{"id":4153,"date":"2009-02-05T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2009-02-05T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T19:20:05","slug":"preparing-the-battlefield-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Preparing The Battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama and his supporters have said many times that, never mind that he has a history of gun-grabber appointments, positions and votes<\/a>, the new Administration has no designs on gun control.<\/p>\n

Flash back to 1994; the Clinton Administration used the “war on drugs” – a largely manufactured crisis – and “domestic terrorism” and “militias” –\u00a0 as motivation for history’s largest peacetime assaults <\/a>on the civil liberties of law-abiding American citizens, the 1994 Crime Bill <\/a>and the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, the “war on drugs” – which has killed more Americans than the Vietnam and Korean wars put together – could be solved tomorrow by decriminalizing the more harmless recreational drugs. And “Domestic terrorism”, despite a few highly-publicized incidents (and, of course, the horror of the Oklahoma City bombing) was controlled fairly handily by existing measures.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the government used both as pretext for an assault on our civil liberties.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, consider the current meltdown in Mexico; armed narcotraficante <\/em>gangs are pretty much screwing up the program throughout northern Mexico.<\/p>\n

They’re as nasty as Al Quaeda, and they’re armed like a small army:<\/a><\/p>\n

They were armed to the teeth. Their arsenal ranged from semi-automatic rifles to rocket-propelled grenades. When the smoke finally cleared and the government had prevailed, Mexican federal agents captured 540 assault rifles, more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 150 grenades, 14 cartridges of dynamite, 98 fragmentation grenades, 67 bulletproof vests, seven Barrett .50-caliber sniper rifles and a Light Anti Tank (LAW) rocket<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, when they say “assault rifles”, bear in mind that they’re talking about the real thing – the German G-3s <\/a>that arm the Mexican army (which the gangs have heavily infiltrated), and the AK-series <\/a>weapons, which come from all over the world, including many parts of Latin America, where communists funded insurgencies for many ears.<\/p>\n

But that’s not the angle the media is going with (with emphasis added):<\/p>\n

This is modern Mexico, where the leaders of the powerful drug cartels are armed to the teeth with sophisticated weapons, many of which are smuggled over the border from the United States<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s make sure we get this straight, since all too many even in the conservative media get this wrong; the narcotraficantes <\/em>have access to the real thing, the stuff that armies all over Latin America use; fully-automatic weapons, rockets, machine guns, explosives.<\/p>\n

But what is the only source mentioned in this (and, anecdotally, any) story on the subject?<\/p>\n

“Americans are understandably focused on the flow of drugs and migrants into the U.S. from Mexico,” says Andreas Peter, author of “Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide.”<\/p>\n

“But too often glossed over in the border security debate is the flow of weapons across the border into Mexico<\/strong>,” he told Foxnews.com in a statement via the Internet.<\/p>\n

The cartels are obtaining arms from America by using “straw man” buyers, who legally purchase weapons at gun shops and gun shows in the U.S. The weapons cross into Mexico, where border security is much weaker heading south of the border than it is going north.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And onward, and onward.\u00a0 Read the whole story.<\/p>\n

Look for a lot more media stories about “the flow of guns to Mexico” in the near future.<\/p>\n

And then look for a raft of gun control proposals – to stop the “flow of guns to Mexico”, naturally – to come up sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama and his supporters have said many times that, never mind that he has a history of gun-grabber appointments, positions and votes, the new Administration has no designs on gun control. Flash back to 1994; the Clinton Administration used the “war on drugs” – a largely manufactured crisis – and “domestic terrorism” and “militias” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}