{"id":56420,"date":"2014-11-14T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56420"},"modified":"2014-11-14T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T15:01:35","slug":"about-those-terrorists-coming-across-the-southwest-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56420","title":{"rendered":"About Those Terrorists Who &#8220;Didn&#8217;t&#8221; Sneak Across the Southwest Border . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those allegations made by Rep. Duncan Hunter about terrorists coming across the US Southwestern border?\u00a0 You know, those allegations that the current\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>group of less-than-truthful persons of irregular parentage running things in DC<\/del> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/oct\/9\/terrorists-not-breaching-us-border-jeh-johnson\/\">claimed &#8211; in the words of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson &#8211; were &#8220;categorically false&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what?\u00a0 It turns out those claims weren&#8217;t actually false at all.\u00a0 Are you surprised the Administration &#8220;got it wrong&#8221; &#8211; again?\u00a0 And apparently baldfaced lied about the matter?<\/p>\n<p>Nah, me either.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already had to get rid of several pair of trousers because they keep p!ssing on my leg and telling me it&#8217;s rain.<\/p>\n<p>While not members of ISIS, the 4 individuals in question were Turkish.\u00a0 And<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The men initially claimed to be members of the Revolutionary People\u2019s Liberation Party\/Front, known by the acronym DHKP\/C. The group is a Marxist insurgency that claimed credit for a 2013 suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Ankara, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/turkey\/\">Turkey<\/a>\u2019s capital, last year.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. counterterrorism officials said the men were more likely members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pkk\/\">PKK<\/a>, or Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, which has been battling for Kurdish rights within <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/turkey\/\">Turkey<\/a> for decades, though recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pkk\/\">PKK<\/a> and Turkish leaders have tried to broker a political agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pkk\/\">PKK<\/a> and DHKP\/C are listed by the State Department as terrorist groups.\u00a0 Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the fact that avowed members of terrorist groups got into the U.S. shows it\u2019s possible to sneak across a porous border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they&#8217;re not <em>ISIS\/ISIL<\/em> terrorists &#8211; they&#8217;re simply other terrorists.\u00a0 They only claimed to be members of a group of Marxists that have conducted suicide bomber attacks on a US Embassy, and which is recognized as a terrorist group by the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re not ISIS\/ISIL.\u00a0 So I guess to this \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <del>group of clueless idiots<\/del> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Administration that means, &#8220;No problem; it&#8217;s all good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four men in question apparently paid a smuggler network $8,000 each to be smuggled into the US.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing they weren&#8217;t the first to do that.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m also guessing the lies we heard here about them not being terrorists aren&#8217;t the only lies we&#8217;re going to hear along those lines from this Administration, either.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/12\/terrorists-smuggled-across-us-southern-border-befo\/\">had a fairly good article<\/a> the other day on the subject; the quote above is from that article.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those allegations made by Rep. Duncan Hunter about terrorists coming across the US Southwestern border?\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"About Those Terrorists Who &#8220;Didn&#8217;t&#8221; Sneak Across the Southwest Border . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56420\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Those Terrorists Who &#8220;Didn&#8217;t&#8221; Sneak Across the Southwest Border . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}