A Last Resort

I thought I made it clear that deadly force against unarmed civilians should only be used as a last resort.  There are a number of non-lethal techniques that are tried first but, if those techniques prove ineffective, and there is no other way to stop them, then you have to shoot.  The alternative is to let them run roughshod over your people and go on to do who knows what, and that is not acceptable.  There are criteria that leadership uses to determine when a situation has escalated to the point when it's more dangerous to allow it to continue than to suppress it, and I think that thousands of desperate people trying to force their way across a national border is one of them.

I considered linking to the story I read about those good old boys, but I figured that, since it was in the national news media, my esteemed colleagues had already read about it.  I just checked my news app, and the story is no longer there.  It referred to those guys as citizen militias, or something like that.  The authorities had asked them to keep out of the way, and they agreed to stay well back of the action, but said they would be ready to move forward if needed.  It's like I said before, if our government does not prevent the Caravan people from over running our country, there are people who will.

I also have stated that, if those guys get away with this, more will follow.  The estimated number of people in the original Caravan seems to fluctuate daily as some drop out and others join in, but there are more caravans forming as we speak.  I did copy the link to that story:
 https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBPeW9K?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
In checking the link, I noticed some content at the beginning of the article that wasn't there a few minutes ago.  It looks like they merged two stories into one.  The new part was about somebody providing busses to help move the Caravan along.  If you read past that part, you will come to the part about more caravans forming.

It's understandable that my esteemed colleagues would think of the CIA tactics employed during the Cold War as destabilizing but, from my point of view, the Commies were the bad guys in those days.  There was some talk about the CIA being not much better, and there was probably some truth to that.  Nevertheless, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."