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## [TACTICAL] Fw: Fwd: Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as 'Terrorist Insurgency'

Released on 2012-08-22 00:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1950233
Date | 2011-12-16 22:21:06
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From: Jim Gibson <afrsatxbrigade@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:20:09 -0600 (CST)
To: <afrsatxbrigade@aol.com>
Subject: Fwd: Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as
'Terrorist Insurgency'
Sent: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 2:41 pm
Subject: Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as
'Terrorist Insurgency'
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(->)"The Christmas spirit of peace, hope and love is the spirit Americans
carry with them all year round, everywhere we go. As long as we do, we
need never be afraid, because trusting in God is the one sure answer to
all the problems we face."
--President Ronald Reagan, December '83 Christmas Eve Radio Address
Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as 'Terrorist
Insurgency'
By Elizabeth Harrington
December 15, 2011
(CNSNews.com) - Calling the situation along the U.S. border a "threat to
national security," a House committee Thursday took up a bill sponsored by
Republican congressmen that would treat Mexican drug cartels like
terrorists and apply a counterinsurgency strategy to the growing violence
along the Southern border.
Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) introduced H.R. 3401 the "Enhanced Border
Security Act" on Nov. 9 to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, stop criminal
access to U.S. financial institutions, and work with Mexico to implement
counterinsurgency tactics to undermine the control of the drug cartels in
the country.
The bill would also double the number of Border Patrol agents, and provide
additional infrastructure to secure the border, including "tactical double
layered fencing."
"A terrorist insurgency is being waged along our Southern border," said
Mack, during the mark up of the bill in the Western Hemisphere
subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he serves as
chairman.
"The term terrorist insurgency may be strong," said Mack, who said the
cartels operate across Mexico, Central America and in over 1,000 American
cities. "But it is based upon unchallenged facts."
"Drug traffickers and criminal organizations have combined efforts to work
across borders, unravel government structures, and make large profits from
diverse, illegal activity," he said. "The near-term result: schools,
media and candidates all controlled by criminal organizations. In other
words, total anarchy."
Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), a supporter of the bill, said the situation is
"an issue of national security.
"The drug trafficking organization is out of control," Schmidt said.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said the Enhanced Border Security Act
"really tells the situation like it is."
"I believe that the drug cartels are acting within the federal definition
of terrorism, which basically says to intimidate a civilian population or
government by extortion, kidnapping or assassination. That is precisely,
precisely what the drug cartels do. They extort," he said.
But Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee,
disagreed. While he offered his support for the aims of Mack's bill,
Engel argued the Mexican drug cartels are not operating within the legal
definition of terrorism as to advance political aims.
"I agree with you that Mexicans are terrorized," said Engel. "If I were
living in a place where gun battles were leaving scores of people dead and
previously safe streets were now hideouts for thugs and criminals, I would
feel a sense of terror, too."
However, Engel said, "There is a difference between acts which can cause
terror and terrorist acts."
He said what's happening in Mexico is "narco-crime" and not terrorism.
"If we get the cause of the disease wrong, our treatment will be wrong as
well," he said. "The narco-criminals in Mexico have no political aims,
they are brutal outlaws who want money, but they don't want to throw out
the government and take over."
H.R. 3401 defines terrorist insurgency as, "the protracted use of
irregular warfare, including extreme displays of public violence utilized
by transnational criminal organizations to influence public opinion and to
undermine government control and rule of law in order to increase the
control and influence of the organizations."
The National Counterterrorism Center of the United States defines
terrorism as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated
against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents."
"They decapitate people on a daily basis. They burn people alive. Throw
people in acid baths," said McCaul. "If that's not intimidation, if
that's not terrorizing a civilian population, I don't know what is."
Engel also objected to the bill because he said it would supplant funding
for a counterinsurgency strategy from the State Department's Merida
Initiative, a partnership with Mexico designed to to "fight organized
crime and associated violence while furthering respect for human rights
and the rule of law."
Since 2008, Congress has allocated $1.6 billion to fund Merida to support
Mexico's implementation of comprehensive justice sector reforms, provide
eight Bell helicopters to the Mexican Army/Air Force, three UH-60M Black
Hawk helicopters to the Federal Police, and three UH-60M Black Hawk
helicopters to the Mexican and provide scanners, X-ray machines, and
inspection equipment for Mexican checkpoints and airports, according to
the State Department.
Despite Merida's efforts, Rep. Schmidt said -- "I don't think it is
working."
Since 2006, 34,600 people have died as a result of Mexican drug cartel
violence, the U.S. government reported in January though the number is now
believed to be much higher.
Bags of cocaine, heroin, and other narcotics seized by the U.S. Coast
Guard. (AP Photo.)
"50,000 Mexican people have been killed, brutally, at the hands of these
drug cartels, more than the American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan,
combined," McCaul said, "And yet we're going to sit back and say that this
is, these are just businessmen operating with mergers and acquisitions,
they're just driven by profit. They are driven by profit, but they are
also driven by evil."
"I don't think we can stand back blindly and not call it what it is," he
added.
Engel argued Merida is now moving into its second phase to "focus more on
training and support for the judiciary and accountability." He said, "The
distrust and prickliness that once pervaded the relationship between the
U.S. and Mexico has been replaced by trust and cooperation," through the
program.
"I feel this bill returns to the era where Congress dictates policy and
expects Mexico to toe the line," Engel said.
But Schmidt, who said the current policy is woefully lacking, believes it
is missing the counterinsurgency strategy.
"The problem with the administration's new proposal, the Beyond Merida, is
that it fails to recognize that today's drug cartels (are) transnational
drug organizations," she said.
The act's counterinsurgency strategy would outline the transnational
criminal organizations in Mexico, provide an assessment of the terrain,
population, ports, financial centers, and income-generating activities of
the cartels, assess the capabilities of Mexico's federal law enforcement
and coordinate with relevant federal agencies to address the operations of
the cartels within the United States.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/republicans-propose-bill-treat-mexican-drug-cartels-terrorist-insurgency