There was a good deal of shock and outrage yesterday when Commander Rolando Flores, of the Tamaulipas State Police, was assassinated while he was investigating the death of David Hartley, an American citizen. David Hartley and his wife, Tiffany, were jet-skiing on the Mexican side of Lake Falcon, when they were attacked by Hispanic men in three speedboats. The men fired several shot at the two Americans. One of the bullets struck Mr. Hartley in the head. When Tiffany Hartley circled back and tried to help her wounded husband, the men continued shooting. Mrs. Hartley was forced to flee to the Texas side of the lake in Zapata County.
After some pressure from Texas and United States officials, the Mexican government, via Federal and State Police,began an investigation and had apparently developed some suspects. The state of Tamaulipas is, of course, in true state of war. The Gulf Cartel is fighting the Zetas, former military men turned hitmen and enforcers, for "turf" in the always ongoing drug wars. Both of these groups are fighting the Federal and State police, as well as killing anyone who dares stand up to them. And true to form, as soon as Commander Flores began closing in on specific suspects, he was killed. Mayors, judges, policemen, reporters, and anyone else who in any way opposes these people are immediately killed. The killing of Mr. Hartley may have only been "collateral" in nature; that is to say that these groups also make money and promote terror by attacking both Americans and Mexicans who venture into the "wrong" areas of Lake Falcon.
I now openly ask, request, and DEMAND that our Federal Government protect our citizens by recognizing that there is a state of war in Mexico, and by immediately manning our southern borders with United States soldiers. Stop asking the police (Border Patrol) to carryout a function of the military. Is there any doubt that our southern border is Under Siege?!
I DEMAND that we pull our troops out of all the useless and never-ending conflicts around the world. For one thing, years after Clinton and both Bushes have intervened, and after Obama has blindly continued these engagements, it is obvious that the United States cannot "make" democracies out of nations who have never known democracy and DO NOT WANT Democracy at the moment. I demand that these soldiers be deployed along our borders and that OUR borders be secured. Let Pakistan and Afghanistan worry about their own nation. Let Iran take care of itself; after all, they have had nine years of US attention, and look where we are. There is a civil war that will be fought there, it is inevitable. Get US out of there and let our troops come home. If our own borders are not worth fighting for, then I certainly do not want to see our soldiers dying in foreign lands that do not want our help in the first place.
Our troops CAN secure our borders. This is not 1910, when Pancho Villa could simply vanish on his horse in the desert. I demand that we bring to bear full military security on our borders. And I hope that we have finally learned from Afghanistan and Iran what we did not learn from Viet Nam, that we cannot defeat militants who have the civilian population behind them. That means that we cannot save Mexico from itself, that is up to the Mexicans. But in the meantime, Americans in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, to name a few locations, are not safe as long as these Mexican criminals can possibly raid into the United States, commit murder and other acts of terrorism, then flee to safety south of the border.
What we CAN DO, Mr. Obama, YES WE CAN, is SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW!
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