to suggest to an expert in national security, a former Attorney General of Virginia and I’m sure, an all around well informed individual of the workings and capabilities of the Department of Justice that he might be missing something about Sanctuary cities.
Who knows? The angle I was looking for might have been edited out of the article and has nothing to do with Mr. Cuccinelli’s grasp of plata o plomo. While as the Virginia Attorney General, Cuccinelli’s access to information would be from the highest level; perhaps a picture like this one is not generally included in morning briefings.
My access to such information is stories out of newspapers. My understanding of the methods the Mexican cartels and criminal democrats in office share in doing their business comes from reading news accounts of political graft, bribery and corruption. The making and taking of payoffs is part of the ‘business’.
It doesn’t make it right and it has to be weeded out when discovered but as they used to say back in the hood, it’s the way of the world.
This sanctuary city bs is something else, though. In my mind it has always portended that we, the U.S. citizens, Americans, have been positioned over a trap door and no one we expected to get US out of the danger zone has a clue the danger exists. So I’m going to revise and repeat the following message. It’s from https://www.bucksafa11.org/2017/07/04/dominicans-bring-so-much-to-our-shores/
This story can lead many readers to conclude the business model described here is that the illicit drug trade https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2017-04-13/3-brothers-arrested-in-fbi-drug-trafficking-sting is operating like a pharmaceutical manufacturer and the corner druggist. It’s not. It’s Mexican criminals employing Dominican criminals as their secure delivery service.
A brief look at that politically obscured chain of security within the realm of sanctuary city enhancement will help point out the real danger of sanctuary cities.
The cartels, like the Jesuits, worked out the smuggling routes long ago using the ‘escaping war and persecution’ and ‘doing jobs Americans won’t do anymore’ guilt bombs to hide behind. You will have to read the special report at the bottom to get a more complete understanding of what was going on twenty years ago that lead to the current peccadillo American people are trying to deal with that originates from the political deception driving the elitist’s agenda.
After smugglers establish their routes and get the guns/people/drugs/people successfully moving along those routes and unacceptable losses still occur from law enforcement interruptions, it’s time for the gangsters to introduce themselves to the politicians and work out a deal.
It’s not new.
From http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/corrupt1.html
…Chicago was a city where politicians and police were crooked, and eager to accept bribes. This corruption in the government system allowed organized crime to grow as it did, for any officials that stood in the way of the criminal activities could often be ‘bought out’. The temptation of bribery and the associated corruption innate to the government system at the time were taken advantage of by gangs of organized criminals to avoid arrest and prosecution. During the early 1900s, Chicago was the “easiest joint in the country in which to jump bond, as well as for staying out of jail altogether. The price commonly being whatever you have in your wallet. If the wallet is empty a fifty-cent cigar will usually do it” (Algren 1951, 17). Polticians (sic) could also be bought through bribery, which created the possibility for gangsters to team up with them to gain immunity from the law…
These days it’s called plato o plomo. That translates to silver or lead. Pleasure or pain. It’s another life’s choice. If a deal is reached things get easier for the gangsters and a tad worrisome for the politician. If the politician has a conscience.
Then one day somebody, inspired by how the third world cuts to the chase, comes up with a new idea for transforming this bastion of freedom. Replacing Constitutional law with civil rights that do not exist, sanctuary cities were created.
The concept, keep crime local ignore the federal, works in the third world; but for the U.S. it needed a pretty name the liberal minded can embrace, hence sanctuary cities.
What it does is it prohibits the local police from contacting the Feds when they come in contact with an invader who is not engaging in a felony or has no felony conviction at the time of contact. What it means is the rule of law takes another hit from the brick in the sanctimonious pillow.
One problem with that for those of US who rely on the rule of law to protect civilization is false identities proliferate. Getting a false ID is inexpensive and available at flea markets everywhere. Not to mention the cartels have the means and wherewithal, if necessary, to insure the squeaky clean versions for their mules living in and working out of a sanctuary city.
Is Providence, Rhode Island a sanctuary city? Check.
Boston, MA.? Check.
Hartford, CT.? Check
What about New York? Yo, you kidding me? Fuhgeddaboudit. At least until DiBlasio took over.
This drug war is beginning to look like an A-Team rerun.
The cartels seem to have the northeast sewed up tighter than the stitching on a new baseball. Evidence exists it is unlikely the rest of the country will escape their influence. Especially under democrat control.
Before you start pointing out President Trump is running the show now and things are going to be different from here on in, read these moldy oldies from 1999 and 2011 and ponder the probabilities.
And don’t think this is just about money. Drug deaths are being recorded at record levels throughout our Nation. It’s being called the opioid epidemic. Read on and start thinking of it more properly as a war being waged against US…
I’ve never heard the terms plata o plomo and sanctuary cities mentioned together. It’s not been reported, as far as I know, that any republican member of congress, involved in congressional or senate hearings, has even mentioned the possibility of the cartels sharing millions of their dollars to ensure a reliably smooth business environment in a sanctuary city.
It is an accepted part of the cartel business culture and cost. The democrat mayors of failing cities whose tax base has been reportedly damaged by democrat tax burdens can have access to a new and unaccountable source of income. Operating an alleged sanctuary with a cartel’s assistance can go a long way in keeping those failing, over spent socialist skeletons propped up. What a selling point for the cartel’s.
Uh oh. It looks like the brotherhood of American mayors had a meeting recently and word’s gotten out. Mayors are ignoring their citizens and are clamoring for more diversity.
I’ll bet they’ll soon even introduce and pass weird taxes as a win/win money laundering operation.
Think about it.
How likely is it any republican official will ever address all the possibilities?