BORDER NEWS WATCH 10_21_12

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"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun,
what in the hell do I have to be paranoid for."

Clint Smith, President and Director of Thunder Ranch®, is a Marine Corps veteran of two infantry and
Combined Action Platoon tours in Vietnam. His experience includes seven years as a police officer during
which he served as  head of the Firearms Training Division as well as being a S.W.A.T. member and
precision rifleman...

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JAGUARS AND BORDER SECURITY

The Cat Burglars

http://tinyurl.com/8fpcw9w
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BORDER PATROL/DHS/CBP/DEA/ATF NEWS

Another BP sector chief gone quickly

http://tinyurl.com/9vjys2r

US Border Patrol use-of-force policy scrutinized

http://tinyurl.com/92aam9n

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CARTELS

Mexican Indians Being Used by Cartels to Smuggle Drugs Across the Border

http://tinyurl.com/8suzars

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BORDER SECURITY TECHNOLOGY

Border agents relying on outdated surveillance equipment

http://tinyurl.com/9aotlyn

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TERRORISM: SMUGGLING of  NUCLEAR MATERIALS

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AMERICAN POLITICS

CNN ‘imprecise’ and worse in criticism of Romney Fast and Furious response

http://tinyurl.com/8v7dved

Has Romney moved to the center on immigration?

http://tinyurl.com/92zhgxn

ARCHIVE

Why Obama Will Lose All Three Debates

http://tinyurl.com/8zglxsq

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­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­"If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin',
if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."


Clint Smith, President and Director of Thunder Ranch®, is a Marine Corps veteran of two infantry and
Combined Action Platoon tours in Vietnam. His experience includes seven years as a police officer during
which he served as  head of the Firearms Training Division as well as being a S.W.A.T. member and
precision rifleman...

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MARS ROVER CURIOSITY NEWS

Yum! Curiosity rover eats Mars dirt, finds odd bright stuff

http://tinyurl.com/9jpk7v6
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ARCHIVE: PREVIOUS POSTS

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Drug Smugglers Are Driving Across the Arizona Border in Broad Daylight

http://tinyurl.com/d5fu9ve

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICA

http://tinyurl.com/cp7avne

STRATFOR: Evolution and Trends in Terrorism Tradecraft

http://tinyurl.com/9ncu6qb

STRATFOR: TERRORISM TRADECRAFT

http://tinyurl.com/96cbqx5

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 MEXICO: NEWS FROM SEDENA

The Scope Of The War

http://tinyurl.com/dynv3s2

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STRATEGY PAGE

http://tinyurl.com/92j3r

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"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is
hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people
against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to
govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but
they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster

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 ANALYSES:

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Analysis: How to fix a broken border: Disrupting smuggling at its source

http://tinyurl.com/8bs4kuw

Comment: Terry Goddard needs to update his info under his subtitle: Why Not a Wall ?

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FAST AND FURIOUS ARCHIVE: PREVIOUS POSTS

Filmmaker creates full-blown re-enactment of Brian Terry’s Fast and Furious murder (VIDEO)

http://tinyurl.com/99q4m7o

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Fast and Furious

http://tinyurl.com/9hvx7lg

Key Findings in OIG Fast and Furious Report

http://tinyurl.com/bq8b4zn

THE DOJ OIG REPORT: A REVIEW OF ATF's OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS
AND RELATED MATTERS

http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/2012/s1209.pdf

FAST AND FURIOUS WEAPONS RECOVERIES:

http://tinyurl.com/ck37sel

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GRAPHIC: Patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border:

http://tinyurl.com/8do3gsd
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Graphic: Mexican drug cartels' spreading influence:

http://tinyurl.com/7flqqnb

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BORDER PATROL STRATEGIC PLAN

2012-2016: BORDER PATROL STRATEGIC PLAN- THE MISSION: PROTECT AMERICA

http://tinyurl.com/csqxply

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"The tragic history of civilian disarmament cries a warning against any systematic
attempts to render innocent citizens ill-equipped to defend themselves from tyrant
terrorists, despots or oppressive majorities," - Daniel Schmutter

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SELECTED WEBSITES OF INTEREST

JPS BROWN

http://www.jpsbrown-horseman.com/works.htm

http://www.jps-brown.com/Biopage.html
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MICHAEL CUTLER

http://www.andmagazine.com/category/talk_border.html
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS

http://nafbpo.org
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SOUTHERN ARIZONA CATTLEMEN'S WEEKLY

http://paper.li/sacpaaz/1331153423#
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HUMAN AND DRUG TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT MATTERS

www.Need2No.US
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NEWS AND DISCUSSION OF U.S./MEXICO BORDER ISSUES:

http://groups.google.com/group/frontera-list/topics
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SELECTED BORDER NEWS & FAST AND FURIOUS POSTINGS ON SACPA WEBSITE
http://www.sacpaaz.org/news_education/fast-and-furious-gun-walking-investigation/

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BORDER ISSUES: MEXICO

http://tinyurl.com/7wrpoof
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"As a card-carrying member of the liberal media, producing this piece was an eye opening experience.
I have to admit that I saw guns as inherently evil, violence begets violence, and so on. I have learned,
however, that in trained hands, just the presence of a gun can be a real "man stopper."
I am sorry that women have had to resort to this, but wishing it wasn't so won't make it any safer out there."
- Jill Fieldstein (CBS producer, Street Stories: Women and Guns)

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SUGGESTED READING - BORDER BOOK LIST:
10 YEARS ON THE LINE: MY WAR ON THE BORDER: 2nd EDITION by Mike Ligon
  http://tinyurl.com/8evcncy
SIXTY MILES OF BORDER: AN AMERICAN LAWMAN BATTLES DRUGS ON THE MEXICAN BORDER
  by Terry Kirkpatrick

The SHADOW CATCHER
: A U.S. AGENT INFILTRATES MEXICO'S DEADLY CRIME CARTELS  by Hipolito Acosta
BOOK: Beneath the Same Sky: An Interview with Author David Ramirez  http://tinyurl.com/8sxlanv

OTHER BOOKS TO CONSIDER:
Wolves At Our Door a novel by JPS Brown  (
http://www.jpsbrown-horseman.com/works.htm)
Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
by Jose A. Rodriguez
The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpowe
r by Robert Baer
"Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery) by Marc Thiessen

NEW BOOK: No Easy Day
by Mark Owen
2010 BOOK:
Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
http://tinyurl.com/9mja6wn
 
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"If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife,
would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah." - Dr. Arthur Kellerman (famous gun grabber)