unconfirmed: Los Zetas drug cartel seizes 2 U.S. ranches in Texas

[markw]

"In what could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of the United States, Mexican drug cartels have seized control of at least two American ranches inside the U.S. territory near Laredo, Texas.

Two sources inside the Laredo Police Department confirmed the incident is unfolding and they would continue to coordinate with U.S. Border Patrol today. “We consider this an act of war,” said one police officer on the ground near the scene. There is a news blackout of this incident at this time and the sources inside Laredo PD spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Word broke late last night that Laredo police have requested help from the federal government regarding the incursion by the Los Zetas. It appears that the ranch owners have escaped without incident but their ranches remain in the hands of the blood thirsty cartels."

For more info, click here.

This is not, I repeat, not a test.

 

[mike c]

whoa. i'd like to see some shock and awe stuff applied to the drug cartels.

 

[highfigh]

I'd like to read that the President of Mexico has woken up with a black leather gloved hand over his mouth and is being instructed to pull his head out of his asss, then do his effin job. If he refuses to reign in his country's people, we'll do it for him, with no recourse on his part.

I'm tired of the US being the worlds' punching bag. It's time we punched back. ALL illegals should be sent back, period. Then, he can come up with some way to support them and their habits on his own.

 

[HiFi Nut]

it's a hoax...or more to the point a lie planted for reasons we can all surmise...

Officials know nothing of rumored Zeta standoff on Mines Road

By Nick Georgiou
Laredo Morning Times
Published: Saturday, July 24, 2010 5:38 PM CDT
Local law enforcement was bombarded with calls from across the country Saturday asking about a report that the Zetas had taken over two ranches off Mines Road.

But officials with the Laredo Police Department, Webb County Sheriff’s Department and Border Patrol said they knew nothing about such an incident, while Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, said the agency does not comment on rumors.

The report, which spread like wildfire among blogs Saturday afternoon, appears to have initially been posted on a blog called Diggers Realm.

The blogger wrote that he got a tip from a San Diego, Calif., minuteman named Jeff Schwilk, who said that the Zetas, former enforcers of the Gulf Cartel, had crossed into the United States and taken over two ranches off Mines Road, about 10 miles northwest of Interstate 35.

Quoting Schwilk, the blogger wrote that there was a standoff between “the unknown size Zeta forces and the U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforcement on two ranches …”

The blogger wrote that the story was confirmed by anonymous sources at LPD.

But Investigator Jose E. Baeza, LPD spokesman, said he had not heard anything about the incident. Also, an LPD sergeant, who was on duty as a watch commander Saturday afternoon, said she had not heard anything about it either.

At about 4:30 p.m., Maru De La Paz, spokeswoman for Webb County Sheriff’s Office, wrote that the report about Zetas taking over ranches in Laredo is not confirmed.

 

[markw]

Perhaps. I gave the Examiner more credit than to post an unvetted story.

This was also reported by several other sources when I initially posted this.

Maybe it was an extrapolation of this story.

Gunbattles paralyze Mexican city across from Texas
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 24, 2010 | 12:07 a.m.

"Late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets paralyzed a border city, sound of gunfire alarmed Texans on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

The Nuevo Laredo city government posted messages on Facebook warning citizens to stay indoors as the battles erupted at several intersections in the city across from Laredo, Texas.

Frightened people on the U.S. side of the border called emergency dispatchers after hearing the gunfire, Laredo police spokesman Joe Baeza said Thursday. But he said there was no spillover violence.

"We were getting reports from people who live on the river's edge that they could hear gunfire and explosions from the Mexico side," Baeza said."

I do see, however, that in the last line of your (unlinked) post that the story has not been confirmed, nor has it been denied.

 

[tonygeno]

Now why would someone let facts get in the way of a good, agenda-driven story?

 

[Tarub]

I'm tired of the US being the worlds' punching bag. It's time we punched back. ALL illegals should be sent back, period.

 

[jamie2112]

WORD............everyone is an alien........

 

[Alex2507]

Tarub,

You can't put the tooth paste back in the tube.

 

[T2T]

 

[HiFi Nut]

Although a published report quoting official police and government officials refutes what became a viral story Saturday, an unusual lack of television coverage of the alleged takeover of ranches near Laredo, Texas, by Zeta gunmen raises questions.

The head of the Texas Nationalist Movement said Sunday that whether the reports are true or not, the very fact that so much credence was given to them would never have been an issue if the U.S.-Mexico border were secure.

right there wacko...Texas Nationalist Movement
story from Examiner (same as the dimwits who originally posted it)
....examiner.com/x-24030-Texas-Nationalist-Examiner~y2010m7d25-Zetas-attack-story-wouldnt-be-an-issue-if-the-border-were-protected


now here's some real backpeddling spin...

even though it's not true, and that seems to be what they are implying...
it's still the governments fault that the lie was so widely spread...by right wing bloggers...if the government was doing their job, no one would have believed it...

what they are missing there is a certain class of people who WANT to believe it...how do you disuade them?
US government was involved in 9/11
no moon landing
JFK conspiracy
etc.

people are so desperate to discredit and revile our government
they are more dangerous than the imaginary los zeta ranch attacks
'enemies both foreign and domestic'

 

[Matt34]

Although a published report quoting official police and government officials refutes what became a viral story Saturday, an unusual lack of television coverage of the alleged takeover of ranches near Laredo, Texas, by Zeta gunmen raises questions.

The head of the Texas Nationalist Movement said Sunday that whether the reports are true or not, the very fact that so much credence was given to them would never have been an issue if the U.S.-Mexico border were secure.

right there wacko...Texas Nationalist Movement
story from Examiner (same as the dimwits who originally posted it)
....examiner.com/x-24030-Texas-Nationalist-Examiner~y2010m7d25-Zetas-attack-story-wouldnt-be-an-issue-if-the-border-were-protected


now here's some real backpeddling spin...

even though it's not true, and that seems to be what they are implying...
it's still the governments fault that the lie was so widely spread...by right wing bloggers...if the government was doing their job, no one would have believed it...

what they are missing there is a certain class of people who WANT to believe it...how do you disuade them?
US government was involved in 9/11
no moon landing
JFK conspiracy
etc.

people are so desperate to discredit and revile our government
they are more dangerous than the imaginary los zeta ranch attacks
'enemies both foreign and domestic'

Everyone say goodbye to ArthurPE.

Just so there isn't any confusion, he wasn't banned for what was posted. He was previously banned under the screen name ArthurPE and has now signed up under a new screen name which isn't allowed.