John Litland letter to the editor, Marietta Daily Journal

Slackness on borders gives song new meaning
June 27, 2010
DEAR EDITOR:

It is an outrage and a disgrace that Mr. Obama continues to ignore the invasion taking place on our Southern border. Border Patrol Agents are being killed there, ranchers are being murdered and he does nothing.

The drug cartels have taken over an area from Mexico’s border to metro Phoenix known as the “smuggling corridor.” Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu from Pinal County has stated, “We are outgunned, we are outmanned and we don’t have the resources here locally for us to fight this.” When asked about the 1,200 National Guardsman Obama committed to send to patrol four states, his comment was, “What is truly needed is 3,000 soldiers for Arizona alone.”

It appears we have other “occupied territory” south of I-8 in southern Arizona. The Bureau of Land Management posted a sign outside our National Park there that said “Danger – Public Warning: Travel Not Recommended.” And the reasons they listed were, “Active Drug and Human Smuggling,” and “Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High Rates of Speed.” It is incomprehensible to me that our federal government is telling its citizens they shouldn’t go in parts of country for fear of being killed by foreigners. This should make everyone’s blood boil!

Our president sits by idly and allows our country to be invaded. Instead, he’d rather file a lawsuit against Arizona for passing a law to prevent this illegal traffic from occurring, which, by the way, is pretty much a mirror image of federal immigration law. What a hypocrite! He’s taken an oath to protect the United States from foreign enemies. It appears this is just another one of his many broken promises.

Obama gives new meaning to the Ramsey Lewis Trio classic “The In Crowd.” He’s IN-experienced, IN-effective, IN-competent and IN-ept. And we are IN big trouble, America.

John Litland
Marietta

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