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July 17, 2007
It's Official: We're Being INVADED!
Foreign Drug Cartels Have Tactical Control Over American Territory
For years, the language police have gone onto full tactical alert whenever anyone used the word invasion to describe the mass influx of people into the United States illegally. An invasion can only occur when a hostile army crosses the border, we are repeatedly told. An army of illegal aliens taking jobs and using public benefits is not an invasion it's something else - although the language police have never actually told us exactly what to call it.
We can dispense with the semantic arguments: The United States IS being invaded. Large areas of our sovereign territory ARE under control of well-armed, hostile, foreign nationals. Americans enjoying remote wilderness areas in this nation's national and state parks are liable to find themselves confronted by armed foreign militias - mostly from Mexico - protecting marijuana plantations they have established deep in the heart of U.S. territory.
The Mexican drug cartels that have turned vast stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border into a war zone have moved manpower and weaponry into the United States and now have operational control over territory in the interior of this country. The invaders are not a recognized standing army controlled by a foreign government (although there are extensive links between the drug lords and government officials in Mexico), but that does not alter the fact that parts of this country are occupied by hostile foreign forces. The fact that these foreign militias are not under direct control of a recognized government does not mean that what is happening is not an invasion any more than the fact that al-Qaeda terrorists are not under direct control of a recognized government diminishes the threat that they pose.
Speaking of al-Qaeda, if Mexican drug lords can take and hold control of parks and forests within the United States, what makes any U.S. government official certain that radical Islamic terrorist organizations are not doing the same thing? Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's gut tells him that al-Qaeda is planning to strike us again, while intelligence experts tell us that al-Qaeda's operational capabilities have returned to pre-9/11 levels.
Even scarier than the fact that we are currently being invaded, and that Homeland Security acknowledges that terrorists are likely infiltrating operatives into this country to carry out another deadly attack, and that Islamic terrorists carrying European passports are probably entering the country undetected under the Visa Waiver Program, ("Europe could become a platform for an attack against this country," Chertoff said) no one in Washington seems to be responding with any alacrity. Instead, the Bush Administration and leaders of the Senate have dithered on border security in an effort to link homeland security to an illegal alien amnesty and cheap foreign guest workers for business interests.
America has been invaded. It's not just busboys and gardeners, or even freeloaders taking advantage of our social services. It is foreign militias who control sovereign U.S. territory and threaten American citizens. We have officially been invaded.
Posted on at July 17, 2007 05:38 PM