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April 22, 2009

Conservatives and Veterans Considered Extremists. by Melissa Pehle-Hill

I look at the title of this article and I wonder how far things have gone when our own Department of Homeland Security would issue a report to all law enforcement agencies calling conservatives and veterans "extremists" and threats to national security just because we disagree with her and Obama on the issues.

Since when did it become a crime to disagree with your President? It certainly wasn’t the case over the last 8 years or we wouldn’t have had to listen to the constant attacks on President Bush.

So, what makes Napolitano think that ostracizing such a large part of Americans is going to help this administration? Do you think their plan is to make it illegal to disagree with the usurper presently holding the office of the President? Something tells me that won’t work because they have obviously forgotten one thing the rest of us haven’t—the United States of America is a nation comprised of people who are willing to fight for freedom! And the best part is that in this case we can win the fight without firing a shot. All we have to do is exercise our right to vote and replace them—then we have won.

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April 06, 2009

RE: The Declaration of Independence Has Been Repealed

I found this post on Dick Morris's blog and could not help but comment.

On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London. The joint communiqué essentially announces a global economic union with uniform regulations and bylaws for all nations, including the United States. Henceforth, our SEC, Commodities Trading Commission, Federal Reserve Board and other regulators will have to march to the beat of drums pounded by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a body of central bankers from each of the G-20 states and the European Union.

The mandate conferred on the FSB is remarkable for its scope and open-endedness. It is to set a “framework of internationally agreed high standards that a global financial system requires.” These standards are to include the extension of “regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments, and markets…[including] systemically important hedge funds.”

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April 05, 2009

Patriot's Pipeline Radio Show April 10th update

Our guests this Friday Night will be Mr. Lloyd Marcus and Mr. Britt Craig.

10 until 11 pm eastern Mr Lloyd Marcus "Tea Party Anthem"

 Singer, Songwriter, Fine Artist, Writer & Proud to be an American Black Conservative
Lloyd Marcus, Songwriter, Singer, and Patriot


Marcus believes Conservatism is compassionate and is the true path to achieving the AmericanDream. Liberalism weakens the human spirit by encouraging people to view themselves as victims.

National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color
Marcus is president of the NAACPC. Mission Statement:Support courageous conservatives of color fighting on the front line. Educate Americans to the  truth that conservatism is essential for their success and the preservation of our great nation.
www.lloydmarcus.net

11 until Midnight eastern Mr. Britt Craig from the Campo Minutemen
 Britt Craig is a leading voice within the Campo Minutemen as the lead the all volunteer coalition of citizens defending our Southern Border.
Britt Craig, Campo Minutemen
 www.campominutemen.com
Join us as we talk about the work the Minutemen are doing as well as the problems we have with Illegal Immigrants flooding in from Mexico.

March 30, 2009

AMERICA’S NEW ANTHEM -----“WHAT HAVE WE DONE” by Gen. Jim Cash

After all the warnings, hand wringing, and savage talk, America chose to do what would never be thought possible only a few years ago---elect a far-left President and Congress hell-bent on "CHANGING" this country into a Socialist State. Sometimes, I wonder how many Americans understand what this really means. My thoughts initially were to give the new President a chance, and not make snap decisions based on out-of-control rhetoric during the campaign. Well, that worked well, and now we are beginning to see that the President is doing exactly what he promised during the campaign, and NO ONE LISTENED!!! The masses were overwhelmed with silver-tongued, no-logic promises that most knew could never be fulfilled.

Soon, the American people will have witnessed enough of this madness. They are a smart lot, and when they have seen enough they will start to ask the big question, "WHAT HAVE WE DONE"? However, the real question will be, "IS IT TOO LATE"?

I do not wish to dwell on the multitude of mistakes that have already been made during the first 60 days of this administration, both foreign and domestic. It must be obvious even to the fiscally irresponsible far-left that the nation is heading unimpeded toward bankruptcy. We hear the President speak often of the deficit. He is not talking about the national debt. He is talking about the rate in which we are increasing the debt. So when he says he will cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, he is actually saying he will cut the rate at which the debt is increasing by the end of his first term. That is absolutely not good enough. Even Bill Clinton, with the help of a Republican Congress, showed a surplus in deficit spending for a short period. That is accomplished only when you have a growing economy. Now equate that to our economic situation today, and it is obvious this is just another fabrication conjured up by this administration. AMERICANS WAKE UP before it is too late. It is highly probably that the debt is not repayable even as we speak, and it is growing at the most alarming rate in history. Just the annual interest on the current debt is larger than our annual military budget.

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March 15, 2009

Quo Warranto: CItizen's Open Letter to Jeffrey Taylor

Following is my letter to US Attorney Jeffery Taylor.  I wrote this letter to encourage him to look into the legitimacy of Barack Obama's Right to occupy the Office of the President.

Here are a couple of links where you can get the background information on the Constitutional Precedent that enables Mr. Jeffery Taylor to demand that Mr. Obama provide a vault copy of his Birth Certificate.

I encourage each of you to write Mr. Taylor and express your desire to end the confusion surrounding Barack Hussain Obama.  Feel free to use my letter as template to write your own.  Remember to be polite and respectful, he is our Public Servant we are empowered as Citizens, to contact him and should do so with civility!

 Following is my letter:

United States Attorney Jeffery Taylor

US Attorney's Office

555 4th Street

Washington, DC 20530

Dear United States Attorney Jeffery Taylor :

As a citizen of the United States of America and person who deeply loves my country, I have a deep concern about a storm that is brewing within the ranks of our Military.  It has come to my attention that many members of our Armed Services are conflicted when it comes to the legitimacy of Mr. Barack Obama’s presidency.  The oath taken by each and every member of our Armed Forces includes the phrase “to uphold the Constitution and to obey the orders of the President of the United States of America”. 

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The Wolf is at the Door

http://roar-usa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-wolf-is-at-the-door

The blog format I am using here does not alloe for embedded video so please follow the above link to another one of my blog posts.

David

March 12, 2009

Hillary Repeating Past Mistakes: The Ultimate - and Still Unforeseen - Dangers of a Palestinian State

Subject: By my Friend Pro Lou Beres Purdue

Hillary Repeating Past Mistakes: The Ultimate - and Still Unforeseen - Dangers of a Palestinian State

By: Louis René Beres

Date: Wednesday, March 11 2009

In Washington, there has been little learned from lessons of the past.

On March 3, Hillary Clinton said that the Obama Administration will "vigorously pursue" the creation of a Palestinian state. Further, continued the Secretary of State, movement toward Palestinian independence now seems "inescapable."

But, for the United States "Palestine" would represent just another enemy state. Although fragmented by endless civil war, Fatah and Hamas would both seek closer ties to Iran. Very quickly, there would also be substantial collaborations with al-Qaeda - ties that are now already being fashioned in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

How soon we forget. On September 11th, celebrations were ecstatic all over Gaza and West Bank, in areas controlled by Hamas and Fatah. Today, nothing has changed. America, despite its consistently misplaced largesse, is still widely loathed in all Palestinian territories.

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March 11, 2009

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March 06, 2009

Funding Palestinian Terror by Thomas McInerney and Paul Vallely

March 3, 2009
Funding Palestinian terror
 
By
 
Thomas McInerney/Paul Vallely
 
The United States plans to offer more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel's offensive operation and to strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, U.S. officials said on Monday. The money, which requires U.S. congressional approval, will be distributed through the seemingly dysfunctional and inefficient United Nations and other bodies and not via the Radical Islamist Group   Hamas, which rules Gaza. Hamas seems to have a unique way to get to any money that comes into Gaza, doesn’t it?

Ever since the outgoing Kadima government ended Operation Cast Lead in Gaza on January 20, the Palestinians have steadily stepped-up their missile war against Israel. Over the weekend the IDF acknowledged that six weeks later, daily Palestinian missile barrages against Israel have returned to pre-Operation Cast Lead levels. Moreover, the IDF warned that over the past six weeks, Hamas and its sister terror groups have rebuilt their missile arsenals both through imports of Iranian arms from Egypt and through local production lines. They have also brought in fairly advanced anti-aircraft missiles capable of shooting down IAF helicopters.  On Monday morning, representatives from 80 countries and international organizations convened in Sharm el-Sheikh to pledge billions of dollars in aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza. The US, represented by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pledged $900 million in assistance. WE DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY!
But for the United States, “Palestine” would represent just another enemy state. Although fragmented by endless civil war, Fatah and Hamas would both seek closer ties to Iran. Very quickly, there would also be substantial collaborations with al-Qaeda, ties that are now already being fashioned in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Neither the United States nor Israel have direct contact with the Islamist Hamas movement which runs Gaza and remains formally committed to the destruction of the Jewish state. "The package is still shaping up," one official said, when asked for specifics over how the money would be spent and a breakdown of old and new funding. In December, the former Bush administration said it would give $85 million to the U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.


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March 04, 2009

What Rights Will Be Left? by Melissa Pehle-Hill

I keep hearing about the different attacks on our rights being perpetuated by the Obama Administration.  And the rights he seems set on stripping from us are the very ones that our Founding Fathers believed to be of utmost importance, evidenced by their placement as the First and Second Amendments.

Did not the First Amendment give us the right to speak our minds and the right to gather together to share ideas?  Does not the First Amendment protect your right to worship and the time and place of your choosing, or not if you prefer?  Doesn’t the First Amendment even guarantee the right of a free press as well?  I should think the media would cherish this Amendment first and foremost—at least if they like to speak other than that which is approved by the government.  What do they really think the Fairness Doctrine is about?  The government wanting to restrict speech that they disagree with is what the Obama Administration considers to be fair.  But to who is it fair?  Why should anyone consider a one sided argument fair?  My dad always told me not to make a decision with only one side of the story—so why would they expect the entire American populace to do exactly that?  Should my dad be in Washington as an advisor since none of their parents must have taught them this fundamental principle?  In the words of President Harry Truman, “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” 

And then there’s the Second Amendment!  The right to keep and bear arms which springs from a very basic right to protect ourselves and our families.  Why would Obama’s administration want to attack our right to protect our families?  Thomas Jefferson said, “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”  Is that possibly what Obama and his cronies fear?  That the Americans they plan to break down as they destroy the economy for us and our children and take our rights one by one might rise up in protest?  If not, then what do they fear? 

Don’t let them tell you they fear the high rate of crime here, or in Mexico, because with that answer they are either insulting our intelligence by thinking we would believe that off-the-mark response, or they truly are stupid enough to believe it themselves.  And if the latter is the correct one then we are in more trouble than any of us are prepared for!


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March 03, 2009

Mexico Spirals Into Chaos by Paul Vallely

By: Paul E. Vallely    
A Justice Department report by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) says that Mexican drug gangs pose the biggest organized crime threat to the United States.

The report, the "National Drug Threat Assessment 2009," evaluates the threat posed by illegal drugs by examining availability, production and cultivation, transportation, distribution, and demand. State and local law enforcement agencies shared information for this report through personal interviews with the National Drug Intelligence Center.

Mexican drug trafficking organizations represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States, says the report. They control drug distribution in most U.S. cities, and they are making strides in markets they do not yet control.

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February 19, 2009

Stimulus / Stuff by Jim Murphy

WEDNESDAY - February 18, 2009
 
Hello once again from the West Texas Headquarters Of The Culture Of Corrupt Jingoist Smear Machines.
 
STIMULUS:
 
Let me get this out of the way first;  NO  I  HAVE  NOT  READ  THE  STIMULUS  BILL.  So that makes me at least even with the majority of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.  None of them have read this idiotic piece of legislation either.  Oh, some of them probably read small parts but I'll wager that the only parts they read were those which dealt with their own particular district or state.
 
According to some of the information which I read, California was first with funding for 1971 projects;  Florida was second with funding for 1752 projects;  and Texas was third with funding for 1240 projects.  Now since I live in Texas I believe I have a right to sound off on the $10.7 BILLION Taxpayer Dollars earmarked for my state.
 
Leading the State of Texas in hog meat is the City of Dallas with nearly $1.3 BILLION;  Followed by San Antonio with $1.07 BILLION;  Followed by Austin with $1.03 BILLION and Houston with a paltry $588 MILLION in swine handouts.  Now I am not going to bore you with everything on which these funds are being spent but San Antonio has $10 MILLION earmarked for upgrading the Alamo Dome.  Now I am sure that the Alamo Dome probably could use some sprucing up but this is a stadium owned, I believe, by either The City of San Antonio or Bexar, County.  So why should taxpayer money from other parts of the state and nation be used to improve something which is owned by the government in that area?  Actually that doesn't gripe me as much as the  $18 MILLION earmarked in Austin for a boardwalk around "Lady Bird" Lake.  But I imagine that quite a bit of this so called "Stimulus Package" in every state is going to be blown on similar projects.
 

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February 17, 2009

Be Silent No More. by Melissa Pehle-Hill

Are you like me in getting a chill down your spine every time you hear a news report open with “Barack Obama will…” or “Barack Obama hopes to…” or any number of other openings but you get the point?  Does your stomach drop and your heart stop when you hear the question, “Did you hear what Barack Obama did today?” for fear of what that something might be?

If you are, fear not, you are not alone.  There are many of us out here in this great nation who not only fear what Barack Obama will do, we dread the moment that he does and we fight the only way we can—through activism—in an attempt to stop at least some of the degradations this man plans to visit on America.  Some may call our attempts nothing more than dreaming and say that it is a vain attempt—and it may well be.  But when I meet my maker I would rather know that I tried, that I stood up for what is right, and honored the rights our Creator gave to us.  I would rather not be the one who looks Him in the eye and says “I was too busy to work for others” or “I wasn’t interested”.

So, I labor and I pray.  And I invite you to join me in the fight to save this country and the freedoms we enjoy for our children and our children’s grandchildren.  


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Don't Turn Your Back on Them! David Hill

As most of you know, I pay pretty close attention to the things our government chooses to do.  One of the things I pay the closest attention to is our 2nd Amendment Right, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.  Let me tell you folks, this new President scares the heck out of me.  During his campaign, he told the people (that’s us) that he would defend our 2nd Amendment Rights, but fewer than 100 hours after his Inauguration he announced his “Urban Policy” on his website.  His plan includes:
1.    Permanent Clinton-style gun bans.
2.    Repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment exposing sensitive, non-representative BATFE gun “trace” data for trial lawyers and anti-gun politicians.
3.    Restrictions making weekend gun shows as we know them – and private sales between law-abiding citizens – effectively illegal.

This is not “News”, the spike in firearms and ammunition sales to levels never before seen shows us the information is out there for those who choose to look for it.  What shocks me is the Virtual Media Blackout of this issue.  Even here in Texas the Media is failing to inform the citizens about issues important to our heritage.  


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February 10, 2009

Letters From North America by Peary Perry 02-10-09

I know you’re hoping that this week’s column will touch on subjects like the economy and the stimulus plan which seems to be taking over our lives. Alas, it is not to be. I have had enough news to last me for some time and those of you who are interested in the news will certainly glean more from your local paper or your television. Not from me.

No, this week I’m going to take on a couple of topics which haven’t been in the news as of late.

The first is border security and the second is expiration dates on milk cartons. I know they don’t relate, but I’m working here to get something down on paper and you’re reading so what the heck? Stay with me.


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February 07, 2009

Mexico – Closing in on Chaos The Threat to the United States by Gen. Paul Vallely

Written by

Paul E. Vallely, MG US Army (Ret)

 

A U.S. Department of Justice report by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) says that Mexican drug gangs pose the biggest organized crime threat to the United States. The report, the annual National Drug Threat Assessment 2009, evaluates the threat posed by illegal drugs by examining availability, production and cultivation, transportation, distribution, and demand. The study estimates that Mexican and Colombian drug trafficking organizations make and launder between $18 billion and $39 billion in wholesale drug profits annually. Mexican drug smugglers control most of the U.S. drug markets, smuggling most of the cocaine available in the U.S. across the U.S./Mexico border.

Mexican drug trafficking organizations control most of the U.S. drug market and have varied transportation routes, advanced communication capabilities, and strong affiliations within the U.S. State and local law enforcement agencies shared information for this report through personal interviews with the National Drug Intelligence Center.

Mexican drug trafficking organizations represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States. Mexican drug trafficking organizations control drug distribution in most U.S. cities, and they are gaining strength in markets that they do not yet control.

Prevention Threat Recognition: Enhancing border control and increased awareness of drug trafficking organizations may help to control the U.S. drug market.

Prevention Threat Recognition: Is drug trafficking a problem in your area? Do you have gangs in your area that may be affiliated?

Mexico shares a 2,000 mile border with the United States. Mexico ranks now behind Iran as the second largest security threat to United States. Why the growing concern over what is happening south of the U.S. border?

 Well, we have vicious and widening violence pitting drug cartels against each other and against the Mexican state that have left more than 6,000 Mexicans dead in 2008 - double the number from 2007. That should set off an alarm right away. Oh yes, then there are over 70 Americans that have been kidnapped and are missing.  Mexico is in a tailspin as a result of fighting between the federal government and drug cartels - and among the narco-gangs themselves. Have you visited Tijuana, Juarez or any of the border towns/cities lately? Our borders are flooded with gangs, drug cartel operations, illegal immigrant flow (back and forth), murders, human trafficking and kidnappings.  A Threat of major, epic economic and security proportions.


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January 27, 2009

EU Delist MEK as Terrorist Organization

Press Release          Contact: Prof. Raymond Tanter

For Immediate Release                                202-249-1142                                                          

26 January 2009          rtanter@iranpolicy.org

                                                                     

EU Delists Main Iranian Opposition

that Bush Administration Listed as Terrorist

Washington, DC—On Monday, 26 January 2009, the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers decided not to renew the terrorist listing of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), the main Iranian opposition group. The decision came on the heels of the delisting of the group in the United Kingdom and several European Court of Justice decisions that found insufficient evidence for the EU designation.

According to IPC President and former member of the National Security Council Staff at the White House, Professor Raymond Tanter, "The EU decision represents an important example for the Obama administration of one means for reaching the Iranian people if Washington reaches out to Tehran with a new diplomatic initiative. The rulings in Europe are consistent with IPC research and could serve as justification for Washington also to delist the MEK as a terrorist organization."  

According to General Thomas McInerney (Lt Gen, US Air Force Ret, Chair of the IPC Advisory Council), "The continued designation of the main Iranian opposition groups as terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department is unwarranted by the historical facts, contrary to the rule of law, and incompatible with the American interest to counter the threat of a surging Iran. Now that the European Union decided the Mujahedeen-e Khalq, (MEK) should not be listed as a terrorist organization, U.S. designation is out of step with our primary allies. Such continued designation encourages Baghdad to extradite the leadership of the main Iranian opposition groups from Iraq to Iran where they could be subject to persecution and provides a rationale for countries unwilling to accept the rank and file members of such opposition groups for fear of being threatened by the Iranian regime."


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January 17, 2009

America Land of the Free? by Melissa Pehle-Hill

I find myself seriously concerned about the future state of this country and the few freedoms we have left being taken from us.  This is not an empty concern as many of you might think and let me tell you why.
    Have you ever thought about the fact that so much of what many Americans consider to be rights either require a license or a permit or some other form of government involvement?  For example, if you want to hunt you must have a hunting license, to fish you need a license, to drive or even to get married you need a license.  You need a permit to meet with a group of others in a public place, and often the permit has to be approved.  If it is your right to hunt or fish to feed your family why does the government feel the need to make you buy a license?  If it is your right to drive a car or get married why do you have to pay the government for the privilege?  How does the government being this deeply involved in your life make you free?  It doesn’t as is obvious when you realize that the word license means “formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something”.  Therefore, the government has given itself the power to deny you the right to hunt, fish, marry, and drive along with so many other things which are your rights endowed by your Creator and by the Constitution.
   

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Our Second Amendment Rights Under Attack Again by Melissa Pehle-Hill

    Here I sit addressing the actions of the liberals in Washington and their desire to remove our right to bear arms and protect ourselves and our families.  I knew, on Election Night, that this was coming but I have to say I’m surprised it came so soon.  I honestly thought they would wait six months or so and try to slip it past us.  
    I also received an email yesterday with a link to watch a U-Tube video about protests going on in the UK.  Guess what the video said!  They said that first they let the government take their guns because they thought it might actually reduce crime, and they soon realized that it had the opposite effect as the law-abiding citizens had turned over their guns and the criminals then knew they were unarmed.  That wasn’t what the protests were about—they were about the government’s desire to end fox hunting.  
   

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October 20, 2008

Giant Dirty Bomb?

 Following is a excerpt from an article I read today.  If this is credible, why is our government keeping quiet?

 Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.

Read the rest of the article:  

http://patdollard.com/2008/10/hijacked-iranian-ship-was-a-dirty-bomb-meant-for-israel-on-yom-kippur/ 

October 19, 2008

South Texas deputies authorized to fire into Mexico

This article from the Houston Chronicle tells a story that the Main Stream Media wont touch.  Our Border Patrol Agents and Local Sheriff's Deputy's along our South Texas Border are under attack from drug smugglers and other elements intent on violating our laws.  This problem goes well beyond Illegal Immigration and is in fact an invasion of our national sovereignty.  Our agents have now been issued fully automatic weapons and given the authority to fire across our national border to protect themselves. Have you heard this on the evening news?  I didn't think so!

David Hill

EDINBURG — Authorities in South Texas said today that they won't be intimidated by increasingly violent drug smugglers, announcing a larger Border Patrol presence and that more heavily armed deputies will be authorized to return fire across the Mexican border.

Operation "River Freedom Denial" will target areas along the Rio Grande in the southern tip of Texas where violence has risen lately with more ground and air resources, said Border Patrol sector chief Ronald Vitiello.

Standing with a Texas Department of Public Safety captain and the Hidalgo County Sheriff, Vitiello cited an exchange of gunfire between his agents and drug smugglers Monday and another incident this week of a smuggler ramming an agent's truck in making his escape.

Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said the deputies he will assign to the operation along the river will all be issued fully automatic rifles and authorized to return fire.

"We are not going to be intimidated by the increased aggression," Trevino said.

He recalled an incident in 2006 when more than 300 shots were fired across the river at his deputies and Border Patrol agents. At that time he decided to pull his deputies back from the river for their safety.

Not this time.

"If fired upon we will respond in kind," he said.

Read the rest of the article here.  

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6064257.html

October 17, 2008

Special Announcement!

I am in the process of organizing a Special Event from Make-A Statement Radio. On Sunday November 2nd at 2 o'clock in the afternoon(eastern), we will have a Special Edition of the Make-A-Statement Radio Show.  "Election 08, The Future of our Armed Forces Under Our Next President"  I have invited three of our retired military leaders to join us as we discuss the direction the United States Military will take under our next President.  The basis of this discussion will be; threats to the United States short and long term, our ability to confront these threats, and the ability of our two Presidential Candidates to deal with a military situation that could arise during their Presidency.  This will be a Round Table style discussion where a question or topic is presented and discussed by the panel.

We have already confirmed Brig. General Jim Cash and Maj. General Paul Vallely as members of our Guest Panel.  We are waiting on confirmation from our final guest before announceing his name.

Please mark your calender and don't miss this this opportunity to listen to several "Real American Patriots" as they evaluate the future of the "American Armed Forces" under the next President.

David A Hill

Here is the live link to the show.  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/make-a-statement/2008/11/02/Make-A-Statement-Radio-Election-08-Special-Edition

October 16, 2008

Make A Statement Radio Show Tonight

Good Evening,
  Tonight on the Make-A-Statement Radio Show with David and Melissa Hill, we will be visiting with Brig. General Jim Cash USAF retired.  Our topics will be; Is America ready to fight the next war?, the condition of our Military Aircraft, and the plans our Presidential Candidates have for our Military.  Several of General Cash's articles are posted on our blog at http://melissapehle.com/blog1/archives/category/site-authors/brig-general-jim-cash

We hope you will join us this evening from 10:30 until 11:30 central time.  Tune in at www.blogtalkradio.com/make-a-statement
This is a call in show so if you have a question or comment for Melissa, General Cash, or myself please feel free to "Make Your Statement".  Our call in number is (347) 843-4291

We hope to see you there,
David A Hill

October 15, 2008

Is America Ready to Fight the Next War?

IS AMERICA PREPARED TO FIGHT THE NEXT WAR

 B/G General Jimmy Cash USAF Retired 

In 1980, the F-15A was the newest, most technically advanced, air-to-air fighter in the United States Air Force inventory, and I was honored to be one of the first F-15 Squadron Commanders.  Located at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, I commanded the 94th Tactical Fighter Squadron, which normally consisted of 26 aircraft and 30 of the most highly trained pilots in America.  At $33M per copy, the F-15 was the most expensive fighter of the day, and it was designed to give the US a clear advantage over any adversary for many years in the future. 

When Jimmy Carter became President, procurement of the F-15 continued, but spare parts procurement came to a standstill.  As happens with Democratic Presidents, money was diverted from the military and used to increase social programs, that in retrospect served little value to the nation. 

Over a two year period from 1979 to 1981, there was not a single day that my fully-mission-capable (FMC) rate was higher than 33 percent.  In a nutshell, over two-thirds of my 26 F-15s were always broken, because of a lack of spare parts.  It amazed me at how hard our maintenance personnel worked to keep those few airplanes flying. They constantly cannibalized parts from other aircraft, which doubled maintenance time.  Later we found we were breaking over half of the parts cannibalized.  It was a vicious cycle that drove our forces to the ground.  We had no capability during that period, and the buck stopped at the President’s desk, Jimmy Carter. 

Little did I know at the time, that the entire U.S. military was in basically the same condition.  We could not train effectively, as the equipment was broken.  There is a clear bottom line to the story.  The Tactical Air Command accident rate for fighter aircraft went from approximately 1.75 accidents per 100,000 flying hours to just under seven, because of the loss of flying proficiency of the pilots.  Our military was not capable of defending this great nation from a viable threat, and fortunately that threat did not appear during this time frame.  However, we were losing aircraft and young aircrew members at a rate normally seen only in actual combat.


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