Thread: Bean bags for Janet Napolitano

December 23rd, 2010 3:05 pm The security team protecting Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano should, from this day forward, be armed with non-lethal weapons including bean bag rounds. If it is good enough for the elite agents of BORTAC who operate in one of the most dangerous areas on the Mexican border, in the United States and in the world for that matter, it is most certainly good enough for the Secretary of DHS.

It has been confirmed by yet another source that agent Brian Terry and one other agent were armed with shotguns with non-lethal bean bag rounds.

One agent fired bean bag rounds and when the outlaws opened up with real bullets, the agent then drew his hand gun to return fire, indicating that he did not have the standard issue M-4 rifle in addition to the non-lethal weaponry.

The FBI and other agencies are still investigating. And while I will never cast aspersions on the line agents and officers of any law enforcement agency, the bosses are another matter. CYA, politics and political correctness are all factors that we have seen in the past that just makes some of us automatically assume that a cover-up, to some extent, at some level, will ensue. Read Kimberly Dvorak's article.

Some questions that I would like to see an investigation address are:

1.Why were the agents armed with non-lethal weaponry in the first place?
2.Why are non-lethal weapons even authorized in a war zone?
3.What are the rules of engagement when our Border Patrol agents are patrolling?
4.Why are some areas in Southern Arizona “off limitsâ€

Rules of engagement need to be changed the border is a war zone.

I’m having a difficult time wrapping my brain around this. No sane or rational person would implement such a policy whereby Border Agents would be ordered to carry non-lethal weapons in a war zone! It defies all common sense and would be the workings of a deranged mad man if true, especially knowing what we do about the on-going violence in mexico.

Why would we give billions of dollars to mexico to fight the violent drug war, and then arm Americans in charge of defending the border for which the war wages with bean bags!

Anyone who would implement such a policy should not only be removed at once, but face criminal prosecution as well.

Were the bean bags loaded with Mexican Jumping Beans??

NoBueno wrote,

Anyone who would implement such a policy should not only be removed at once, but face criminal prosecution as well.

I agree. This is nuts! Bean bags?

Political decisions hampering reality. And bureaucrats stupid enough to follow the orders of idiots.

They're comin' for ya Nappy you better start shredding and hope it's enough to hide all your treason! This weak she dog will roll over on NObama so fast,
He hired her to shut her up and now she'll be singin' like a canary!
I notice he does this a lot, let others take the heat for his treason!
He isn't even a good half term president.