On 9 Jan 2007 21:46:11 -0800, "Don Gabacho"
wrote:

Bush wimps out as gangs cross our border
Newsday Editorial
James P. Pinkerton
January 9, 2007

So American troops are surging in Iraq, and withdrawing along our own
border. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, say the journalistic
and political elites.

Yet, before anything else, what we need is a surge of troops on the
U.S.-Mexican border, which is a lot closer to home than Baghdad. On
Jan. 6 The Arizona Republic reported that a small team of National
Guard troops "abandoned their post near the border southwest of Tucson
as four gunmen approached from Mexico."

American authorities assured the newspaper that this was all fine, all
part of the plan. It seems that the National Guard, which President
George W. Bush sent to the border with great fanfare last year, is on
guard only to perform administrative and logistical functions - it's
not supposed to do any actual border enforcement.

In the supposed-to-be-soothing words of Border Patrol spokesman Mario
Martinez, "There was no attack" against the Americans in uniform. Why
not? "In order to not be detected, they moved to a safer location,"
Martinez cooed. "That's exactly what we want them to do." That's one
way to avoid confrontation: Just keep retreating. Works for a while.

Amazingly, this border incident, or lack thereof, has received almost
no attention from the Mainstream Media. The New York Times, for
example, has not mentioned it. The Washington Post ran a 42-word item
on the Tucson non-incident, but the Powertown paper doesn't really care
about border security, either.

Indeed, the Post made its journalistic priorities manifest yesterday
when it published a 1,500-word multiple-handkerchief story on illegal
immigrants who don't get lawyers as they face deportation hearings. The
clear point of the article was to encourage more lawyers to take up the
cases of illegals on a pro bono basis. And no doubt some lawyers will
do just that, confident they will be earning brownie points with the
Post and its readership.

But in fairness to the Mainstream Media, the journo-establishment would
cover this Mexican invasion of America - the larger story, of course,
is the millions of illegals traveling across the border every year - if
it were ever to get the signal that the American government took this
undercovered onslaught seriously.

In a different era the American commander in chief took seriously his
constitutional oath to "preserve, protect and defend" these United
States. In 1916, after the terroristic forces of Pancho Villa crossed
into American territory, President Woodrow Wilson sent John "Black
Jack" Pershing and the U.S. Army into Mexico on a punitive retaliatory
expedition. That's how a country convinces outsiders that it cares
about its own national sovereignty. But, in contrast to the 28th
president, the 43rd president seems to be preoccupied with Iraq, not
Arizona; extra U.S. troops are going to go 7,000 miles from home, even
as our own homes are unguarded.

Indeed, Bush and the Democrats who now control Congress seem to agree
that there should be less enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border. So
in 2007 we can expect a cancelation of the once-promised border wall.
We also can expect a guest-worker/slow-motion-amnesty deal. Bush and
his new best friend forever, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), are eager for
such a deal to show the D.C. establishment that they can work with
Democrats at least some of the time - even as they seek to jam the Dems
on Iraq.

But, of course, both parties in Washington are experts at the game of
selling out ordinary Americans - in the name of foggy abstractions such
as "bipartisanship" and "nation building."

What Americans on the southwestern border need is political leadership
that will stand up for them, not ignore them. And soon enough, as the
immigration invasion continues, all Americans will figure out that
they, too, need border protection.

And one day, even the Mainstream Media will realize that the impending
demographic transformation and dissolution of America is a big story.
Maybe.

Three cheers for Uncle Sap and the Washington DC scumbags!

Max