A Border Manifesto #4
At approximately 1:00a.m. , the morning of August 26,
2010, three vehicles loaded with dope and driven by Mexican Narco Terrorists,
broke through the International Boundary Fence on the east side of Douglas, AZ.
Unfortunately for them they were quickly spotted and subsequently chased by
several carloads of authorities, both federal and local. The chase started on
what is locally known as the Geronimo Trail, an extension of 15th Ave. Douglas city limits. The outlaws in their haste to get
away tried every trick to evade the law officers. The chase finally reached
speeds of 80 miles an hour through residential as well as business districts,
the outlaws driving with no headlights. Perhaps because of the time of night
only a few law enforcement vehicles were involved. They were not able to
apprehend the outlaws, but they did get them turned around and eventually
chased them back through the very same hole they had created when entering the
United States, thereby, escaping south back into Mexico.
On July 6, 2010 , I attended a
Douglas City Council Meeting at City Hall. It was a special meeting called by
Mayor Mike Gomez to try for a second time to pass a resolution stating that the
U.S.–Mexican Border had reached a point where it was out of control and had
become lawless and therefore dangerous to the citizens of Douglas
and the surrounding area. This resolution was not a statue or law with
subsequent penalties or boundaries; it was merely a resolution, or statement; a
sort of cry out of the wilderness so to speak declaring the need for some
assistance from the federal and/or state level to shut down illegal outlaw
activity on the Mexican Border. The Arizona League of Cities had encouraged
Mayor Mike Gomez to get this passed and had promised unanimous support. They
planned to send it on to Washington D. C., with every city in Arizona Douglas .
The resolution, it was hoped, would pull some weight and get the attention of
the powers that be at the national level. In what one television reporter
called “The most bizarre meeting I have ever attended,” the city council turned
down the resolution.
The meeting
was packed out with a standing room only crowd that was extremely polarized to
say the least. Many ranchers from the
surrounding ranching community were there who, along with many residents within
the city limits, were in support of the resolution. Also in attendance were
some open border advocates, who claimed to stand for civil rights (they looked
like professional protesters to me). The meeting was heated by arguments both
pro and con about the resolution. One
council person spoke stating that she couldn’t vote yes on the resolution
because it would be admitting Douglas was a
lawless place and she felt safe there and it would be sending the wrong
message. Another council person stated he couldn’t vote yes because his
constituents wouldn’t approve. Many local ranchers pleaded for the passage of
the resolution reminding the council of the murder of Rob Krentz and a
multitude of other incidents where people had been molested by illegal aliens.
Upon hearing these pleas for help a council person replied “You people have got
some problems.” And then repeating himself, “You people have got some
problems,” emphasizing “you” so everyone present would observe a deliberate
disconnect between him and anyone advocating the resolution. Even through
nothing about the resolution would be legally binding, four council members
stated that in their opinion the border was not out of control and passing it
would be sending the wrong message to the outside world. As far as they were
concerned the status quo was just fine. The resolution was voted down with four
council members voting no, and one council member, along with the Mayor, voting
yes. They had spoken; Douglas was just a nice
little border town, peaceful and quiet, and there was no need to get in an
uproar about the outlaw activity on the border.
While all
this goes on, it is business as usual for the outlaw trade on the Mexican line.
Due to the media attention of Rob Krentz’s murder the Border Patrol has swamped
the San Bernardino Valley east of Douglas
with agents, so the illegal alien traffic is down substantially in that area,
but there is still a considerable amount of dope filtering through. To the
west, though, it is a different story. In the area around Naco and the Huachuca Mountains Baboquivari Mountains Tucson Organ
Pipe National
Monument
Upon
pondering these things I would like to ask a few questions of our elected
officials and other people. I would like to know if the members of the Douglas
City Council still feel safe in Douglas ,
AZ Douglas
wouldn’t warrant his concern. I wonder how many high speed chases it would take
to get his attention? Perhaps a few innocent bystanders being killed by the
outlaw’s speeding car would rattle his chain. I wonder if Janet Napolitano
still thinks the border is safer than ever. I suppose she’s under strict orders
to never say “uncle” even though every day another story emerges from somewhere
between Brownsville and San Diego of another Narco Terrorist invasion, or
another murder or kidnapping, and tons of contraband being seized, all at the
expense of the tax paying, law abiding American citizens.
But that
leads to another question. How have law abiding American citizens suddenly
become the enemy in this nation? We recently had to endure the scourging of
Felipe Calderon, speaking from our own capitol building at the invitation of
Barack Obama, and now there is talk that Obama is dragging us before the United
Nations so they can reprimand us for such violations as defending our border.
Sheriffs
Larry Dever and Paul Babeau are neither members of the AZ State Legislature or
the United States Senate or House of Representatives. They have no law making
responsibility or power. Their purpose is to enforce the laws of the land,
written by the politicians that we elect. Because they are merely doing their
job they are now being sued by members of Obama’s radical left. A lawsuit is
senseless and will do nothing but deplete their resources and energy, precious
commodities they need to accomplish a duty they took a solemn pledge to fulfill
when they took office. Why have they become the enemy?
This leads
to more questions. How did we get here? Larry Devers, Paul Babeau, and Jan
Brewer all took oaths pledging to fulfill the duties of their office and to
enforce the laws of the land. SB1070 is merely a reflection of Federal law
passed by elected officials. Why are they being crucified for trying to
establish some sort of order in the midst of chaos? Are there people who just
don’t get it? Is there some sort of disconnect here, some sort of breakdown in
the natural order of things? It seems like we suffer from a lack of direction,
a loss of knowing the truth, we’ve shifted off of the foundations we built
upon, and I believe the assault flows from the top downward.
One wonders who Barack Obama’s
constituents are. Are they the citizens of Arizona Texas United States
Obama loves to use tax payer’s
money to host parties for Bush bashers like Paul McCartney. Obama can shuck and
jive with the best of them on the Ellen Degeneres and Oprah shows. He has
straight white teeth and a good looking wife, but these are not the ingredients
of a statesman. Campaign speeches and signs proclaiming change you
can believe in aren’t worth much when the ship needs a pilot to guide it
through troubled waters.
That leads to another question. I
wonder how seriously Barack Obama took his oath of office. Was he pledging
allegiance to the Constitution of the United States U.S.
So I asked myself, who are my heroes? At the
top of my list are George Washington and Winston Churchhill. I always root for
the underdog, so I added to my list: Larry Dever, Paul Bebeau, Joe Arpaio, and
Jan Brewer. I realize that I’m just a dumb cowhand and I don’t understand the
intricacies of international politics and high-minded, political innuendo,
(like the intellectually stimulating writings of Karl Marx, or the mastery of
political skill by individuals like Adolph Hitler) but for an old cowboy like
myself there’s just something appealing about someone who will get a bull by
the juevos and hold on while they are getting the living crap stomped out of
them.
Ed
Ashurst
Apache,
AZ
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