Was Tear Gas Use at US-Mexico Border a Violation of Conventions on Chemical Weapons?

| November 27, 2018

schatzSen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) responded to news that Border Patrol used tear gas on people attempting to cross the border illegally by wondering if the use was a violation of the Convention on Chemical Weapons. Schatz has since deleted his tweet.
By Aryssa Damron

The use of tear is gas is not a violation of the convention, which only covers use in warfare and has never been applied to riot control operations. Schatz has since deleted his tweet.

The Conventions on Chemical Weapons, which Schatz referenced, does not prohibit the use of tear gas for “law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes.”

Over the weekend, approximately 500 migrants stormed Mexican blockades in an attempt to enter the United States at the border between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California. Border patrol agents used tear gas after some migrants threw rocks and other projectiles

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen responded in a statement, saying, “[a]s I have continually stated, D.H.S. will not tolerate this type of lawlessness and will not hesitate to shut down ports of entry for security and public safety reasons.”

President Donald Trump tweeted his concerns about the migrants attempting to cross the border, even threatening to close the border permanently.

“Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!” he tweeted on Monday morning

Use of pepper spray and pellets was a rational move to counter the crowd pushing through the barriers and throwing stones. It is used the world over for crowd control because it works, and the effects linger for up to a couple hours. Since laughing boy here has exactly zero idea what he’s talking about, I highly recommend the CBR class that was inflicted on me just prior to GW-I, including a video of the effects of GB (Sarin) on goats and a shot of pepper spray in the face to wrap the evolution up.
More good times.
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OldManchu

The only violation going in here is Schatz permanently violating his man card by acting like a pussy and not having a clue what he is talking about.

rgr769

The so called man is just another progtard politico constantly flapping his cockholster whenever he gets his panties in a bunch in his mangina over something Trump does to block their plan to replace our electorate with a horde of third worlders they can control with freebies.

5jc

I’m sorry “Schatz”? I think that says it all.

Mike W.

It means “NO BALLS” in Hawaiian…..hey, wait a sec.
This guy ISN’T native Hawaiian ! !
He’s a rich white kid.

Bill M

Doesn’t have a man card.

desert

You have that one right! OldManchu! Mr Big Schatz schat off his mouth showing his ignorance when someone wised him up, he deleted his stupid remark…another dumocrap!
If they had shot a few off the wall, like I believe they should have, the leftists could really have something to bitch about, they would complain that their little voters all split the scene LOL imho

JacktheJarhead

I love all the hand wringing I hear, If they shoot any of the criminals at the border, it is a war crime. Using Tear Gas is a Violation of Chemical Weapons treaties! For God’s sake, before you open you pie whole, engage your brain and research what you are going to say before you let your thoughts vomit out!

UpNorth

Lefties never do what you tell them, Jack. That’s why they’re lefties. Research is not needed, they have feelings.

Deplorable B Woodman

“Feeeewings,
Nofing more than feeeeewings…..”

desert

Right Jackthe Jarhead OOORAH! 😉

AnotherPat

Ed:

Yep, Yep, Yep…. Schatz is indeed Laughing Boy…He made that statement after coming out of the Dentist office under the influence of Nitrous Oxide, AKA Laughing Gas..

He probably thought he heard someone near Schofield Barracks calling out cadence “CS Sticks To Kids” during an early morning PT run…

CS exposure during training was a great way to clear out one’s sinuses, especially if one had a stuffy nose…

😉

NHSparky

So I guess boot camp is a war crime now?

SgtM

THIS….

MI Ranger

We all need war reparations…can you get them from your own country?!

ChipNASA

HEY, IT’S NOT FKCKING TEAR GAS YOU A-HOLES. It’s pepper spray , it’s OC, it’s practically a food group, like ketchup.
You know South-Of-The-Borderins love hot shit.
Me too!!

RGR 4-78

Drool, spit, snot and cry form of crowd control.

11B-Mailclerk

Are they asking that we switch to “green tip”? Last I checked, that is lawful.

Somehow, I doubt they thought this all the way through…

Bill R.

Something not often reported and not once when it was occurring, Obama did this at least once a month. I never once saw anything in the media about it, but now it’s a crime against humanity?

The Other Whitey

Alexandria Ojos-Locos has already said that we’re nazis and illegal immigrants are Jews. Bitch is painfully stupid.

26Limabeans

Her constituents are brain dead.

ArmyATC

Yeah, according to the Bronz bint, the Jews were trying to break into the concentration camps. I wonder of Occasional-Cortex has ever engaged her brain before running her mouth?

UpNorth

Brain? Alex Occutard-Chavez has a brain?

Combat Historian

“…The use of tear gas is not a violation of the convention, which only covers use in warfare and has never been applied to riot control operations…”

Look at it this way, if Schatzy (and by extension the demonrats) is insisting this is a violation of the Convention on Chemical Weapons, then they are de facto admitting that the migrant caravan is in fact a military-type invasion and we are in a state of warfare against them. That works for me; Trump should immediately seize on this and make Schatzy and the demonrats live up to their own words…///

USMCMSgt (Ret)

He replaced his deleted “Twit” comment with this statement: “I went ahead and deleted the one about chemical weapons because I just don’t know enough about what happened. Does this not strike you as excessive?”

(At the bottom of this AmericanThinker article, his new “Twitter” comment can be found): https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/dem_senator_suggests_tear_gas_is_chemical_weapon_when_used_at_the_border__then_deletes_tweet.html

Ex-PH2

It does not strike me as excessive, but he DOES strike me as an ignorant, attention-seeking moron.

desert

Where do rocks and glass being thrown at our border patrol fall into what category in the leftist/communist manual?

Retired Grunt

Where was all of this humanitarian concern when President Obama did it or allowed it to happen on multiple occasions during his administration? I know the answer, I’m just getting so tired of all of this BS from people who can’t see they are allowing the destruction day by day of the one thing I always thought I could believe in. I hope I die before the shooting starts, it’ll kill me either way.

NHSparky

Shhhhh…the lefties will then accuse you of the high crime of, “Whataboutism.”

Twist

The same group that used the defense “what about Bush” for 8 years while defending Obama ore now crying when the shoe is on the other foot.

26Limabeans

When we got “ambushed” with tear gas in Basic
I dropped my rifle and ran into a tree.
They told us we would not need to carry masks that day.
Stuff works good.

rgr769

Unfortunately, I experienced this “war crime” about six times. Once in the Viet of the Nam when my Ranger company was running a division recondo course for our recently recruited candidates who wanted to join the unit. One of the training NCO’s thought it would really be humorous to gas me with an M-79 gas round when I was in chest deep water at a little beach, at the end of the course. It took forty years, but the culprit finally confessed at a company reunion.

Mason

As a former NBC tech, I think that CS is just a good time. I miss the smell/taste of it some days.

The Stranger

All of you NBC guys are insane. We love ya, but you’re all 🥜!

Hondo

Apparently the Congressman is attempting to prove his intellect worthy of his his family name – which is a homonym for the product produced by multiple bowel movements.

Thanks, Congressman Shatz-for-brains.

The Other Whitey

Shades of Hank Johnson?

Mason

Or Sheila Jackson Lee?

desert

or Mad Max Waters! lol, or schumer, pelosi, wine stain, boxer, on and on ad nauseum! 😉

UpNorth

Hawaii is 3 for 3 with people who don’t know shit about their jobs. That would be Schatz for Brains, Crazy Mazie Hirono and Boo-rock Obama.

OWB

LISTEN UP, you willfully ignorant fools! And I will continue to repeat the same message as long as it takes to get into your pea brains.

I don’t care whether the folks climbing the fences, running the gates, or however else they are trying to enter this country illegally come from, how they look, their age, gender, or any other characteristic. They are committing an illegal act, and I want it stopped. They, whoever “they” are, do not get to break into my house or my country without consequence.

I supported Obama when he used force to repel the invaders and I support Trump doing the same thing.

This really isn’t a difficult concept. We lock our car doors to keep out intruders. Our country really IS worth an equal measure of security.

Ex-PH2

Oh, but, you don’t want all those potential votes* to have a new home in the sun?

*Votes – NOT voters.

J.R. Johnson

Maybe we should just leave our doors open! ‘Cause then we wouldn’t have crime. People who are less fortunate can come by and help themselves to what they need, and it wouldn’t be stealing!
I think we could start with this experiment in say California, New York, Washington, and Chicago, Illinois.

3/10/MED/b

Sounds like he just Schatz all over himself.

Roger in Republic

The really funny thing about all of this is that if the Caravan was composed of white, South African Boer farmers, the liberals would demand that we Nuke the border to keep them out.

MustangCryppie

Oh look! Another stupid Hawaii politician! There’s so many of them!

Sparks

Well, Sen. Brian Schatz, since the number of illegals crossing the Hawaiian border is ZERO, you are welcome to keep your fucking mouth shut or put another dick in it.

charles w

Whats funny is hes a haole. He knows what it’s like to be hated.

The Stranger

Yeah, well Schitz should keep his Howlie mouth shut.

RetiredDevilDoc8404

I would be more than happy to host the congresscritter for a nice leisurely mask confidence exercise, provided he is freshly shaven before the chamber portion (can’t have any pesky facial hair interfering with that mask seal and letting that LETHAL CS inside). Yes, I’m feeling kinda evil today and harkening to the Army days in my secondary MOS (54E/B). RCA will make you WISH you could die, RCA after a fresh shave will make you PRAY for death. And evil poeple like me will tell ROTC cadidiots to wash everything in hot water after the chamber exercise if said cadidiots acted like jerks on site…not that I would necessarily know anything about that…

Mason

Taking a hot shower after pepper spray is even worse. Not only does it off gas and create a nice fog, but it runs right down with the water. Nothing will wake you up like a million SCUs in your crotch.

Hack Stone

Hack Stone’s Drill Instructors must be war criminals, then. There was one recruit from NYC who bore a more than passing resemblance to Bowser of Sh Na Na, and every time that he exited the gas chamber, Sgt Jones put him back in line. That guy did 7 loops in the gas chamber that day.

2/17 Air Cav

We had one of those. I still recall his name. He was dripping long green snot and coughing his lungs out.

Herbert J Messkit

I hope the border patrol is videoing all the actions to counter the fake news. Document Everything!!!!

REMF

Lets start sending these “migrants” directly from Tijuana to Hawaii. Lets see how fast the soy boy shatz himself.

rgr769

Great idea, if I was King I would have then flown
in military aircraft to HI. Then have them issued cheap tents so they can camp on the streets and beachs in their popular tourist areas.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Is his name schatz or schitz. I wonder why they didn’t use those vehicle mounted devices that emit microwaves that heat up the skin but are not lethal. I see videos of the Military using them in riot training drills.

2/17 Air Cav

Or boomed In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 24/7.

AnotherPat

“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly….1969

Best Drum Solo Ever:

https://youtu.be/lSttPLaTx_M

The Stranger

I was driving home from drill a couple of years back and heard that song on an oldies station near Fort Wayne…ALL OF IT. That’s the only time I’ve ever heard it on the radio.

11B-Mailclerk

Derp-Shatz

Doc Savage

*sigh*….Obama era Border patrol uses tear gas on a mob attempting to over run our border and we dont hear a peep….Trump era border patrol uses tear gas for the same reason and the left pisses thier pants.

Enough with the fake outrage and hypocrisy already.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Looks like Schatz for Brains has a case of diarrhea of the mouth.

Fucking SJW assclown….