I applaud the effort and wish them the best.Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico's most violent city.
Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend.
The city - just across from El Paso in Texas - has been ravaged by drug gangs. Just this month 250 people were killed there by hitmen fighting for lucrative smuggling routes.
Sounds pretty serious.FEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Think about what that would look like for anyone that didn't crack down on it. Basically foreign invasion.ATG wrote:
Sounds pretty serious.FEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Q;
why the hell do politicians not even discuss this issue?
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why didn't you shoot themFEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
I'm sure he would have, but I'll bet these type of people spend less that an hour start to finish doing their "mission," it's hard to discover and intercept someone that fast.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
why didn't you shoot themFEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Because this is something that can't be bullshitted over- either you do it, and do it right, or you fuck it up, and then you're gonna pay (out of office... fast). It's too clear cut of an issue.ATG wrote:
Sounds pretty serious.FEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Q;
why the hell do politicians not even discuss this issue?
they don't discuss it because it may affect there re-election chances... they will wait till arizona is a full on warzone before they start blaming each other why nobody did anything.... sadATG wrote:
Sounds pretty serious.FEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Q;
why the hell do politicians not even discuss this issue?
This man speaks the truth!Harmor wrote:
Yeah, but they are stuck in traffic.
Me and my teams didn't have weapons.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
why didn't you shoot themFEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Why didn't you have guns? What team where you part of and what program was funding it? Pure curiosity.FEOS wrote:
Me and my teams didn't have weapons.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
why didn't you shoot themFEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
We were in the US...it was safe, right?
There are many aspects to counterdrug operations. Not all of them involve weaponry.Macbeth wrote:
Why didn't you have guns? What team where you part of and what program was funding it? Pure curiosity.FEOS wrote:
Me and my teams didn't have weapons.Hurricane2k9 wrote:
why didn't you shoot them
We were in the US...it was safe, right?
Cool, so what position did you hold or what operations did you participate in? I'm just trying to get a good understanding of what you said about killing the border people.FEOS wrote:
There are many aspects to counterdrug operations. Not all of them involve weaponry.Macbeth wrote:
Why didn't you have guns? What team where you part of and what program was funding it? Pure curiosity.FEOS wrote:
Me and my teams didn't have weapons.
We were in the US...it was safe, right?
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Porous boarders leads to lots of illegal immigrant workers which helps drive down wages for American unskilled labourers.ATG wrote:
Sounds pretty serious.FEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.
Q;
why the hell do politicians not even discuss this issue?
lol....Hurricane2k9 wrote:
why didn't you shoot themFEOS wrote:
Only about 15 years too late.
When I was working counterdrug ops on the border, there were what were essentially commando teams crossing the river in zodiacs, with assault gear, taking over American farms (either convincing farmers to cooperate or killing them) to create LOCs into the US.
Sounds pretty fucking military to me.
And the Mexican military and Federales did the square root of fuckall about it...unless you call assisting the fuckers doing something.