Confronting Lawless Border Chaos

Since last October there have been 187 assaults on US Border Patrol agents in the San Diego sector alone. What is that, about six months? That would make it about one attack per day on those American authorities who are enforcing American laws and trying to protect American citizens.

Now stretch that number out across the rest of the southern border and ask yourself how many agents need to suffer, how many attacks have to happen before we begin seriously confronting the lawlessness and chaos that drug and human-traffickers are laying on our plates?

Recently a wire cable was found strung across a patrol road by murderous smugglers that targeted border patrol agents on four-wheelers. Had the wire not been spotted, it certainly could have decapitated our law enforcement officials.

Yet groups such as the American Friends Service Committee, and their spokesperson, Pedro Rios, say that we "need to hear the other side of the story as well." This group monitors law enforcement activity and documents suspected human rights abuses by law enforcement officials.

Once again we see an example of a blind eye given to repeated, habitual, gross and violent violations of US law while the microscope of scrutiny is laid upon those who are confronting the lawlessness. It is the same 'protect-the-criminal' mentality that not too long ago sent Border Patrol Agents to jail who shot an armed convicted drug-smuggler.

The violence is increasing on our borders. The risk is greater for our agents. Bad, ruthless criminals are waging war against our borders and against those who enforce our laws. They are getting more bold in their quest to exert their own self-serving agenda on our border as opposed to American agenda and American law. They want their rules to control the border, not our own, and they will use deadly force to accomplish their agenda.

Look, either we have a boundary on our southern border or we don't. Frankly, if it is not a boundary all the time, it is no boundary at all; ask any cow near a hole in the fence about that. If border lawlessness and chaos is not confronted, and in measure relative to the threat, then it is no longer our border, it belongs to the criminals.

Either you fill the moat around your castle with crocodiles or you drain the water out, for it does not do you any good without them. Either your moat is filled with crocodiles or the castle will not be yours for long.

Those who would point fingers at border patrol agents instead of the criminals should understand that if it weren't for the current limited enforcement of law, that the criminals which such fools protect would storm across en masse and likely as not victimize these very whiners.

Enough of letting the tail wag the dog. Get the crocs. Warn everybody that there are indeed crocodiles in the water. Then don't listen to such people as Pedro Rios when would-be criminals start getting bit. Crossing a moat filled with crocodiles is stupid and can be painful. Perhaps they shouldn't try to do it.

But until and unless there are crocodiles in our moat, law-breakers will continue to try. And if they succeed, it is no longer our border, it is theirs; we have ceded it to the more powerful, wicked men because we didn't have the courage to confront them with strength enough to deter. Our timidity will have been a bigger part of our character than our strength; and we will have lost.

The taller lawlessness stands, the taller in strength we ourselves need to stand to prevent it from overwhelming us and conquering us. People who don't understand this are, always have been, and always will be simple patsies for our prowling, conniving opponents. They are not leaders, they are spineless lackeys who deny a real threat, to their and our peril, because they are unwilling to confront a real threat.

Crocs don't have that problem.


K.O. (Knock Out)