[The Hill] Retired Gen. Russel Honoré on Friday said that it is unusual that the Trump administration would dispatch around 800 active duty troops to the U.S. southern border amid news of the migrant Central American caravan moving toward the U.S. border.
"What's unusual about this mission is the White House insisted on using active duty troops as opposed to using the authority they already have on the national guard that already there," Honoré told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."
Honoré noted that it is not unusual to use the National Guard at the border and said that active duty personnel used to be sent to the border for surveillance purposes.
"It is not unusual to use the military. Both President Bush and President Obama sent additional National Guard to assist the border patrol when we had a high number of immigration issues, and people coming to the border, and they were again, used in a support role, and in some cases they even built fences," he said.
"Until the late nineties, active duty troops used to use to go and help the border patrol with surveillance," he said. "Then there was an incident where a young man was killed on a patrol that was going on, and since then the Pentagon pulled away from that mission to have any active military doing surveillance in the true use of military tactics along the border."
President Trump on Thursday tweeted that he is bringing out the military to secure this U.S.-Mexico border.
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Who has more experience with border security than the Regular Army, USMC, or USAF? Pick a border, any border.
Send in the Regulars as the Advance Party (ADVON) operational, logistical, medical and tactical planners, then fill in the gaps with national rotating guard or reserve as requirements dictate.
"Leadership in Action" General, "Leadership in Action."
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I know some National Guard weekend warriors who thought 4-5 tours in a war zone unusual. Our military is primarily defensive and it would be foolhardy to not have learned the lessons of decades of ME/SE Asian warfare and use the same surveillance/tech for protecting our own borders. Hopefully the Federal Police are taking them in an orderly fashion to detention centers to collect DNA and weed out the criminals, traffickers, and separate the true families from the human shields. All need screened for infectious diseases and kept from being human bioweapons. Military age males are without excuse if they continue. It is not our moral or legal responsibility for non-citizens of the USA. Mexico cannot afford to not cooperate with US.
To share some other common sense suggestions from other patriots:
Build a non-lethal "non-wall". You don't need to build physical wall anymore, just put up active denial sonic and microwave crowd control devices. Drone surveillance and you're are done in about two weeks.
Bingo! Active Denial is the only way and has enough standoff distance to prevent them coming through and to remain on Mexico’s soil.
I hope President Trump has been made aware of this option if not call, or tweet your suggestions to him ASAP you could change history. Consider Generals Kelly and Mattis really want open borders and are globalists.
If they have been warned then who's fault is that?
Drop leaflets warning them of that which awaits them. Use bullhorns for the illiterate. If they cross over the border after being told not to we have every right to shoot to kill. Put it this way, if somebody comes to your house and stands at the fence and you tell him not to come in and he does, you have every right to shoot him. Same thing here. NO TRESPASSING. VIOLATERS WILL BE SHOT ON SITE.
Tax remittances from those already here to help pay for it. Suspend immigration laws, execute an executive order that no amnesty will be granted to any member of the caravan and no member of the caravan will ever be eligible for citizenship, a green card, amnesty, asylum etc. Any pregnant woman must not be allowed in until after the baby is born. She must accept a 5 year birth control shot.
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This is the media/NeverTrumpers getting hung up on 'unusual'. Having caravans of 'migrants' invading your county is the unusual part.
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This is the media/NeverTrumpers getting hung up on 'unusual'. Having caravans of 'migrants' invading your county is the unusual part.
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Having a mass migration, people coming in a crowd of "hundreds to thousands" qualifies, like an ancient Volswanderung certainly merits an "unusual" response -- like mustering the Legions to the Frontier.
[The Federalist] Many people have long suspected that governments sometimes attempt to indoctrinate their people to increase the government’s own power and influence. Unfortunately, ambitious governments will not stop at merely controlling what their people can do; they must control their minds.
Indoctrination happens through many channels‐entertainment, speeches, and censorship‐‐but its main instrument is the school system. Teachers have a captive audience of malleable young minds for several years. They may not have figured out how to make students smart and productive, but they can at least make them submissive and obedient.
Judging by results and from most people’s experience, indoctrination is not only a problem with rogue regimes, but also a distinctly American problem. However, here it is difficult to determine the extent of indoctrination, how it works, or even if it does work.
Most Americans might receive a mediocre education, but this education may be so mediocre that the intended brainwashing might not even be effective. True, some will feel the Bern and join the Socialist Party, and others will become feminists and beat up women who protest abortion. A precious few may even become conservatives. Most, though, seem content to remain disengaged from politics, religion, and most ideas in general, and allow the mainstream media to think for them.
Far from resembling a unified collective, society has become more polarized and tribal. Some might see this as evidence of the failure of indoctrination, and the insuppressible human desire for freedom and justice, but they are mistaken. Indoctrination does work, and it is one the main reasons America is so divided.
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An academic friend of mine who came here as a refugee from Bosnia has no patience with this particular form of modern American nonsense as well. She started writing for National Review last year. Here’s her maiden essay:
[Townhall] Andrew Gillum, Democratic candidate for Florida governor and Tallahassee mayor, told the "Pod Save America" podcast earlier this week that police have already gone too far if they have to reach for a weapon.
"I'm for police accountability," Gillum said, "but law enforcement society cannot work and, quite frankly, law enforcement can’t do its job if it does not have a trusting relationship with the community."
"At the time that a law enforcement official has to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a taser, then they have already have to go too far by their very presence," he argued. "By the very trust that they inspire in community and in society, they are supposed to be able to bring most situations to heel."
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So how will that reduce crime. Inquiring minds want to know. Next he will advocate closing all prisons as that action of incarceration has gone too far as well.
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"By the very trust that they inspire in community and in society, they are supposed to be able to bring most situations to heel."
Cop: OK, Deshawn put down the loot|step away from the body|get off that woman. Yer under arrest!
Deshawn: You caught me fair and square, copper. I'll go quietly.
Witness: He is a very naughty boy. I'll be happy to testify
Yeah, I'd like to live in that world, but we don't. In Chicago, somebody gets shot every 3 hours and the homicide clearance rate is 15%. Makes me think the community could use a little work first before you disarm the cops.
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Spoke to a federal prison worker who being on vacation in NE DC( with his wife in their second home). She has agreed to sell their property. They awoke to the sound of gunfire. Eight shots into their bedroom with one going into their mattress. Police were called but they declined to remove the 44 magnum bullet. Drug turf war they said. No arrests. No suspects.
[Hot Air] For some strange reason ‐ could it be the booming economy? ‐ Americans have decided times are pretty good this year and they intend to spend rather robustly on holiday gifts.
Bad news perhaps for January when the credit card bills start arriving. But it’s quite a contrast from the eight long stagnant years of the Obama administrations.
It’s also super news right now for the country’s retailers to cap another year of positive growth when the economy expanded at a 3.5 percent annualized rate in the third quarter and unemployment dropped to historic lows.
It’s quite possible the widespread positive feelings entering the 2018 holiday season have something to do with President Trump’s economic and regulatory policies along with the major tax-cut legislation the GOP Congress passed and Trump signed last holiday season.
As we described here, out on the midterm campaign trail Barack "Me-Me-Me" Obama is trying to claim credit for the booming Trump economy. He wants to elect Democrats who promise to block Trump’s future tax cuts and economic policies, to rescind those already in place and quite likely attempt the impeachment of this president.
In less than two weeks, voters ‐ at least those who bother to go to the polls to look out for themselves ‐ will decide whose vision of economic growth they like: The one they’re living under now with a Republican Congress or the darker ones Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer offer.
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Wow. Too long for a Trump ad. Too bad, 'cuz it'd be good.
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From a Southern California native - truer words were never spoken. Every home trade you can imagine - HVAC, windows, plumbing, etc - is dominated by Hispanics. White/Asian kids are supposed to go to college don't you know.
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[news24] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis have found an area of agreement within their conflicting views of migration.
Standing together at a news conference in Prague on Friday, Babis and Merkel said the European Union should strike deals with African countries like one with Turkey that helped slow the arrival of refugees and migrants.
Merkel said the deal that involved the EU paying Turkey to look after Syrian refugees "has been working well and could be an example to follow."
The Czech Republic is one of four Central European countries that rejected a European Union plan to assign members a required number of asylum-seekers to accept.
Hungary, Poland and Slovakia were the other countries against the redistribution plan. Germany was among the EU countries to criticize their position.
[National Review] Europeans are free to say only what the courts let them.
When he was 50, the prophet of Islam took as his wife Aisha, who was then six or seven. The marriage was consummated when Aisha was nine.
This is not a smear. It is an accurate account of authoritative Islamic scripture. (See, e.g., Sahih-Bukhari, Vol. 5, Book 58, Nos. 234‐236.) Yet it can no longer safely be discussed in Europe, thanks to the extortionate threat of violence and intimidation ‐ specifically, of jihadist terrorism and the Islamist grievance industry that slipstreams behind it. Under a ruling by the so-called European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), free speech has been supplanted by sharia blasphemy standards.
The case involves an Austrian woman (identified as "Mrs. S." in court filings and believed to be Elisabeth Sabaditsch Wolff) who, in 2009, conducted two seminars entitled "Basic Information on Islam." She included the account of Mohammed’s marriage to Aisha. Though this account is scripturally accurate, Mrs. S. was prosecuted on the rationale that her statements implied pedophilic tendencies on the part of the prophet. A fine (about $547) was imposed for disparaging religion.
Mrs. S. appealed, relying on Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. That provision purports to safeguard "freedom of expression," though it works about the same way the warranty on your used car does ‐ it sounds like you’re covered, but the fine print eviscerates your protection.
Article 10 starts out benignly enough: Europeans are free "to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers." But then comes the legalese: One’s exercise of the right to impart information, you see, "carries with it duties and responsibilities." Consequently, what is called "freedom" is actually "subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties" that the authorities decide "are necessary in a democratic society," including for "public safety" and for "the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others."
[Wash Examiner] Breaking: Left-wing journalists claim, without evidence, that the suspicious package deliveries this week are directly linked to President Trump.
Journalists and TV anchors think themselves principled and virtuous by taking every opportunity to note when Trump makes an assertion "without evidence."
And yet, their devotion to evidence was nowhere to be found all week when they made explicit connections between Trump’s midterm campaign rhetoric to the strange devices that ended up at the homes and offices of high-profile Democrats, Trump critics, and CNN’s New York headquarters.
CNN on Thursday called the package recipients "Trump’s targets."
Wait, are they "Trump’s targets," or are they Trump’s critics?
That’s the difference between a person who Trump singled out and a person who singled out Trump, like when Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., to whom two of the packages were addressed, said that liberals should publicly "harass" administration officials.
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.
[The Federalist] Many people have long suspected that governments sometimes attempt to indoctrinate their people to increase the government’s own power and influence. Unfortunately, ambitious governments will not stop at merely controlling what their people can do; they must control their minds.
[Wash Examiner] Breaking: Left-wing journalists claim, without evidence, that the suspicious package deliveries this week are directly linked to President Trump.
