At 12:54 PM 8/15/97 +0200, you wrote:
Strange that this claim should come from a variety of sources at the same time the government is facing the embarassment of having to whitwash the actions of heavily armed, camouflaged Marines who felt so threatened by a goat-herder with a .22 rifle that they slaughtered him with their M-16's, despite the fact that the child was an American citizen, doing what he had every right to do, on American soil.
FWIW, those murdering bastards got off the hook, because the jury believed they were "good soldiers", and I thought "Goodness must now mean how many innocents you kill while waiting to shoot a stoned Mexican carrying a bag of pot walking across the border.
The drug cartels are having such little trouble getting drugs into the U.S. that cocaine and heroine are cheaper than a bottle of good Scotch, yet, according to the government, they have decided that it is necessary to perform actions which will "force" the government to 'crack down' on border terrorism with increasing use of armed force. Right...
Hell, why not just declare martial law!? If were going to use marines as police, what next? The war on Goat-Herding Cartels!?!?!? I myself have never heard of a bunch of Heavily armed mexicans running over the border with explosives, automatic weapons, and Molotov Cocktails burning down houses, shooting marines, or blowing up buildings.
GiveMeAFuckingBreakMonger "There is something wrong when U.S. armed forces murder American schoolchildren on American soil, under an increasing number of unconstitutional laws."
KillThoseMurderingMarineBastardsMonger "There's something wrong when we replay prohibition and kill innocents in the process."