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According to this Military.com article, Obama is "considering deploying National Guard troops to the border."
Huh.
He "doesn't want to 'militarize' the border," BUT...
Well, what would you call it when you have military forces on the border? What's wrong with "militarizing" it?
I'm all for militarizing the border to keep cartel violence out, (though preferably by arming citizens), but it seems to me that the President is missing a step in the chain of command.
He doesn't order Guard troops anywhere.
He asks the governor of a state if he (or she) would be willing to allow the feds to temporarily mobilize some of that state's Guard forces.
As a Guard family, (and there's a big reason I like being state-level), I find this mingling of federal and state powers rather troubling - especially given the Arizona's governor's angling to make sure her state's Guard is mobilized under federal authority.
Am I just way off-base here? Does this happen all the time? Or am I right to be bothered by it?
Showing posts with label border scandal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label border scandal. Show all posts
17 March 2009
19 January 2009
Commuted!!!
President Bush commuted the sentences of unjustly-imprisoned Border Agents Ramos and Compean.
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. You did the right thing.
(I've been on pins & needles for the last few days, and until I saw the news on Drudge this morning, I was pretty dejected about the fate of these two men...)
*happy dance*
I don't think I've ever posted the details of this issue, but it was a political case between the US and Mexico, wherein prosecutorial wrongdoing, high-level official conspiracy, and a drug cartel's lying mule's angry mommy combined to severely punish the two border agents who apprehended that mule, for administrative wrongdoing.
(You want to talk "disproportionate response?" This case is it...)
At any rate, it was a horrible, dirty case against the two, and the citizen movement to pardon them fell on deaf ears. The best we could hope for was a commutation, and here it is!
Happy, happy day!!!
[Update: I just called the White House comment line (202-456-1111) to thank Pres. Bush, and all I got was, "we are unable to take your call at this time; please try again later." Think the "thank-you"s busted the phone bank? I like that possibility better than, "we just shut it down for a while since he's leaving." :-)]
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. You did the right thing.
(I've been on pins & needles for the last few days, and until I saw the news on Drudge this morning, I was pretty dejected about the fate of these two men...)
*happy dance*
I don't think I've ever posted the details of this issue, but it was a political case between the US and Mexico, wherein prosecutorial wrongdoing, high-level official conspiracy, and a drug cartel's lying mule's angry mommy combined to severely punish the two border agents who apprehended that mule, for administrative wrongdoing.
(You want to talk "disproportionate response?" This case is it...)
At any rate, it was a horrible, dirty case against the two, and the citizen movement to pardon them fell on deaf ears. The best we could hope for was a commutation, and here it is!
Happy, happy day!!!
[Update: I just called the White House comment line (202-456-1111) to thank Pres. Bush, and all I got was, "we are unable to take your call at this time; please try again later." Think the "thank-you"s busted the phone bank? I like that possibility better than, "we just shut it down for a while since he's leaving." :-)]
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