Perry deploys ‘Ranger Recon' to the border

[Heidi]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Sept. 10, 2009, 8:33PM

Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday he's sent a special contingent of Texas Rangers called “Ranger Recon” to hot spots along the Texas-Mexico border to engage drug and human smugglers.

Perry said the special teams — drawn from the state's elite 144-officer Texas Ranger division — began operating in early August in remote areas on the Texas border where cartels and human smugglers have “overrun” private farms and ranches. The division is supported by 200 Texas National Guard members, part of what the governor described as a continuation of $110 million in state-funded operations to contend with the fallout from Mexico's increasingly violent drug war.

“We have taken a more aggressive approach to policing the border, but the bad guys are very flexible; they react to our changing tactics as well,” said Perry, during a news conference at Texas Department of Public Safety offices in north Houston. “… As a result, we have landowners all along the border who are finding their farms and ranches overrun by smuggling operations, often armed individuals are on their property.”

Texas Rangers and National Guardsmen assigned to the Ranger Reconnaissance Teams will target these smugglers, Perry said.

“These are individuals who can stay on the move. We can stay one jump ahead of the cartels and beat them at their own game,” he said.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6612379.html

[tularetom]

1. This fucking idiot talks like he's playing some kind of video game

"bad guys", "one jump ahead", "beat them at their own game".

Why doesn't he just send Walker Texas Ranger who could resolve the situation before lunch, without even getting his cowboy hat dirty.

God I hate it when some soft handed ninny tries to act all bad.

[Libertas1776]

2. Better be careful

"The eyes of a ranger" might just be "upon you." :rofl:

[lapfog_1]

8. "Brazos!!!" - n/t

[Heidi]

3. I've come to believe he'd love to escalate the existing problems.

Dallas Morning News: Gov. Rick Perry says Texas can learn from Israeli security efforts (Aug. 14, 2009)

[lapfog_1]

7. "head 'em off at the pass???"

I mean he might as well just have gone for it. Along with "Wanted: Dead or Alive".

Slogans and sound bites are so comforting, don't ya think???

:sarcasm:

[Alcibiades]

4. Oh, a couple of dozen guys

The drug cartels will be running scared!

[Old Hob]

6. You've obviously never seen Lone Wolf McQuade. He just opened up a can of Chuck Fucking Norris.

[razorman]

12. "One riot, one Ranger" - Capt. William McDonald, 1896

[Hulk]

5. This butt hole will be sending them to his northern border next...

Get ready texas.....your moron leader is about to blast off into his own little space ship here. This ass hole is as looney as they come, and he has a HUGE following down there in "goat roper country". What a bunch of idiots.....led by one of the biggest in the lone star state.

[lapfog_1]

9. "goat roper"... now that's a new term for it. Thanks! - n/t

[badgervan]

10. Ranger Rick....

.... and his great hair seems to have quite the kingdom going. Wonder if he's going to offer bounties next?

[razorman]

11. "If your life has ever been changed by an episode of 'Walker, Texas Ranger',

then you might be a Redneck." - Jeff Foxworthy