The Chinese are coming? Occasionally, mutters are heard from self-styled “independent journalists”, who claim that there are Chinese soldiers lurking below the Rio Grande. The story goes that these forces are poised to take advantage of systemic breakdowns in the US to enforce UN dictates that run counter to traditional concepts of sovereignty. Allegedly, they would kick down the doors of American homes and commit atrocities that run counter to our Bill of Rights.
Most people in public life would dismiss that whole paragraph as sheer lunacy. But not Sheriff Erasmo Alarcon, Jr., of Jim Hogg County, Texas. The rural lawman just might be the highest-profile sitting public official in recent memory to lend credence to rumors that America is in peril of invasion.
According to WORLD NET DAILY, the sheriff published a letter in the JIM HOGG COUNTY ENTERPRISE of Hebbronville, Texas that made a number of sensationalistic claims. Among them, that possibly foreign “military-type individuals have been sighted in very remote locations of our county,” which “stretches 50 or 60 miles from end to end.” Alarcon also claims that his office has “reported this information to higher-up law enforcement agencies, but no one really knows who these individuals are, not even the military.”
For their part, the feds claim that they’ve heard nothing about this matter until now. And perhaps the issue is as simple as an overzealous local lawman going public with a matter both outside his jurisdiction and beyond his pay grade. It’s no stretch to imagine a delegation dispatched to give the errant-eyed sheriff a Texas-sized attitude adjustment. It’s hard to imagine the man needing to buy a 2004 Desk Calendar for his office, and commensurately easy to see Alarcon and the County deciding to go their separate ways.
It would be easy to laugh Alarcon’s story off as a simple yarn spun by a simple man if his story didn’t underscore some deeper truths about the measures undertaken by the Washington government. They’re great at regime change and assembling no-fly lists, but have a much harder time securing America’s borders, if a current sheriff is to be believed. Likewise, it’s hard to imagine proponents of the US military’s global role surviving politically if Alarcon’s claims were rooted in reality. But that’s such an unhappy topic to contemplate that it’s best left for another time.
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