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From: "Joseph R. John" <jrjassoc@earthlink.net>
To: jrj@combatveteransforcongress.org
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 11:26:55 AM
Subject: DHS Orders Border Control, Retreat From Illegal Throwing Rocks and Drug Smugglers Vehicles
One of our responsibilities is to provide facts on issues that may
negatively affect the safety of the Republic, in order that American
Citizens will be provided with the truth on issues that the Obama
administration and the left of center liberal media establishment, works at
covering up many of those facts daily. The below listed published article
provides complete details on our summary of the new Rules Of Engagement
issued to the US Border Patrol.
On the first day of his appointment, new Rules of Engagement were issued to
the Border Patrol by Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Homeland Security,
Jeh Johnson, who has no Law Enforcement experience and is the first African
American to head DHS. The new Rules Of Engagement, bars self-defense from
rock-throwers, and match the recommendation of a report by an Illegal
Immigration advocacy groups and the Mexican government. They want to reduce
policing of illegal immigrants trying to illegally enter the United States
at the Mexican border. Obama agrees with the new Rules Of Engagement and
desires for more lenient policing of illegal Immigrants violating Federal
Law at the US/Mexican border. The report by the
<http://www.policeforum.org/> Police Executive Research Forum was
commissioned by DHS, it encourages lawlessness at the border by Illegal
aliens, puts Border Patrolmen in much more danger, bars Border Patrolmen
from standing in front of smugglers' vehicles to prevent smugglers from
entering the United States, and prevents Border Patrolmen from shooting at
people who are attacking them with large rocks (those rock assaults have put
Border Patrolmen in the hospital with critical head injuries). Three U.S.
Border Patrolmen were killed in recent years, including one who was shot
during a clash with drug smugglers carrying AK-47 assault weapons provided
to them by agents of the Obama administration's Fast and Furious illegal
drug running operation (the illegal Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation
continues to be covered up by Holder). The Border Patrol has been attacked
6,000 times since 2007, and they have been "assaulted with very large rocks"
1,713 times since 2010, resulting in the serious injury of Border Patrolmen.
Despite the 7,713 attacks on Border Patrolmen, they have only responded with
deadly force only 43 times----or 0.00056% of the time they were dangerously
attacked.
Instead of tighten up policing rules to protect the lives of Border
Patrolmen, Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Homeland Security is doing
exactly the opposite, he is putting them in more danger and telling them to
run away, and seek shelter from attack, if they are attacked by Illegal
Immigrants. According to
<http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/27/nation/la-na-border-killings-201402
27> a report in the Los Angeles Times, the new rules are being challenged by
mid-level DHS officials and Veteran Border Patrolmen, who argued that the
new rules barring self-defense from rock-throwers "could create a much more
dangerous environment, especially for agents operating in rural or desolate
areas, often alone, where concealment, cover and egress is not an option."
But Johnston overrode the internal opposition by Veteran Border Patrolmen,
and forced the implementation of the advocacy groups' new Rules Of
Engagement; Johnson demonstrated his incompetence on the first day on the
job by putting Federal law Enforcement lives more in danger. The new Rules
Of Engagement will encourage drug cartels and human smuggling cartels in
Mexico to get much more aggressive. These unconscionable new Rules Of
Engagement, should be grounds for Speaker Boehner to take action against DHS
for intentionally putting the lives of Federal Law Enforcement Officers in
danger, and creating fear for the families of those dedicated Federal Law
Enforcement Officers.
Obama is doing to Federal Law Enforcement Officers what he did to US Combat
Forces in Afghanistan, forcing new and very dangerous Rules Of Engagement on
them (those new and dangerous Rules Of Engagement in Afghanistan increased
personnel Killed In Action by casualties by 458%). If the Speaker of the
House doesn't take "immediate" and "firm" action to oppose these new and
dangerous Rules Of Engagement for Border Patrolmen at the Mexican Border
that are preventing them from defending themselves and telling them to
"run", like the speaker has failed for 17 months to establish a Select House
Investigative Committee with subpoena authority on The Battle of Benghazi,
there should be a change in leadership in the House.
Joseph R. John, USNA '62
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