Things fall apart, the center cannot hold

Let no man deceive you with vain words.

  Addendum
to the silent invasion thesis

By J.R. Nyquist

In trying to evaluate Scott Gulbransen's allegations about Chinese troops in Mexico, I decided to consult an expert on the border, Mr. John Carmen (see http://www.customscorruption.com/). With over 25-years of experience in law enforcement, including time spent in the San Diego Police Department, U.S. Mint Police, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Customs, Carmen is a genuine whistleblower with knowledge of border service corruption. He has heard the stories of Chinese troops in Mexico. But whenever he asks for hard evidence, like photographs, nothing turns up. 

Carmen has his own explanation for the sightings. He says the Mexican Army recruits from the poorest Indian villages. As these are non-European people, they can appear Chinese from a distance. In addition, their speech is not always Spanish and would be unfamiliar to American border officials. 

I then asked him another question: Are the Chinese smuggling contraband through the port of Ensanada to the Otay Mesa border check point? Carmen had no doubt that many things were being smuggled across the border every day. "There is serious corruption," he explained.  "If you report it at the regional level, then at the national level, and nothing happens then you know that the it goes all the way up." 

Could a terrorist group allied with a criminal cartel smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States? 

Explaining the kind of operation it would have to be, with all the right people paid off, Carmen said, "You're going to be guaranteed of getting through." He added, "They don't really search the trains any longer. I doubt if even one in fifty boxcars have been inspected. The boats are a joke. They do tunnels all the time. They're doing two percent inspections nationwide -- they're not checking enough containers!" 

The situation is not good, Carmen admitted, "And nobody wants to hear that its a lot worse." He pointed to managers involved in smuggling. "Certain people need to be investigated," he said. "But it's not happening. Look at the inspectors. Some guy is old, tired, fed up, sucking fumes out there, and one day he might take a bribe. And they do take bribes." 

Once someone at a key checkpoint takes a bribe, the crooks own him. In that event, the United States of America loses control of its border. It falls to criminals with cash. And who knows what the loyalties or secret alliances of these criminals might be? "If you take their money," Carmen noted, "you belong to them." 

How high does the corruption on the border go? Carmen says it goes to Washington, even to the White House. "I'm very adamant about the fact of corruption at the top. The people that run this country know exactly what they're doing," he explained. The border traffic is an enormous source of revenue, and the payoffs run in every direction. Perhaps more damning than corruption, however, is the bungling of the U.S. authorities. "Our government is incompetent," he stated flatly.  

In an age of mass destruction weapons, with an intelligence service that cannot find Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, a case can be made for incompetence. Highly destructive weapons might already be sitting inside the United States, or in Mexico, ready to use. 

John Carmen's testimony is disturbing. The sad fact is, Washington has turned a deaf ear to his warnings about border security.

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