
Top officials, in all branches of government, the police, and the military, are in the pockets of the cartels. [More]
Don’t think of them as partners. Think of them as conjoined twins.
Notes from the Resistance

Top officials, in all branches of government, the police, and the military, are in the pockets of the cartels. [More]
Don’t think of them as partners. Think of them as conjoined twins.
“They sell weapons to drug cartels… the fact is that the Ukrainian military sells a huge percentage, up to half of the weapons we send them. And this is not my guess. This is a fact. Not speculation. They sell it, and a lot of it ends up with drug cartels on our border. So this is a crime,” Carlson said, quoted by RIA Novosti. [More]
If true, it should be provable from “crime scene” serial numbers, like in Fast and Furious . If not, a correction and apology are in order.
So… is anybody else looking into it?
[Via bondmen]
In for a penny, in for a pound… and the cooperation means some in the Mexican government have picked a side that there’s no coming back from.
[Via Jess]
Should the U.S. Engage in Direct Action Against the Cartels? [More]
Herschel examines complexities.
One thing I’d add: The Mexican government serves at the pleasure of the cartels. By that I mean no official is beyond their reach if they really want to take them out, and even the ones who aren’t directly in their thrall know that and conduct themselves accordingly.
Or they could do this.
Been a while since we discussed privateering…
Good luck getting business licenses and insurance, and then navigating your way through the government contracting/procurement process. And lawyers– don’t forget lots of lawyers.
Hey, now that Trump has ordered only two genders, does that mean I can’t self-identify and apply for woman-owned business perks?
[Via WiscoDave]
How Labeling Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could Hurt the U.S. Economy [More]
Anybody with a brain isn’t having it.
They didn’t dare subject it to ratioing on X.
These are the people who want our guns.
[Via Michael G]
Brace yourselves. The deportation efforts will get hotter…I would not put it past the criminal illegals to use innocents as shields or hostages. Think typical Hamas embeddings among civilians, etc. [More]
Who wants to bet the victims won’t primarily be Sanctuary City Democrats who vote for “commonsense gun safety laws”?
This could go a lot of ways, including open fighting in cities. It may take an example with one of the newly-designated “foreign terrorist organizations” to get some to rethink that.
FAFO.
[Via WiscoDave]

The cartels exist because Mexico wants them to. [More]
And the only way to get rid of feral hogs is to hunt them down and eradicate them.
Prolific Mexican cartel leader allegedly faked his own death to live ‘life of luxury’ in California [More]
And the same Democrats who want your guns are going to fight ICE like hell when they start to come for the illegals.
[Via bondmen]
This is why it’s fruitless to “debate” with with obnoxious, self-entitled fanatics who are too stupid to realize how wrong they are, and who presume to teach but don’t even belong in the class without passing the prerequisites.
Has the loudmouthed clownette “proudly” ID’d herself on social media yet?
[Via Jess]

Mexican prohibitionists ignoring the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to effect U.S. citizen disarmament are creatures that can only operate at the behest of cartel monsters who decapitate to terrorize. [More]
Who thinks the Framers included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights so that animals from a failed narco-terrorist state abetted by treasonous domestic subversives could render it toothless through lawfare?
The American Guns That Mexican Cartels Covet: A Visual Guide [More]
Yeah, I was amazed at how easy it is to straw purchase multi-barreled full autos and belt-fed SAWS from FFLs and unlicensed gun show dealers.
I guess nobody being actually punished means they’re free to try it again.
[Via bondmen]
Weapons found on Mexico side of border: Border Patrol alert – Border Patrol alert warns of 4 rocket-propelled grenades; 8 IEDs found [More]
Damn lax U.S. gun laws!
[Via Jess]
U.S. plans to hand ex-Gulf Cartel chief who founded bloody Zetas gang over to Mexico on Monday [More]
Where we know there are no corrupt officials in cartel pockets, right?