------ Forwarded Message > From: rich martin <slickedi...@yahoo.com> > Reply-To: <c...@yahoogroups.com> > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:33:59 -0700 (PDT) > To: <libertarianme...@yahoogroups.com>, <newrepublic...@yahoogroups.com>, > <freedomfi...@yahoogroups.com>, <conservativeland-...@yahoogroups.com>, > <teamsa...@yahoogroups.com>, <c...@yahoogroups.com>, > <hope4amer...@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [ctrl] [ezine] Real News - WORLD OF NARCO-TERROR >
> > > > Real News <thenews...@ij.net > <http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thenews...@ij.net> > > > (Common sense, politically incorrect newsletter to 13,264 subscribers) > > INVESTIGATION INTO DRUG TRADE VIOLENCE SOUTH OF THE > BORDER BEHIND THE SHADOWY WORLD OF NARCO-TERROR > By Oliver North, Creative Syndicate writer Posted: August 21, 2009 > > WASHINGTON Last week's brief "Three Amigos" summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, > has been all but forgotten in the growing storm over "health-care reform". > That may be what the three North American heads of state, Presidents Felipe > Calderon and Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, wanted. > > All three leaders did their best to ignore the skunk at their picnic -- the > serious threat posed to all of us by narco-terrorism. If comments after the > confab reflect their thinking, thousands of dead and wounded at the hands of > violent drug cartels warrant less attention than the "threat" of global > warming and the H1N1 virus. > > > In his closing statement at the summit, Calderon devoted one sentence, just > 43 words, to stopping "the traffic of weapons and of money that go from north > to south that strengthen and nourish organized crime gangs." Harper, who spoke > first in French and then in English, said that Canada "recognizes the > courageous commitment taken by President Calderon to combat organized crime in > Mexico." In English, he substituted "drug traffickers" for "organized crime". > That was it. > > > Mr. Obama did better, noting that the three leaders "resolved to continue > confronting the urgent threat to our common security from the drug cartels > that are causing so much violence and death in our countries." He went on to > assure that "Mexico has the support it needs to dismantle and defeat the > cartels," emphasizing "our commitment to reduce the demand for drugs" and > promising "to stem the illegal southbound flow of American guns and cash that > helps fuel this extraordinary violence." > > > "Bad Trip: How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America" explains how a > liberty-destroying State makes things worse in the fight against drug use. > > > There is considerable dispute about how much the "flow of American guns" > contributes to the carnage, but there is no doubt that the phrase > "extraordinary violence" is dead on the mark. On Aug. 11, just one day after > the Guadalajara summit, Mexican police in Sinaloa arrested a cartel "hit man" > and four other suspects and announced that they had thwarted yet another > attempt to assassinate President Calderon. Since then, violence in Mexico has > spiked. > > > For the past three months, our "War Stories" team has been investigating how > drugs, money and narco-terror are connected. What we saw and documented -- > from the Andean basin, in South America, to Mexico to deep into the American > heartland -- is a chilling story that has been widely ignored by the so-called > mainstream media. > Since January 2007, a staggering 11,000 people have died in drug-related > violence in Mexico. That's more than double the number of Americans killed in > Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Savage gunfights among heavily armed drug > cartels have spiraled out of control and threaten to spill across the > U.S.-Mexico border. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, > narco-terrorists connected to Mexican drug cartels already have infiltrated > 230 American cities. > > > Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, immediately south of neighboring El Paso, Texas, is > arguably the most dangerous municipality in the Americas. The mayor, Jose > Reyes Ferriz, told me that in the past 12 months, more than 1,600 of his > citizens have been murdered as his city became the epicenter of a vicious > "turf war" among rival drug cartels vying for larger slices of the lucrative > "drug delivery business". > > > When he called for help, President Calderon sent in the only force he could > trust: the Mexican army. Retired military officers now run the city's police > force, and joint military/police units patrol the streets. Even this hasn't > stopped the bloodbath. Last month, more than 240 people perished in this > murderous metropolis. > > > Fueling the violence next door: illegal narcotics. Nearly all the world's > cocaine originates with coca plants grown in South America, and 90 percent of > the coke that ends up on our streets travels to the U.S. through Mexico. > Eighty percent of the methamphetamine consumed by Americans is produced there. > > > Our southern neighbor is also the main foreign supplier of marijuana. > According to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora, "At least $10 > billion in bulk cash" related to drug trafficking "crosses the U.S.-Mexico > border each year" -- meaning that narco-dollars are nearly on par with > tourism, which produces about $13 billion annually for Mexico. > > > With the help of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agents, our > investigation took us from a cocaine-processing laboratory hidden beneath the > jungle canopy in South America's Andean basin to the coastline of Colombia, > where drugs are sent north on "go-fast boats" and semi-submersibles to the > streets of Mexico City and across the U.S.-Mexico border -- all the way to a > drug bust in an American back alley. > > The result: an unprecedented, eye-opening look behind the curtain into the > shadowy world of narco-terror -- and those who put their lives on the line to > keep the cartels from bringing their bloody battles into our neighborhoods. > The extraordinary efforts of these brave law officers and steadfast soldiers > deserve more attention than the short shrift they received at the Guadalajara > summit. > --TV historian Oliver North hosted "War Stories Investigates: Drugs, Money and > Narco-Terror" Saturday, Aug. 22. > > For free Politically Incorrect news ignored by the American news media, send > your friends' email addresses for REAL NEWS from thenews...@ij.net > <http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thenews...@ij.net> . > > > > > Tea Party Commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFFwyyjZC8 > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFFwyyjZC8> Aug 28 Calif to Washington > DC with 35 pick-up points. Join the Car-avan. Be a real patriot Contact: Levi > Russell > l...@frontlinestrat.com > <http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=l...@frontlinestrat.com> > (509) 979-6615 > info > http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=2694 > <http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=2694> > > (with before and after) > Labor Day Tea Party ??? First Monday in Sept > http://www.teapartyday.com/ <http://www.teapartyday.com/> > > > March on Washington Washington DC > 19,396 members and growing > www.the912project.us <http://www.the912project.us/> > > > Nov 4, 2009 - National Strike > http://accdf.com/blog/2009/07/21/national-strike-against-the-dictator/ > > > > > Rich Martin > . > > start: 0000-00-00 end: 0000-00-00 > > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message
