The Consequence of ‘Come On, It’s Just Pot’

It was a little after midnight when I crossed over the bridge from Laredo, Texas into the sister city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. After having my car searched I was cleared through the Mexican Customs’ check point where the military was staged and drove towards my destination. I had a source of mine, a local reporter, call me four hours earlier to tell me to meet him at a specific restaurant at 1 a.m. because he had some photographs and information I was looking for pertaining to a specific series of brutal murders that had taken place in the Laredo corridor.

This wasn’t all that unusual-most of the investigative journalists in Mexico work under intense circumstances given that they often come into information relating to the drug cartels that they either can not, or will not, report on because it would be a death sentence for them, so they give the information to someone like me who will get it aired or published in way that does not connect them.

I arrived early to the restaurant and since the weather was so pleasant, I decided to take a seat on the patio and have a glass of tea. I sat there for a few minutes when my source arrived and sat down, ordered a drink and handed me a large white envelope. He told me this was everything I had been asking his editor about the day before and that I should be careful how I use them. I thanked him, (by paying him) and we talked for about twenty more minutes and he asked if I could give him a ride home. (more…)

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Tags: Border, drug war, El Paso, legalize drugs, marijuana
Posted Aug 5th 2009 at 4:41 pm in Politics | 199506127 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rfleming/2009/08/05/come-on-its-just-pot/The+Consequence+of+%27Come+On%2C+It%27s+Just+Pot%272009-08-05+23%3A41%3A23Rusty+Fleming

The Russians, Arabs, Drug Cartels and our Southern Border

On June 3rd Sara Carter and the Washington Times reported, “Al-Qaeda Eyes Anthrax Attack On U.S from Mexico.” The story is based on an Al-Qaeda recruitment video first broadcast back in February on Al Jazeera.  In it, Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi tells a roomful of people that Al-Qaeda is currently casing the U.S. border with Mexico to see how they could smuggle weapons through border tunnels and into the U.S. (Relax fellas, you don’t need to crawl through tunnels. I can show you whole unguarded roads that go across the river and into the U.S. … unless you really like crawling.)

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Border Ranchers and Texas Law Enforcement have been warning of such a threat for years. For a long while now, ranchers and sheriffs have been reporting incidents of Middle Eastern human smuggling. For some Texas ranchers, stumbling upon Somalis, Eritreans, Bangladeshis or Iraqis is no longer surprising. Zapata County Sheriff Sigfried Gonzales had to reach out to the Israeli Mossad in order to identify Jihadist mercenary patches that were sewn into the inside of clothing recovered in the Texas brush.  (more…)

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Tags: Bangledesh, Border, border patrol, border security, drug cartels
Posted Jun 8th 2009 at 6:41 am in Military, Politics | 1534583 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cburgard/2009/06/08/the-russians-arabs-drug-cartels-and-our-southern-border/The+Russians%2C+Arabs%2C+Drug+Cartels+and+our+Southern+Border2009-06-08+13%3A41%3A00Chris+Burgard

In Defense of Our ‘Border’

Because my hobby is surfing obscure website nobody cares about, this week I happened upon this recent offering by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

If you’re not familiar, the S.P.L.C. is one of those groups who did good work in their day (the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965), but, having run out of dragons to slay, are now casting about for reasons to carry on with their anti-white-racist mission in an era where a black President presides over a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate while the wealthiest, most admired and most powerful people on Planet Earth include Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, whatever Sean Combs is calling himself these days, and the black writer on 30 Rock. 

Chris Burgard “Border”

The S.P.L.C. has become a good illustration of the old adage that if all you have is a hammer pretty soon everything starts to look like a nail.  The group operates from a presumption of racism, i.e., the belief that every white person is a racist until they prove otherwise by adopting a Somalian orphan, personally spitting in David Dukes’ beer, and/or shopping for clothes at Target like Michelle Obama does.  All of which made the S.P.LC. a very unlikely source for an objective review of Chris Burgard’s spectacular documentary Border. (more…)

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Tags: Border, Chris Burgard, illegal immigration, Souther Poverty Law Center, SPLC
Posted Jun 4th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, News | 148662One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2009/06/04/in-defense-of-our-border/In+Defense+of+Our+%27Border%272009-06-04+12%3A03%3A44Ned+Rice

Dear Mr. President: Send Us Your Junk and the Texans Will Stand Tall!

The first time you face armed, foreign troops on American soil, something inside you changes. You experience a cold, hard sensation deep in your core. There is an internal shift as the reality sinks in that despite having the strongest military in the world, there are Americans who are not safe on their home soil.

Obama and Mexican President Calderón

I experienced that shift on a cold October night in 2005, when, at a distance of approximately 21 yards, we filmed armed, uniformed soldiers escorting a mule train into the United States.

Guardsmen from Tennessee experienced it in the same location 15 months later when soldiers from Mexico advanced on their observation post. The foreign troops twice attempted to flank the Guardsmen. The Guardsmen were twice ordered to observe and fall back until reinforcements arrived. (more…)

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Tags: Border, Brooks County, drug cartels, Hudspeth County, John Boehner
Posted Apr 16th 2009 at 3:11 pm in Military, News, Politics | 107910No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cburgard/2009/04/16/dear-mr-president-send-us-your-junk-and-the-texans-will-stand-tall/Dear+Mr.+President%3A+Send+Us+Your+Junk+and+the+Texans+Will+Stand+Tall%212009-04-16+22%3A11%3A29Chris+Burgard

Gran Issue Approaching

Leave it to the out of touch boneheads in Hollywood to exclude the best movie of the year, “Gran Torino” with Client Eastwood, from it best picture nominations.  If you have not seen it yet, then you should before Sunday’s Academy Awards-if for nothing else, to see what Hollywood missed.  While there is nothing overtly political about the movie, I am convinced there is something below the surface, something a little too Americana for the Academy’s liking.  And while watching the movie, I could not help but feel reminded of the explosive immigration issue that will surface again soon.  

To make that reminder more poignant, a recent U.S. Joint Forces Command report warns of a “rapid and sudden collapse” in Mexico because “the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault…by criminal gangs and drug cartels.”  In other words-to cut through the political correctness-America has a third world nation on its southern border that is compromised by corruption and violence and an implosion would likely cause teams of illegal immigrants streaming into southern U.S. states.   (more…)

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Tags: Border, Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino, illegal immigration, Mexico
Posted Feb 16th 2009 at 5:15 am in Entertainment, News | 5093432 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjoshpe/2009/02/16/gran-issue-approaching/Gran+Issue+Approaching2009-02-16+13%3A15%3A38Brett+Joshpe