Listen Up, Peons: Advice from Mexico's President:
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venomballistics
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Given a speech like that. hes only a few philosophical evolutions away from trying to annex the United states as a Mexican territory
oldRoger
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Remember Bill Clinton?? You have to parse the sentence.
"We have seized 75,000 guns and assault weapons in Mexico in the past three years, and more than 80 percent of those we have been able to trace came from the United States."
The key is: "those we have been able to trace" of the very few of the seized weapons that are traceable 80% originated in the US.
The ones traced are a very small portion of the total and do not include the fully automatic weapons etc.
So this is smoke and mirrors for the journalists.
Question: is there a minimun IQ requirement for main stream journalist??
"We have seized 75,000 guns and assault weapons in Mexico in the past three years, and more than 80 percent of those we have been able to trace came from the United States."
The key is: "those we have been able to trace" of the very few of the seized weapons that are traceable 80% originated in the US.
The ones traced are a very small portion of the total and do not include the fully automatic weapons etc.
So this is smoke and mirrors for the journalists.
Question: is there a minimun IQ requirement for main stream journalist??
DonD
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Being liberal and totally ignorant of firearms and anything to do with the military or military weapons are good basic qualifiers. Don
mike from st pete
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Where is...
...Black Jack when Mexican butt needs a good swift kick across the Rio Grand?
...Black Jack when Mexican butt needs a good swift kick across the Rio Grand?
Pasifikawv
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Absolutely believe it could be real.
Anyone -especially a foreign national- who cops am attitude with CBP will be delayed and detained... CBP asks you a question, you give the answer. CBP gives you an order, you follow it. When passing thru international inspection, keep the snide comments and snarky questions to yourself.
Did the first CBP act appropriately? Probably not: the whole series of efforts that followed should have been focused elsewhere instead of at a smart-mouthed couple from up north. Still, it's the officer's perogotive to select for exta inspection. Don't like it? Don't travel across the borders...
bk43
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SWMBO has done some work in Canada lately. They were very strict coming back into the States. One time she said it looked like they weren't going to let her back in. She finally asked the guy "Does this mean I won't be able to go home?". He handed her back her docs and said get out of here.
We do the same on our southern border...........not!
On topic, Congress has stood and cheered twice this year when our basic rights have been attacked. One was when the TPOTUS attacked our 1st Amendment rights and the SCOTUS. Now this on our 2nd rights. I'm not taking either well.
Bob
The Last Standing Knight
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Most politicians from other nations...
...are always trying to tell the US what we should do just as we tell them what they should do.
The fact that anyone pays any attention to him in the United States is sad in and of itself.
"Mr. Calderon, we will take your suggestions under advisement..thank you."
I class this whole issue as "the pot calling the kettle black" and nothing more.
Worse stuff is said about the US in the UN on an hourly basis.
...are always trying to tell the US what we should do just as we tell them what they should do.
The fact that anyone pays any attention to him in the United States is sad in and of itself.
"Mr. Calderon, we will take your suggestions under advisement..thank you."
I class this whole issue as "the pot calling the kettle black" and nothing more.
Worse stuff is said about the US in the UN on an hourly basis.
jframe
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Just vote them all out in Nov. and get people who will run this country like the people want. Don
The problem is NOBODY will run this country like the people want. It's not public service anymore; it's a power struggle. Instead of following the Constitution and doing what is right based on it and the laws of God, they just follow their own agenda instead. Waste of time to vote anymore in this damn country; from the local level all the way to the Federal level. They're ALL ALIKE!
heeter3
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Maybe he should worry about whats going on in his country before commenting on ours,better yet maybe he can recruit barry,bill and hillary to move down there and give him a hand to clean it up.YES WE CAN !
Pasifikawv
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President Calderon's statement that Congress should "consider reinstatement of the AWB" is totally misguided and his statistics on crime guns used in Mexico are totally misleading. I call BS on that along with everyone else on this board...
HOWEVER:
Calderon is a Conservative, law & order, and free-market type of guy trying to clean up a huge mess in his country while the uber-liberal PRD tries to stop him at every turn.
He has brought the fight to the smullgers who carry drugs and aliens into our nation.
He has taken steps to update a piss-poor criminal justcie system to mirror what we have here.
He is trying to address the deeply rooted corruption in the Mexican LEO community.
He is trying to modernize the Mexican economy with free-market principles and provide better opportunity so his people won't have to leave.
The far left PRD almost took the 2006 election from Calderon. He won by barely 0.6%. We coulda had Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador as president of our southern neighbor. AMLO is a good pal of Fidel and Chavez and shares their socialist ideas.
Instead, Mexico delivered a conservative, free-market President whose PAN party broke with the old oligarchy of the PRI party that ruled Mexico as an corrupt oligarchy for nearly 71 years.
Calderon pushing for free market reforms and economic growth, fighting for law & order, leading anti-corruption efforts, taking the fight to organized crime cartels, and trying to modernize the judicial system are all good things... Unfortunately, he will never get it all done - not in his 6 years anyway - but at least positive progress is being made - albiet very slowly,
I'll never agree with him on the AWB, but I do agree with him that we can and should use exisiting laws to lock up straw buyers, criminal sellers, and smugglers. While the number of US guns in the hands of Mexican cartels is minimal compared to black market weapons coming in from Guatemala and elsewhere, ANY illegal smuggling of arms and ammo from the US should be dealt with harshly under exisiting laws.
I do think we should help our neighbor in his fight against organized crime with training and equipment. The cartels are well funded with dollars from US drug consumers. The cartels are killing cops, soldiers, and reporters aided by US dollars from coke heads and heroin junkies. There are few upstanding local cops in Mexico and those that are still standing cannot afford ammo to shoot back at the bad guys - much less for practice and training.
While Calderon did say some very objectional stuff regarding US firearm laws, much of what he is doing in Mexico is good for Mexico and for us. Trade between Canada, US and Mex is huge and vitally important for each country. We all should want North America to be the most competitve and propersous region of the world. Calderon is the first Mexican president in the past century that is actually trying to make that happen on his end... He is facing an uphill struggle, strong political opposition from the left, and coming up short far too often, but at least he is trying...
He could just said "the heck with it all", kept his head down, went about business as usual, and become very rich and corrupt like every other Mexican President before him, but he didn't. I give him credit for that...
HOWEVER:
Calderon is a Conservative, law & order, and free-market type of guy trying to clean up a huge mess in his country while the uber-liberal PRD tries to stop him at every turn.
He has brought the fight to the smullgers who carry drugs and aliens into our nation.
He has taken steps to update a piss-poor criminal justcie system to mirror what we have here.
He is trying to address the deeply rooted corruption in the Mexican LEO community.
He is trying to modernize the Mexican economy with free-market principles and provide better opportunity so his people won't have to leave.
The far left PRD almost took the 2006 election from Calderon. He won by barely 0.6%. We coulda had Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador as president of our southern neighbor. AMLO is a good pal of Fidel and Chavez and shares their socialist ideas.
Instead, Mexico delivered a conservative, free-market President whose PAN party broke with the old oligarchy of the PRI party that ruled Mexico as an corrupt oligarchy for nearly 71 years.
Calderon pushing for free market reforms and economic growth, fighting for law & order, leading anti-corruption efforts, taking the fight to organized crime cartels, and trying to modernize the judicial system are all good things... Unfortunately, he will never get it all done - not in his 6 years anyway - but at least positive progress is being made - albiet very slowly,
I'll never agree with him on the AWB, but I do agree with him that we can and should use exisiting laws to lock up straw buyers, criminal sellers, and smugglers. While the number of US guns in the hands of Mexican cartels is minimal compared to black market weapons coming in from Guatemala and elsewhere, ANY illegal smuggling of arms and ammo from the US should be dealt with harshly under exisiting laws.
I do think we should help our neighbor in his fight against organized crime with training and equipment. The cartels are well funded with dollars from US drug consumers. The cartels are killing cops, soldiers, and reporters aided by US dollars from coke heads and heroin junkies. There are few upstanding local cops in Mexico and those that are still standing cannot afford ammo to shoot back at the bad guys - much less for practice and training.
While Calderon did say some very objectional stuff regarding US firearm laws, much of what he is doing in Mexico is good for Mexico and for us. Trade between Canada, US and Mex is huge and vitally important for each country. We all should want North America to be the most competitve and propersous region of the world. Calderon is the first Mexican president in the past century that is actually trying to make that happen on his end... He is facing an uphill struggle, strong political opposition from the left, and coming up short far too often, but at least he is trying...
He could just said "the heck with it all", kept his head down, went about business as usual, and become very rich and corrupt like every other Mexican President before him, but he didn't. I give him credit for that...
Harrison
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Well, Mexico does bring us lots of consumers of government benefits, democrat politicians and lots of voters that vote a straight democrat ticket.
Close the border NOW.
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