DEFENSE
THE ILLEGAL ALIEN RAID IN COLORADO REVEALS A
CANCER IN OUR MILITARY
By Andrea Widburg, April 27, 2025
Almost six
years ago, before I started working at American Thinker, I wrote a post on my
personal blog about Obama’s purge of many military leaders who believed in
traditional American values. I entitled it, “Under Obama, there came to be a
cancer in the Pentagon.”
That post, especially the title, popped into my head when I read about the fact
that over a dozen U.S. service members were rounded up when the DEA raided an
illegal club in Colorado Springs, where they found dozens of illegal aliens,
many of whom were also gang members, weapons, drugs, and prostitutes. This is
the metastasized result of Obama’s efforts, which Biden carried on for him.
The original story was simply that there’d been a raid on this club, netting
over a hundred illegal aliens, along with drugs and weapons:
#DEA Rocky Mountain led a multi-agency enforcement operation along with our local and federal partners early this morning.@DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody. Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs. pic.twitter.com/R4Smb3voAg
— DEARockyMountain (@DEAROCKYMTNDiv) April 27, 2025
It then emerged that the club was a hangout for members of MS-13, now properly labeled as a terrorist organization, and Tren de Aragua, which has been properly identified as a terrorist organization sent by a foreign power to destabilize America. Confucius would have been proud of this rectification of names, so that words correspond with reality:
This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists. Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants.
As we approach his 100 days in office @POTUS Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/DvYUNrmzvd
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) April 27, 2025
Given these terrorists’ fondness for the club, it’s highly likely that they were well-represented among those illegal aliens rounded up, and that they were responsible for the guns, drugs, and prostitution. This is great work on the part of the Trump administration. For the terrorists, the glory days are coming to an end. But as I said, while that was good news, something deeply distressing emerged from the raid, and that was the presence of so many active-duty U.S. service people, over a dozen, who were there as patrons, armed security, or criminal actors:
WATCH: DEA Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen describes the federal operation this morning at an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs. Some active duty military, as well as gang members and many people in the U.S. illegally, were among those detained. pic.twitter.com/21PrvrBU7m
— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) April 27, 2025
It’s absolutely true that any large institution will have rot, and
the U.S. military is very large. There hasn’t been a modern war that hasn’t been
plagued with criminality. Where there are young men, there will be murders and
assaults, and where there are valuables, such as weapons systems, there will be
theft.
However, I don’t believe that there has ever been a situation in which so many
military people were working hand-in-glove with criminal illegal aliens engaged
in terrorist activities aimed at destabilizing the U.S. Instead, it’s entirely
possible that these terrorists have infiltrated the military itself.
And as I said, this kind of behavior represents a fish that has rotted at the
head. Obama took a high-functioning, patriotic, disciplined military and turned
it into a left-wing, anti-American, anti-male, anti-white, anti-biological-norms
institution. You can’t expect the troops at the bottom to be pure when the top
is so grotesque.
Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com
MISSILE DEFENSE TEST A SUCCESS
The
Washington Times National Weekly Edition for December 15-21, 2003, published
a Reuters article reporting that a missle from a US Navy Aegis cruiser
knocked out a dummy warhead over the Pacific on Dec. 11, the fourth intercept in
five such tests of a sea-based anti-missile shield, the Pentagon
said.
The Standard Missile-3 fired from USS Lake Erie of Kauai in the Hawaiian islands successfully engaged the target about four minutes after the target was launched.
The last such test, on June 18, failed when the interceptor missile missed its target.
Lockheed Martin Corp, the prime contractor for the Aegis weapon system and vertical launch system installed in Aegis cruisers and destroyers. Lockheed said the intercept took place outside the Earth's atmosphere during the target missile's descent. The Pentagon is seeking to build defenses that would also go after warheads in their boost and mid-course flight paths.
The Dec. 11 test was designed to evaluate long-range surveillance and track functions of the Aegis system.
DO
WE NEED MISSILE DEFENSE?
On October 30, 2000, the Associated Press printed an article, dateline Moscow, explaining that Russian officials were trying to find one of four short-range rockets accidentally launched from a Siberian military base. The rockets were rounds from a Grad launcher, a truck-mounted weapon that can fire 40 of the 9 1/2 foot-long rockets up to 21 miles in devastating rows.
One of the rockets exploded on site, injuring at least two people, two more landed without exploding and the fourth rocket had not been located.
