09/08/2011
My column last week focused on the federal governmentâs covert program to directly supply firearms to Mexican drug cartels. The program was discovered by a congressional investigation after a Mexican gang using a firearmâor firearmsâsupplied to it by the ATF, murdered a US Border Patrol agent.
See my column here.
A subsequent article written by Justin Raimondo sheds even more light on this disgusting debacle. Raimondo writes,
âWhile the US military is being sent overseas in search of monsters to destroy, ignoring the good advice of the Founders, closer to home another war is brewingâright on the US-Mexican border. Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry, killed on Dec. 21 near Rio Rico, Arizona, was murdered by drug cartel gunmenâusing weapons smuggled across the US-Mexican border under the auspices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF).
âWhile the cartels shoot up half of Mexico, and terrorize the other half, it seems theyâve been getting a helping hand from those geniuses in Washington, whose âlaw enforcementâ agencies knowingly allowed sophisticated firearms to be smuggled across the border, into Mexico. As BATF special agent John Dodson told the House Oversight Committee:
ââThis is not a matter of some weapons that had gotten away from us or allowing a few to walk so that we could follow them to a much larger significant target. Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals was the plan. This was the mandate.
ââATF is supposed to be the guardiansâthe sheep dogs that protect against the wolves that prey upon usâespecially along our southern border. But rather than meet the wolf head on, we sharpened his teeth, added number to his claws, all the while we sat idly by watching, tracking, and noting as he became a more efficient and effective predator.â
âThis goes way beyond mere âblowbackââthe CIAâs terminology for actions that produce unintended and unpleasant consequences. Because itâs hard to fathom exactly what was intendedâunless it was the desire to sow chaos in Mexico and create a new threat to US citizens in the border states.â
Raimondo goes on to write,
âGovernments donât allow such large weapons shipments to pass over their borders to foreign customers without having some foreign policy objective in mindâand, when it comes to the empire-builders in Washington, what other purpose could it be than the expansion of the imperial frontiers?
âBrushing aside the official explanation and excuses, when you look at what Operation Fast and Furious actually accomplishedâthe arming and consolidation of a military force currently fighting Mexicoâs armed forcesâthe conclusion that we are actively involved in destabilizing the Mexican government is hard to avoid. It is a simple statement of fact.â
Raimondo continues, âThe embattled Mexican government has barely been able to keep order, as the cartels rampage through the country, slaughtering thousands and dominating entire provinces: dead bodies keep turning up in droves, and it seems like a day hardly passes without some spectacular display of violence in a major Mexican city. Whole police forces are deserting, not out of disloyalty but out of fearâfear that the government is losing its grip and the drug cartels are about to take over.
âIn this context, to put thousands of weapons in the hands of highly-organized criminals is inconceivable-unless the plan is to bring the Mexican government down and create chaos.â
Then, Raimondo draws a particularly astute observation by saying, âFor years, our elites have been trying to forge links among the three nations that make up North America: âfree tradeâ zones that arenât free, coordination of military and law enforcement agencies, etc. Some are even proposing a somewhat loopy-sounding âNorth American Union,â supposedly with its own currencyâthe âAmeroââalthough officials (and the mainstream media) deny it, claiming itâs a rumor started by the hated âconspiracists.â In the face of this criminal conspiracy carried out with the collaboration of several US government agencies, however, one has to wonder about the real purpose of Operation Fast and Furious.
âWith Mexico at the mercy of US-armed drug gangs, and the central government in Mexico City about to lose control, the introduction of US troops to âkeep orderâ is entirely within the realm of possibility. In that case, the North American Union will become a reality, in fact if not in the formal senseâand the latter can be arranged quickly enough.
âCall me a âconspiracist,â if it makes you feel better, but when it comes to the crack-brained schemes of our wise rulers, it seems to me thereâs no limit to their ability to sow tragedy and terror wherever they tread. They did it in Iraq, theyâre doing it in Afghanistan, and theyâve been doing it for decades throughout the worldâwhy should Mexico be immune?â
See Raimondoâs column here.
I ask readers, can the US governmentâs foreign policy get any worse? The answer is probably YES! Itâs been getting worse for a long time, and absent a President in Washington, D.C., with the mental acumen and the internal fortitude to put a stop to it, it WILL get a lot worse!
Globalist elitists have been extremely influential in Americaâs foreign policy since the administration of Woodrow Wilson, and they have thoroughly dominated Americaâs foreign policy since the administration of George Bush I. Surprisingly, the last President to attempt to defy the globalists might have been John F. Kennedy. And look what happened to him.
I had a retired US Air Force Brigadier Generalâwho had experience in both the Pentagon and the White Houseâtell me that Kennedy was murdered for three reasons: 1) He wanted to abolish the Federal Reserve, 2) He wanted to dismantle the CIA, 3) He wanted to bring US forces home from Vietnam. All three of those plans, if enacted, would have struck at the very heart of the globalistsâ evil machinations for America. A phony, fiat money system, constant foreign entanglements and intervention, and perpetual foreign wars is the holy trifecta of the globalist agenda.
When will voters, especially conservative and Christian voters, wake up to the reality that electing a âconservativeâ or âChristianâ President is absolutely meaningless unless this President understands the globalist make-up of Americaâs current foreign policy and would be willing to risk his life to undo it! This is why Ron Paul is the only Presidential candidate who would make any difference in Washington, D.C. Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Huntsman, Palin, Perry, Romney, and Santorum are either clueless in this regard, or in the case of Gingrich and Perry, are active fellow-travelers in the march toward a globalist New World Order. Ron Paul is the only candidate who not only âgets itâ but also is adamantly opposed to it.
So, while Americans are focused on Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen (and, yes, these wars fit in with the globalistsâ agenda as well), the US government is busy stirring up war and revolution a whole lot closer to home. And if you think it doesnât matter whether a constitutionalist President (Christian or not) is elected, you might want to speak to the family of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Dr. Chuck Baldwin left the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida to move to Montana in 2010. He hosts a weekly radio show. His website is here.