Cartel Leaders Set Snipers To Work In Border War

According to this article, the home addresses of government agents are
being solicited by Mexican drug dealers, for disposal of agents
interfering in their business.

Between anonymous remailers and payment systems, a real Assassination
Politics market could be set up. Don't even need untraceable e-cash,
though this would be better.

Glad I'm not a DEA or INS agent.


--Tim May



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> Cartel leaders set snipers to work in border 'war' 
> By John Hiscock Electronic Telegraph, London
> 
> August 11, 1997 
> 
> AMERICAN Border Patrol agents have become targets of snipers working
> for drug smugglers trying to take control of the border with Mexico. A
> five-mile strip of frontier near San Diego in California has become so
> dangerous that a specially-trained squad of border patrol sentries
> armed with assault rifles has been drafted in to combat the snipers,
> who have fired at agents seven times in the past two months. 
> 
> The agents believe that Mexican drug cartel leaders have issued
> instructions to kill any law enforcement officers impeding drug
> smuggling operations. Their fears have been heightened by a bulletin
> from the Immigration and Naturalisation Service that said two drug
> cartel leaders in the Mexican border city of Tijuana had "reportedly
> contracted with local gangs on both sides of the border to kill
> federal law enforcement personnel", preferably on American soil. In
> addition, officers recently received reports that cartel henchmen have
> put a price on their heads by offering to pay &pound;7,000 for the
> home address of any United States federal agent. 
> 
> Dianne Feinstein, a Californian senator, says that border patrol
> agents, whose job until recently was to arrest mainly frightened and
> unarmed Mexicans trying to cross the frontier at night, are now in the
> front line of a vicious drug war. "This is a border on alert, a border
> where anything could happen," she said. "These cartels are moving
> drugs across the border and are operating with impunity and that adds
> an increased risk to the lives of border patrol agents. This is a
> different border than it was two years ago." 
> 
> In addition to being the most popular spot for illegal aliens
> attempting to cross, the border around San Diego is now the main
> gateway for cocaine and heroin bound for the US. Since the
> introduction of Operation Gatekeeper, President Clinton's 1994
> anti-illegal alien initiative that poured more money and agents into
> the San Diego area, the drug smugglers have found themselves
> increasingly caught up in the patrols' swoops on illegal
> border-crossers. 
> 
> "We've made it increasingly difficult for drug traffic," said John
> Williams, the chief of San Diego's 2,000-strong border patrol sector.
> "We're making it tough on crime and that certainly has some bearing on
> their reaction. The escalation of violence is of grave concern to me
> and my agents." 
> 
> Members of the elite special protection unit carry M-16 assault
> rifles, with a range of more than a mile, while all agents are now
> being issued with semi-automatic pistols and shotguns.

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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Tim May wrote:

> According to this article, the home addresses of government agents are
> being solicited by Mexican drug dealers, for disposal of agents
> interfering in their business.
> 
> Between anonymous remailers and payment systems, a real Assassination
> Politics market could be set up. Don't even need untraceable e-cash,
> though this would be better.
> 
> Glad I'm not a DEA or INS agent.
> 
> --Tim May

Or, if our government actually got smart, they could offer a bounty on the
Mexican drug lords.  There are a lot more poor people in mexico.  A
Mequilladora (spelling?) to export drug policy?  I think if they offered
to make Tijuiana a protectorate and infuse a billion or two in cash after
the last drug lord was eliminated the border problems would cease.

If you wanted to use individual bounties, the problem is proving that you
were the one who killed the target.  Snipers usually can't wait around to
collect the scalp (Encrypted VCR through the viewfinder maybe?).

I think that Harry Browne suggested this more economic approach to
terrorists in his book and campaign last year.

But the US doesn't consider this "fair".  They would rather send our
military in as they did in Haiti and Panama, have lots of people on both
sides killed, and bring them back for a show trial, or battle to a
stalemate like with Iraq and Somalia.

But instead, they are going to raid the homes of more people who install
central air conditioning so their electric bills go up, which is reported
to the police who cannot concieve of anything except a basement full of
grow-lites over marijuana plants as using any electricity.

10 years from now they will still probably be paying informants in person
with $20 bills with consecutive serial numbers, but only if they insist on
not getting a check or direct deposit :).  Where is BCCI when you need it.

New BCCI - Bits of Credit and Commerce on the Internet.

--- reply to tzeruch - at - ceddec - dot - com ---

On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com wrote:

> Or, if our government actually got smart, they could offer a bounty on the
> Mexican drug lords.  There are a lot more poor people in mexico.  A
> Mequilladora (spelling?) to export drug policy?  I think if they offered
> to make Tijuiana a protectorate and infuse a billion or two in cash after
> the last drug lord was eliminated the border problems would cease.

Of course they aren't going to do that.  The FEDs make way too much money
on the drugs anyway.  If they weren't, they would have closed down the
trade a long time ago, or legalized it to make money off the taxes.  It's
all ecconomic.  But they're making much more money this way than if it
were sold and taxed legally.

Everything that's illegal comes down to tax money.  From drugs to
prostition to murder to gambling.  Yes, even suicide: if you kill
yourself, you won't work, so they get less tax money. 
 
> But the US doesn't consider this "fair".  They would rather send our
> military in as they did in Haiti and Panama, have lots of people on both
> sides killed, and bring them back for a show trial, or battle to a
> stalemate like with Iraq and Somalia.

Hey, them marines and army boys need to cut their teeth on some real
action once in a while or else they get soft, wouldn't want that, would
we?

If I remember my history correctly, and I probably don't, either FDR or
Teddy, durring the depression hired two sets of crews of people.  On set
to dig a ditch, the other to fill it, and the next day it would be dug
again, so that they could have jobs and get paid and stimulate the
ecconomy.  

Same deal.  Military get target practice, Feds capture and resell the
dope, buy weapons to sell to Iran or whatever, local cops bust down the
door, the hardware and home supply stores get money in sales and
installation of doors and windows busted by the local cops, etc...  Only
ones who wind up losing are the citizen units.  The drug dealers aren't
hurt much.  Sure they need to ice one or two off every once in a while to
give the appearance of a justice system, but, the rest go out on the
street to sell again. 
 
> But instead, they are going to raid the homes of more people who install
> central air conditioning so their electric bills go up, which is reported
> to the police who cannot concieve of anything except a basement full of
> grow-lites over marijuana plants as using any electricity.

Of course, keeps the citizen units in line.  And heck with the new laws
pretty soon they'll be applied to EVERYTHING, not just business with
guns... pretty soon they'll raid people's homes and confiscate everything
whether they find something illegal or not... just to hold it for 50-200
years for um, evidence, yeah, um, that's it.  And boy, that's a mighty
fine leather couch the Jones bought yesterday, you know, we should raid
them just incase it's full of heroin, them cushions are mighty soft, no?
And heck, we just happen to have a perfect spot for it in our precinct
recreation room. :)

And boy, that land on Ruby Ridge looks mighty fertile, you know I bet
they're growing marijuana plants in the trees...  We could use it to build
a park, heck...

And shit that Koresh compound, let's burn it and say they commited suicide
and raped their kids... we could use the land and come out looking good...

> 10 years from now they will still probably be paying informants in person
> with $20 bills with consecutive serial numbers, but only if they insist on
> not getting a check or direct deposit :).  Where is BCCI when you need it.

Naw, that's not how it's done, they'll pay'em with counterfit $20's and
then arrest them when they hit the grocery store to buy a six pack and
some milk, then when they get'em at the stationhouse they'll stuff'em in
the bathroom to be sodomized and beat up with toilet plungers and brooms. 

Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if the cops had a small dope quota every
month to plant as evidence in the cars of the people they ticket for
speeding, or having tinted windows, or actually using their turn signal
lights.   And hey, here's a thought, let's pass some more laws and like
confiscate cars that are speeding.  Heck, we ain't makin' enough money as
is from stealing cars off the street for parking for more than five
minutes...


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