Thread: Our Continued Vulnerability:Drug Cartels Funding Another

Exclusive: Our Continued Vulnerability: Drug Cartels Funding another 9/11?

Michael Cutler


Author: Mike Cutler
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: August 16, 2007


Six years after 9/11, the most basic issues concerning the safety and security of our homeland are not being addressed adequately. FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler provides a detailed analysis of the many vulnerabilities to our security from rampant, unchecked drug trafficking.





Our Continued Vulnerability:
Drug Cartels Funding another 9/11?

By Michael Cutler


In the August 14 edition of the Washington Times, an article by Sara A. Carter discusses the nexus between narcotics trafficking and terrorism. Sara raises the disturbing issue that terrorists are believed to be working in conjunction with drug traffickers and assuming Hispanic identities. This recent article cites an analysis that she wrote previously about a DEA report on this issue.


Before I continue with my commentary on the alarming nexus between drug trafficking and homeland security, I want to provide you with a graphic photograph that shows the upper floors of the World Trade Center on that bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001 nearly six years ago. The photo is of dead people. They were not yet dead when the photograph was taken but their demise was only minutes away. An hour or two before this photo was taken, each and every one of those people were commuting to their jobs on what they thought would just be another day in their lives. As they entered those iconic towers on that ordinary morning, none of them had any idea that this would be the last time that they would walk into those buildings and take the shiny elevators to their offices at the upper floors of the World Trade Center. They had no idea that within minutes of their arrival that the windows that offered them unparalleled views of the City of New York would be shattered and they would be hanging out of those windows gasping for air, contemplating their deaths.



They were not test pilots or astronauts who went to work with the sense that their jobs could cause their deaths. They were not soldiers, law enforcement officers or firefighters who accept the fact that their jobs can kill them. These people had relatively pedestrian jobs and were simply going about their lives on a sunny, late summer day in New York City when they found themselves in the cross hairs of a band of the most incredibly vicious and hate-filled terrorists.

These people were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and not only died, but they had ample time to contemplate their dire predicament. Many decided to jump to their deaths rather then burn alive or be suffocated. No matter how their individual deaths ultimately played out, they each died. Period. Their families would never see them again. Their neighbors would never get to chat with them again. All of the people who considered these people a part of their lives would find their lives diminished by the loss of these innocent victims of the rage of the terrorists who worship death rather than life.



As someone once said, "No one gets out of this life alive!" But on that day in September 2001 Three thousand innocent people were slaughtered in the most horrific mass murder ever carried out in the United States. I am on a mission dedicated to doing my utmost to help with the prevention of another such national catastrophe.



Some years ago I attended a Holocaust memorial service, where one of the speakers was the famed Alan Dershowitz. The words that Mr. Dershowitz spoke that day truly resonated with me. He said that when there is a mass murder and thousands or even millions of human beings are slaughtered, it is important not to focus on the overall number, because the concept of a group murder is meaningless. He said that it was more effective to look at each and every victim of a mass murder - be it the Holocaust or any other mass murder, such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - as a distinct and separate atrocity. He suggested that no matter how high the body count, we should multiply that number of victims by the number "1" and remember that each murder is to be considered as a specific crime with all of the impact that a murder has within the family and community of each and every victim.



I felt compelled to make this point because I am so angry and frustrated by the nonsense being spewed by all too many of our nation's alleged leaders nearly 6 years after 9/11, while the most basic issues are still not being addressed.



I hope that my "side trip" of remembrance will help you understand why I am in a state of rage over our politicians on all levels who refuse to understand that when individuals enter our country in violation of law, they are committing a crime. Period. I am not impressed by the claims that illegal aliens are simply seeking employment in the United States. It would be far better for them and for us if they demanded that the governments of the countries from which they came did a better job of providing opportunities for their own citizens in their own countries.

Sara Carter’s article makes it crystal clear that our government officials were warned that terrorists were forming an unholy alliance with narcotics traffickers to gain entrance into the United States and to also raise money by selling narcotics in our country. In order for any plan to be carried out, whether by an individual or a corporation or a criminal or terrorist organization, one of the first requirements is that money be secured to breathe life into the plan.


Criminal and terrorist organizations generally commit crimes to fund their objectives. Rachel Ehrenfeld authored a book a number of years ago entitled, "Funding Evil." Her book explains how this process works. Simply put, terrorist organizations often use the sale of heroin and other drugs as a funding mechanism. They also commit other crimes such as arson, mail fraud and identity theft. No matter the crime, these felonious activities create immediate victims and the proceeds ultimately create additional victims when a terrorist attack is carried out.

Meanwhile, in the name of "Free Trade," our borders have been left open to the smugglers who bring illegal aliens, criminals, terrorists and drugs into our country. This is the impact of the failure of leadership by those in whom We, the People vested the power that these politicians wield with scant regard to the wishes and needs of those they purport to represent. Illegal immigration is most certainly not a victimless crime!

I can tell you that in my 30 years of experience as a special agent of the former INS that when you are sitting across the table from someone you arrested who has no identification documents, it is impossible to discern the true identity of that person. You cannot determine their nationality either. If you encounter someone with a dark complexion who speaks fluent Spanish, is he a citizen of Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia or, perhaps, Iran or Saudi Arabia and has simply spent enough time in Latin America to become fluent in the Spanish language?

If this is not disturbing enough, I also want you to know that since the creation of DHS - an agency I have come to refer to as the Department of Homeland Surrender - special agents of ICE do not receive any foreign language training. Most alarmingly, there is no Spanish language training, which had been an absolute requirement of the former INS. How in blazes can you investigate people with whom you are unable to communicate?

Our nation has been waging a so-called War on Drugs for several decades yet drugs are still readily available on street corners throughout the United States. Meanwhile many local, state and federal law enforcement officers have been badly wounded or killed conducting narcotics investigations while tons of those poisonous drugs poor across our nation's borders each and every day.


[size=200]With all of this for a backdrop, President Bush will be meeting with his counterparts from Mexico and Canada in about two weeks to continue with his plans to ram the SPP down our throats. The SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) will compromise our nation's security, and the only “prosperityâ€

When you look at the persecution of BP agents doing their job and attempting to stop drug running, it makes you wonder if they are protecting illegal aliens, trade - or drugs?