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07/29/10 - The
Fulford File: Sherrod, Obama, Pigford, Sullivan,
by James Fulford
“Gunrunner
Teams”—Latest Sop To The Mewling Mexicans
By
Brenda Walker
Americans need to read the news carefully to
understand
Obama's idea of border security. His strategy is not
just ineffectual, or based entirely on Democratic Party
political considerations. The President's goals also
include response to a
nonexistent problem that has been made an issue by
the
Mexican government. One new phrase provides the
clue: "gunrunner teams".
"President Barack
Obama's $600 million border security plan seems to have
it all: More than 1,000 agents, seven
gunrunner teams,
five FBI task forces and more prosecutors and
immigration judges.”AP NewsBreak: Courts need $40M for border plan,
June 29, 2010
"Gunrunner teams"—say
what?
An article from
southern Arizona is more explanatory:
“[Presidential
assistant John]
Brennan told the governor the additional funding will help
pay for 500 more Border Patrol agents for Arizona as well as
50 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, along
with additional Department of Justice assets to include
Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearm
Gunrunner Teams, which will monitor the movement of weapons
into Mexico, and special FBI squads." [National Guard to send 524 to Arizona border,
by Bill Hess, Sierra Vista Herald, June 29, 2010]
Such neighborly projects do not come cheap. The Inspector
General's
Interim Review of ATF's Project Gunrunner
noted: "In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)
[i.e.
stimulus funds] and in fiscal year (FY) 2009 appropriations, ATF received $21.9 million
in funding to support and expand Project Gunrunner."
A big part of the backstory here is Mexico Presidente
Calderon's efforts to blame America for his country's crime
anarchy by
attacking our Constitutional right to firearms. Calderon
alleges that guns shipped from this country are fueling
Mexican violence. He pushed this false charge at length
during his
rude state visit to Washington in May.
By making the argument that border anarchy is a
"shared" guilt, Calderon can mooch more money from weak-minded
Washington politicians—like the generous trough of cash and
materiel supplied by the
Merida Initiative which was initiated by
George W. Bush.
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton is an enabler on this issue:
“‘Our insatiable
demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,’ she said en
route to Mexico City, Mexico, according to pool reports.
“‘Our inability to
prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the
border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police
officers, soldiers and civilians. So, yes, I feel very
strongly we have a co-responsibility.’” [U.S. shares blame for Mexico drug violence, Clinton
says,
CNN, March 26, 2009
Of course, Clinton is not talking about the obvious
solution:
drug legalization.
Instead, in March of this year, an
A-list of Washington leaders trooped to Mexico to assure
Presidente Calderon of the
continuing
drug war "partnership"—in
which America pays and Mexico receives.
The stellar nature of the group illustrated Washington's
seriousness. It included Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano, Defense Secretary Robert Gates,
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, Joint Chiefs of
Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, Counterterrorism Adviser
John Brennan and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting
Director Michelle Leonhart.
At the meeting, Secretary Clinton promised to expand the
drug war beyond military aspects and offered to aid
impoverished border towns. She declared:
"The narcotics
cartels are waging war on civil society," [Mexico,
U.S. Expand Drug War Beyond Military to Social Efforts,
By Viola Gienger, Business Week, March 24 2010]
But the “shared
guilt” notion—on which this deference to corrupt Mexico,
so typical of diplomats, is based—is fundamentally wrong.
Fox News reported last year that only a small fraction of
firearms recovered from
Mexican drug gangs come from the United States:
"The fact is, only 17
percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been
traced to the U.S.
“What's true, an ATF
spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the
statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, ‘is
that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from
the U.S.’
“But a large
percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent
back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from
their markings that they do not come from the U.S….
“So why would the
Mexican drug cartels, which last year grossed between $17
billion and $38 billion, bother buying single-shot rifles,
and force thousands of unknown ‘straw’ buyers in the U.S.
through a government background check, when they can buy
boatloads of fully automatic M-16s and assault rifles from
China, Israel or South Africa? "
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns
in Mexico Come From U.S., By William La Jeunesse & Maxim Lott, Fox News,
April 4, 2009
(Watch
the video version,
Fox Report: Mexican guns not from US.):
Why indeed?
A small handful of US guns make their way to Mexico—but
that's not the route by which billionaire cartels arm their
soldiers. A container ship full of guns and
RPGs from China is easy enough for drug bosses to order
up.
Restricting
Americans' gun rights will not reduce violence in Mexico
one tiny bit, because the global small arms trade is
huge, profitable and isn't going away.
So the question remains: Why is Washington wasting
resources on a non-problem like guns from America headed
south when there are plenty of genuine headaches?
The big brains must believe that supporting Calderon is
vital to prevent a full-tilt narco state, Mexico meltdown
and
millions of Mexicans making a run for the border.
Even so, this degree of falsehood is extreme even for
Washington. The government is spending nearly $22 million
yearly to continue a known charade—to what end? To humor
mewling Mexico?
My crazy thought about those pesky American firearms: if
they are such a big problem, then why doesn't Mexico have
its own border police (or
Army)
keep them out?
There are plenty of Mexican agents in that locale
already, e.g.
Grupo Beta and regular police. Why does America have to
be responsible for policing the border going both ways?
The several-act drama starring guns is not unique.
Another recent example of
appeasement masquerading as diplomacy: Washington
holding back on an official report showing Mexico to be even
more culpable in hard drugs:
"WASHINGTON—In an
apparent effort to minimize diplomatic turbulence with the
Mexican government, the Obama administration has been
delaying for weeks the release of a Justice Department
report that describes a "high and increasing" availability
of methamphetamine mainly because of large-scale drug
production in Mexico. "
(U.S. Delays Release of Report Tying Meth to Mexico,
By Charlie Savage and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times,
June 8, 2010)
Hoping that
corrupt Mexico
might shape up in response to American groveling is a losing
bet. Evidence indicates that Calderon is losing his war
against organized crime. The bodies of
cartel soldiers
and innocent bystanders continue to accumulate at an
alarming rate. For example, last year the city of
Juarez alone recorded 2600 drug-related murders.
Plus, democracy itself (which has
never
been exactly robust in Mexico) is under assault by the
increased assassinations of politicians, as reported by the
Dallas Morning News:
Killing of Mexican
governor front-runner stirs concern for democratic process.
[By Alfredo Corchado, June 29, 2010] The worsening violence
is scaring people away from the polls because of an
atmosphere where even major candidates are not safe from
assassination. The candidates are becoming more fearful as
well, and are campaigning less openly. Civic life is
diminished.
According to the Dallas Morning News, an anonymous
American official opined that
the cartels are now using assassinations to control the
political process more directly:
"Targeting
politicians in Mexico is not new, but this is a disturbing
sign that this will happen on a more systematic level."
The Obama bunch is clearly aware that bad things are
happening below the Rio Grande. But their actions are
wrong-headed, and the President is behaving like a
globalized pacifist (where he has strong aptitude anyway) to
avoid the hard slog of border defense.
Ceding territory to drug cartels (as has
already happened in Arizona) is only the most recent
indicator that far more border enforcement is required. The
warnings to Americans now posted on public land in southern
Arizona show that Mexican organized crime is moving into
this country far more forcefully than before.
But to the Obama administration, national security is
never the highest goal; political gain is. The President
believes that
holding the border hostage to amnesty for millions of
future Marxican Democrat voters is more important than
ending preventable alien violence.
President Obama characterized Mexico as a
"partner" more than a dozen times in his
welcoming speech to Calderon in May. But actual
partnership behavior from our southern neighbor is rare, if
not invisible.
What's wrong with this picture?
Everything. The
Founders didn't create a great country for the purpose
of supplying free police services for unruly neighbors while
neglecting our own security. We have the most powerful
military in the history of the world, yet politicians
refuse to use it to protect our home from real enemies
near and far.
Mexico is collapsing under its
culture
of crime and corruption. America can't fix it, or even
help very much.
Mexico has not been our friend even in the best of times.
Worsening crime and violence is the predictable future
coming across the border until Washington gets serious about
enforcement.
Brenda Walker (email
her) lives in
Northern California and publishes two websites,
LimitsToGrowth.org
(recently remodeled and bloggified!)
and
ImmigrationsHumanCost.org.
Her Mexico fantasies include a moat along the border filled
with enormous alligators.
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