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"Organized crime on this scale...cannot exist without political protection....Americans are being denied their constitutional right to national security." Pols love chaos. Rubes can't bother them so much.
8/7/13, "Ex-Border Patrol Agents Warn: Politicians Helping Cartels in U.S.," Breitbart, Matthew Boyle
"In an open letter to the public in late July, several retired Border
Patrol agents wrote on behalf of the National Association of Former
Border Patrol Officers to warn that Mexican drug cartels are actively
operating inside the United States spending millions every year to try
to build their networks here.
They argued that American politicians are
protecting their activities as well.
“Transnational criminal enterprises have annually invested millions
of dollars to create and staff international drug and human smuggling
networks inside the United States; thus it is no surprise that they
continue to accelerate their efforts to get trusted representatives in
place as a means to guarantee continued success,” the Border Patrol
agents wrote.
“We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the
market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged
in human trafficking and the smuggling, distribution and sale of illegal
drugs. Organized crime on this scale we are speaking about cannot exist
without political protection.”
Gene Wood, a retired Border Patrol agent who once ran the agency’s
San Diego station; William Glenn, a retired Border Patrol southwest
region Chief Intelligence Agent; and Claude Guyant, another retired
Border Patrol agent who served in leadership positions throughout the
agency in his time there, all signed the letter.
“Most heroin, cocaine, meth, and marijuana marketed in the United
States is produced outside of our country, and then smuggled into the
United States,” they wrote. “The placement of trusted foreign employees
inside the United States is imperative to insure success in continuing
to supply the demand, and returning the profits to the foreign
organization. Members of these vicious transnational crime syndicates
are already well established in more than 2,000 American cities and
their numbers are increasing as networks expand and demands accelerate.
These transnational criminals present a real and present danger to all
Americans, and they live among us.”
As Breitbart News’ Brandon Darby reported
on Wednesday, cartels are recruiting American teens, prison gang
members and military members to become assassins for their
organizations.
After they have been recruited and become part of these transnational
criminal organizations, according to the former Border Patrol agents,
those teens “are absolutely controlled and totally committed members of
foreign drug cartels who have demonstrated an ability and willingness to
follow the business model of criminal enterprise which is simply to
supply the demand for illegal drugs and aliens in the United States and
return the profits to their handlers abroad, at any cost.”
“Sanctuary cities established throughout the United States discourage
even the most basic law enforcement initiatives within their boundaries
against these predatory criminals,” they wrote.
“Encouraged by Congress
and a disinterested mainstream news media, these havens deny the
American public their constitutional right to national security and
public safety while providing relative safety for dangerous foreign
criminals.”
The retired Border Patrol agents called on Congress to abandon
efforts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens because passing an amnesty
would be akin to abetting the drug cartels.
Congress must abandon their focus on rewarding illegal behavior for
millions of persons by the grant of amnesty in favor of protecting
American citizens who suffer daily at the hands of these seasoned
criminals,” they wrote. “To do otherwise makes a mockery of our laws,
and encourages countless millions more from around the globe to do the
same. Transnational organized crime nationwide has flourished under
these conditions.”" via Michael Savage
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US only objected to paperwork. US Treasury Dept. via OCC let HSBC terror financing, drug money, go on for years. (Next time you do terror financing, make sure travelers checks are legit.)
7/17/12, "HSBC Has Not Been Fined For Money Laundering," Forbes, T. Worstall
"Nor has it been fined for allowing terrorist financing or drug trafficking.
What HSBC has been fined for is something which in the eyes of the
bureaucracy is worse: and in the eyes of pretty much everyone else less
bad. HSBC has been fined for not running the bureaucratic system necessary to ensure that there is no money laundering, terrorist financing etc.
From the Senate press release on today’s events:
WASHINGTON – "Global banking giant HSBC and its U.S. affiliate exposed the U.S. financial system to a wide array of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing risks due to poor anti-money laundering (AML) controls, a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations probe has found.
The important word in there, the vital word, is “risks”.
“In an age of international terrorism, drug violence in our streets
and on our borders, and organized crime, stopping illicit money flows
that support those atrocities is a national security imperative,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., subcommittee Chairman. “HSBC used its U.S. bank as a gateway into the U.S. financial system for some HSBC affiliates around the world to provide U.S. dollar services to clients while playing fast and loose with U.S. banking rules. Due to poor AML controls, HBUS exposed the United States to Mexican drug money, suspicious travelers cheques, bearer share corporations, and rogue jurisdictions. The bank’s federal bank regulator, the OCC, tolerated HSBC’s weak AML system for years. If
an international bank won’t police its own affiliates to stop illicit
money, the regulatory agencies should consider whether to revoke the
charter of the U.S. bank being used to aid and abet that illicit money.”
The important word out of Senator Levin’s mouth there is “exposed”.
HSBC did not have sufficiently robust internal audit and verification systems to be able to prove that the transactions it was undertaking were not money laundering, terrorist financing or aiding the financing of the drugs trade. This is, and I’m sure you will agree, rather different from actually allowing or doing any of those things.
Those things may even have happened as well: but that isn’t why HSBC has been fined. Their paperwork was inadequate: that is why they were fined."
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