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We knew ALIPAC’s “leader” William Gheen was nuts and more evidence of that emerged today.

Well funded from his beg-a-thon and refreshed from a trip to Southern California where he smoozed with the likes of “Bikini Boy” Jeff Swilk cross dressing leader of the San Diego Minutemen and California nutcase and nativist Barbara Coe Gheen is now advocating that the US allow more military grade weapons to be sent to Mexico to arm the cartels there!

Responding to an editorial in the San Diego Union=Tribune which states in part;

This country’s demand for drugs has long been understood. But the gun issue has only recently begun to get the widespread attention it deserves.

There are numerous steps the U.S. Congress and the Obama administration need to take to slow the cascade of arms to Mexico and help curb the violence:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., says she will introduce legislation to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons such as the AK-47 rifle, which has become the Mexican cartels’ weapon of choice. Feinstein needs to act quickly, and Congress should enact it without delay.

ATF reportely has only 200 agents assigned to monitor the thousands of licensed gun dealers in the country, more than 6,600 of which are along the border. The agency clearly needs more resources, and Congress should provide them.

Only 17 states, thankfully including California, impose significant regulation on gun shows. Congress should enact federal legislation requiring at the very least that sales at gun shows be subject to the same computerized FBI background checks that apply to sales at licensed gun stores.

There are no federal limits on the number of guns that can be legally purchased at one time. In fact, though sales of more than one handgun at a time must be reported to ATF, a single buyer can purchase as many long guns, including military-style semiautomatics, as he or she wants with no report of the sale to the federal government. That’s crazy.

Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, endorsed most of the above proposals and had this comment to make in response;

“the paradigm that both countries have used for decades to secure borders and interdict contraband “needs a twitching – a fine tuning.” Specifically, the American government should consider placing more resources at the border, on the U.S. side, to inspect traffic headed south into Mexico for guns.

To which the editors respond, and which we totally agree with;

We respectfully disagree with Sarukhan on that point. Border inspection of traffic headed into Mexico is Mexico’s responsibility, just as inspection of traffic headed north into the United States is our responsibility.

Still, Sarukhan’s government is right to ask the United States to do more.
Drug cartel violence reportedly killed 6,290 people in Mexico last year. It has taken the lives of more than 1,000 people already in 2009.

Most of the weapons used in those vicious killings came from the United States. It is our problem, too.

Where does Wandering Willy come from on this issue? Wayyy out in left field as usual

Willy Gheen states;

1. Mexico has some of the most strict gun laws in the world and it has created an environment where the corrupt government and cartels and gangs have guns but average citizens do not. Thus, the citizenry needs guns as they are powerless between the warring factions and cartels. The Mexican citizens cannot defend themselves or exert themselves for stability and security. We need more US guns going into Mexico, just into the hands of law abiding Mexican citizens.

But Willy! Get your head out of your rather ample ass! The guns don’t go into the hands of citizens, they go directly to the cartels and you know it! What an utterly stupid suggestion from someone who makes stupid suggestions on a daily basis.

“Wild Willy” goes on to make further gross distortions about the situation in Mexico. Spread the fear Willy! It should be good for another round of beg-a-thons.

2. The Mexican government and police cannot even protect elected officials, journalists, or their own soldiers and police from the Cartels which we now know have over 125,000 soldiers many of which are here on US soil!

No they’re not! Enough said!

And finally, more trash talk from Whacked out Willy!

3. The absolutely last thing that the current unpopular government of the United States needs to do is come anywhere close to abridging any of the freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution. US lawmakers are smoking political crack if they think the citizens of America are in any mood to give up more power and freedoms to this bunch of sellouts in Washington.

4. The best thing Americans can do to help Mexico is to secure our borders and stop the flow of cocaine, meth, and illegal aliens from coming north as these are the main cash generators for the drug and illegal alien importing cartels.

Perhaps he needs to look at reality. We seem to have a popular President, popular amongst the majority of American’s. Only unpopular against those like Willy G who see’s his nativist agenda being trashed.

What’s Willy doing? Smoking the crack pipe himself? Advocating armed revolution as some of the nutjobs in California and elsewhere or doing? It would seem to be the case.

The best thing America can do for Mexico is support President Calderon’s increasingly successful efforts to put down the cartels. America can look at it’s own failed drug policies and look to change the demand that causes the drugs to flow north.

And finally, true patriotic Americans’ of which Gheen and his followers are not, can rally around behind the President that the majority of Americans elected and support his efforts to get America back on track to be the great country it was and continues to be.

As for Willy Gheen? He and his group are inconsequential in the broader scope of the debate.

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