Clinton Blames US for Mexico Border

Violence and Drug Money and Guns

By Phil Staudt
blog.philstaudt.org
March 25, 2009

Apparently Hillary Clinton has been smoking something good with Mexican President Felipe Calderón. That explains why she said, "How could anyone conclude any differently? . . . I feel very strongly we have co-responsibility," according to The Christian Science Monitor today. Hillary Clinton was taliking about her conclusion that "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians." Have another hit, Hillary. Hillary's above statements might be the stupidest thing I have ever heard anyone say in my life. I suppose the way to stop bank robberies is to stop people's insatiable desire to have money. I suppose the way to stop people from stealing cars is to squelch the insatiable demand of Americans to want to drive cars. If we get rid of every single fire-arm in the United States, wouldn't the drug lords in Mexico just buy guns from somewhere else? And while you are trying to use this situation to drum up support for taking away Constitutionally protected gun ownership, are you also suggesting that the way to stop cash from flowing across our border into Mexico is by keeping people in the United states from having any money? I am someone, and I "conclude differently".

TAXPAYERS ARE BEING ROBBED AGAIN!

Not only do I "conclude" differently than Hillary Clinton, I think that the majority of citizens in the United States disagree with Hillary Clinton on this issue, and they vehemently oppose taxpayer money handed out in this manner. Speaking of robbing, that is exactly what the Mexican government is hoping to do to taxpayers in United States, just like every other country in the world. How did we get these people in charge of our policies?

What goes into the United States from Mexico is our problem, and keeping things and people from coming illegally into The United States from Mexico is our problem, and always has been the job of those who we put in charge of our country to protect us and to see that our laws are followed. Obviously, the United States has failed miserably in guarding our border with Mexico and has allowed tens of millions of people to break the law and to move up here from there. If The United States cannot even keep tens of millions of people from crossing over our border with Mexico illegally, and taking up residency in our country illegally, and taking away our jobs illegally, and owning property illegally, and obtaining drivers' licenses illegally, how in the world is The United States going to control illegal drugs from getting into the United States by coming in from the Mexican border?

What goes into Mexico from The United States is Mexico's problem, and it is not our problem at all. Period! The Secretary of State, who is being paid a handsome sum of money to represent The United States of America, should be making it very clear to Mexico at this time, that Mexico needs to keep their own house in order, that we have plenty of problems of our own, there is no money to hand out to anybody at all, and we are not a bunch of stupid fools. Or are we? Well, according to President Obama and Hillary Clinton, I guess we are. Mexico should be told that if they don't do a better job of keeping down violence close to our border, the United States is going to sharply curtail the ease of traffic and trade with Mexico. Mexico should be sent a bill from the United States for them allowing people to enter our country illegally from Mexico and our resulting costs from increased violence and the burden it places on our enforcement agencies. Instead, we are giving them money and rewarding them for allowing the manufacture and distribution of drugs from their country to ours? This is ludicrous.

Am I alone on this? According to polls and surveys that I have seen on the news in the past decades, the majority of legal citizens of The United States see it the same way that I do. So why do we end up with people running our country that most of us disagree with on crucial matters such as this? I think I have mentioned that in my previous articles.

Why aren't there marches in Washington right now protesting the insanity of what Hillary Clinton is saying and doing today in Mexico? How is this "open check" mental of Washington bureaucrats who think that the way to solve every problem our country has with any other country is by giving them taxpayer money (which is borrowed and we have to pay interest on). If supporters of Obama and Clinton would rise up and demand a stop to this idiocy, and tell them that they will not vote for anyone as long as they do these things, it could be ended right now. If the supporters of George Bush would have let him know in his first term in no uncertain way that they were not going to vote for him unless he changed his tune on letting anybody and everybody come here legal or not, and if he thought he might lose an election, he would have changed his tune. That is the only way this crap will end! Republican voters and Democrat voters having a "be true to your school" mentality is killing us as a nation. As long as these politicians are sure that their supporters will vote for them no matter what in order to keep their opposition out, we are all being held hostage by the crooks who are running our country and are in cahoots with each other.

CNN IS In ON THE HEIST

CNN and other networks are running specials full of propaganda persuading people to think that the reason there is drug wars and drug violence is because we have Constitutional rights to own guns to protect ourselves in the United states. Why aren't millions of people contacting CNN and refusing to buy any products or services advertised on CNN as long as they refuse to tell the truth about immigration and border control and drug violence?

The notion that The United States should round up illegal aliens who came here from Mexico and have been living here for years and send them back to Mexico is not something I would agree with at all, and I think that idea is unfeasible, inhumane, and is usually fueled by racial prejudice, which I find disgusting and ignorant. If I had been born in Mexico and all of my friends were walking right on over to The United States and getting jobs and making more money than I could ever earn at home, and if I had the opportunity to own cars and homes and make enough money to send to my relatives back home so they could live better lives, I would have done it in a heartbeat. I do not blame the people who have come here from other countries to have a better life. That is why my ancestors came here, and that is why everybody's ancestors came here, except for the American Indians, who were treated like dirt and robbed of their land. I have worked with many good and decent people who immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia, India, Vietnam, Kenya, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Russia, China, and Mexico. The first generation of people who migrate to our country are always the hardest working and have more appreciation for their new country then the following generations. I am 100% in favor of legal migration from people from all over the world, because it makes our country stronger and better.

However, any reasonable honest citizen of The United States knows that the reason we have so much drug trafficking coming from Mexico, aside from the profits reaped by Mexico and its government, is that by allowing the migration of people from Mexico to be largely made up of people who disregarded our laws from the beginning by coming here illegally, we have allowed the worst criminals from Mexico to come here along side the good decent hard working people. Our lackadaisical enforcement is 100% to blame. But who does President Obama and Hillary Clinton blame? That's right - the law abiding people in the United States. And who should pay for it? You guessed it - the taxpayers in the United States.

SEND THE CROOKS TO GUANTANAMO

The fact that our elected officials have consciously and irresponsibly allowed illegal aliens to enter our country through our border with Mexico is an abuse of power and deriliction of duty, and the elected officials in The United states who willingly allowed that to happen should be convicted of treason and sent to Guantanamo for the rest of their lives. That is what Hillary Clinton and President Obama should be telling Mexico and the citizens of The United States of America. George Bush said in a speech he made in 2003 that anybody who wants to come to the United States to work should be able to do so, and then turned around handed out billions of taxpayers' money to Mexico from hard working people in the United States. Why do we elect these clowns in the first place? Who votes for these people? Throw the bums out!

Bill Richardson, along with others, advocates having open borders with Mexico. But does he leave the door of his house all the time? Can everybody come into his house, and raid his refrigerator, and sit down on his couch, and grab the remote, and watch whatever they want on his television any time they want? I think not. And I think he, and many others, are probably getting some money from somewhere to say these things, because Obama and Clinton and Bush and Richardson are too intelligent to actually believe the things they have said regarding Mexico. I am not accusing anybody of anything, but if I were, we all know there is plenty of money to go around.

KEEPING DRUGS ILLEGAL IS TOO EXPENSIVE

Keeping weed and cocaine illegal is not working. I do not use marijuana and cocaine, and I do not think it is a good idea for anyone else to use cocaine and weed, but the system we have now is not working at all. It is broken. It is too expensive and totally ineffective. Just because something is legal does not mean that anyone has to endorse it. Ice cream, French fries, and sugar-pop are bad things, too. I do not consume those things, and do not think they are good for anyone, but I certainly would not want them to be illegal. Do you know how many enforcement agents we would have to pay to enforce that? The case against marijuana being legal is lame compared to the case against sugar being legal. There is enough money made on selling drugs illegally that officials get paid off on both sides of the border and they can buy guns from anywhere in the world and bring the drugs in to the United States without bringing them from the Mexican border. As long as weed and cocaine are illegal taxpayers will have to see more and more of their money flushed down the toilet.

When I was in high school it was illegal to buy and sell Coors beer in Oregon, which was supposedly because of their pasteurizing process, but it was just a political ploy to keep away some competition from Oregon breweries. There was a brisk black market for smugglers buying Coors in Idaho and bringing it back to Portland, and people were paying top dollar for it. Top dollar for Coors? Why? Because it was illegal. Coors has been legal in Oregon for decades, and nobody is paying top dollar for it, and no more taxpayer dollars are being wasted at all on catching beer smugglers. Besides, the State of Oregon makes money taxing the sales of all beer, including Coors. I am not old enough to recall prohibition in America, but we know how well that worked.

The bottom line is that our country needs to get much better elected officials in charge of how things are run in this country before it is too late. If that means dismantling the Democrat Party and Republican Party then just do it, and let's all get back to paying attention to these kinds of important critical issues instead of bickering about a few pet peeves. We do not need another political party. No matter what color skin they have or what race they are, we need some candidates worth electing and a majority of voters who care.

By Phil Staudt
blog.philstaudt.org
March 25, 2009

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p99s01-woam.html
"Clinton says US shares responsibility for Mexico's drug violence"
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR March 27,2009
By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers
MEXICO CITY - The United States is at least as responsible as Mexico for the violent drug wars that are roiling its southern neighbor because of an insatiable US market for narcotics, the failure to stop weapons smuggling southward and a three-decade "war" on drugs that "has not worked," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday...They are likely to be well received by top officials in the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderón, which is battling rising lawlessness and has called on the Obama administration to do more to stop the flow of guns and cash from the United States into Mexico... read_article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7966427.stm
"Clinton targets assault weapons"
BBC NEWS March 26, 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pledging further effort to help Mexico in its anti-drugs campaign...She also acknowledged that US efforts to ban drugs had so far been unsuccessful in stopping the narcotics trade...Mrs Clinton said the Obama administration, working with the US Congress, intended to pledge $80m (£55m) to help Mexico buy Blackhawk helicopters... read_article

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123808610753449421.html
"Clinton Tours Mexican Police Center"
WALL STREET JOURNAL AP March 26, 2009
MEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured a federal police control center in Mexico's capital on Thursday in a show of support for authorities caught up in a struggle with powerful drug cartels...All that is in addition to a three-year, $1.4 billion Bush administration-era program to support Mexico's efforts. Congress already has approved $700 million of that. President Barack Obama has said he wants to revamp the initiative. Mr. Obama said Tuesday he wanted the U.S. to do more to prevent guns and cash from illicit drug sales from flowing into Mexico...Criminals are outgunning law enforcement officials, she said, referring to guns and military-style equipment such as night-vision goggles and body armor that the cartels are smuggling from the U.S... read_article

http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN25454116
"U.S. to blame for much of Mexican drug violence"
REUTERS March 25, 2009 By Arshad Mohammed
Clinton says unfair to blame Mexico for drug war...Clinton acknowledged the U.S. role in Mexico's vicious drug war as she arrived in Mexico for a two-day visit where she discussed U.S. plans to ramp up security on the border with President Felipe Calderon...Clinton said the Obama administration strongly backed Mexico in its fight with the drug cartels and vowed the United States would try to speed up the transfer of drug-fighting equipment promised under a 2007 agreement...Washington on Tuesday said it plans to ramp up border security with a $184 million program to add 360 security agents to border posts and step up searches for smuggled drugs, guns and cash... reader_articles

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/26/tantaros_mexico_hillary/
FOX NEWS BLOGS March 26, 2009 By Andrea Tantaros
Imagine if Hillary were your attorney — “Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it’s my client’s fault.”...Does Secretary Clinton think that apologizing on foreign soil will alleviate the violence of the powerful Mexican drug cartels? The Obama - Clinton foreign policy team is showing weakness. Clinton’s job is to protect the United States’ interests abroad, not concede our liabilities...With all of our fiscal challenges and the reality that developing countries are buying the lion’s share of our debt... read_article
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