Posted by
W. Austerman on Monday, April 06, 2009 11:54:00 PM
We have been hearing about Mexican Drug related violence on the U.S. border for the last few years now and lately we are hearing that we are the major supplier of the Mexican drug cartel’s supply of weapons. The liberal media was quick to run, with the full blessing of U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton, and U.S. Senator Dianna Feinstein, D-California, B.A.T.F. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)Assistant Director for Field Operations, William Hoover’s testimony to the House of Representatives that “there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States.” Even the San Antonio Express Newspaper’s front page story on Mach 31st was about “the largest seizure of guns in Mexico’s history, and authorities have now traced much of it to Texas” “and that 80 percent of those weapons came from licensed firearms dealers”. But don’t be fooled by that 80-90% because it’s really 80-90% of X. What is X, you might ask??? X is the actual number of the Mexican drug cartel’s guns. Fair and Balanced Fox News looked into the “90 percent” figure and has confirmed not only is the number lower but also why is it misleading in
myth of 90 percent.
The liberal media was so quick to put it out there and A.D. Hoover was so quick to please his bureau’s political party that the entire Left-wing did not disclose the total number of guns because Mexican officials won’t turn over all the guns they seize. So while Assistant Director Hoover is saying it “90 percent” there are other ATF agents singing a different tune at a lower pitch, lower like 17%. ATF Special Agent William Newell is on record saying that from 2007-2008 Mexico turned over 11,000 firearms to the U.S. for tracing, and of those, exactly “5,114” (90%) were from the U.S., the same “90 percent” AD Hoover was referring to. However in that 2 year timeframe, Mexico stated they collected 29,000 guns leaving 68% of the total collection unavailable to be traced. So what about the rest of the guns that Mexico won’t share??? They won’t hand them over because they know that they can’t be traced to the U.S. We know this because our own border patrol is picking up what guns the cartel leaves behind after scrimmages. Based on what weapons they do have logged into evidence, the Border Patrol knows that the cartels are also armed with weapons not sold in the U.S. that could be traced back to places like Russia, South America, China, and Guatemala. Interpol acknowledges that the Russian Mafia has been supplying Mexico with drugs and guns. The Library of Congress has on record a Federal Research Division report documenting Columbian guerrillas supplying the Tijuana Drug Cartel arms and drugs during a partnership in the 1990’s in South America. In Asia, the universal ACLU (Amnesty International) reported in 2006 that China provided weapons to Latin America, the same kind that were found in Mexico along with Korean explosives. As for Guatemala, our own Intel has picked up on immigrants, stolen vehicles, guns & explosives, and drugs, specifically cocaine that ends up here, being trafficked along the Mexican-Guatemala border. Also local Guatemalan newspaper, La Hora, ran a story on March 27 about police taking control of a Mexican drug cartel transport of 500 grenades and a supply of AK-47’s out of the border town of Ixcan. Of course Mexico can’t seem to clean up its own mess of corruption. The U.S. Border Patrol will tell you it has documented Mexican Military transports as part of drug cartel convoys engaging them along the border, and Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo is on record saying that in the last 6 years over 150,000 soldiers deserted from the Army and took their weapons with them, weapons like recovered Belgium made M-16 machine guns. Corruption also must have played a role since some of the small amount of guns from the U.S. that fell into drug cartel hands were given to Mexico thru legal channels. According to Ed Head, a 24 year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, some guns “are legitimately shipped to the government of Mexico, by Colt, for example, in the United States. They are approved by the U.S. Government for use by the Mexican military service.” So don’t be fooled by ATF’s high ranking agents, the liberal media, or the Democrats on Capital Hill. They are all gun-haters who want to take away your basic right of self-defense. Mexico also hates guns and wants to put the blame on us. Although some people here are buying guns and smuggling them to Mexico’s drug dealer it’s goes to show you that our border is not secure, and why??? Because President Obama and Congress won’t do all they can to solve this problem. The responsibility of stopping any kind of illegal trafficking along the U.S. Mexican border is our responsibility as much as it is Mexico’s, but Mexico is crooked and the Democrats see this as an opportunity to advance their agenda, with U.S. Senator John Kerry, D-Mass. calling for a return of the so called “assault weapons ban” instead on providing a solution like put the military on the border, as he put it.