Trouble Brewing in River City – Venezuela

by Mustang

The Music Man was a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston and Shirly Jones.  Preston, a somewhat dishonest salesman is attempting to sell River City on the idea that if the young people were busy learning how to play musical instruments, they wouldn’t have time for getting into trouble at local pool halls, and so forth.  It was an entertaining film — but not as entertaining as recent news from Venezuela.

The First Blush

Mr. Randy Clark is a retired member of the U.S. Border Patrol.  Before retirement, he served as Chief of Law Enforcement Operations in the Del Rio area of Texas.  In a recent article from Breitbart, Mr. Clark tells its readers that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Intelligence) instructs Border Patrol Agents to look for Venezuelan men who may have been recently released from Venezuelan prisons trying to illegally enter the United States over our nation’s southern border.

They, along with millions of others, of course.  What piqued anyone’s interest in this, of course, was Governor Ron DeSantis (Florida) having sent 50 Venezuelan people to Martha’s Vineyard (a sanctuary city).

Someone apparently tripped over the fact that there were 50 Venezuelan people traveling in a group when they illegally entered the United States.  Don’t quit reading now, it gets better.  The president of Venezuela is intentionally releasing individuals convicted of serious felonies (murder, rape, extortion, arson) and sending them north to infiltrate the U.S. border.  Action passed is action complete.  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro Moros is following the Cuban playbook of a few decades back … in the 1980s.

How many Venezuelan criminals are we talking about?  Since around October 2021, around 130,000.  Our friend Z at Geeez reported this just the other day.  I commented that they are offering a few more tidbits of information that (at least in my view) is a tad more serious; not a single commenter even acknowledged what I said.  In any case, how could it get worse?

The Second Blush

Dr. Larry Franklin was in charge of the “Iran Desk” under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.  Franklin is also a retired U.S. Army colonel (infantry) and former member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve.  Writing for the Gatestone Institute, Dr. Franklin reveals a recent agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela: a 2.5 million acre land grant.

I’ll pause now so we can all enjoy the sound of crickets chirping.

That’s right … Venezuela has made land available to the terrorist state of Iran totaling 2.5 million (with an M) acres.  Public spokesmen from Venezuela and Iran assure us that the land will be used to grow staple crops, allowing water-starved Iran to better feed its population.

On the basis of this information alone, I would have to say that the Iranian government deeply cares about the welfare of its people.  And I should add that it might appear as if the Americans have once again mischaracterized the Venezuelan government.  Giving another country 2.5 million acres so that they can feed their starving masses would appear to be a genuinely nice thing to do.

There is one niggle, though.  American intelligence experts know that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is already well established in Venezuela — and has been for around three decades.  Today, members of Hamas and Hezbollah are part of Venezuela’s thriving business community.  They all seem to be in the export business.  It’s the nature of exports that has American intelligence specialists worried.

But for Venezuela, it’s a win-win situation because both Iran and the People’s Republic of China is in the process of strengthening Venezuela’s military against the United States.  Today, Venezuela has more lethal drones than the United States, thanks to China helping itself to U.S. military technology under George Bush and Barack Obama.

The Washington beltway may not be worried about any of this, but the people of Columbia sure are — something the Columbians share with the citizens of Del Rio, Texas.  In this event, at this particular time, it doesn’t matter if it’s Trump’s fault (and it isn’t).  What matters is that enemies of the United States are now conspiring against the people of the United States.  And let us acknowledge that no Moslem ever since Islam’s very beginning, has been opposed to aiding Satan in destroying its enemies.