Who Is Arming the Mexican Drug Cartels?

Michael Gaddy
Lew Rockwell.com
Friday, March 27, 2009

The state, Mexican authorities and their US propaganda arm, known in most circles as the Mainstream Media, have recently embarked on a huge disinformation campaign to demonize the American gun owner as the supplier of weapons to the Mexican drug cartels. Everyone in the media, with the possible exception of Lou Dobbs, has joined in the campaign of lies.

Shown here, on a CBS special, is video proof of the lies and disinformation by CBS, US and Mexican authorities. Anderson Cooper and Janet Napolitano are either ignorant or complicit in the myth that M-203s, RPGs and hand grenades are readily available to the American gun consumer. Most intelligent folks, and those without a state sponsored agenda, realize these weapons are usually only available to the military.

This week, Secretary of Homeland Defense, Janet Napolitano, announced a new plan to curb the alleged flow of weapons from the US into Mexico. This program, which will cost the overwhelmed US Taxpayer another 700 million dollars plus, includes machines that employ what is referred to as “virtual strip search.” This plan will supposedly slow down the number of guns traveling south from the US to the drug cartels in Mexico. If this program has the same success rate as the government’s efforts at stopping the flow of contraband north into the US, the Mexican drug cartels will have nuclear weapons by the end of April!

While not stated as such, I am sure this will eventually morph into “the war on guns.” Funny, is it not, every time our government “declares war” on something, it always increases exponentially! Whether it is poverty, drugs, terrorism or guns, when the state declares war, rapid growth and expansion of that which is the object of that war is inevitable.

Napolitano stated, “70% of the weapons in the hands of the drug cartels are coming from the US.” The implication is obvious she is referring to private gun owners. The MSM sucks up this propaganda like a large-mouth bass takes a worm, and regurgitates it to Boobus without ever questioning the truthfulness behind the claim. Neither Mexican, nor US officials, has ever produced an ounce of proof to back up these wild accusations.

Wednesday, on MSNBC, in an interview by Andrea Mitchell, New York Congressional Representative, Nita Lowey stated 97% of the guns in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels originated in the US. Representative Lowey, in her support for a new Assault Weapons Ban, alleges these firearms are coming from the American gun owner. She is correct in her assertion many of the firearms being used by the cartels are coming from Americans. They are, but, from the American taxpayer, not the American gun owner!

The fact is: the Mexican authorities have refused to release the serial numbers of weapons confiscated from drug cartel members. Releasing the serial numbers would implicate the corrupt governments of the US and Mexico and their involvement in arming the drug cartels.

Considering the above, it is my belief the Mexican drug cartels are procuring a large percentage of weapons from the world’s largest supplier of these weapons: the United States government!

The type of weapons confiscated and the unwillingness of those involved to supply weapon serial numbers is a clear indicator.

Because of the “narco-wars,” the US government supplies the Mexican military with arms and training. The Mexican military has trained at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and the arms budget from the US to Mexico is in the billions.

Drug profits realized from the sale of drugs in the US by Mexico’s violent drug cartels are estimated to be as high as 40 billion dollars per year. With that amount of money, is there any question as to the ability of the cartels to purchase military weapons provided by the United States government from corrupt Mexican government officials and members of their military?

In the mid 1990s, U.S. government statistics revealed at least six billion dollars a year was spent by the cartels in bribes and payoffs to officials in the Mexican government and military.

In February of 1997, the Clinton Administration announced it was certifying the Mexican government as a “full ally” in the war on drugs. Clinton’s Drug Czar, Army General Barry McCaffrey, described Mexican General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, who headed up the Mexican National Institute to Combat Drugs (INCD) as a “man of absolute unquestioned character.”(Emphasis added) Shortly after McCaffrey’s statement, Rebollo was arrested for taking bribes from one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico. Rebollo had been present at secret meetings involving the White House, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Drug Enforcement Agency.

When speaking of drug cartels and military weapons, one would be remiss in not covering the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and their decades-long involvement in worldwide drug trafficking. The evidence produced at the Iran Contra hearings proved the CIA was involved with smuggling cocaine in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contra Army. Is there any question they are involved with the Mexican drug cartels and perhaps facilitating their procurement of military weapons, or better yet, trading arms for drugs?

 

In 2007, then President George W. Bush, with help from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, was able to get legislation passed that would provide Mexico with at least 1.4 billion dollars for Mexican military and police forces.

In May of 2008, Kristen Bricker wrote of Plan Mexico, “Plan Mexico will provide resources, equipment, and training to the Mexican government, police, and military. It will not give Mexico liquid funds. The US military, government agencies such as USAID, and US defense contractors such as mercenary firms and weapons manufacturers will receive funding to carry out Plan Mexico. Plan Mexico is yet another bill to line the pockets of the military industrial complex.”

Our government is certainly aware of the rampant corruption within the Mexican government and military, yet we continue to provide them with money, military weapons and training, including all of the military weapons mentioned earlier in this article and shown in film clips by the mainstream media as proof positive we need a new Assault Weapons Ban. (AWB)

Our corrupt government, cooperating with Mexico’s equally corrupt government, has embarked on a campaign to deprive American citizens of the means to defend ourselves from tyranny, screening their own involvement in arming violent criminal drug cartels. We can weakly submit, or stand for truth and liberty; the choice is ours.

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10 Responses to “Who Is Arming the Mexican Drug Cartels?”

1. dan from ohio Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 6:48 am

   just another lie told to the American people to confiscate their firearms.Well they can have mine one round at a time….Also I wrote to my local paper concerning this lie but much of what i wrote was left out of the article…ignorance at the national level…

   

   Alex (not Jones) Reply:
   March 27th, 2009 at 8:04 am

   I don’t think they are fooling as many as they think they are.

2. Alex (not Jones) Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 7:00 am

   The propaganda is so damn obvious. NBC news showed drug gangs shooting fully automatic AK-47’s and Squad .30 machine guns while the voice over was saying that they are getting most of their weapons from Texas gun shows.

3. Dilbert McGunnut Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 7:03 am

   Any excuse to advance gun control will be used.

   

   Alex (not Jones) Reply:
   March 27th, 2009 at 8:03 am

   I’m not sure what makes them think they can get them away from us.

4. AL-CIA-da Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 7:45 am

   Everyone knows that the CIA Trades weapons for drugs then sell the drugs to pay for theeir Illegal and unconstitutional missions given to them by our real government the world bank and IMF, CFR and other Eugenics members in places of power

   

   Alex (not Jones) Reply:
   March 27th, 2009 at 8:02 am

   Just be careful to call them “officers” not “agents”.
   We sure don’t want to be offending anyone.

5. Antifraud Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 9:23 am

   “Anderson Cooper and Janet Napolitano are either ignorant or complicit in the myth that M-203s, RPGs and hand grenades are readily available to the American gun consumer.”

   I pick complicit. That is why I don’t watch them.

6. William Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am

   They are always looking for a reason to confiscate arms here in America. As for the border, it is so open that anything can be traded back or forth. I know that these types of weapons are Class 3 and you have to have a super clean record to even own them. Believe me. They are not coming from the US Gun Shows. They may be coming in from Mexico if they do some stupid gun ban here in the US. Just think of HS students with automatic weapons and RPG’s. If there is a DEMAND here in the US there will always be a supplier. Hence why Drugs are such a problem.

   As for Libs…they want to keep there guns, but don’t want you to have them. Whatever is banned here in the US will come from Mexico in the future. Mexico is all about making a profit and will supply the US citizens with whatever arms they can buy.

   The recent drug wars are about the new NAFTA super highway routes that will speed up the delivery of drugs into America.

   

   PISTOL PETE Reply:
   March 27th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

   The weapons are coming from Russia and communist China via south and central America, via Cuba.

   Drugs are a problem because banks make large profits in the laundry business, and gov. has an excuse to pay their buddies in the military Industrial complex big bucks to fight the so called “DRUG WAR”

   Drugs are a problem because most of the money goes into the underground economy.

   Don’t worry totto its all just make believe.