Reapers Line - c
by Lee Morgan II
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Author: Lee Morgan IIEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-25
ISBN: 188789697X
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Rio Nuevo
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Book Review: An Eye-Opener
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Reaper's Line" is not only an eye-opener; a revelation, but a thought-provoking true story about law enforcement on the border as well.
The author's style of writing makes the reader feel as if he or she is sitting on a rocking chair in front of Lee Morgan II, the author. Literally speaking, he sits opposite the reader on a rocking chair, as well, telling his story as he whittles away a piece of wood.
However, his story has long been carved.
Lee Morgan II is a former Marine Vietnam Veteran. The experiences in Vietnam landed him a job with the US government. The author received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart during his military service. He received many awards for outstanding achievement during his 31-years as a federal law enforcement official with the Department of Justice, the US Treasury Department, Border Patrol, Custom's Office, and Homeland Security.
The author used the expertise he learned in Vietnam during his tenure as an undercover Custom's officer. The Vietnam experiences helped him stomach the animalistic atrocities performed by the corrupt Mexican police and Mexican corrupt Army and the drug cartels. The gut-wrenching, vile, repulsive, and abominable acts done against drug runners, and informants, when they were arrested, and their drug loads were seized by the Border Patrol and Custom's Officers makes the reader want to throw up.
The author presents the reader with facts about the unbelievable corruption, not only on the Mexican side of the border, but with lawmaking and supposedly, law-managing officials on the American side as well. These officials included a chief of police, a judge, prominent members of the community, and even some of the authors' co-workers who could not resist the temptation of easy, dirty money. The readers' stomach will turn on finding out, firsthand about all the inhumane atrocities and how badly corruption runs amok and out of control on both sides of the border.
Even though, most of the authors' story deals with the drug enforcement efforts and the constant interference of REMF'S who sit on their plush offices in Washington, D.C., the author also deals extensively with the current problem of illegal aliens (REMF's is an acronym for words that cannot be printed here).
The reader will be well-informed, and become less misconceived and ill-conceived about that everlasting human problem of the illegal alien, which at times the author presents it as being humane, compassionate, caring, kind and gentle as well. Nevertheless, as the author says, "The law is the law and must be enforced."
The reader will know that despite the horrible corruption, on both ends of the border, the greater percentage of Untied Stated of America men and women in uniform who solemnly swear to keep justice and the law, do so honorably. As the author, Lee Morgan II did for 31 years.
"The Reaper's Line is a must read for all Americans concerned with the illegal alien problem and Homeland Security.
A few interesting excerpts from the book,
Excerpt from the book: pp. 427, Chapter 19; "...Through our State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, City, we were required to notify the Mexican Attorney General of our investigations and informants in Mexico. This notification included the informants, designated alphanumeric identity codes, operational dates in Mexico, operational locations in Mexico, the full names of the Mexican drug traffickers and targets the informants were working on, and a synopsis of the informants' past an proposed future undercover dope buys from the specifically named traffickers. (Gee, whiz! I'm surprised that Janet Reno didn't want the informants' dates of birth so they would be readily available to be carved onto their f.....g headstones!)"
Excerpt from the book: pp. 429, Chapter 19; "...And would you like to know just how big a sellout this was? Compare it to this: Each year the president of the United States gives $6 or $7 million to Mexico supposedly to be used in the war on drugs. Would you like to know what the U.S. government gets in return? Not a f.....g thing. Zero. The Mexicans don't give us an operational plan on how the funds are going to be used, or an accounting of the expenditures! There are no Mexican documents that I'm aware of that detail where these millions have gone. For all we know, and I wouldn't doubt this a bit, the Mexican government may be using your U.S. tax dollars to cultivate and harvest their own g.....n poppy fields! Yet in return, we are now giving them the heads-up on our operations and informants in Mexico!"
Excerpt from the book: pp. 436, Chapter 19; "...Whose doorstep do you lay this at? President Clinton and his desire to keep the NAFTA benefits flowing? Or Attorney General Janet Reno because she cowed down to her boss because he was upset that we pissed the Mexicans off over the Casablanca investigation? Certainly a combination of both would be most correct. Had the president not bent over backwards for Mexican relations after Operation Casablanca, and had Reno not given away our informants to Mexico under the absolutely insidious Brownsville Agreement, these operatives would not have been murdered. And yes, even though some will say they were only scumbag informants, they were still real people with hopes, dreams, and loving families, just like you or me."
Summary of Reapers Line - c
When I was 14, a young Marine taught me how to shoot a rifle. My instructor and surrogate big brother went on to enter US history books as the ""Texas Tower Sniper"" after he massacred 16 innocent victims. He was the first recorded mass murderer in American history. Four years later, I was conducting CIA assassination missions as a military sniper in Vietnam. After returning to the US, I spent the next 31 years on the US-Mexican border as a federal agent, where the struggle against the smugglers of drugs and starving human beings has been as harrowing as anything I encountered in Vietnam. The Reaper's Line is a non-fiction account of unparalleled official corruption, national fraud, mass murders, gunfights, desperate sojourners, treason, betrayal, and government wrongdoing. It is a story of smoking six-shooters and blazing machine guns in today's Wild West.Criminals Books
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