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I don't have a Smurf related story for you. However, while perusing Peter Grant's blog, I noted that he had some thoughts about Michael Yon's recent posts about the illegal alien invasion, including some based on his own observations from when he lived in Africa: "The real danger of the illegal alien invasion."
He first cautions about the tribal kinship among refugees, immigrants, or whatever you want to call them:
... When a country or region is destabilized, entire tribes and clans are often driven from their homes by more powerful forces coming in from elsewhere. In some cases, those outside forces are organized and deliberately instigated to drive out the locals. When the locals flee, they end up in refugee camps or - if they're unlucky - just living in the bush, surviving as best they can. The one tie they still have left - the tie they cling to as if to a lifeline - is their tribal and/or ethnic kin. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, they "hang together because otherwise they would surely hang separately". That, in turn, means that their group will try to get what it needs to survive by any means necessary, including attacking other groups who have what they need.
The depredations from these refugees then driver others from the their lands, and so on, like a ripple effect. Outside of Grant's own observations, we can learn this from history as well. For instance, it is well known that attacks from the Huns helped drive Germanic and Gothic invasions of the Roman Empire. And I would argue that we are seeing the same forces at work today as more and more people flee the large liberal enclaves for safer, conservatives cities. We see this with the migration from California into Texas; and I see it with the influx of people from the West Coast into Idaho as they flee Seattle and Portland. Of course, they bring the attitudes and behavior that caused the decline of the areas from which they fled.
Anyway, back to Grant's post and his comments about the illegals mostly being youngish men, including a large number of criminals. He notes:
They can't find work, and have to live in poor conditions unless they find a way to make money - so many of them turn to crime. In response, local criminals try to "protect their turf" against them, and inter-criminal violence breaks out. The ripples spread from one city to another, and end up destabilizing our entire society. Soon it's no longer criminal against criminal, but all criminals against the relatively defenseless "sheep" society around them in big cities.
Moreover, they make great sources for forming radicalized gangs to terrorize a nation into submission to a dictator:
I've seen all this before on another continent, in several countries there, over a period of years. Mr. Yon has seen it in his training as a Green Beret, learning how to organize and coordinate locals to rise up against their masters. We've all seen it in recent years in Venezuela, where first Chavez and later Maduro deliberately armed the poor, jobless youth with military weapons, organized them into gangs, and turned them loose on the rest of the country. (I wonder why Homeland Security boss Mayorkas is working so hard to "import" young Venezuelans into the USA? Could it be that he has ideas of using them in the same way? Might their existing "training" under Chavez and Maduro make them particularly suitable recruits for American powers that be?) ...
Read the whole thing.
While on the subject of illegals, the Daily Mail reports on a "Rancher, 73, is charged with murder on his Arizona land after shooting dead Mexican, 48, who had history of illegal crossings into US and multiple deportations: Judge refuses to reduce $1M bail despite plea his wife is alone." "George Alan Kelly, 73, was arrested following the January 30 fatal shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, 48, on his ranch in Kino Springs, just a mile and a half north of the US-Mexico border," the article relates. "Authorities are still investigating the fatal shooting," it continues, "with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's chief deputy saying it does not appear that Kelly knew Cuen-Butimea ahead of the shooting." The article also informs us that "Kelly's ranch in Kino Springs, Arizona is just a mile and a half north of the Mexico border." Oh, and Cuen-Butimea was identified by a Mexican voter registration card he was carrying.
Anyway, the article further relates:
And just hours before the fatal shooting, Nogales International reports, US Border Patrol agents informed the county sheriff's department of a 'possible active shooter' at the scene, with a man identifying himself as 'Allen' saying he was not sure if he was getting shot himself.
Also:
According to a sheriff's dispatch report obtained by Nogales International, the office first received a call at around 2.40pm on January 30 from US Border Patrol agents, relaying information about a 'possible active shooter' in the area of Sagebrush Road.
The Border Patrol agents had apparently received a report from someone at the scene, who mentioned a 'group of people running' and said he was 'unsure if he was getting shot at as well.'
The entry identified the person as 'Allen.'
Castillo said the sheriff's department responded to the call, but did not find anything.
Just a few hours later, though, at around 5.50pm, sheriff's deputies received another report of shots fired at the property, and by 6.42pm they recovered Cuen-Butimea's body.
Authorities have said there was no weapon on the victim at the time, and investigators had collected two assault-style rifles from Kelly's property in the aftermath to determine whether either were used in the shooting.
My takeaway is that Kelly was caught out through surveillance--probably surveillance that would be illegal to use to convict him and/or of a secretive nature that the government would not want to reveal. We know that there are listening posts and other monitoring equipment along the border and probably inside the border. There are patrols by Border Patrol as well as by military. There are drones and reconnaissance aircraft. My guess--and its a guess, mind you--is that "Allen" was someone for the government either in a location he shouldn't have been or working as part of an operation that can't be publicly revealed or, more likely, a supervisor. Anyway, "Allen" saw the shooting, but couldn't do anything directly, so he transmitted what information he could to local law enforcement. Local sheriff's investigate but don't find anything and leave. "Allen" calls back and provides more specific information so that the second time the sheriff's deputies investigate, they are able to find the body.
Short take: Kelly should have assumed the area of the border near his ranch, including his ranch, are under near constant surveillance.
And, in another related article, Breitbart reports that the "LA Supervisors Push .50 Cal. Rifle Ban After 9mm Pistol Used in Shooting." You might wonder what a shooting with an already illegal 9mm pistol has to do with .50 caliber rifles. And the correct answer is: it provides an excuse to do something. And that something is to further disarm normal Americans against what is coming. Anyway, you are probably feeling a bit down at this point, so go back and look again at the meme and have a laugh.