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1. #1
   On February 11th, 2012 at 3:36 pm, letget said:

   We live in S TX and would, in the past, travel to mexico several times a year over the border. We will not go to mexico, even to get off a boat on a cruise. Bad enough having the drug gangs here in the US, don’t need to go in the hornets den.
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2. #2
   On February 11th, 2012 at 3:39 pm, Marsh626 said:

   We have a 3rd world cesspool on our border that is in a drug war and is expanding that war to America.

   Yet thanks to the open borders advocates, we’re not securing that border or getting serious about preventing mass legal and illegal immigration from Mexico and other 3rd world cesspools which is almost certainly going to bring their problems to our nation (like the murder of my best friend in Northern Virginia by MS-13 illegal immigrant gang members in 2007).

   The lunatics are running the asylum…

3. #3
   On February 11th, 2012 at 3:51 pm, txvet2 said:

   On February 11th, 2012 at 3:36 pm, letget said:

   Same here. I haven’t bothered to cross the border in years. Nothing to see that I haven’t already seen in a dozen other third world countries, and I got tired of bribing the local urchins not to break into my car and steal me blind.

4. #4
   On February 11th, 2012 at 4:05 pm, The_NeoKong said:

   That’s what happens when a foreign govt. arms the drug cartels.
   Look at the bright side.
   Maybe Obama can rename this the Mexican Spring.

5. #5
   On February 11th, 2012 at 4:24 pm, Paratus said:

   They should expand the travel warning to 50 states, or is that 58 states, above the border.

6. #6
   On February 11th, 2012 at 4:25 pm, tre said:

   Maybe, if Obummer and holder had given those guns to Mexican citizens instead of criminals it would be different.

7. #7
   On February 11th, 2012 at 4:52 pm, hawkeye54 said:

   We have a 3rd world cesspool on our border that is in a drug war and is expanding that war to America.

   The drug war has already expanded into the USA, and thanks to our lax and often non-existent border and immigration policies they have also turned many of our own urban areas,a and many small communities into 3rd world cesspools.

8. #8
   On February 11th, 2012 at 4:53 pm, hawkeye54 said:

   They should expand the travel warning to 50 states, or is that 58 states, above the border.

   Got that right. There are many communities within the USA that local LEOs fear to tread.

9. #9
   On February 11th, 2012 at 4:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:

   Maybe, if Obummer and holder had given those guns to Mexican citizens instead of criminals it would be different.

   Keep in mind Mexico has very strict gun control laws. Even though its constitution guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, other than the Mexican military and police, you’ll find the best armed Mexicans are in the drug cartels.

10. #10
    On February 11th, 2012 at 4:58 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Same here. I haven’t bothered to cross the border in years. Nothing to see that I haven’t already seen in a dozen other third world countries Los Angeles and some of its surrounding towns.

    Why would I want to go to Mexico. I already work in an annexation of it.

11. #11
    On February 11th, 2012 at 4:59 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Have no idea why anyone would want to travel there any way.

12. #12
    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:05 pm, rambler said:

    I had no interest in ever traveling to Mexico and over time Mexico traveled here. The “press 1 for English” really got me angry.

13. #13
    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:16 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Our idiot neighbors go to Cancun every year and don’t intend to stop. I have enjoyed knowing them, but one of these times, they won’t come back. They are pushing the odds.

    Why don’t people go someplace safer? There are thousands of beautiful places in this country to see. And Canada is lovely. We have been on an Alaska Cruise and a Bahama Cruise and both were gorgeous! Why temp fate and go to a horrible, corrupt, dangerous country like Mexico?

14. #14
    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:22 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On February 11th, 2012 at 4:05 pm, The_NeoKong said:
    That’s what happens when a foreign govt. arms the drug cartels.
    Look at the bright side.
    Maybe Obama can rename this the Mexican Spring.

    Obama seems to be AWOL on foreign policy. When was the last time he commented on Mexico or Syria? He seems to have abdicated that roll. Even Hillary seems to be silent. Are they ignoring our problems in hopes they will go away? Good strategy. I will be SO HAPPY when we can get some grown-ups running our country again!

15. #15
    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:26 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI TRE–#6. Good comment on the need to arm the Mexican Citizens. And how their corrupt socialist government ignores the Mexican Constitution’s right to bear arms. Seems to ring a bell, somehow. Liberals / socialists / statists / marxists / communists always have to disarm the people. So they can have a free hand in abusing them. The NRA is calling Comrade Obama out on this already.
    ***
    Peru had a real disaster on their hands 20 years ago–the communist Shining Path guerrillas taking over areas where the police and / or army were unable (or unwilling!) to protect the people.
    ***
    Their Presidente Alberto Fujimori came up with the answer to finishing off the gangs. He had the police and military arm the people with 12 Gauge shotguns and old (but deadly) Mauser bolt action rifles. And organized and trained them into an every man / woman / child / dog self defense force that guarded their villages. As their Military hunted down and killed the guerrillas as they tried to hide out in the mountains without food or shelter.
    ***
    When a group of them took hostages at a school–their Fuerzas Especiales negotiated with them for a while. And then blew holes in the roof and killed them all on the spot. No show trials, prisons, or lawyers needed–just a few gravediggers. And a few more bullets.
    ***
    See the May 1996 National Geographic–P. 23–for a photo of 4 armed village women who were part of the defense team. After a few years the problems were solved in Peru.
    ***
    Mexico should arm all the people there–those who haven’t already fled to take refuge with family in the U.S.A. Or if unable or unwilling to do so–the current corrupt Mexican Government, Police, and Military should be overthrown by the people. Padre Hildago (their George Washington), Benito Juarez (their freedom defender), and Pancho Villa (one of their flawed Civil War generals) knew how to take care of governments that abused the people.
    ***
    One way or another, compadres. Esperanza y cambio will come–sooner or later. The blood of 40,000 dead Mexicans is calling out for justice.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

16. #16
    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:33 pm, laugrat said:

    We have a war going on on our southern borders, killing thousands of Mexicans and someAmericans and the Progressive Democrats and our President do not care. That’s difficult to explain.

17. #17
    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:58 pm, peteee said:

    who would have thought, if you send hundreds of weapons to mexico they would use them?

18. #18
    On February 11th, 2012 at 6:07 pm, chapoutier said:

    If you’re not good at reading maps, just remember that it’s like choosing which wine to have with fish: Avoid the red.

    Pinot noir pairs well with salmon.

19. #19
    On February 11th, 2012 at 6:46 pm, sonerai32645 said:

    well mittens just took Maine and CPAC, if he wins no change with this situation, only just a little slower speed.

20. #20
    On February 11th, 2012 at 7:02 pm, tre said:

    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:05 pm, rambler said:
    I had no interest in ever traveling to Mexico and over time Mexico traveled here. The “press 1 for English” really got me angry.

    Soon, it’ll be, “Press 1 for Spanish, press 2 for Chinese, press 3 for Arabic, press 4 for Farsi, press 5 for Hindi, press 6 for Urdu, press 7 for Swahili, press 8 for Russian, press 9 for Portugese, Press 0 for English.”

21. #21
    On February 11th, 2012 at 7:04 pm, tre said:

    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:26 pm, rocketman said:

    I’m certain that Simon Bolivar is spinning in his grave at how far the Latin people have fallen.

22. #22
    On February 11th, 2012 at 7:06 pm, tre said:

    On February 11th, 2012 at 5:26 pm, rocketman said:

    And it’s true that a person who’s defending their home and family will be far more motivated than any soldier or policeman.

23. #23
    On February 11th, 2012 at 7:57 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Obama seems to be AWOL on foreign policy.

    Not at all. It’s just that his, and his handlers’, foreign policy differs from what we expect it to be.

    I’m pretty sure that all is going according to their plans.

24. #24
    On February 11th, 2012 at 7:59 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    oon, it’ll be, “Press 1 for Spanish, press 2 for Chinese, press 3 for Arabic, press 4 for Farsi, press 5 for Hindi, press 6 for Urdu, press 7 for Swahili, press 8 for Russian, press 9 for Portugese, Press 0 for English.”

    English? Nope. They don’t have to provide any accomodation for English.

    We will have to learn whichever is the dominant language for the region in which we habitate.

25. #25
    On February 11th, 2012 at 9:21 pm, Mister P said:

    But we have a president who makes weapon deals with these Mexican drug cartels.

26. #26
    On February 11th, 2012 at 10:11 pm, UrbanSpaceman said:

    Just keep in mind like any big city/area in the US, there are areas of Mexico that are safe. In Sonora, there is a little town called San Carlos on the Gulf of California that is the winter home (and for some, year-round home) to many ex-pat. Americans and Canadians. We have friends that have a winter home there and we have always felt and been safe visiting them.

    We have been going to visit them for the last about 6 years and the one change we did make is that we no longer drive across the border (Nogales, AZ, to San Carlos is about 5 hours)–we flew at Christmas ’10 and took a bus this past Christmas.

27. #27
    On February 11th, 2012 at 10:16 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Holder: “See, by letting guns walk over the border, we can precisely track where they show up at crime scenes. This allows us to provide more accurate warnings to those Americans traveling there.”

    Issa: “So you are providing a government service then?”

    Holder: “Precisely. A much needed service. We will be asking for a larger budget to help us help traveling Americans.”

28. #28
    On February 11th, 2012 at 10:17 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    The Sinaloa cartel (considered by the United States Intelligence Community as “the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world.”) is currently the greatest international threat to the US. These aren’t just some drug dealers, they are a well-funded international criminal cartel. They have a sophisticated international shipping mechanism, tons of military-grade weapons, soldiers defected from the Mexican military, and no reservation about violence, murder, or torture.

    I believe they are a greater threat than the islamonazis in Iran or al Qaeda, at least at this time.

    The Obama Administration armed these monsters.

    The ATF higher-ups (not rank-and-file) continue to say that their military-grade weapons come from Bob’s Sporting Goods instead of from the international black market and raids on Central American military armories.

29. #29
    On February 11th, 2012 at 11:19 pm, Flyoverman said:

    No joke. That map resembles what the maps of South Vietnam used to look lke during the Vietnam War.

    Not good. Not good at all.

30. #30
    On February 12th, 2012 at 10:13 am, Regulus said:

    Going on a cruise to Mexico in late March. One of my sisters — to protect her anonymity I’ll use her code name, “Money Bags” — paid for the whole lot of our family to go as a Xmas present.

    I wasn’t anticipating getting off the boat before the State Department made it “official.” The one time I visited Mexico was in 1985 when a friend and I walked over to Tijuana for a few hours, just to look around. You could feel the tension even back then, and by the time we made it back to the border crossing a few of the locals were even starting to throw rocks at us.

    Wanted to kiss the ground when we got back north of the line. Really, I had to stop myself.

    Mexicans have a saying: “Poor Mexico — so far from God, so close to the United States.” Yeah, well the flip side of that proposition is to ask us over here what it’s like to live next to Mexico: for a time at least, the only country on the planet to strike oil and lose money, I’ve heard.

    Said it before, say it again: If we’re going to spend America’s last dollars and then some on billion-and-trillion government extravaganzas, then –

    2. Harden our electrical grid to withstand a major solar event or an EMP attack.

    3. Fully invest in developing our domestic supply of fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Stop funding Middle Eastern and South American maniacs. And while we’re at it, triple the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

    4. Invest in a Manhattan Project-style mission to develop commercially practical fusion power…

    – The list goes on, but before any of it, first things first:

    1. Build a WALL — not a “fence,” a WALL — on the border with Mexico. If it can’t be seen from orbit with the naked eye, you’re not doing it right.

31. #31
    On February 12th, 2012 at 11:50 am, happyscrapper said:

    On February 12th, 2012 at 10:13 am, Regulus said:

    BINGO!! We know that is the only way we are going to survive as a nation. It won’t happen on Oblobbo’s watch. We MUST get control of our Federal Government!! They are doing everything they can to destroy us and will succeed if we don’t take back our government.

    I truly believe that November 6th will be the last stand.

32. #32
    On February 12th, 2012 at 12:30 pm, greenfairie said:

    I haven’t set foot in Mexico since 2007 and won’t go back, not even to relatively safe places like Cabo. If they knew where I worked, my head would be on the street somewhere.

    I went to Puerto Vallarta in 2006 and even then you could see all of these large, beautiful homes on the oceanfront cliffs with spectacular views of the Pacific. My my mom asked a cab driver about who lives in those houses and the guy said, “Drug cartel people.”

33. #33
    On February 12th, 2012 at 1:36 pm, eCurmudgeon said:

    On February 12th, 2012 at 10:13 am, Regulus said:

    1. Build a WALL — not a “fence,” a WALL — on the border with Mexico. If it can’t be seen from orbit with the naked eye, you’re not doing it right.

    Actually, there needs to be two walls, 100 yards apart with a zone of land mines between them.

34. #34
    On February 12th, 2012 at 2:36 pm, Apostic said:

    TJ is a green zone? Really?

35. #35
    On February 12th, 2012 at 6:07 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I don’t do the Third World.

36. #36
    On February 12th, 2012 at 6:22 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    There’s no need to go to Mexico, anywhere you turn in this country, you’ll find a corner of it.

    Bush reduced border and interior enforcement following 9/11. The invasion is intentional.

    We were done in 2008 when we had a choice between the author of the last two amnesty bills and a marxist fraud.

    Romney/Obama 2012!

37. #37
    On February 12th, 2012 at 6:23 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    On February 12th, 2012 at 6:07 pm, Flyoverman said:
    I don’t do the Third World.

    I don’t either, but my local Walmart looks like it lately.

38. #38
    On February 12th, 2012 at 6:38 pm, paulie said:

    No desire to visit Mexico. I was there in Matzalan in the late 90′s and it was nothing special. We just enjoyed it being a lot warmer than WI. Like somebody else mentioned there are plenty of great places to visit in the good old U S of A.

39. #39
    On February 12th, 2012 at 11:06 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    my local Walmart looks like it lately.

    My local Walmarts, there are three nearby, all look like that. They have for years.

40. #40
    On February 13th, 2012 at 12:31 am, BlackFlag55 said:

    Master Wu says, “There would be no drug if there were no market. There would be no gangs were there no demand. The problem is not drugs or gangs but demand.”

    Since Conservatives I know would not touch a drug for any reason, guess who’s to blame for this 3rd World Cesspool Armed and Dangerous border threat?

    Liberals.

    Like everything else.

    Wherever they go, death, pestilence, immorality and disease follow.

41. #41
    On February 13th, 2012 at 9:54 am, LOBOMAN said:

    I can’t think of one reason to go to that sheethole of a country!

42. #42
    On February 13th, 2012 at 10:08 am, NC BLUE said:

    Hey Cancun looks safe–so all the Spring Breakers can go there and get wasted and spend those greenbacks. Perhaps Eric the RED Holder could travel to a few of the red zones since Fast and Furious was no big deal–Boehner too.

43. #43
    On February 13th, 2012 at 4:20 pm, Skyghost said:

    Yes, there is plenty to see in the beautiful U.S. of A. Every year we take our kids somewhere in this country and show them either historical sights, or the beauty which is everywhere…Grand Canyon, the battlefields,the National Parks, Mount Rushmore, The war memorials in D.C. etc. I used to scuba in Cozumel a couple times a year, and that’s about the safest place in Mexico, but never again. Plus, I want the kids to see these things before the ACLU has them banned.