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Welcome to our nightmare

Submitted June 19, 2005 - 1:50 am by Bill Conroy
The militarization of the border is full throttle ahead.

The Houston Chronicle reports the following:

Gov. Rick Perry is beefing up law enforcement along the violence-plagued border with about 100 extra state troopers and $1.2 million for communications equipment.

"It will be a sizable enough contingent that the people who live there will see the increased security," said Kathy Walt, Perry's spokeswoman.

Two law enforcers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also told Narco News that Customs and Border Patrol inspectors along the border have been "instructed to wear their (bullet-proof) vests."

This comes on top of news, according to another DHS source, that the Mexican government sent some 1,500 troops into Nuevo Laredo earlier this month.

Add to this the forces of the narco-traffickers -- including the paramilitary Zetas, the armed henchmen and the corrupt law enforcers -- and you have an explosive mixture baking in the 100 degree-plus summer weather that has touched down in Laredo/Nuevo Laredo.

Plus, there's the continuing media hype, the yellow journalism that seeks to light the fuse so the Sunday papers will sell.

And as evidence of that, we have the San Antonio Express-News, which in its Saturday paper, put the following blurb on its front-page:

COMING SUNDAY

MEXICO'S MOST WANTED

As notorious and glorified as Al Capone, the drug lord known simple as "El Chapo" directs the bloody turf war along the Mexico-U.S. border from mountain hideouts and caves.

Caves? Mountain hideouts? Osama, Osama, wherefore art thou?

The Express-News' Sunday "expose" promises to spin out the 21st Century Hearst Corp. script (remember the Spanish-American War?) for the new NARCO BORDER WAR!

I can hear the music now ... Bring in the clowns (err, tanks).

Is anybody going to have the guts in the government or mainstream media on either side of the border to be honest about how crazy all this is? The war on drugs has become the war on Laredo/Nuevo Laredo.

And do these forces of Prohibition – who seem to bask in the violence and “glorify” the syphilis-infected Capone imagery -- even really know what we're fighting over anymore? Is this war really about drugs, or is it a product of extreme capitalism -- where the dominate currency has now become bullets and blood?

One DHS official who spoke with Narco News put it this way: "Are we worried yet?"

Stay tuned....

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