The President of Mexico has an unfortunate message for Americans still ignorant of the Drug War’s cold realities: Some of your politicians are involved.
Yes folks, it is long-past time to start thinking about alternative strategies for combating both the harmful effects of drug addiction and the deadly effects of forcing an economy outside of the law.
“It is impossible to pass tons of drugs and cocaine to U.S. without some great complicity of some American authorities,” said Mexican President Felipe Calderone.
“There is traffic in Mexico because there is corruption in Mexico. And that is true. But with the same argument, if there is traffic in United States, it is because there is some corruption in United States.”
Nah!!! Say it ain’t so!!!
Shocked and appalled.
We the people are the consumers of the drugs sold to provide the money to fuel the drug wars.
Somebody is on the take. To much money and most humans are weak.
The cartels want drugs to be illegal but the drug laws to be poorly enforced.
We do need to be checking for guns moving south.
You might make grass legal but most of the rest is bad, bad news. Drug abuse is a social disease passed from one person to another. On a bad day I’d almost go for giving everybody a blood test and if you fail you get shot in the head.
The Japanese once stopped the opium trade that way. The killed the users and the dealers.
I would not trust the president of mexico let alone my local politician. Why else go around pointing fingers unless your the one you should be pointing at
Well, if I were to hypothesize, I would say that the most potent drug running route would be through Texas and Arkansas, and from that central location out to the rest of the US. We can assume that there would be a significant intelligence aspect to this drug running, given what we learned about CIA drug running for the right wing groups in S. America during the 80′s, and of course the recent crash of a CIA plane carrying coke on Mexican soil. We can also assume that any politicians benefiting from this movement of drugs would have large pools of unregulated cash available to them. This money pot would give them a great advantage in any attempt to achieve high office.
So, by asking who has come from the Texas/Arkansas establishment and achieved high office in the last 30 years, you can ascertain what people are most likely to have established this corridor of smuggling through those states and created the network to benefit from it. So, the report may not give out specific names, but it’s only a minor act of deduction to figure out who they are referring to.
#2 You have too great an estimation of the abilities of armed men to interdict things that are in demand. If simply stationing armed guards on the border would stop drug trafficking, then why are there drugs in prisons, which have armed guards, barbed wire, high walls, search lights, and intense surveillance? No, that plan would be a first class way to introduce drug money corruption into our Army too, which would be just great for morale, I’m sure.
#22 “On a bad day I’d almost go for giving everybody a blood test and if you fail you get shot in the head.”
My God, on what basis? That a drug is lethal? Well, Asprin is more lethal than, for instance, Marijuana, would you propose shooting Asprin users in the head? On the basis that a drug is illegal? Isn’t that just as arbitrary; I mean, one day you take ephedrine, and it’s legal, and the next day it is not. Crimes warranting the death penalty should not be so subject to cavalier changes, I should think.
Is there any basis of justice in your ‘feeling’ or is it all an authoritarian impulse that people should simply do what they are told and shut the hell up? BTW, I’d say that the old Japanese or modern Singaporean experiment in drug eradication were successful, except they keep having to execute people, which sort of exposes the impossible lie that they actually ever managed to stop the drug trade. The law of supply and demand is inexorable, and as long as there is demand (and the demand has existed throughout human history), there will -always- be supply. Defying that, despite every failure that has come from that defiance over the past 100 years or so, is like spending decades patiently flapping your arms based on the conviction that you might someday fly.
Capitalism… it’s a beautiful thing.
Demands always find a supplier.
Pot is far less harmful than alcohol. (Insert joke about crazed and violent drunk vs spaced out pothead here.) It should be legalized and taxed, just like booze. And probably its consumption should be limited to private homes, because second-hand smoke would have much more serious implications than tobacco.
Once the smoke clears there (heh, so to speak) we can take a look at the harder drugs.
Yeah, we wouldn’t want them getting cured of cancer second hand.
http://tinyurl.com/d3vapf
Nor would we want their driving to be improved by the exposure.
http://tinyurl.com/dzkj3x
lol
Well, if the “War on Drugs(TM)” is declared over, what will the DEA guys do? So, yes, there is massive corruption in the whole system. Why would anyone want to do their jobs so well that they become unnecessary?
I think this is the reason why the DEA has stated their goal is not to end the drug trade, but to raise the street price.
Those with their backs to the wall always find it easier to just cast aspersions than it is to actually do something constructive. Right wing nuts are one example. Cow-Patty, Alphie, and Tech_1 are other examples.
From the article:
The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report.
Whoa… marijuana gives brain cancer cells the munchies and they eat themselves… pretty good.
Interesting article!
#28 Good question Eric… an old friend of mine has a brother who’s a state cop, and they *love* the drug war… full employment for cops, he says. They know it’s bullsh*t, but it keeps them employed.
#26 Drugs are good, people wanting ‘em banned are stoopid, blah blah blah.
Man, don’t you have another record? that CD is about to suffer laser rot.
Yeah, the truth hurts pedro. But you’ll get over it.
Drugs are neither good nor bad, people are.
I dunno Sparky… there are drugs that are highly addictive and very destructive, and there are drugs that are relatively harmless and non-addictive. So maybe “good” and “bad” are not terms we should use with drugs, rather “more dangerous” and “less dangerous”. I’m in favor of legalizing the more harmless ones like pot, but not the more addictive ones like crack and heroin.
Everyone who’s in the ‘drug war’ game knows its bullshit. The whole thing a political exercise to win over the middle classes and justify more law enforcement, all the while taking drug money in the back door.
Wake up people. Corruption leading to drug illegality is the problem here. Plenty of folks getting rich off this and we voted for some of them.
The cure for cancer, the “war on drugs”, 100 mpg cars, alternative to oil, etc., too much cash flow to solve the probelm. Its all part of the curse we live in and under being creatures bound by time, sin, sickness, disease, and death.
Everyone should be forced to drink alcohol, eat meat or smoke pot. If you don’t do 2 of the three with witnesses you lose your citizenship.
This just in:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469983/Britain-protecting-biggest-heroin-crop-time.html
“90% of guns used by the mexican drug cartels are coming from the US”
BULLSHIT!!!
This is a false fact created by the gun control lobby (Obama, Clinton, Feinstein) that gets repeated without verification by the media. Guns are coming from China, Venezuela and other second world governments. The guns used by the Mexican drug cartels are mostly FULL AUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS. You can’t buy these in the US without a very hard to get class III Firearms License.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/
They are coming for your guns. You better speak up or it will be too late.