tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post7665767194578205841..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: McCraw: Terrorist threat at Texas border a myth, or, In favor of reality-based border-security policy: A minority viewGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78050849396104121522014-12-08T00:06:11.315-06:002014-12-08T00:06:11.315-06:00it's not just Texas. Sorry the the US has alwa...it's not just Texas. Sorry the the US has always created its next enemy.<br /><br />right now everyone is so busy watching ISIS not worrying about the real enemy in our land. Our Current Government!rodsmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-14087288447841702292014-12-07T07:34:02.006-06:002014-12-07T07:34:02.006-06:00I'm not sure that this will be at all helpful ...I'm not sure that this will be at all helpful to the conversation.<br /><br />Texas has a history of contributing murderers and other terrorists to conflicts beyond our borders, as well as to those within Texas.<br /><br />During the Johnson County range war in New Mexico, Texans were hired by the Principals to raid and kill. They may have been deputized to do so. Texas Rangers were hired: They left their Ranger badges at home, probably, and went into New Mexico to be hired killers. When they went back to Texas, they probably put on the Ranger badges and became LEOs again.<br /><br />Texans, including renegade LEOs, also participated in the Salt Wars near El Paso, during which many civilians were murdered.<br /><br />And of course, there were the Texans who joined with one of America's most famous and beloved aggressors -- Teddy Roosevelt -- to bring murder and mayhem to Cuba.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-28052485082084167982014-12-06T17:26:44.927-06:002014-12-06T17:26:44.927-06:00Fear (in this case fear of terrorists slipping acr...Fear (in this case fear of terrorists slipping across the border) is simply a tactic used by politicians the get the public to increase funding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-59644709754058447972014-12-06T13:29:20.550-06:002014-12-06T13:29:20.550-06:00Look for McCraw to be fired over this real soon. ...Look for McCraw to be fired over this real soon. Statements like this undermining his boss's campaign agenda aren't conducive to a long career. Especially in the politically charged atmosphere of DPS. (There was once a time when DPS wasn't so easily manipulated.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-4280065277280538362014-12-06T12:36:06.733-06:002014-12-06T12:36:06.733-06:00Arrests are a terrible way to gauge effectiveness....Arrests are a terrible way to gauge effectiveness. That's a basic Peelian principle. Measure policing by a lack of crime, not number of arrests. Are the numbers of illegals arriving increasing or not?<br /><br />In any event, the real damage being done by illegal immigration is being borne by the poor, especially poor blacks. They are being priced out of the market by people willing to work under illegal (by American standards) conditions, who don't incur the additional expense of income and social security taxes.Phelpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270536870200063563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-60909588157956937582014-12-06T08:12:13.012-06:002014-12-06T08:12:13.012-06:00Pearl Harbor, 9/11 attack on trade towers... there...Pearl Harbor, 9/11 attack on trade towers... there usually is a large amount of credible information --- UNFORTUNATELY THERE SEEMS TO BE TONS OF CREDIBLE INFORMATION AFTER A TRAGEDY OCCURS. Those who fail to learn from History are doomed to repeat it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-12136871336603015462014-12-06T03:43:49.694-06:002014-12-06T03:43:49.694-06:00You nailed that one on the head Scott. The terror...You nailed that one on the head Scott. The terrorist are not coming north on the border, but heading south. They are not being bred in terrorist camps in the Middle East, but in our own Texas prisons. <br /><br />Barrio Azteca was founded at the Coffield prison in East Texas. These Texans are responsible for the bloodshed of thousands in Mexico acting as the hit men for the drug cartels. <br /><br />People fail to realize the money from illicit drug sells is being made here in the United States where a good portion of it is kept. The Mexican drug cartels are just the middle men. Texas prison gangs are running the market on the inside and outside of the prison walls. <br /><br />Our politicians really need to pay attention on how ISIS was started. They were founded in an Iraq prison operated by AMERICANS. Texas prison gangs are more dangerous due to their geographic operations and the potential for extreme acts. Why place thousands of officers on the border, along with thousands of cameras, when these officers and cameras are needed in Texas prisons to protect inmates from being forced to join these extremist groups. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com