This is a firefight in Mexico between Mexican officials and one of the drug cartels. Some of what the guy who is making the video says is stupid, but listen to what’s happening in the background.
A four and one half hour battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Mexican Army which left over fifty people dead including the leader of the Cartel.
Mildly (Graphic) content at end of vid,due too blood,viewer discretion advised.Rated (MA)
Nothing has changed. It appears to just get worse while the world watches. Nothing will change until the demand for drugs goes down. As long as people demand drugs, the cartels and the violence will continue.
More than 80 U.S. Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers have been arrested in the last five years for accepting payments from Mexican drug cartels to look the other way.
“It is the single most debilitating factor in successful law enforcement on the border, and we do a horrible job of weeding that corruption out,” says retired DEA supervisor Anthony Coulson.
At a U.S. Senate hearing, it was revealed that Mexican cartel members are infiltrating American law enforcement. There was also testimony that during a hiring push that began five years ago to add thousands of Border Patrol and CBP officers, only 10 percent of the initial applicants were given polygraph tests.
Of those, 60 percent failed, raising concerns about the integrity of the others hired without screening.
The problem doesn’t just affect CBP and Border Patrol. It’s affecting local authorities as well.
In South Texas, former Sheriffs Conrado Cantu and Reymundo Guerra were jailed for helping Mexican smugglers, while in nearby Zapata County, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says corruption is rampant.
To try to stem the corruption, President Obama recently signed a law requiring polygraph tests for all border patrol and customs law enforcement job applicants. Additionally, thirteen FBI anti-corruption teams now keep an eye on the 2,000-mile-long border, policing the police.
The question remains as to why this was not done in the first place. It is the obvious and logical thing to do, yet doing background checks and polygraphs on potential employees didn’t seem pertinent at the time. It’s idiotic to hire people who will be close to corruption and not check them out in the first place.
This is the war on drugs, folks. It’s unnecessary and it’s costing people their livelihoods and continues to make a farce out of the United States.
JT Ready and a group of armed men are planning on taking Arizona’s border battle into their own hands.
“We’re going to go all night and shut down the drug corridor that comes directly into Phoenix,” Ready said. “We have guys that are going to be doing some covert stuff and we have some snipers coming out.”
