President Obama’s Refusal To Protect Our Borders Has Cost An American Boater’s Life
Mexican drug smugglers have become emboldened by the Obama Administration allowing them to operate with impunity. A Colorado couple was boating on jet skis on a large lake formed by the Rio Grande down stream from Laredo, when the husband was shot through the head and thrown from his jet ski. His wife couldn’t pull him unto her jet ski and had to abandon him in a hail of gunfire.
Search teams prowled the US side of the 60 mile lake but were unable to locate the body or the jet ski. The boater, David Michael Hartley, 30 years old, was on Falcon Lake, a popular water and bass fishing lake, with his wife when the pirates struck in three boats, the Hartleys had been to the Mexican side of the lake to photograph an old church
This is the fifth incident this year, although the other assaults were just for money. The Obama Administration is surely sending someone down there to apologize and see how we can make the situation right.
The gunmen are suspected pirates who have turned Falcon Lake, a water-skiing and bass fishing hotspot down the border from Laredo, into uneasy waters for fishermen and boaters. There have been at least five reported run-ins with pirates on the lake this year, though prior holdups had never been deadly.
State Rep. Aaron Pena, a south Texas lawmaker was briefed on the pirates earlier this year, and emphasized that it has become dangerous enough that Americans should stay off the lake altogether.
“I wouldn’t do it,” Pena said. “When I go out there I have all the protection Texas can provide. But the average fisherman doesn’t have that.”
Pena said he has no doubts the pirates are working with Mexico’s drug gangsters. The cartels that control the area wouldn’t let the pirates operate otherwise, he said.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he had contacted the Mexican consulate to ask them to search for Hartley on its side of the lake.
Some campers along Falcon Lake had taken to arming themselves following the state’s first warning in May. In one incident that month, state officials said five armed men boarded a boat on the U.S. side of the boundary.
The pirates either use powerful AK-47s or AR-15s to threaten their victims, Texas DPS said. The agency believes the pirates use local Mexican fishermen to operate the boats to get close to American fishermen.
According to Gonzalez, Tiffany Hartley told police that the couple rode their Jet Skis for sightseeing and to take pictures of a famous church in Old Guerrero. They were riding back when they saw the armed gunmen on the boats, and immediately began racing back to U.S. waters.
In April, pirates robbed another group of boaters who also went to Old Guerrero to see the church. Cox said the most recent reported pirate sighting had been Aug. 31, when boaters saw gunmen riding a small skiff with “Game Wardin” misspelled in duct tape on the side of the vessel. Cox said it appeared the pirates were trying to imitate state game warden boats they have seen patrolling the lake.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the shooting underscores the need for the federal government to further secure the border.
“It’s really become substantially worse in the last 18 months with the drug cartels having almost free rein,” Perry said Friday in Austin. “This is about our citizens, on both sides of the borders, safety.”
Violence on the Mexican side of the lake has been climbing for several months, as a fractured partnership between the region’s dominant Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, the Zetas, plunged many of the area’s Mexican border cities into violence.
Americans are now wondering how much longer we are going to cede portions of our country over to Mexico and the drug cartels. President Obama obviously has political reasons that are biased toward International Socialism not to take action to protect our citizens and our borders, but Americans like to protect our people and our borders. Keeping the lawlessness out of America and protecting our citizens should come before extending the open hand of friendship to drug runners and killers who are invading our country. Mr Obama is only creating distrust and resentment within our own borders: he is surely becoming more popular in other countries than the United States, because his policies seem to be designed to help everyone except Americans.
May God Bless the widow of Mr Harley. Thanks to you and your policies, Obama!
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Bush didn’t do anything, and McCain wouldn’t have done anything, your enemy isn’t a political party, but the government.
Mike, it’s true that Bush had a soft spot for illegal aliens from Mexico. McCain is purely hypothetical. The problem is an ever increasing encouragement of the illegal alien invasion by Obama, a situation that is escalating in severity.
The government is represented by the party and individuals who are in control. Right now, we have an administration that could care less if our country is over run with illegal aliens, as long as they are potential Socialists.
The enemy you speak of is not my personal enemy , but an enemy of the citizenry of the United States; unless we make a concerted effort to defeat this common enemy, the damage may be insurmountable.
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/10/03/mexican-mayors-stop-deporting-all-these-mexicans-theyre-too-violent-and-dangerous/
Mexican Mayors: Stop Deporting All These Mexicans, They’re Too Violent and Dangerous!
There you have it. The Holder DOJ is failing to pursue their Legal Duty and instead worry about “Social & Economic Justice” or alleged “Civil Rights Issues” which are not their primary duties. Social or Economic Justice is a noble cause if the Immigration Laws are Enforced first. Civil Rights fall under the Constitution but were never intended to offer Harbor or Safe Haven for Criminals with violent tendencies. Both Bush and Obama have less than stellar records in that regard.
Before a Law Enforcement problem becomes a Military one, Mr. Holder needs to be reminded that All of the Laws deserve consideration and that the Judicial Menu is not a buffet, you cannot pick and choose.
Big Sis, “the system worked”.
Mike and Skooks are both right. Except that I would add that Bush never invited the President of Mexico to come here and publicly shit on us all.
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Navy snipers on jetski’s/fast-boats, Army snipers on shore. Airforce drones above.
-Done
If not, move in the Marines. I recommend 3rd Recon, because they’re not deployed yet, and they’re “hungry”. I hear First Rangers are bored this month, too.
Call it: “Light Training”.
This is above immigration law, this is an act of war by a party that has no allegiance, other than to the profit made by for them by the weakest among us. If Obama can order a hit on an American citizen, (with no outcry whatsoever), he can remove this threat as well.
Tell Mexico, that if necessary we’ll move the goddamn border of that lake to the opposite shore, but we will DAMN well defend our people from your animals, even if we need to turn 50 miles of your territory into a free-fire killing zone.
I am so sick to death of the willfully-weak.
*Thinks of what D. Boone might have recommended we do.
I’d love for someone to go on the lake with a nice fishing cruiser and just troll along having a good time….when the pirates show up, the good guys on the cruiser would break out the 50 cals and grenade launchers to dispatch the pirates. I would imagine that the problem would go away. These are just opportunistic thug punks, like the Somalis. If they know there is no resistance they will continue to plunder.
PV, I think you are on to something; however, if the Recon, Rangers, and Seals used the border as a live fire training area we could have the border secure in 48 hours and the Drug War would be over in a week or so. Some Liberals might wet their trousers at the thought of drug prices going up and the idea of the border being 99.9% secure and paying their yardmen real wages.
Actually, I’ve been promoting this idea for years, but I’ll bet you have also.
Z Man, as long as the snipers know about the Game Wardins 😀
PV
Greatest suggestion for border protection yet. 3rd Reconnaissance Marines get VERY bored sitting over on that tiny rock on the globe known as Okinawa, Japan. Give them control of the Gulf and we’ll be closing down drug business and thuggery by the end of the month. Lights out for these asshats.
PATTVAN: this is a great plan, it should be done exactly like it is; THE WORD OF MOUTH
WOULD run as soon as it start to be taken seriously: that would show the president that he
does’nt need another ARM forces FOR himself at all when the result would reach him,
THE MILITARY of AMERICA are for protecting IT, not another one made up to have the same or even more power and resources as he would like to have done,
IF IT’S not done EARLY, IT will have to be done sometimes anyway,and the more they wait, the more dangerous it become to AMERICA.
FOR sure time will come for the MILITARYS TO GET IN POWER TO RESTORE the rights of people
and DICIPLIN to an AMERICA driving toward destruction.
bye
I guess one thing that really bothers me about this tale (I’ve heard two different reasons the American couple went to the Mexican side of the lake) is that apparently this lake is a wide open doorway into the US big enough to drive an entire convoy through with little or no oversight. No passport required.
We had 150,000’ish Allied troops for the invasion of Normandy, what would one call 20,000,000?
Armed or not, 150k or 20 million, an invasion is an invasion and several Presidents have ceded our sovereignty and it is about damn time we take it back!
I live about one and a half hrs drive from Zapata and Falcon Lake. Its one of the best bass fishing spots in Texas. But it sounds like its time to get the fishermen off the lake and replace them with a fleet of armed patrol craft. Cartels have been smuggling drugs across the lake for a while now but the LEOs in that area arn’t equipped to stop the smuggling. And we sure as hell know we won’t get any help from the feds. Might be time to deputize a bunch of pissed-off Texans and tell them to destroy anything launching from the Mexican shoreline.
Potential future VOTES are FAR more important to politicians than the well being of the American people. Several thousand armed Americans should take the situation in their OWN hands and wipe out the drug thugs throughout the border area. US soil OFF LIMITS to Americans due to Mexican thugs is ludicrous and as Big Brother refuses to do anything about it, its time for the American PEOPLE to act.
That is what makes me sick. Lets apply this thinking to all crimes in America as well. If there is a high crime rate in you local city or county, simply dont go there, stay away and leave it to the criminals to have free reign. I am sure the police who patrol high crime zones would like to have a break. I also take offense to the term Law Maker, Aaron seems to be a law avoider.
When people go all nuts against GWBush for his ”stance” on illegals they skip over one part of the reality of that time: Full Employment.
America had a worker shortage during most of Bush’s two terms in office.
He, himself, began to close the door to illegals when the employment picture darkened.
McCain was likewise pragmatic about illegals.
He, too, took a stand against open borders once the employment numbers started to change.
Oddly, Obama, who is still very pro-illegals, gets more of a pass, partly because so many illegals have left as jobs dried up.
Sure there are still people pouring over the border, but a lot of them are true refugees from the lawlessness of Mexico under the drug lord/police battles for dominance.
Some of these folks, had they asked for asylum under our current laws, would qualify for it.
If Obama’s policies created jobs here instead of destroying them, I bet his open-door policy would be even more tolerated than it is.
@ Nan G, #16:
In other words, republicans were only too happy to let illegals pour across the border and to ignore illegal hiring practices when there was big money to be made from it.
Now that they’ve got a surplus of cheap and desperate domestic labor, they’ll be only too happy to exploit that, to demonize Hispanic immigrants, and to exploit the entire situation politically by blaming it all on the democrats.
“The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.
“This sharp decline has contributed to an overall reduction of 8% in the number of unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S.-to 11.1 million in March 2009 from a peak of 12 million in March 2007, according to the estimates.”
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=126
I think you are conflating ”republicans” with Bush.
Republicans were livid about Bush’s policy regarding illegals.
But nowadays the majority of non-criminal illegals flowing north are doing so to escape the lawlessness of a failed Mexican government.
IF we were using asylum rules many (though not all) of these people would qualify.
All the more reason for Obama to stop with all of the economic garbage that only creates employment-stunting uncertainty so America can get back to work.
As of today the Mexican Govt is offering no cooperation with this murder. If I had my druthers the whole of that lake and its shoreline would become US soil by 6am tomorrow morning. Its Mexican killing time.
“As of today the Mexican Govt is offering no cooperation with this murder. ”
This statement is false. According to the sheriff, the Mexican government asked for his assistance in searching for the man’s body. The sheriff declined, claiming it was “too dangerous.”
I think this story is fishy . . . no pun intended. It reeks of Susan Smith to me.
It’s obviously the white mans fault…
I haven’t jumped to any conclusions on this one either, B-Rob. The surrounding border issues seem to have caused the media and a great many people to have done just that. I assume the police are quietly looking into a wider range of possibilities. Something doesn’t feel quite right.
New Blood Evidence Found in Lake Pirate Attack
Sheriff Reports Blood on Tiffany Hartley’s Life Vest Supports Her Account of Attack on Falcon Lake
(CBS) Zapata County’s sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez has told CBS News he has blood evidence from the lifevest of Tiffany Hartley, the wife of David Hartley, that supports her account of a pirate attack on a lake that straddles the Texas-Mexico border.
CBS News correspondent Don Teague reported on “The Early Show” this evidence is in addition to witness testimony that supports Tiffany Hartley’s story that her husband was shot in the head by pirates on Mexico side of Falcon Lake.
Tiffany Hartley told CNN recently she would take a lie detector test if people continue to doubt her account of the attack.
Congressman Ted Poe, (R-Texas): “That area of Falcon Lake on the Mexican side, all the way to the American edge of the water is controlled by the Zeta cartels. They bring those drugs into the United States, usually at night by high-speed boats, and they operate — that is their operation — and the Mexican government hasn’t been able to stop them, won’t stop them, refuses to or cannot, whatever the situation is, and they control that area. The government, neither government controls that area, the drug cartels. And we’re being held really hostage by the drug cartels on that area of the lake.”
Mexico has named two suspects in this murder.
They are:
Pedro Saldiva Farrias, 27, and his brother, Jose Manuel Saldiva Farrias.
Both men are members of the Zeta drug cartel from Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, near where David and Tiffany Hartley were sightseeing before they were ambushed.
BREAKING> DEAD: Mexican police officer investigating American tourist shooting.