The Border, A Lake, A Murder

The Hartley's

There’s a little lake in south Texas. An idyllic place for water recreation, and most noted for its fishing. The US\Mexican border runs right through it; not in a straight line, but all curvy with the shoreline.

It’s also become a place of murder and theft by Mexican pirates.

Tiffany Hartley and her husband David Michael Hartley were out jet skiing this past weekend on Falcon Lake, and he was shot in the back of the head by the pirates. They chased her while shooting to kill her, but she escaped.

Her husband’s body is still out there, and the search teams can only search on the US side of the lake. The Mexican government, of course, isn’t assisting in the search.  They’ve been asked to by Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez. Could you imagine the uproar if some American thugs had murdered some Mexican tourists on that lake?

This year there have been five reported attacks before this. Heard of them? Our Federal Government just doesn’t care about US citizens on the border. Too busy suing Arizona for trying to enforce the law, and making excuses for their abysmal record of border (non) enforcement.  More interested in getting amnesty for undocumented Democrats coming across the border illegally.  

On the Mexican side of the lake are the ruins of an old church in Old Guerrero. Tourists have been going there for years. Now they are getting robbed.  What have US officials done? Well, you stupid citizens, don’t go there, is their response.  It's like the area in southern Arizona where the Feds have put up billboards to stay out of the area because it's dangerous, and it's dangerous because Mexican drug cartels control it. I think some our law enforcement people should go to that side of the lake, make a raid, and kill the bad guys. The Mexican government won’t help enforce the border any more than the  Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations have.  Can you imagine if we had a tourist spot on the US side that Mexicans visited, and some American bad guys murdered them?

Mexico should be told by our State Department that they have 48 hours to get rid of the pirates, pay reparations to the US, find David Harley’s body, or we will invade that side of the lake and put US troops there.  The lake is by agreement dual use, and supposed to be open to all. Now we have Mexican pirates coming out onto the lake and killing US citizens.

Our government sits on its sorry collective cowardly ass.