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By C.F. DAVID
BOISE CITY — The U.S. still should look out, not within, for trouble

Just over 93 years ago, on March 9, 1916, there was a revolution in Mexico that spilled over the U.S. Border. At Columbus, N.M., some 60 miles east of El Paso, Texas, Poncho Villa, and more than 400 men crossed the border into the U.S., (they cut a border fence).

They then rode and walked to Columbus and attacked, looking for supplies, ammunition and weapons.

Before the raid was complete, 100 or more Villiaistas, and 10 civilians and eight U.S. Soldiers lay dead.

Today, along the Mexican border, drug czars are slaughtering their countrymen in an internal war, that has in small ways spilled once more onto U.S. Soil. During Spring Break, the U.S. advised college students not to travel to Mexico. There have been kidnappings, and murders in California and Arizona and perhaps in Texas near El Paso. (Apparently most of those killed and kidnapped so far in the U.S. have had connections to the Mexican drug trade.) The drug lords have united and are at war with their government. The U.S. has promised money, (what’s it going to be Mr. President, $$$ to fight drugs or $$$ to repair GM cars?), and personnel to stem the tide of violence, and in the meantime, our northern border is even more porus than Mexico’s.

The wholesale murder of U.S. citizens could occur if the drug wars spill over the border

Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has informed the administration and U.S. law enforcement agencies that they should be on the lookout for “right-wing extremists”. The law enforcement community, according to the DHS should not limit their observations to just racist groups but also those who reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority, (This means, Texas, Oklahoma and about eight other states and could very well include everyone who doesn’t live in Washington, D.C., Hollywood and Boston.) The law enforcement community thinks this possible surge of extremism can be laid at the door of the recession, congressional discussion of gun control, President Obama’s election, and disgruntled war veterans. (The fear of veterans is apparently fueled by only 320 returnees out of about 30,000 that may have joined militia groups or the KKK.)

According to news reports, the president and his administration have taken a step back from the report and refuse to discuss it, or it’s implications. We hope this isn’t just political posturing. The president needs to trust his nation, and keep his eye on both wars and the potential of war on our southern border with the possibility of terrorists coming in through both border sieves. This is all one man needs to do.