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"Lets Roll" <LetsRoll@Meet-Me-In-Hell.com> wrote in message news:<3e8b43d3@news.starnetusa.net>...
> http://www.gazettenet.com/04022003/columns/4764.htm
>  By ISABEL LYMAN
> 
> Wednesday, April 2, 2003 -- As Operation Iraqi Freedom became a reality, the
> Department of Homeland Security raised the national threat level from an
> "elevated" to "high" (orange) risk of a terrorist attack. So it seemed
> reasonable to assume that Homeland's head, Tom Ridge, would go all-out to
> protect the volatile southern border.
> If only.
> El Norte Digest reported that while Mexico had deployed 18,000 troops to the
> border and other key locations to "prevent the infiltration of terrorists
> into the United States," Homeland Security Secretary Ridge declared that
> additional U.S. National Guard troops would not be sent to the border.
> Does Secretary Ridge not follow the news? On March 21st various media
> outlets were reporting CIA sources had disclosed that a half-dozen Iraqis,
> possibly bearing biological and chemical weapons, were trying to cajole
> coyotes (human smugglers) to help them cross into the U.S. via Mexico.
> Glenn Spencer, of American Border Patrol, a citizens' watchdog group, had
> more bad news. During a seven-hour mission his organization conducted
> between the San Pedro River and Naco, Ariz., on March 21st, Spencer noted,
> "We didn't see a border patrol official all day, including the trip to and
> from the mission site."
> Chris Simcox, of Civil Homeland Defense, or CHD, and publisher of the
> Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper, explained the absence: "Border Patrol has
> pulled many field officers off patrol and put them at ports of entry to help
> with searching cars and trucks coming through. This leaves the unprotected
> areas even more unprotected."
> Simcox added that CHD policed a 20-mile sector of the Arizona border from 3
> p.m. until midnight on March 22. Bottom line: No border patrol; many
> undocumented aliens.
> "During those hours we encountered two groups of illegals crossing into the
> United States. The first group of 21 were detained and turned over to Border
> Patrol with no incidence. The second group of 43 were aggressive, and many
> of the young males ran. Shots were fired at us, but we did not return the
> favor. However, the males were chased back across the border," says Simcox.
> Thanks for your hard work, guys, but something is out-of-whack here. Those
> with fancy vocabularies would call it a dichotomy.
> While U.S. armed forces are courageously fighting terrorism on foreign soil,
> the Department of Homeland Security is hosting what amounts to an "open
> house." I don't get it.
> Within our country, security and travel are so rigidly controlled that
> tweezers are confiscated from middle-aged women at airports. But taxpayers
> can't expect the federal government to tightly secure the nation's southern
> and northern boundaries during wartime, because political elites are
> suffering from a case of "What borders?" amnesia. Outrageous!
> Where are those "human shields" when you need them? Because a pack of them,
> volunteering their services at the borders and protesting this dangerous
> situation, would bring out CNN.
> For too long now, law-abiding citizens and law-enforcement officials who
> live and work in places like Deming, N.M., have had to cope with the
> byproducts of our open borders policy: illegals trampling private property
> or trafficking cocaine. And, if you think your peaceful sanctuary in western
> Massachusetts is far from the fast lane, think again. A U.S. Customs agent
> in New Mexico told me that the drugs that make it across into the Land of
> Enchantment also get transported to Boston.
> Tragically, Americans have experienced the loss of loved ones because of the
> so-called Border War.
> Kristopher William Eggle, Bonnie Eggle's son, was a national park ranger
> stationed at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, a
> hotspot for illegal immigration activity. Last year Kris was ambushed and
> murdered by a Mexican fugitive he was attempting to apprehend. Panfilo
> Murillo Aguila shot him with an AK-47.
> An Eagle Scout and high-school valedictorian, Kris had a reputation for
> going the extra mile. He would ask his father, Bob, to help him repair the
> border fences destroyed by lawbreakers. Only 28 years old when he died, Kris
> Eggle is as much an American hero as any of the young U.S. Marines killed in
> combat in southern Iraq.
> Kris "wanted to be part of a team who was able to help stem this horrid tide
> of illegals, criminals, drugs, weapons, and whatever else is being brought
> over to this country. On August 9, 2002 he still gave his best (and last)
> effort to keep the evil out," writes Mrs. Eggle.
> Tom Ridge, do you copy? Because this is the time to hang, symbolically
> speaking, a huge "No Trespassing" sign at our nation's borders. When you
> recently launched Operation Liberty Shield, you promised to increase
> security in the United States. Now act like you mean it.
> Izzy Lyman lives with her family in Amherst. She writes a monthly column.
> Material for this one was gathered during a recent trip in the western U.S.
> 
> --
> To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World--
> 
> Fellow Citizens and Compatriots
> I am besieged with a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I
> have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have
> not lost a man. The enemy has demanded surrender at discretion, otherwise,
> the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have
> answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly
> over the wall. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in
> the name of Liberty, of patriotism, of everything dear to the American
> character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving
> reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in
> four or five days. If this call is neglected I am determined to sustain
> myself as long as possible and die like a solder who never forgets what is
> due his honor and that of his country.
> VICTORY OR DEATH
> William Barret Travis
> Lt. Col. Comd't

Our greasy political leaders would sell their mother's fanny for a
chunk of that latino voting bloc.

Wes