Rest in Peace Hero Don Alejo Garza Tamez
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, November 25, 2010, 12:02 AM
The drug cartel demanded Don Alejo Garza Tamez surrender his property.
The 77 year-old rancher fought them to his death instead.
The mob demanded Nov. 13 Don Alejo Garza Tamez surrender his property. The 77 year old man refused and barricaded himself in his farm. He killed 4 and wounded 2 terrorists.
Milenio Mexico 11/22/2010
(Translated from Spanish)
(Monterrey) The cartel demanded Don Alejo Garza Tamez surrender his property. The 77 year old man refused and barricaded himself in his farm, killing 4 of them and wounding 2 bombers.
When Mexican Marines arrived at the ranch outside of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, they saw a bleak scenario with the main house half destroyed by gunfire and grenades. Outside were four dead bodies and two unconscious wounded subjects. Inside there was only one body, Don Alejandro, owner and timber businessman. Inspection found weapons and ammunition at all the doors and windows. In the end, they found the man had designed his own defense strategy to fight alone. On Nov. 13, a group of men had told him he had 24 hours to deliver his property to them. With almost 8 decades of life, he told them he would not give them his property, and would be there waiting, he said flatly. He told his employees not to come to work the next day, and spent the night preparing. At 4am, they came. After a violent gunfight where the farmer seemed to be everywhere, they tried grenades against him. After several of them were killed and a quick reconnaissance, they chose to leave as they believed the military would soon arrive.
Shortly after the Marines arrived, and slowly, patiently reconstructed the events, they found just a rancher, a man who loved his property more than anything in the world and literally defended it to the death. In the last hunt of his life, Don Alejo surprised the group of assassins who wanted to impose the law of the jungle on his ranch. These Marines will never forget the scene: a 77 year old man swept away four gunmen before he died fighting as the best soldier, with dignity, honor and courage.
Rest in peace Don Alejo Garza Tamez.
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Simon commented:
Well said. May we all be more like him. Rest in peace.
Ruebacca commented:
There once was a freeman in Mexico and his name was Don Alejo Garza Tamez.
Granny commented:
Vaya con Dios, Don Alejo! Thank you for your shining example of honor & courage.
redc1c4 commented:
would that either the Mexican government or our own had a fraction of the cajones this gentleman displayed…… he died a warrior and a free man.
/hand salute
brian commented:
And this is how a civilian properly does his duty. If everyone were willing to do this it would only take a few. The US seriously needs to consider incursion to give these people hope.
Andreas K. commented:
In Obama’s world, and the world of nutjobs like Whoopie and the Greenists and leftists in Europe and the US, Don Alejo Garza Tamez was the enemy, he was the terrorist.
He owned private land. And lots of it! Cue evil capitalist exploiting the masses.
He had guns, private guns. And lots of them by the looks of it! Cue evil gun clinging mass murderer.
He killed the mob bastards instead of de-escalating and complying. Cue evil terrorist.
The mob bastards? Oh they were just misunderstood and had a bad childhood!
In my book that was one of the last free men. He stood up and defended his property and his life.
Sean D Sorrentino commented:
“with dignity, honor and courage”
If you have to die, this makes a fine epitaph.
Militant Conservative commented:
I have my supplies laid out for the same scenario.
It’s not IF it is when. Could be a simple home invasion robery.
Could be big government, same thing, unwanted intruders.
powder is dry
HH commented:
If you are gong to go, take the enemy with you. He killed four and wounded two. Pretty good score while outnumbered and outgunned. This is why weapons are owned by average people in order to defend themselves.
John commented:
This was a man.
apodoca commented:
Don Alejo Garza Tamez embodied the NH motto: Live Free or Die! He’s an inspiration to us all. Let more Don Alejo Garza Tamezes arise in Mexico.
Here in the U.S., we need to recapture that spirit Don Alejo Garza Tamez embodied and not subject ourselves to scans or physically invasive pat-downs or any government intrusion.
apodoca commented:
Make that any unconstitutional government intrusion.
Alana commented:
This is what our leaders want for us.
Conservative Ken commented:
His face will never grace a T-shirt. He memory will never be a holiday. His name will never be spoken by leaders of great nations.
May we all have his strength.
Don Alejo Garza Tamez
Rest in Peace
Patsplace commented:
Hearing of a man like this is bitter sweet. Bitter that scum killed him and sweet that he got 4 of them and wounded two others.
May he rest in peace.
Ed commented:
Don Alejo Garza Tamez, RIP. Mexico need more men like you!
bg commented:
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“Courage” means strength to face danger or take on challenges. It is the ability of a person to face the unexpected challenges with bravery. It is a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear. This virtue isn’t present in a person since birth but can be developed and nurtured gradually with time. This virtue helps a person to be strong enough to face all the lows of life boldly.
may God bless & keep you Señor Tamez..
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Cholo Sin Barrio commented:
Dang, this is one vato with big fat balls, I will tell my homies about this brave man. A man who died with dignity and true hero. Rest in Peace my good friend. I am glad you f**ked four of them cacaroches.
Rock commented:
Don Alejo Garza Tamez, a hero for any who believe in freedom. R.I.P.. In truth Mr. Tamez was a dead man when the scum showed up and made their demands. He knew it, as well as them. What they did not know or failed to comprehend was the same fate would also be shared by some of them. A fit example of the old phrase, never threaten a old man, if he is too old to take a whooping he will just kill you.
John West commented:
That was a real man. If we had more of them, there would be no cartel. There would be be no Airport groping, there would be no socialism. Need I go on? It is human weakness and cowardice that give us our miseries.
You cannot enslave the brave. Not if they are armed.
Oldpuppymax commented:
As “Americans” meekly surrender their liberty to TSA strip searches, it’s heartening to know that the spirit of freedom and the courage to FIGHT for it has not been entirely extinguished in the human race. A few citizens of the US will applaud this mans courage today, but don’t worry Hussein…they’ll go back to being sheep tomorrow.
moriyah commented:
“…he told them he would not give them his property, and would be there waiting, he said flatly. He told his employees not to come to work the next day, and spent the night preparing.”
We should follow the hand book of Don Alejo Garza Tamez who would not be cowed by the terrorists. Surely he knew what they were capable of and he showed no fear.
He spent the night preparing as we should spend this figurative “night” we are in and begin our preparation.
dunce commented:
An obama trained and approved redistribution group will be coming to to your nieghborhood soon. They will probably call themselves reformers and talk about fairness and social justice. When they can not take your property under the color of law, they always resort to violence as they have by killing the white farmers in many african countrys. A corrupt official like eric holder will simply decline to enforce the law as he did with the thugs at the polls.
Taylor commented:
Though the ending is tragic, the nobility of his stubborn defense will be forever remembered by the people of his town and the (surviving) criminals who dared to take him on. Hopefully others will rise up and eventually this criminal scourge will be pushed back once and for all.
They should definitely make his story into a movie. To make it more “Hollywood-friendly”, they may have to move it over the border into some southern state and have it star Robert Duvall (an individualist who speaks Spanish fluently) as the brave, elderly farmer.
“Abandoned by the authorities, one man stands alone, defiant even to the death against an army of criminals.”
Right is Right commented:
Will the Mexican gov now give the land to the terrorists to appease them like the U.S. did in Arizona when they told U.S. citizens, by putting up signs, to STAY OUT ?
Danger-Public Warning
Travel Not Recommended
Active Drug and Human Smuggling Area
Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High Rates of Speed
Stay Away from Trash, Clothing, Backpacks, and Abandoned Vehicles
If You See Suspicious Activity, DO NOT CONFRONT! Move Away and Call 911
BLM Encourages Visitors to Use Public Lands North of Interstate 8
For More Information, call 623-580-5500
mcon commented:
Seriously Cholo #18, do you really talk like that? This is put on, isn’t it? “Vato”, “homies” give me a break. Certainly you didn’t say that on purpose. I missed the joke, tell me you are not serious about wanting to be thought of as a moron.
mARIA commented:
DON ALEJO GARZA TAMEZ NACIDO EN ALLENDE, NUEVO LEÓN; nos deja el ejemplo de luchar con coraje y valor por la tierra a defender… se vuelve a encender la llama de la INDEPENDENCIA! NUEVO LEÓN, TAMAULIPAS Y COAHUILA! hace años se luchó, está en la historia solo que su Independencia duró solo 11 meses (por cierto por pocos conocida)…. PORQUÉ NO VOLVER A LUCHAR???!!! sin olvidar a CHIHUAHUA!!
Osvaldo commented:
Esos si son Hombres no chingaderas!!! que VIVA DON ALEJO y Este con Dios
Escuchen el corrido que le hicieron esta en youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdIkPvfVF0
Homre bragado Y valiente de muy noble corazon, nacio norteno hasta el tope y asi defendio su honor, llegeron a medrentarlo y Alejo los recibio a Tiro limpio el solito.
M. Simon commented:
#21,
The TSA etc. is just an extension of the war on dopers.
Here is a reprise of a bit I wrote in 2005 warning you what was coming. And back then I was a hysterical old lady:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/11/man-for-all-seasons-reprise.html
regularguy commented:
Well stated, John West. Cowardice is the foundation of too much suffering in the world. I think sloth is a hand-maiden of cowardice as well. May this noble man rest in peace and flame the embers of courage in the hearts of his countrymen to throw out the vermin who terrorize the innocent there.
Marsh commented:
Coming to a neighborhood near you thanks to the open borders, pro-immigration idiots.
bg commented:
++
M. Simon #29
[Well the Devil (evil dope fiend) has been beaten hard. And now there
is very little to stop the government from beating you. You contraband
smuggling suspect you.
And to think there were a few of us who saw this coming.]
wow, if only i could write half as well..
that said, i cannot, ergo, the following..
albeit in a different language.. more or less been stating
the obvious via connecting the dots since 9/11 myself..
The Last Throw
[But why not? Islam is 1000 years older than the Left; its population burgeoning while the Left is aborting itself into demographic extinction. More fundamentally, any honest Leftist must realize that his movement and its aspirations are rooted in the very West it seeks to destroy. Communist totalitarianism is the doppelganger of secular freedom; and the serpent in the garden must know that the desert, so hospitable to Islam, can only be a place of death for it. The Left may have embarked upon a journey of revenge. They will find suicide.]
precisely why i’ve referred to US as being doubting Thomases
on a suicide mission many times over the past several years..
re: the specifics in the write up, could not find a direct link to The Berlin
Wall’s Revenge linked @ TBC, however, here a few that contain slightly
different excerpts..
via: Little Green Footballs
via: ¡No Pasarán!
more here & here..
over the years many of us saw what was coming via connecting the pieces
of the puzzle.. eventually revealing the big picture.. however, many like you
are the ones who provided the pieces of the puzzle that enabled us to put it
together in the first place, again, thank you, and thanks to all who provided
so many pieces of the puzzle revealing the big picture (as an aside.. years
ago i used to say things along the lines of “everyone is focusing on the
signature and ignoring what the painting portrays”, don’t believe many
people got it.. btw, and albeit most people think i’m a male, you’re not the only one who’s more or less been perceived as a (fitb) old lady)..
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Nathan commented:
If this took place in Toronto, the police would arrest him, even if he was dead.
Firehand commented:
“A Rifleman’s Prayer:
Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.
But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.
And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses.” Geek with a .45
juan commented:
que verguenza para el gobierno mexicano. EL SOLITO
QUE DESCANSE EN PAZ ” DON ALEJO “
dave commented:
Don Alejo Garza Tamez, I salute you.
I was starting to doubt whether honour still existed, and you proved that it does.
Kreuz commented:
If Mexico would just let ordinary citizens (not just hunters and private guards) bear arms, Mexicans would defend their property like this brave hunter.
F**k liberals, they enjoy seeing hundreds of Innocent people die at the hands of heavily armed thugs.
ismael commented:
YO LE QUIERO DAR UN MERECIDO RECONOCIMIENTO A DON ALEJO, YA QUE EL SI FUE DE LOS HOMBRES QUE NO SE ACOBARDARON CON ESOS CABRONES MONTONEROS SICARIOS. EL SI ES HOMBRE Y NO CHINGADERAS. OJALA Y EXISTIERAN MAS HOMBRES COMO DON ALEJO Y MATAR A TODOS ESOS CABRONES QUE HACEN EL CRIMEN ORGANIZADO Y QUE EL GOBIERNO SE HAGA EL SORDO Y NO ALLA CULPABLES POR MATAR A ESOS CABRONES. OJALA PRONTO SE ACABE TODO ESTO Y DEJEN A LA POBLACION MEXICANA Y DE TODO EL MUNDO VIVIR EN PAZ Y SIN MIEDO DE SALIR A LA CALLE Y ESTAR CON EL TEMOR DE QUE SE LE VAYA A CRUZAR A UNO UN PUÑADO DE ESOS MAL PARIDOS COBARDES Y RATEROS…. QUE MUERAN LOS SICARIOS Y EL CRIMEN ORGANIZADO,,, SI……. QUE MUERAN!
jose commented:
JUST REMEMBER THIS GOOD MAN, WHO DID NOT GIVE UP AGAINST THE ENEMY, HONOR AS A WAY OF LIFE
Cytotoxic commented:
The War on Drugs takes another life.
richard martinez commented:
this is an example what he did shows honor and pride defending his property.shame on mexico what he did the mexican goverment would not intervene on doing. arriba don alejo
Felix commented:
In a world where words like freedom, justice, dignity and honor have lost much of their meaning, Don Alejo Garza proved there are still valuable people in our society. He stood for what he worked for so hard and he defended not just his propoerty, but his honor and the honor of those who haven’t been able to defend themselves. Mexico has to take a bigger and smarter fight against drug cartels and the US must do something to stop weapons and ammo from crossing the border to Mexico. Yes, there’s corruption in Mexico, but there’s corruption in the US as well. Otherwise, how could you explain de thousands of weapons and millions of bullets being smuggled into Mexico?
cb commented:
One of the biggest pair of cojones I’ve ever heard of.
Fenway_Nation commented:
There seems to be a tangible ‘doomed hero’ and Old West quality to Don Garza’s last stand. My understanding is that the Don Garza saga is huge news down in Mexico- to the point where corrido musicians have already chrinicled his tale in song- but expect out progressive MSM to avoid this like the plague, for not only does this not fall nicely into their ‘American guns are soley responsible for the violence in Mexico template, But Don Garza’s last stand indicates how one teneacious and determined man with a hunting rifle can chip away at the long-standing impunity of murderous thugs…..
Joe M. Lugo, Jr. commented:
The Obama type and those that elected him are of the same mind set that have been voting for leaders to run Mexico for decades. The security systems socialist create do not protect citizens as Don Alejo Garza or Mario Espinoza Lobato, 58 killed at around 3 PM in Del Rio, Texas as he parked in his garage (09/20/2007 Associated Press).
God describes the plundering and violence that has been going on in Mexico and the USA. The law is powerless and justice never goes forth. Perverse judgement proceeds. Habakkuk 1:3.