Texas National Guardsman Shot to Death in Mexico

[revwardoc]

I guess Mexican authorities don't have the balls to declare a temporary state of martial law and a "no prisoners" policy on the ultra-violent drug gangs. Too bad, because they should.

[Seascamp]

Ramirez was repeatedly told by his Guard unit command not go to Juarez, like how many times must one be told before they pay attention. Not being active duty at the time, Ramirez was not obliged to follow the instruction set. It certainly begs the question as to exactly why Ramirez was in Juarez. It wouldn't be uncommon for Hispanics in the El Paso area to have relatives on the Juarez side and travel back and forth on a regular basis, but who knows. In Juarez or any other northern Mexican state young males in a car are at the top of the list to draw fire from one faction or another including the totally corrupt Federal Judiciary police, corrupt local cops, corruption ridden Mexican Army troops, any of them can and have opened fire at just about anybody or anything and for any reason or no reason at all. And most recently, the El Paso municipal building and UT buildings were peppered with auto weapons fire from across the river in Juarez.

Gut feel says thatthe identical twin to the 1910-1920 Mexican civil war is happening, like de ja vu all over again. Change the names and places and the 2010 version is once again about who is in charge of the corruption, who gorges at the corruption table and who does not. From 1920 till recent times the Mexico City politicos were the de facto criminal cartel of the land and made that stick by brute force. Now the "franchise" cartels have given the Mexico City politicos the boot and cut them out of the action. Reads just like a very old script of Mexico that surely goes back further than the 1910-1920 civil war.

In 1836 a wily General by the name of Sam Houston of the then Texas militia waited until the Mexican "General" retied to his tent for some opium and frolicking with a captured Gal. The place was Galveston plane, the "General" was self- proclaimed 'Emperor" of Mexico and self-described as "Napoleon of the West" and is known to history as Antonio Louis Santa Anna. The Gal later became known as the "Yellow Rose of Texas" and subject of the song of the same name, but now lost to history of the Texas Republic. The saga of this Gal is quite fascinating and one of the yet to be formally recognized heroines of the Republic of Texas.

[Seascamp]

I'm not so sure it is a matter of cajonies, but more like who really runs the Mexican border states and it looks like it isn't Mexico City. It appears as if the Mexico City bunch are kind of like window dressing and a once was, but no more, anymore. In the northern Mexican states the day job costumes of badges, judicial robes, uniforms, etc., are the norm, not the exception, and loyalties lie with the lucrative drug and human trafficking routes into the US. Especially the crown jewel to be won in the current civil war and that being the Arizona smuggling routes and the Phoenix extortion, drug distribution and money laundering operations. In terms of a definition of the evolved "Sanctuary City", Phoenix has gone to the polar opposite of the original concept. Now it is very clear as to who has sanctuary and it most certainly isn't the hapless illegal alien that gets caught up in the totally disgusting Arizona illegal alien criminal gauntlet.