Calderon blames US for drugs and guns

Yesterday, I had completed and posted I'm a proud tea-drinking extremist based on the Homeland Security's assessment of the threat that many of us pose who hold different views on issues than those being rammed down our Bill of Rights throats by the current Obama-Pelosi-Reid cabal. And then, wham-o, some news came in during 'On the Record' with Greta van Susteren and I wanted to correct or modify what I had said about the Bush policy of allowing Mexican truckers open access to our highways. I thought that still existed. So here's what was said on Greta's show. It seems, like Vicente Fox, Calderon is our de facto Director of Gun Control Policy and foreign policy too. This is getting boring from our neighbors to the south especially when their citizens living here illegally are sending home billions of dollars and are getting free health care, free education, and in many cases buying homes and maybe even voting here and in Mexico too. Plus, allowing the illegal immigration flow to continue provides an alternative income source and drug moving source for the drug cartels. For Mexico, our policies seem to be a win-win. Did I mention that we are training their military and police in combating the drug cartels and we are supplying them with - mercy - assault weapons. Calderon comes out of the box and says:

• we are bad, bad, bad because we want all of these drugs; (some truth, our demand is large - it is an economic example of "supply and demand")
• we are allowing assault weapons into his country and he demands that Obama has to slap gun control laws on American citizens because we are bad, bad, bad;
• we are also VERY corrupt, very corrupt; (this from a nation that does know corruption) and
• we must control the guns coming across the border into his Mexico. But we cannot control the guns coming from China, Russia, and whomever else is supplying them.

The following was inserted into the "I'm a proud tea-drinking extremist" and has now been removed to this post: ** Tonight, at On the Record with Greta van Susteren at approximately 10:30PM EDT, Greta and her guest discussed that one of the "rubs" between Mr. Obama and Mr. Calderon in Mexico is that buried within the recent Stimulus Bill, the open access of Mexican truckers to American highways under the Bush Administration has been halted. As a result, Mexico has increased "tariffs" on some of our goods exported to Mexico so this could be a sticky issue. I have not checked this but if it is true, that may be a good thing - certainly for our American truckers whom I support and for our safety. I suggest you search on SPP - the Security and Prosperity Partnership - to see more about the roadways planned to slice across America. Also, Calderon wants to dictate our gun laws and pressure Obama to ban assault weapons. As with Vicente Fox, Calderon should not be allowed to dictate our internal policies and certainly have no say in controlling our Bill of Rights. To be helpful to our neighbor and to be sensitive to his concerns, we should immediately stop being "pantywaists" about this and do what we can to help our neighbor, keeping in mind we are not responsible for what other nations do and the Panama Canal is close:

• close our border with Mexico - period. Shut the border tight as a drum to protect the Mexicans from our bad, bad ways;
• stop training their federales and STOP selling or giving them military weapons which are getting into the wrong hands. We know positively that MANY of the weapons getting into Mexico are coming from their pals China and Russia;
• stop ALL illegal immigration going across our border in either direction; and
• start charging Mexico for the cost/financial burden of its citizens who are here illegally and draining needed resources away from our citizens - draining resources of our police, prisons, medical teams across the board, our educational systems, etc.

Calderon stays out of dictating our policies to us and we help by listening a bit to his blaming. And then put aside our selfish trolling for more voters and do what is BEST for America's interests, let's put Americans first. Now that would be a kicker... Calderon blamed us for the drug cartel wars in Mexico because of our demand for illegal drugs and he blamed us for them having assault weapons but I believe we are giving assault weapons to Mexico's police. Hmmm... Calderon seems better than to reduce himself to whining and acting like a "victim". Man-up for goodness sake. Calderon cannot blame us and then give us a hard time if we decide finally to implement the only common sense solution to what he blames us for - we have to close the border. We have another thing we can do and this may seem strange coming from me. I'm not sure I fully support it, not for all drugs that are "illegal" now. But we do need to look at the possibilities and give it a hard look. Then compare it with the costs of alcoholism, etc. Surely we have people smart enough who have the numbers, the figures, to do a real analysis to determine how much marijuana is being brought in from Mexico. The drug cartels are now growing it in our own national parks for goodness sake.

• determine how much marijuana is being brought in or grown and sold here;
• determine the street value of the marijuana;
• determine the outrageous cost in lives and dollars to our police and enforcement people in "fighting" just this one drug;
• determine how many people are in jail for possession of hardly any marijuana at all;
• determine the cost in crime and injury to innocent citizens now due to the drug trade only attributed to marijuana;
• determine how much money we could actually make if we controlled its sale and access and how much money we would save if we could use the resources used to "fight" it against the harder drugs;
• determine how many people we would put out of business;
• determine the possible cost/control benefit of legalizing the use of marijuana; and
• determine how we could legalize and control the use of marijuana in our country.

I know I can hardly believe I'm even thinking about this but William F. Buckley, Jr., may he rest in peace, advocated this for decades. He was a brilliant man. Let's take a look. We'd be decreasing the "demand" Calderon was crying about for one drug at least - why should the cartels get all the money, our kids are still going to use the drug and it would be better to control it than criminalize our children - and we'd be helping out our neighbor, Calderon. It is my understanding that meth, cocaine, and the harder drugs are big problems but would it help to take marijuana off the table in the "drug war" scenario? Marijuana is a "gateway" drug and we would be making it available but would that be removing it as a "gate" to the criminal element who feeds off of our kids? Just trying to find some solutions...

America: defenseless on our borders

One of the highest aspects of the "oath of office" taken by our president and by our elected officials is to protect the United States from enemies foreign and domestic. So far, we, the people, are met with one distraction after another for the purpose of keeping our borders open, our eyes off of the growing power of the drug cartels along our border and within our nation's porous borders. Why? To give our federal government more power over law abiding citizens whenever they - the elected leaders - choose to use the power they have. We, the people, are sitting ducks for drunk driving illegal aliens from Mexico, for the slave trade carried on in our midst, for the growing strength of the South American drug cartels being allowed to flourish within our borders. As one example, North Carolina might as well be annexed by Mexico; it has certainly been taken over by illegals. And how many sanctuary cities do we have where federal laws against illegals are not upheld? Virginia Beach is a sanctuary city and it also has a Mexican consulate office. San Francisco is a sanctuary city but that is no surprise. They elect Nancy Pelosi. So, while AIG and Citigroup - practicing Sharia Finance - are being bailed out by US taxpayer dollars and the bonuses are being played as great distractions, our president for every day that goes by and he does not militarize our southern border against the illegals and the drug cartels is leading us closer and closer to chaos and to martial law. I cannot believe we have yet again another president who will not defend this nation and her people from invasion and from drug cartels. Must we become a nation divided like Columbia with a guerrilla war going on within our borders like the FARC (sp) in Columbia. Where is the president who will defend our nation? Where is the president or the elected Congress that will follow the U.S. Constitution where it states at least 5 times that Congress can call out our forces to defend our nation and our citizens? Or will Obama allow it to get so bad that we are forced to scream out for the very 'civilian national security force' that will put us, not our enemies, in shackles and chains. I cannot even believe our leaders want this for this great nation but so far their actions speak far more loudly than their words. Where will the defense of these United States come from? From our respective governors? Pray God someone - not a Marxist student of Saul Alinsky - will come to our defense so that we may live in a land of laws, in the land of the free and the home of the brave...

Islamic terrorists & Mexican Cartels double-team USA

Well, ya gotta hand it to these boys: the Islamic terrorists and the Mexican Drug Cartel folks. They know a good thing when they see it - all a gift from the Globalists and the New World Order, open borders crowd in Washington, DC. The same folks who talk about Homeland Security. Don't you just get the full belly-laughs with these folks - from both dominate political parties! So, I'm not picking on any of them. Congressman Ed Royce, California Republican, said recent reports expose U.S. vulnerability. Memo to Congressman - Americans don't need a report to confirm what we can see along our borders. But the article by Sara A. Carter is worth reading: Hearing sought on Islamic, Mexican ties. Poor Congressman Royce, what is it they say about "not pissing into the wind". From the news article:

A ranking House Republican yesterday demanded a hearing based on recent reports that Islamic terrorists embedded in the United States are teaming with Mexican drug cartels to fund terrorism networks overseas.

Excuse me, "To fund terrorism networks overseas..." Why would they do that when there are plenty of terrorist networks to fund right here in the USA thanks to our open borders? And after your blood has simmered on that one for a second, read article by Jerry Seper about Guard troops pulled back from border, a year early. And then tell me again how the Administration is serious about Homeland Security, I mean Homeland in-Security. Only when it comes to the North American Union and flooding us with a kazillion trucks sailing along the SPP highway. Not to mention skads more "diversity" without time for assimilation... Let me get this right: Surge working in Iraq; US border wide open to terrorists! Hmm...