonathan Racho noting that this latest demonstration is in response to the election of Jonathan Goodluck, a Christian, as president of Nigeria.

He pointed out that the rioters even destroyed the homes of many Muslims who supported President Jonathan Goodluck adding that the Muslim attackers allege that the election was rigged and General Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim presidential candidate, is the rightful winner.

He said that the Commonwealth observers’ report judged that election as “this election the fairest in decades. The elections for the National Assembly and the Presidency were both credible and creditable and reflected the will of the Nigerian people.”

According Racho, it is difficult to know the full extent of the damage. The casualties could be much higher as the attacks took place over many of the 12 Muslim majority states in northern Nigeria.


Read more HERE



We may have already past the point in history for Africa to save itself from barbarism and savagery - S.L.



WORLD COMING APART: MIDDLE EAST


Syria's Bloodiest Day: 80 Dead as Security Forces Fire on Demonstrators





Damascus -- A strong military presence remained in place around Damascus on Saturday in the wake of the country’s bloodiest day in five weeks of growing unrest. Large turnouts are expected to mourn the scores of victims, which activists say has now reached more than 100.

Security forces fired on protesters, seeking to quell demonstrations following Friday prayers in Latakia, Homs, Hama, Damascus and the southern village of Isra’a. Tens of thousands took to the streets on Friday in defiance of earlier government warnings that any further displays of unrest would not be tolerated.

In Moadniyah, a small town roughly 10km south of Damascus, a massive cordon of troops encircled the town. Soldiers also positioned themselves on rooftops and outside mosques, while others peered out from behind barricades of sandbags and giant tires.

The town hosted sizeable unrest Friday, 15 March when thousands of residents marched towards Damascus but were forced back by security forces firing tear gas.

Late in the afternoon on Friday reports circulated claiming either the army or security forces had opened fire on demonstrators in the town.

"People are being taken to hospital in cars," said one demonstrator who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal.




Basher Assad is a pig and a butcher, just like his father before him and just like the pig he's standing next to in this photo.

President Bashar al-Assad maintains absolute power in the country he inherited from his father, Hafez, in 2000. Recently however, some analysts suggest internal rifts are forming within the Assad family.

"There are demonstrations in all the cities and villages around Syria," said Mr Maleh, a human rights lawyer in Damascus. "People want the regime to fall."

In a concession to demonstrators last Friday, Assad announced intentions to lift the much-despised emergency laws, in place for 48 years since the Baath Party seized power in a coup.

A law was passed this week to scrap the decades-old measure. Many activists, however, believe the move is not enough to quell the ever-growing tide of anti-government feeling now sweeping the country.

"I went to protest for the first time because I want freedom and dignity," said one young man in his twenties who sat on a bedroom floor sipping his glass of coke. "I want this country to be a good country."


More HERE


"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States



NORTH AMERICA: Brutal Mexican Drug Gang Crosses into U.S.





SPREADING TERROR: A woman sees a relative lying dead on the ground after he was killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in December.(Associated Press)


“Those of us who live and work along the border know they’re already here,” said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr., whose Texas county lies on the Rio Grande 50 miles southeast of the Zetas’ stronghold of Nuevo Laredo. “There’s already been killings and many residents here are living in fear.”

Sheriff Gonzalez, whose Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition sought help from the federal government to control growing violence along the border, said the rising brutality of Mexican drug gangs, particularly the Zetas, “never stops shocking me.”

Trained as an elite band of Mexican anti-drug commandos, the Zetas evolved into mercenaries for the infamous Gulf Cartel, bringing a new wave of brutality to Mexico’s escalating drug wars. Bolstered by an influx of assassins, bandits, thieves, thugs and corrupt federal, state and local police officers, the Zetas have since evolved into a well-financed and heavily armed drug smuggling force of their own.




Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey in February. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. Many of Zetas' targets have been Mexican military and police personnel, but in recent years, U.S. law enforcement authorities also have come under attack. (Associated Press)


Known for mounting the severed heads of their rivals on poles or hanging their dismembered bodies from bridges in cities throughout Mexico, the Zetas have easily become the most feared criminal gang in Mexico — where 35,000 people have been killed in a continuing drug war. Everyone is a potential victim: men, women and children.

“The Zetas are determined to gain the reputation of being the most sadistic, cruel and beastly organization that ever existed,” said George W. Grayson, professor of government at the College of William & Mary and an expert on Mexican drug gangs. “Many of Mexico’s existing drug cartels will kill their enemies, but not go out of their way to do it. The Zetas look forward to inflicting fear on their targets.

“They won’t just cut off your ear, they’ll cut off your head and think nothing of it.”


Sooner or later we have to start treating the border like a military situation - in the meantime, expect this kind of savagery to continue moving northward - S.L.



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MEXICO: THE ARREST OF LA BARBIE

From STRATFOR:


August 30, 2010 - The Mexican Federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) confirmed that members of the Federal Police detained former Beltran Leyva Organization top enforcer, Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal. Several Mexican media outlets have reported that the operation that netted Valdez Villarreal took place outside of Toluca, Mexico state, while others have reported that the operation actually took place near the Morelos and Guerrero state borders. Federal Police had reportedly launched an operation to capture Valdez Villarreal on Aug. 9 at a luxury condominium complex in the Bosque de Las Lomas neighborhood of Mexico City but missed him by a few hours, indicating that the Mexican government was close to capturing him for some time before his arrest. The arrest of such high-profile and public figure in the Mexican drug-trafficking scene is a huge success for the Mexican government on both a tactical and public relations level.




Valdez Villarreal has been locked in heated battle with his former colleague, Hector “El H” Beltran Leyva, for control over the territory once occupied by the Beltran Leyva Organization under now-deceased leader Arturo Beltran Leyva. Hector has since gone on to form Cartel Pacifico Sur (CPS) and has been waging war against the former BLO elements loyal to Valdez Villarreal. The arrest of Valdez Villarreal is a tremendous blow to the leadership of his faction of the BLO, and it is unclear at this point who if anyone will take the place of Valdez Villarreal. Additionally, the detention of Valdez Villarreal also will provide Mexican authorities with a treasure trove of timely, actionable tactical intelligence about his organization’s operations, which could lead to more arrests in the near future. Furthermore, should Valdez Villarreal choose to cooperate with Mexican authorities, he could provide an enormous amount of information about rival organizations as well.

The arrest of Valdez Villarreal also comes at a time when President Felipe Calderon’s war against the cartels has been drawing some negative attention due to the high levels of violence and a recent, ominous escalation in tactics over the past week with increased use of improvised explosive devices. Valdez Villarreal was well known for his ruthlessness and brutality in dealing with his rivals, and his arrest will be a public relations coup for the Mexican government even though it will do little to quell the violence in places like Juarez and Monterrey.



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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION UPDATE

And . . . here we have an industrious Mexican national, just simply on her way to visiting her friends and relatives across the international border in Arizona, all the while passing through the port of entry at Nogales, Arizona probably daily. After all, she's 94 years old, so what harm could this poor aged Mexican woman do?


But wait . . . what's all that padded stuff taped to her body, underneath her dress? Well, after the dress was removed, loooookeeee what we have here. Why it's 10.5 pounds of marijuana! Can we blame her, after all, she's probably just supplementing the U.S. social security check she gets monthly at her P.O. box on the American side. And one can't help but wonder how many of these trips has she already made across the border, into the U.S., toting 10+ pounds of marijuana per crossing.












POEM - Illegal Immigrants

I cross river, poor and broke,
Take bus, see unemployment folk

Nice man treat me good in there,
Say I need go see Welfare

Welfare say, 'You come no more,
We send cash right to your door.'

Welfare checks, they make you wealthy,
Medicaid it keep you healthy!

By and by, Got plenty money,
Thanks to you, TAXPAYER dummy

Write to friends in motherland,
Tell them 'come, fast as you can'

They come in buses and Ford trucks,
I buy big house with welfare bucks

They come here, we live together,
More welfare checks, it gets better!

Fourteen families, they moving in,
But neighbor's patience wearing thin

Finally, white guy moves away,
I buy his house, and then I say,

'Find more aliens for house to rent.'
In my yard I put a tent

Send for family they just trash,
But they, too, draw welfare cash!

Everything is very good,
Soon we own whole neighborhood

We have hobby it called breeding,
Welfare pay for baby feeding

Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!

TAXPAYER crazy!
He pay all year, To keep welfare running here

We think America darn good place!
Too darn good for white man race

If they no like us, they can go,
Got lots of room in Mexico!



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THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAWS

This is a condensed version of the Immigration Laws:


#1. Ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are in the country legally.

#2. Foreign visitors and immigrants MUST have the means to sustain themselves financially.

#3. Foreigners wishing to immigrate must PROVE they will not become a burden on society.

#4. Foreign visitors and immigrants must be of economic and social benefit to society.

#5. Foreign visitors and immigrants must be of good character and have no criminal record.

#6. Foreigners wishing to immigrate must be able to contribute to the general well-being of the nation.


The law also ensures that:

A) Immigration authorities will maintain a record of each foreign visitor and immigrant.

B) Foreign visitors will not violate their status.

C) Foreigners are banned from interfering in the country's internal politics.

D) Foreigners who enter the country under false pretenses will be imprisoned or deported.

E) Those who aid in illegal immigration will be prosecuted and sent to prison.



WOAH! A little harsh don't you think?

But WAIT! These are the immigration laws of the country of MEXICO!






Personally, I don't see what is all the fuss about ARIZONA.


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CALIFORNIAN SETS IT STRAIGHT

Last week we were presented with the spectacle of President Calderon of Mexico preaching to the United State Congress about - get this - Human Rights - concerning the tough new laws in Arizona. Anybody with the least amount of knowledge of how Mexico goes about business knows what a sick joke this is; what DIDN'T make a lot of headlines is Congressman Tom McClintock from California, calling out President Calderon and his adoring Democrat fan club in the Congress out on their hypocrisy . . .





What was better still was this incredible interview by Wolf Blitzer - who knows what got into Wolfie - where President Calderon contradicts himself and everything he'd said earlier in the day in front of Congress:




". . . if somebody do that, without permission, we send back, we send back them . . ."


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US BORDER INVASION FOOTAGE

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says Mexican violence has NOT spilled across the border . . .




. . . tell it to murdered border area cattle rancher Rob Krentz - shot and killed Saturday March 27th by a suspected illegal alien in Arizona.




An investigation is pending, but early reports tell of a drug bust on the Krentz Ranch the day before the murder. Krentz like many border residents frequently calls in citizen reports on suspicious activity resulting in apprehensions and drug load seizures.

There is renewed importance in documenting smuggling activity along our porous border with Mexico. In the last few months alone we have seen videos and images showing large scale and heavily armed smuggling operations taking place in broad daylight several miles inside the United States.

The following video is a close range record of over 700 suspected illegal aliens on just one trail in a 40 day period. Day or night, rain or snow, they just keep walking north completely undetected by anyone but other than those who place these cameras. The video is 7 minutes long, there is no sound, but it's worth watching.






700 illegal aliens. No wonder the violence is increasing.


You can help get the word out: copy this link and send it to your circle of friends:


http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/04/us-border-invasion-footage.html


We need to show this to the whole country.



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MEXICAN SWAT TEAM

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