by Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.
Editor's Note: Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. is a frequent contributor to RFFM.org. Rapacki is an independent intelligence analyst who receives and disseminates critical intelligence and policy information from and to law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security officials, and government and community leaders; he is the author of dozens of white papers, bulletins and briefings, and he is frequently called on to share his expertise with public and private security directors and organizations.
President Reagan had barely been out of office hours; the sun had not even yet to retire for the evening on his ranch in California, and the movement to develop a North American Union began in earnest. From Bush to Clinton to Bush, and now Obama, there is growing haste to open the southern border along California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and welcome just about anyone who wants to mosey on up to America. Heck, there is very serious talk and planning about a Super Highway from Mexico thru America and into Canada. But with the increased “rush hour” traffic come a pesky not-so-little problem of drugs. Lot’s of drugs. Tons of drugs; sometimes, even more drugs than lettuce or other produce making its way northward.
What’s a politician to do? I mean you can only call so many summit meetings to address the drug war; after a while, these summits appear as nothing more than nice vacations in Cabo or some other little Mexican beach town. You can order many cameras worth millions of dollars to create a “virtual fence,” and then decide that’s not working so tear down the same cameras just installed. You can dispatch a small army of Border Patrol Agents, and when the public thinks that will help, you quietly reduce the build-up. You rotate U.S. National Guard troops to the border as a show of force, but while they are on scene, not carrying weapons or ammo, and just changing the oil in federal vehicles, they are not allowed to interdict any drug smugglers coming into America, just observe. The games go on and on. All the while, and in between tons of drug seizures by dedicated, over-worked, out-numbered American law enforcement, drugs continue to pour into America.
It’s difficult to talk tough and all enforcement like, when, and at the same time, your agenda is to do away with the boundaries, the very borders of the United States of America that make America sovereign, and welcome a new North American Union – similar to the European Union. But what to do with that pesky drug problem? As much as Americans are having “change” rammed down their throats, not even the radical politicians in Washington believe citizens of the Late Great United States will sit idle and allow drugs to be forced down their throats the same way Health Care, and a host of other socialized ventures have. Besides, the drug business in Mexico is truly a business venture, an export business, a way of life for many, and for many more, a culture.
Similar to the steady flow of drugs, there is a steady flow of worshippers who come and kneel in front of a statue; they dip flowers in water and wipe them over his face. These worshippers leave offerings in a donation box, and little notes at the base of this statue. Who are these worshippers? Many are the drug runners about to depart on their delivery. What is the statue that is worship? His name is Jesus Malverde, a Robin Hood-style bandit who died in 1909 after being hung for years of crimes; mostly stealing from the rich. Other worshippers at this statue are seeking safety in their “run for the border” and into the U.S. This statue is not alone. In Tijuana, the statue is Juan Soldado, an executed rapist, and they pray to him for protection before crossing the border. In the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, the worshippers fall before the statue Santa de Cabora; a girl who was banished from Mexico for allegedly inciting an Indian up-rising. There are other statues spread around Mexico, and still more worshippers.
The country of Mexico is under a drug war siege. More than 20,000 have died this past year in drug cartel violence; the violence is everywhere, even in what was once quiet, remote fishing and vacation villages. Complete cities have been abandoned, left to the cartels as some sort of weird trophy in a “Twilight-Zone” movie. Police officers are chosen for assassination. Mayors and city leaders are chosen for assassination. Civilian collateral damage is everywhere; even women and young children are not exempt from the carnage. Tourists are not exempt. Two weeks ago, two American diplomats were not exempt. There are no rules other than leave the drugs alone, leave the drug carriers alone, leave the drug tunnels and alleys and pathways into the United States alone. Leave the business of drug exporting alone. It is, and it has been, a part of the economy and culture of Mexico long before any of us came along.
Schools have been built by the drug-lords. Streets have been paved, houses built, electricity came to small villages and cities from these same drug-lords. In the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, $3.8-billion comes into the coffers from drug trade. Many, many people south of the United States border view the drug business as an “economic activity like any other,” says Tomas Guevara, a sociologist at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
So…the “elites” in America should probably stop putting on a not-so-good public show of concern about border issues, and begin to find a new tax model. After-all, isn’t that what they do best? Then throwing open the border and promoting a North American Union, which they have been planning all these years in secret, can come out into the light of day for all to see, as well as to benefit from the new businesses and supporting economies that will spring up in concert with all the drug economic business activity.
To change this long-term problem, you need to change the culture in which it thrives. Changing a culture changes a nation and a people…look at what Obama and company have already done to America, as they move to change our heritage and our culture.
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When I was in Military Intell., back in the sixties, we brought upthe same problems for similar reasons. No one listened then either. Few are left to defend our once great Republic.
Posted by: Charlie | March 29, 2010 at 03:24 PM