(reprint from my other web site, completetranslations.com)
I was once asked if US Border Patrol officers shoot Illegals coming into the United States. I said that I had heard of a case in California when some high school kids rounded up some Illegals and frightened them as a prank and then later got into some serious trouble (the kids, not the Illegals). So I doubted that there were ever a case when US Border Patrol officers ever really shot any Illegals .
I was asked this because of the Brazilian soap opera, "América", on Brazilian television which showed this happening.
Well, weeks went by before I saw the clip of what this person was talking about. And it was worse than I had imagined. I mean, the Boarder Patrol is lined up execution style shooting into the Rio Grande under the cover of night.
It is both absurdly amusing as it is incredably confusing and hard to understand why something like this would be produced.
click here for a link to the Globo web site that automatically plays the video
click here for a link to the video
I found a possible explanation of all this online:
http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2002/pyne/qtr4/1219.htm
The New Second Front in the War Against Terrorism
Incoming President of Brazil Supports Terrorism and Will Implement Anti-American Policies
by David T. Pyne, Esq., Columnist, Legal Analyst and
President of the Center for the National Security Interest
December 19, 2002
At the meeting between President Bush and President Elect Lula da Silva of Brazil at the White House Tuesday, the US called for increased cooperation between the US and Brazil in counterterrorist and counternarcotic efforts. This is especially ironic considering that last December, Lula led a meeting of his Forum of Sao Paulo organization he founded in Cuba at which all of the participants including representatives from every Communist-aligned party and radical terrorist group in Latin America including the FARC and ELN narcoterrorists express their united opposition to the US-led war on terrorism. Representatives from terrorist groups from Europe and the Middle East and from rogue states and state sponsors of terror including Iraq, Cuba, Libya and North Korea were also in attendance at the meetings of this group both last year and earlier this month in Guatemala.
Constantine Menges, a noted Latin America analyst, has reported that this year's meeting of the Forum of Sao Paulo included condemnations of NATO troops who they allege "perpetrated genocide in Kosovo" and US troops who they alleged "massacred the population of Afghanistan" and "torture" the captured Al Queda prisoners in Guantanamo. The Forum also alleged that "Israel continues to carry out a systematic policy of murdering Palestinians…with full US support." The Forum concluded by condemning President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in no uncertain terms as the "axis of evil." Since this group was formed by Lula himself in 1990 to coordinate the advance of Marxism in Latin America, we can be confident that Lula shares many if not most of their views and that many of these positions will be adopted by the incoming Lula administration as it strengthens its hold on power. Menges also reports that Lula's political party, the PT, has established a committee in solidarity with the FARC and ELN Communist insurgents in Columbia. It has expressed full solidarity with Yassir Arafat and the PLO. Three years ago, the PT established a party-to-party "strategic partnership" with the Communist Party of China.
While still serving as US Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich met with Lula a few weeks ago in preparation for his summit with President Bush. Reich stated that the Administration actually wants to increase cooperation with Brazil over security issues citing "information that there are people in Brazil that are giving financial assistance to terrorist groups in the Middle East, specifically to Hezbollah." The border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay is viewed by the State Department as a "focal point for Islamic extremism." Brazil has denied well-supported US allegations that terrorist organizations are operating in the country.
Reich brought a message of support for Lula and stated the US could use its influence with international leaders to increase financial aid to Brazil. Reich stated that because Brazil was a world economic power, "to the extent Brazil is weak, it hurts us." He promised "we are going to do everything we can to help." Shortly after Reich's meeting with Lula, the World Bank declared its willingness to provide an additional $10 billion over and above the $30 billion it promised in September to shore up Brazil's shaky economy. Reich has downplayed comparisons between Lula, a longtime Marxist firebrand and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who was also democratically elected but who has since ruled as an authoritarian and employed extraconstitutional and undemocratic means to retain his hold on power. This despite the fact that Lula in addition to expressing his admiration for Fidel Castro has cited his good friend, Chavez as "an example to emulate" if he were to be elected President.
It is increasingly apparent that beginning next month when the newly elected Marxist President-Elects of Brazil and Ecuador are sworn into power, Latin America will be fast on its way to becoming America's new second front in the war against terrorism. That being the case, it will be imperative that Latin America assumes its rightful place on the forefront of America's foreign policy concerns behind only the Sino-Russian axis of nations in importance. America cannot afford to neglect what is going on with its southern neighbors any longer. The price of that neglect has already been far too high-another 190 million people are set to fall under Marxist domination-a disaster for the cause of freedom, which has been unparalleled during the past fifty years. The Administration must act quickly to shore up our continental defenses by withdrawing tens of thousands of American troops from Europe, the Middle East and Asia and re-occupy the Panama Canal, which is well on its way to becoming the new front line in America's war against global terrorism. ***
David T. Pyne, Esq. is a national security expert who serves as President of the Center for the National Security Interest, a pro-defense, national security think-tank based in Arlington, VA. He has served as a Country Program Director in the Department of Defense responsible for the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Latin America and has traveled as a member of Department of Defense-led delegations to Canada, South Africa, Israel, Brazil and Argentina. Mr. Pyne is a licensed attorney and former Army Reserve Officer. He holds an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. Mr. Pyne also serves as Executive Vice President of the Virginia Republican Assembly. Mr. Pyne was recently interviewed on Howard Phillips' Conservative Roundtable TV program. Mr. Pyne serves as a columnist for American-Partisan.com , OpinioNet.net and America's Voices. He is also a regular contributor for Patriotist.com. In addition, his articles have appeared on Etherzone.com, Sierratimes.com, OriginalDissent.com and AmericanReformation.org where he serves as a national security policy analyst. He has been cited in the New American Magazine and was recently interviewed on Howard Phillips' Conservative Roundtable TV program.
But all this comes from a country that has made a statue of Arafat, a man whom even the Palestinians have come to realise was a burden to the people he was supposed to be leading.
[missing image deleted] -Lance 11/08/05
In this photo released by the Municipality of Paraiba do Sul, Brazilian Sculptor Ivan Pinto poses next to the cast of a statue of the late Yasser Arafat at his studio in Paraiba do Sul, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Sao Paulo in Rio de Janeiro state, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2004 . . . (AP Photo/Muncipality of Paraiba do Sul, Gustavo Leal da Silva, HO)
When I saw this story, I just could not believe that reasonable people well outside the hemisphere of the Middle East, could possibly see the late Yassir Arafat as someone to memorialize and pay tribute to, in statue form.
Thank goodness the pigeons will have something to crap on.
and always will be
