Failure Exposes Severe Fence Avoidance Syndrome
For the past four three years Americans have been told that the Mexican drug war was caused by Mexican President Calderon's crackdown on the cartels. Now we learn from the Washington Post that much of Calderon's vaulted crackdown was as phony as a three-dollar-bill.
According to the Post, the Mexican government went around arresting town mayors for no good reason and kept many of them in prison, oftentimes without any legal representation.
"But one by one, the government of President Felipe Calderón has quietly released the politicians as federal prosecutors dropped their cases and as judges ordered them set free for lack of evidence. U.S. diplomats who hailed the arrests now rarely mention them, except as a cautionary tale about how difficult it is to change Mexico's ineffective criminal-justice system."
More than a year ago, American Border Patrol released solid evidence that it was the beginning of the construction of border fencing and vehicle barriers that set off the Mexican drug war, not the Calderon crackdown.
As the Calderon Fairy Tale evaporates, will our government finally admit that fencing started the drug war and fencing and only fencing will stop it? Probably not. The power-elite in this country have such a hatred for border fences that it can best be described as the Severe Fence Avoidance Syndrome - a mental illness.
