To see the State Department report on Human Rights in Mexico click here
In early August, 2010, after suffering numerous and repeated ambushes, a Mexican Policia Federal unit based in Juarez was rotated out en masse following a mutiny and a very public protest at the temporary headquarters of the unit.
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The Mexican Army and Mexican Marines at the moment are the only institutions capable of reliable direct action against drug criminals. In nearly ever instance the Mexican military gets it right, and it appears from the news reports I have read to date they get it right 99 percent of the time.
What Mexico has is a professional military currently unfairly being maligned for a few mistakes, mistakes made not because of policy at any government level, but because of the human element.
You do good work, badanov. This is why the stock price of New York Times, et al keeps dropping -- the cutting edge reporting is being done out here in the blogs.
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I recall sitting in a park in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, while local cops dragged 2 gamberos - or whatever - into the local cop-shop. Repeated thuds and screams followed. That's "due process" frijole style.
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"US State Dept. . . . The Facts"
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A lawyer commenting in writing on an active case? I'd be concerned about the risk of being disbarred... If some of Rantburg's lawyers would be so kind as to comment?
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And if Barack or the wooky were friends or associates of Hassan what would be done different?
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If it walks like a duck, acts like a duck and thinks like a duck, Gentlemen, it's usually a duck
Are there any questions?
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The senator also had some choice words for the Army and the FBI, which, he alleged, were too politically correct in their handling of Hasan. He excoriated the Armys decision to keep Hasan on because he might provide greater understanding of Islam.
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Lieberman, Collins Slam DoD, FBI with buckets of HOT AIR for Fort Hood Shooting, but just like 9/11, nobody gets fired!
February 3, 2011 1:16 P.M. By Brian Bolduc
The federal government needs to drop the political correctness and call violent Islamic extremism what it is, according to a newly released report containing no recommendations or remediations on the Fort Hood shooting by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
The committees chairman and ranking member, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and Susan Collins (R., Maine), held a press conference earlier today to discuss their investigation into the November 2009 massacre. That month, U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan opened fire at the Texas base, killing thirteen people. Our reports painful conclusion is that the Fort Hood massacre could have and should have been prevented, Lieberman said. He added that senior officers employees at the Department of Defense had compelling evidence of [Hasans] growing embrace of violent Islamic extremism before the attack that should have caused them to discharge him.
For evidence, Lieberman cited two of Hasans associates at Walter Reed Medical Center, who separately referred to Hasan as a ticking time bomb. In addition, Hasan openly had suggested revenge as a defense for the 9/11 attacks, defended Osama bin Laden, and said his allegiance to his religion and community organizing was greater than his allegiance to the constitution.
Hasans words, Lieberman concluded, made him not just a ticking time bomb but a traitor ....and obviously a long-term person of interest to the FBI.
The senator also had some choice words for the Army and the FBI, which, he alleged, were too politically correct in their cockup handling of Hasan. He excoriated the Armys cover story decision to keep Hasan on because he might provide greater understanding of Islam.
The attack on 9/11 Fort Hood attack was a warning that . . . Americas enemy today is not terrorism or a particular terrorist organization or a particular religion, Lieberman said. The enemy is the political ideology of violent Islamic extremism. He affirmed that the Department of Defense can no longer subsume that reality with politically correct terms.
Collins observed that the government had full ability to deal with Hasan: You may recall that at first administration officials pointed to restrictions that they said made it difficult to conduct the investigation. What we have found is that there were no legal restrictions that hindered that investigation. And the Special Prosecuter will be appointed when?
Instead, the governments cover-up of the half-hearted effort to investigate Hasan, which it ended prematurely, was a tragedy of errors, Lieberman said.
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I'd be concerned about the risk of being disbarred.
On what grounds? The key rule in legal ethics is to zealously represent your client. Galligan is always pointing the finger somewhere else, so he's doing exactly what he's supposed to.
Pointing the finger at the White House, however . . . he's a lot closer to "meeting with an accident" than getting disbarred.
As for the substance of his claims:
1. Whatever. An uncorroborated report on an email to some guy named Rick doesn't do much for me.
2. The speedy trial clock ticks against prosecution delays, but not defense delays. I'm not keeping score, but the government doesn't get a year and half to dick around.
3. Military prosecutors are under a legal obligation to disclose all evidence to the defense, including and especially exculpatory evidence. That rule gets broken, but not frequently - and not nearly as often as defense attorneys claim.
However, if that is indeed what's going on, I'm not sure what the motivation would be, or why it would go all the way up to the White House. Nor would I waste any time speculating.
Defense attorneys talk a lot of shit to distract, deflect, buy time, etc., because it's the only weapon they have. Wheels within wheels, it's all a big conspiracy, eh? Yeah okay sure, huff and puff and blow my house down. We all know yer boy Hasan did it, he will get his day in court, and it will probably not go very well for him.
Thank you for your concern. COL Mulligan is the prosecutor for the case. The III Corps legal adviser is currently reviewing the documents
provided to him by COL Lamb and will advise the III Corps commander after careful review of the recommendations. The general's counsel will
take due diligence to review the documents as will the commander at which point a decision will be made on the question of whether to elevate the case to a general court martial and whether to try the case as a capital case as recommended by the Special Court Martial Convening Authority.
I do believe that whether to try the case as a capital case as recommended by the Special Court Martial Convening Authority. means to try this jihadist in a civilian court, the same thing Obama was trying to do with the Gitmo detainees?
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RandomJD, I am "Rick". Submitted that email exchange to Rantburg the day I submitted it to Pamela Geller. However, it did not get posted here, until Pamela wrote this article for the American Thinker.
The latest correspondence in the comment immediately above this one came from:
From : Christopher Haug - III Press Center
Date : 04/11/11 08:57
Forwarded to Christopjer Haug from PAO - Col. Benton Danner and Deputy PAO (III Corps) - LTC Andrew Mutter.
#13
Negatory. "Trying it as a capital case" means they're seeking the death penalty. It's still a court-martial, but with some additional procedural rules that come into play when the goal is to execute the accused.
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"Jihad" obligation defenses are not far fetched. It worked in a couple of Philadelphia cases, pre-9-11. Numerous "honor" defenses have worked in California's neo-"moorish" barrios. This savagery all has islamic roots.
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Submitted that email exchange to Rantburg the day I submitted it to Pamela Geller. However, it did not get posted here, until Pamela wrote this article for the American Thinker.
Kofi Uleanter4027/Rick, we discussed your submission rather intensely that day. The thing is, you submitted it under an anonymizer nym, with no link and no way to contact you for follow-up and confirmation, and no background so that we could understand your connection to defense attorney, that he would so candidly answer your emailed question.
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TW, You did the right thing by not posting that submission. I never expected it to be posted here as I knew there was not enough source information for you. It was just a heads up for you guys to keep an eye out for any stories on the subject that met posting criteria on such as the American Thinker article posted today resulting from a much more verifiable correspondence she had from me. Pamela and I have known each other for some time.
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If Nidal is sentenced to death, Obama, as Commander In Chief, will have to sign-off on the execution. Obama is a staunch opponent of the death penalty.
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Oh man. I forgot about that. Heh. Wish I could be there to see Obozo squirm when once again he cannot simply vote "present." He's gonna need intensive golf therapy and a lavish island vacation after he flips the coin on that one!
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Well, with any luck (for Obama) the trial and all the appeals will delay the final result until after January 2013, so he will be out of office and can punt it to his successor.
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Obama is a staunch opponent of the death penalty.
Except if the one being killed in an innocent unborn child (or one who survived an abortion.
[Asharq al-Aswat] It seems that the "Wikileaks" documents have begun to have a positive effect in Leb, as today we see a media battle taking place between the Shiite Amal movement, and the Iranian sponsored Hezbullies. This is a positive development because, although we've yet to see them reach a consensus, we are witnessing them settle scores amongst themselves.
In the "Wikileaks" documents, it was revealed that during interviews with the Americans, a number of MPs and ministers belonging to the Development and Liberation Bloc, affiliated with Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Knobby Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... had shown indignation towards Hezbullies, its weaponry, its domination of Leb, and they even talked about Hezbullies's apparent subordination to Iran. The documents also revealed the restlessness of Berri's men with regards to Syria, saying that if a clear arrangement was not reached with Syria to deal with the International Tribunal for the Assassination of Rafik Hariri, then Hezbullies would turn Leb into a living hell by resorting to car booms and terrorist attacks. To make matters worse, the sources claimed that Syria was also capable of mobilizing its agents in Leb, namely the Paleostinians, and its sleeper cells, in order to do the same thing!
These are important words, and they must be taken seriously, rather than just be labeled as propaganda. This is for the simple reason that Hezbullies itself is taking these words seriously - it has called for the immediate resignation of each political figure quoted in the Wikileaks documents. Berri's group, like Hezbullies, have already relied much on the Wikileaks documents to damage their opponents like Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. and Fouad Siniora, let alone other Arab countries, so they cannot deem them to be credible here, and false there. How could Hezbullies, or the Amal movement, claim that the documents are true when they serve their interests, and false if they do not? Furthermore, these documents are not the first, but there have been other documents revealing that followers of General Aoun have talked in the same vein about Hezbullies!
Through these Wikileaks documents, which quoted followers of Nabih Berri and revealed their opinions of Hezbullies, the danger of its weaponry, and its affiliation to Iran, we can deduce that the so-called moderate Arab camp has been, and still is, correct in its view of the gravity of Hezbullies and its weapons, the seriousness of its alliance with Syria, and the role they play in Leb. This is not the opinion of the moderates only, but also the view of Hezbullies's allies in the Amal movement, as the documents show.
It is true that the events in our region today, and the position of Iran and Hezbullies towards them, specifically their stances towards what is happening in Bahrain and Syria, have exposed Tehran and Hezbullies completely. While they criticize the Bahraini government, in support of the Shiites there, we find them supporting the regime in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , which is suppressing the Syrian demonstrators with violence, even depicting the demands of the Syrians as being fostered externally. Yet more importantly here are the Wikileaks documents, and what they reveal about Hezbullies's allies in Leb. They reveal that everyone, whether in Leb or the wider region, or even in the Shiite Amal movement, is in agreement about the affiliation of Hezbullies towards Iran, and the danger of its weaponry, and this is highly important!
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He forgot Zinn. How many books did that commie bastard sell to the schools?
According to Zinn and his sycophantic teacher fans, nothing the US did or does can ever be noble or right.
Therefore, slavery/abolition cannot be allowed to have any influence on the Civil War or its aftermath.
And many Iraqis welcomed some of my friends as liberators. That was before the insurgents started killing those who did.
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1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
There's going to a lot of 'opinion' in the next few days upon the anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter.
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FTA: Take a tour of a Civil War battlefield today, and it's difficult to connect the terrifying experience of an average Civil War soldier -- described above from various historical accounts -- with the tranquil historic sites where we now snap pictures today.
It's only difficult if you (1) failed in reading comprehension in grade school (2) have a dead imagination and (3) lack empathy.
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it's difficult to connect the terrifying experience of an average Civil War soldier
I'm pretty sure this photo of a Union POW who survived the Andersonville camp is easy to find at that National Cemetery. It may be difficult to behold, but it is not difficult to connect.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, under God, with liberty and justice for all.
The Civil War is over, and as long as liberty and justice are assured, it can never happen again.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
