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."
Calderone's comments come at 3:01 in the following video.
-- Stephen C. Webster
didnt rick ross say that too.
Legalize it and there is no illicit drug trade. If there is no illicit drug trade, there is no money and the resulting violence.
[...] The Mexican president says (click for video): [...]
Is he referring to the Bush crime family?
And this is news?
Legalize Bush !
Uh, sorry. I meant legalize dope !
This is not news. The war on drugs does not exist. It only maintains flow into the US.
We are talking about tons and tons of drugs coming in. You need ports and large facilities to be able to do that. That requires support on the US side to make it happen.
I really wish people would wake up and realize that we've been sold bullshit cover stories so the media has something to report. The news have been cancelled since the Reagan era.
Mafia type/drug corruption cannot occur without people in high places being in on it.
Checkout "drug trafficking to finance the Contras' war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. "
As much as I agree that the best way to deal with the illicit drug violence is to legalize all drugs, this is not going to end the violence and other problems.
There are now many criminals with large organizations. These gangs are not going to suddenly go straight, but rather move into other areas of criminal behavior. Often taking over legitimate businesses and using them in criminal manner. This is what happened at the end of prohibition. This is not a valid argument to keep drugs illegal, just as it was not a reason to keep alcohol illegal. But it is not going to be a bed or roses. For a while, problems will get worse after legalization, before they can improve.
remember meno
Isn't this what Gary Webb wrote about before he was "suicided " with TWO gun shot wounds to the head !
Just observe how American authorities live on their salaries ~
Why RICO Laws?
One of the two owners of the DC9 (tail number N900SA) busted at an airport in Ciudad del Carmen in the state of Campeche, Mexico last week freighted 5.5 tons of cocaine had been appointed in 2003 to the Business Advisory Council of the National Republican Congressional Committee by then-Congressional Majority Leader Tom Delay, The MadCowMorningNews can exclusively report.The plane's registered owner, “Royal Sons LLC,” a Florida air charter company, was at one time housed in a hanger at the Venice Fl. Airport owned by infamous flight school Huffman Aviation.
Four more American-registered drug planes have been seized from the 50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Mexico,CIA,Guantanamo Rendition Plane, Cocaine, Homeland 'Security'
In April,2006 it was revealed that a plane owned by Skyway Communications of Lakeland,Florida and Royal Sons holding company using Huffman Aviation(where Mohamed Atta trained before 9/11),as its address and paradoxically rented by the Howard Dean's Democrat presidential campaign of 2004 had been busted by the Mexican army at the Ciudad Del Carmen,Campeche airport on the Yucatan Peninsula with over 5.5 tons of cocaine on board.
This is about the strange story of the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan. The Laguna Journal has learned that the EU through the European Parliament is investigating the circumstances surrounding the planes used by the "CIA for alleged drug shipments and extraordinary rendition" flights.
Say it isn't so
Gary Webb wrote about it and he was suicided. So? Americans are aware of it. They're just scared of the ones running American court houses, so they keep their mouths shut. Who else wants to wind up like Gary Webb? Let's talk about Marc Harris and Jesse Helms. See "Cocaine Cowboys Part 5" at Youtube and look at the Republican names there. How about Iran-Contra. The list goes on.
It's not a war on (some) drugs, it's a war on minorities. After the civil war when slavery was outlawed, they turned to outlawing the substances that minorities used so they could stuff their prisons with them to replace slave labor with prison labor.
Read tinyurl.com/1mn and tinyurl.com/potconviction to see how it played out.
The Mexican President is totally correct.
I've known about this for decades because I was in a family for more than 26 years and Clyde O'Connor is my ex-sister-in-law's brother. He's in business with my ex-wife's brother and Obama assisted in setting up their business in Florida in the 90's while he worked at the law firm.
Clyde's jety plane was busted in Mexico more than 2 years ago, meet the family:
Mexico drug plane used for US 'rendition' flights: report Sep 4, 2008
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6QonBKKMo2gw1e3ql-xUcQEZbVg
The Adreai family often bragged about being a CIA Asset when questioned why they weren't concerned about being prosecuted even if it involved murder by me. I was told that the drug system links many all the way up and into the highest levels of our Federal Government.
Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL
Iran Contra
Iran Contra
Iran Contra
Need anyone say more?
Look at what happened with alcohol and prohibition. While booze was illegal, there was a flourishing black market and huge criminal involvement. Once it was legalized again, the criminal element in alcohol disappeared.
The same will happen with drugs. However, this with drugs there is a large and powerful industry build on the back of the "drug war". It is in their interest to keep the war going and they are going to fight their hardest to do so.
This is exactly what Gary Webb had been telling Americans until he was shutdown by the complict American press and the "authorities."
Jeb Bush, 9/11 Florida Flight Schools, Drug Flights, Iran-Contra
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x176723
When I arrived to United State, after 15 days I knew how it work. The govertment,
DEA, FBI , Police, Courts, everyone are workin for the drugs bussines. How can
work the biggest market in the world and nothing happens, only the small drugs
retailer go to jail, the people said the govertment don't like competence.
Well, yeah, of course, reality check. Ya can't bring that much in without complicity at all levels of govt. Ya can't act surprised without confessing ignorance. A large portion of the US voting, working, taxpaying public buys and uses the drugs. They don't care if some officials have been bribed to get it here. They do care if people are dying. Somebody who goes out of their way to pay extra for free range chicken and protests wars cares if the bag of pot or vile of coke they just bought has blood history on it. I've met coke and pot users who are also vegetarians for moral reasons. The irony makes ya think.
Look, we have an unwritten expectation of our bribed officials to get the drugs here safely. We don't care who they are or how much they get. Don't ask, don't tell. Just stop the killing and keep it flowing.
But, that's not how it's played out. The DHS strategy along the border has channeled the traffic into a few concentrated gateway areas. Who ever is setting the border strategy is pumping up the price and the tension. The stakes are getting higher and the river of blood is getting deeper. That's not what we want.
We want the border deaths to stop, so we must either 1)stop buying drugs as consumers, ha, ain't gonna happen 2)allow more unfettered flow over wider areas, turn our heads as more officials line their pockets or 3)just legalize the stuff and be done with the whole mess, focus our do-gooder efforts on the few users who really do have a problem and need help. turn our resources toward teaching kids how to make sensible choices. The kids in our public schools have lousy critical thought skills. If we turned half the drug war chest toward educating those kids, it would be unnecessary to have anti-durg laws.
uhoh....another American complicit puppethead dictator gone "rogue" by exposing American complicity in war crimes and the drug trade.
we've seen this movie all too many times.
soooo.....when are you labeling the Mexicans terrorists and an axis of evil?
Mick,
You've got your facts down. But you didn't note that Ashcroft gagged FBI translator, Sibel Edmunds because she learned of House Speaker Hastert's 'alleged' involvement in a Turkish drug smuggling connection.
Anyone wonder why Hastert resigned from office before his term was up?
Could Raw Story at least copy-edit their stories? The President of Mexico is Felipe Calderon, not "Calderone".
Keep an eye on the ones who scream the loudest about keeping drugs illegal. They are the ones "who will set up the meeting" as the Godfather said. See how many of them are from the Southern boarder states with ports.
Hello Reader...yawn. Is there cake?
We need a drug czar. How about Willie Nelson? He would only need 15 seconds to solve the whole drug problem by legalizing it and taking the profit out of it. Willie for Drug Czar.
Calderon: "It is impossible to pass tons of drugs or cocaine into US without some grade of complicity of the — some American authorities."
Likewise, it is impossible for a big lumbering airliner to penetrate the defense perimeter of the trillion-dollar-a-year Pentagram — uh — gon, after giving NORAD a two-hour head start without some degree of complicity in the command structure — like at the tippy top (Cheney).
As to CIA planes carrying drugs on the return flight (it would be wasteful to come back empty, right?) remember the tail numbers of the crash in Yucatan a couple of years ago. See my CIA/DOPE street placard for details — the Yucatan incident is right at the bottom (click the image to enlarge for full size).
Didn't all this start with the former head of the CIA and the first drug czar George Bush. HMMM
You know, even if the USA legalized marijuana, I am sure our slow as molasses moving officials could still figure out a way to not let it across the border. On the other hand, considering nobody has freaking health care in the USA they ought to legalize weed.
On the other hand I don't trust our officials anymore, and until we outlaw electronic vote tabulation devices, we the people, can't hold anyone accountable!
But hey, it's still a wonderful world so let's not get started with the CIA and central America again.
White trash dumps like the state of Arkansas don't want the drug war to end. The Arkansas Highway Police would have to find another way to scam motorists on Interstate 40. Highways in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas are extremely hazardous because they are a revenue scam for crooked cops using the law to steal from the public. Arkansas isn't civilization, it's Dogpatch.
Well, when we only scan/inspect 1% of the incoming cargo containers to this country, it's kind of easy to see how the drugs get in.
The right-wing needs to get this "we must have profit!" mentality out of their lives.. it's destructive and pathetic. Yes, it costs money to "inspect everything", but that is what you MUST do if you want to A) make sure no terrorists are sneaking anything in, B) make sure all products coming into America are safe (poisoned chineese toys, anyone?), and C) are legal.
IT COSTS MONEY, so fuck off with the "well, profits are more important" bullshit.
This country really is chock-full of complete morons, and most of the "leadership" is pretty damn stupid, too. Time to find a sane, rational, intelligent, well thought out country to move to.. one where the CITIZENS dictate how they live and those dictates are carried out by their government..
Although knowledgeable Americans knew this already, it is refreshing to hear it from his mouth. The timing is perfect too. Ms. Clinton just got done reaming Americans a new one for being consumers of illegal drugs (and gun runners too!).
The Mexican cartel (Uncle Sam) is selling the drugs and we are buying them. The drug war is our fault?
So when the pusher sells in the playground it is the school kids' fault because they want it? Not the pusher who brought the drugs to the playground?
All-righty then! Let me just reprogram my logic circuits to accept that.
This is pretty right on target. my family lost a homestead in Arizona back in the 1990's due to high level corruption and drug trafficking being protected by the D.E.A. and the Pima County Sheriff's Office. Both of my parents are dead because of this, for time after time, reporting the drug trafficking in their neighborhood, and being harassed by law enforcement and drug traffickers alike. Though the Attorney General, Richard Thornburgh, sent me some assistance, the two D.E.A. agents who came from Chicago and Albuquerque, quickly transferred from the task due to their fear of being murdered by the corrupt D.E.A. personnel in Tucson under Gerard Murphy.
this problem goes all the way to the top. I personally witnessed a drug flight land and unload from Cuba on April 17, 1987, and when I tried to report it to U.S. Customs in Key West, the officer I spoke to said; "you don't want to sign your name to this or you will probably suffer retaliation.."
this nation thrives on drug trafficking. George H.W. Bush and Richard Armitage were doing it in the Golden Triangle to pay for Central Intelligence Agency ventures outside of the realm of Congressional oversight.
nothing will change under Obombya. the AL-CIA-DA can't exist without drug money.
I hope this isn't news to too many people.
[...] The President of Mexico wants the American people to know that drug money is lining the pockets of Washington politicians. [...]
I appreciate the Mexican President's candor, sad to say he's right.
...this of course will not be covered in the media at all, here in the US.
If it is, it will be spun in the worst way.
The President of Mexico can be corrupt himself (if you're a cynic) and still be correct in his posit.
Just a Citizen,
Thankz but if I was to list all the"evidence" it would take me hours to compile ...once that was the job of the media ...Sibel Edmunds alone has enough information to take out half of the republicans and a quater of the democrats...911 is connected to all this ,Ecstasy The Israel - Ecstacy connectionis another drug that supports covert operations around the world .
Then you see people like "Corruption Fighter" and know "we don't know the half of it."
Well, that isn't really news is it. Sorta like in Afghanistan. The Taliban government had,, through tough law and strict enforcement cut opium production to almost zero. Within two years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, opium production soared 1000% above previous levels. Mr opium himself, Richard Armitage, is known for his "large circle of friends in the Pakistani military and ISI" as well as his connections to the Iran-Contra affair. Oh, is the US government involved in the drug trade???? For sure.
Mexico is little more than a corrupt blister on the face of Latin America, but.. the guy is right. He has a point.
I live in a rural area and anecdotal evidence suggests the amount of drugs available here, and in neighboring states and communities, IS NOT being smuggled in condoms or even coming in on small planes. There has GOT TO BE a major import operation going on to supply all this.. Something SO FUCKING BIG, only the government could manage it all.
In Australia we had a saying "there are dealers that need forklift trucks and there is everybody else"
Both the Bush and Clinton crime families are involved. Bush the elder was bringing coke into Mena Arkansas and Bill Clinton found out. That's why they are so tight now! They are American cartel heads!
Mad Cow Morning News reported this years ago...
Sources? sources? please tell where allegations came from.
As any good Republican knows, the three really lucrative businesses to be in are 1) oil, 2) drugs, and 3) arms/defense.
Think of it -- you make tons of money selling drugs for cash on the street. And when you can get the guns (for cost) to trade for the drugs, it's almost pure profit.
Then you arrest lots of people who use drugs, and if you make sure that there are mandatory sentences, you get 'em locked up in prisons for a long time. Oh yeah, I forgot -- prisons are a great business to be in! You get tons of money from the state governments (this really helps when you're trying to drive all the governments into bankruptcy!) AND you can use the prison labor to help drive down wages!
Did I mention how many former CIA guys are running prisons?
Isn't America great?
Unsourced Reporting
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4659
When will the corruption stop?
WILLACY COUNTY - Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. are tied to the GEO prison company because they both made money off the GEO group.
The indictment says that the Vice President has $85 million invested in a company called the Vanguard Group. The Vanguard Group has investments in prison companies such as the GEO group. The indictments states that the Vice President has a say in how much money the federal government pays those prison companies to house inmates. According to the indictment, it's a conflict of interest because the more money prison companies make, the more money that goes back to the investors such as Cheney.
As for Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. the accusation against him is that he was paid to be a consultant for the prison companies and that he made a profit as a result of his senate office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyvXp7FApPk
Obama Birth Announcement Forged
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All of Obama's photos are fake and documents made public are forged. View the evidence in many photos and analysis.
[...] financial crisis is much worse than you know, fathers are murdering their children, the drug war is a joke of a lie, freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan wages on and millions of us thought Sarah Palin, would [...]
Yes... That changes everything, because the U.S. is going bankrupt. The Mexican government and U.S. government used to be both accomplices in smuggling the addictive drugs into the U.S. and harmoniously maintaining the global black market, until simultaneousness of the U.S. dollar's downturn, an insurance corporation's scandal, discovery of Madoff scandal, bailouts, and Federal Reserve's slow death.
Because of the U.S.'s slipping dollar, which is losing the purchase power to get drugs and create profits, it forced the Mexican government to take the unprecedented action to prevent the corrupted Mexican politicians from losing their jobs or/and lives to the Mexican commoners by immediately sending a large number of governmental forces to cleanse the drug lords and dealers in Ciudad Juarez who were very dependent on the American economy. I think that America is sending their own forces to aid the Mexican government fighting against the drug lords because it wanted to keep the U.S.'s corrupted banking system in control.
The world's (China and European countries) incapabilities to lend money to support the America's corrupted banking system (the Federal Reserve) is another reason why the drug war escalated to keep global politicians' positions saved. We can see that Iceland was recently suffering the banking problem and facing the angry protesters. The international banks just ran out of lending to keep Zionists happy.
Now, the global politicians are ironically campaigning for the global currency, when implementation of the real global currency will never be possible without first ridding Zionism.
Israel may be involved in aiding the drug smugglings in the South, Central, and North Americas. For example, the U.S. sold the U.S. made choppers to Israel. Then Israel resold them to a Columbian drug cartel.( http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3166377,00.html ) Why was Israel doing this? Maybe because Israel wanted to see the U.S. society damaged and looted through many years of the illegal drug smugglings and profitable black market.
Israel is very dependent on America's Federal Reserve which helps laundering money from the Jewish organizations in the U.S. to Israel. Lately, Israel's stocks including the Bank Leumi (Zionists' oldest bank) are slipping due to Internet's power of exposing corruption and altering people's attitudes toward others. Rely on Internet to encourage readers to avoid purchasing Israeli products and American products owned by a Jew is a good example. Israel's failing war, falling stocks, and damaged public relations attaining to the Internet pictures of dead Palestinians in January may be related to the escalating war in Ciudad Juarez starting in February/March. It is just a whole network of international banking and lending which is influencing on international action and propaganda.
It may be hailed as the beginning of the “real” drug war after most of the other “fake” drug wars were reported since 1980s.
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT THE PEOPLE IN THE U.S., BRITAIN (the queen), THE EUROPEAN CONTRIES, THE ISRAELIS AND THE VATICAN OWN THE DRUG BUSINESS, THIS IS NO MISTERY, AND THEN THEY USE THE SO CALLED THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO GET OUT CLEAN AND BLAME IT ON OTHERS. THE DEA IS ONE OF THE FIRST ELEMENTS OF THE DRUG TRAFFIC. THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES THAT IS CLEAN AND HONEST AND THEN THEY CORRUPT THE LEADERS OF THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES, THIS IS CAUSED BY SATANISM AND THE POWER OF THE ILLUMINATI JEWS.
[...] Raw Story [...]
Well that's been know for quite some time here in America. Is Calderone just now figuring that out?
I wonder who else is in on it - border guards, police capts, ???
Who's complicit in DC?
Do people get knock off for asking these questions?
Everyone knows the Bush family runs the biggest drug cartel in the USA.
[...] via The Raw Story » Mexican president: US authorities ‘complicit’ in drug trafficking. [...]
I used to think it was BS, but I'm not so sure now.
A former Contra drug runner named Chip Tatum claimed huge amounts of money were made hauling drugs to Mena during the contra days.
He claimed it was laundered through loans he called "takeouts" sold to Freddie & Fannie.
???
"supply the demand"
that's what the cartels are doing.
this should be no surprise to anyone.
the cartels have not been stopped because they don't want to stop them.
just ask Capone.
[...] The Raw Story » Mexican president: US authorities ‘complicit’ in drug trafficking. [...]
[...] Mexican president: US authorities ‘complicit’ in drug trafficking [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUTBESqnnkg&NR=1
I'm shocked! I tell you, SHOCKED!
It has been known for many years the US govt is involved in drug running. Any American who is not aware of this needs to shut off their TV, in particular, all TV news programs. There are hundreds of former law enforcement officers who have told their stories of Govt complicity in drug running.
"Sheeple", ignorant of how things really work in our world, who continue to live in their unreal world of TV news and govt propaganda, generally have no interest in such things, their focus being on sports or entertainment. What an awakening they will experience in the next few years as our country deteriorates to 3rd world status and a fascist state.
One could start to learn the truth by watching the move "American Drug War". Other movies that will help wake up those interested sheeple include: "Terror Storm", "Endgame: Blueprint For Global Enslavement", "Martial Law 9/11: Rise Of The Police State", "The Obama Deception", "The American Union by 2005 – 2006 by Robert Gaylon Ross", "Monopoly Men", "Secrets Of The CIA", "Brainwashing 101".
Just google the movie titles and you should be able to watch them on Google Video or YOuTube.
Here's an article to read. "Guide to Narco Dollars"
http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html
What happens when illegal business can consistently make better returns on investment than legal business' over a number of years.
[...] rawstory.com [...]
Absoulutely concur with Calderone. Black markets have a corruptive influence. The cure is to legalize, control and tax illicit drugs.
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Micheal Ruppert and Catherine Austin Fitts have been saying this for decades.
Why didn't he give us some names? I mean it's one thing to say our govt is involved but say who it is specifically for cryin out loud!
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lol yes this is "news"..
Obviously the fukin US has ppl w/ with them..when have they NOT had insiders working with them?
Its common sense..and they make stupid ass news vids about this shit?..
Al Capone profited billions from Alcohol bans, so will these guys from whatever drug ban their is. If they made just one typical, common drug legal, MJ of course, then it would kill billions of dollars comming to these druglords.
This would also give the US billions of dollars that could be put to some sort of use..instead of the "War on MJ" lol..such a joke..but politics is politics..
No one else considers the fact of how many lives would be saved from cops getting killed in drug raids and shit, just for MJ..its sad..
"These gangs are not going to suddenly go straight, but rather move into other areas of criminal behavior. Often taking over legitimate businesses and using them in criminal manner. "
Yea that is called Wall Street
Legalize and you have no children dying over a weed
Legalize drugs? Maybe we should legalize child porn and forced prostitution of women and children. That way ruthless gangs wouldn't have to trick and force people to another country to provide sexual service, through the black market, to make profit. They can now do it in broad daylight and so can anybody else who wants to make some quick cash selling another person.
[...] Mexico’s President Says US Politicians Taking Drug Money from Cartels Published on April 6th, 2009 Posted by McCullough in General 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. [...]
check out author Gary Webb and his series "Dark Alliance".
trafficking narcotics is a billion-dollar industry; everything happens for a reason.
Sure you won't have children dying over weed when you legalize marijuana. You'll just have children dying over heroin, crack, meths, etc. Drugs not used to heal or alleviate symptoms of progressive terminal illnesses are bad, period. Use drugs for any other purpose and you not only hurt yourself but others in more ways than just physical. Any type of drug use outside of the realms for healing and severe symptom relief is an act of pure selfishness. Acts of selfishness always damages others.
the only way to control drugs is to legalize it,
the CIA controls the drug trade in USA, aka they bring a lot of it in themselves,
this is where the $cash$ comes from for their illegal "off the books" operations
Let's be a little more specific, shall we: Bush family has been complicitous in drug trafficking.
I must take issue with the mexican president's assertion that there is some corruption in the U.S. . The words 'some corruption' does not begin to describe the corrupion that is taking place at the hands of power and money in washington.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. "
Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
Help NORML change marijuana laws in the US so we can stop the violence involved with prohibition.
[...] LINK TO THE FULL STORY HERE: MEXICAN PRESIDENT: US AUTHORITIES ‘COMPLICIT’ IN DRUG TRAFFICKING [...]
Perhaps the parents of addicts and have children who have killed themselves with drugs should sue the DEA, ONDCP, The CIA, FBI, local and state cops, etc.
After all, we are paying them to keep out the drugs.
And I couldn't help but notice Mr.t left out alcohol.
[...] Stop whining like a child, and make Mexico what she should be. All of North, and South, America would be better for it. From: RawStory [...]
Time to stop the insanity!
Stop the drug war. Legalize, control and tax.
Take the profit out of it for criminal organizations.
Stop using it as an excuse for horrendous foreign policies.
Did we learn nothing from prohibition?
Poor, inner city people get the book thrown at them for possession of cannabis, while coffee tables in gated communities and on private islands look like they have the Swiss alps on them.
There isn't even much of an attempt at a facade of equal enforcement of a law that's too stupid for words in the fist place.
Uh, hello??? Ron Paul has been talking about this for years...when are people gonna start listening and take this corrupt excuse for a government back. I am listening, we just need a few more liberty minded people join us!
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
http://blog.yaliberty.org/
http://www.breakthematrix.com/
I am SO SICK of hearing "90% of the guns used by cartels come from America". This is a complete fabrication in the form of a juicy soundbite that has no basis in reality. The weapons cartels are using are military grade automatic weapons, which are rare, prohibitively expensive, exhaustively tracked, and difficult to find in the U.S.
Contrast that with the fact that they are quite common in South America, and the logic behind the "90%" statement starts to fall apart like so much wet toilet paper. Most of the U.S. manufactured military grade weapons found in the hands of cartel members are either of South American origin or were sent to Mexico by the U.S. GOVERNMENT and most likely trickled into the hands of criminals via Mexican soldiers and policemen taking their weapons with them when they went AWOL (a very common problem down there).
The guns that Americans are able to purchase are single-shot only, and the only real similarity to these and the full auto military versions are COSMETIC. Not liking guns in general is no excuse to be completely ignorant of them, particularly if you're going to try to tell law abiding citizens that the constitution no longer applies to them. At least do us the courtesy of knowing what you're talking about, rather than parroting something that you heard a politician say on the tee-vee!
So a Mexican president claims American politicians are involved in the illegal drug trade. Does he name names, provide evidence, give details? Of course not. Remember, in Mexico you when you are accused of anything you are presumed guilty until you prove your innocence. Remember, Mexico is also a nation using its military as civilian police, is a nation where the police and soldiers hide their identity by wearing masks. Mexico, as reported in the media is also a failed state. Looks like Calderon is just blowing steam as a desperate man who may have just lost control of his country.
No shit.
Joemtynl Jeb Bush for a start.
Google Raymond Lemme just to make it interesting LOL
@ Johnny 90
""I am SO SICK of hearing "90% of the guns used by cartels come from America". This is a complete fabrication in the form of a juicy soundbite that has no basis in reality.""
I think this is just another deliberate attack on the right to bare arms, they can use shit like that to escalate legislation to further limit or eliminate this right.
The reporter said it like it was a fact, he should prove it.
Did everyone forget the Iran-Contra Affair already? The CIA was the biggest crack dealer in South Central LA. That is not conspiracy. That is fact.
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CIA controls 90% of the illegal drug trade in the world. google it. It use to be England was the biggist heroin trader, but now the CIA controls it. The phony drug war is to use American Tax dollars so the CIA can fight their gang rivals in Mexico
[...] 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. [...]
[...] by admin on Apr.08, 2009, under Education, Government 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. [...]
We need a drug czar. How about Willie Nelson? welcome to bedding encyclopedia bedding history
He would only need 15 seconds to solve the whole drug problem by legalizing it and taking the profit out of it. Willie for Drug Czar.
LETS get our heads out of our asses wake up Ameirica do you see amsterdam supporting drud cartels no duuuuuuuuuuuuuu Then why do we lets make a change of policies Legalize stop the crime
it is true, that u.s is just as guilty as the mexicans. an example
why would u.s soldiers go to colombia to fight against the drugs and destroy some and then the soldiers come home in civilian aircrafts in civilian attire and the rest of the drugs gets loaded on a C-130 with CIA, ATF, FBI and other U.S politicians aboard to witness its destruction. sure witness its distribution maybe. back in the 80's this happened a lot
It's well past time to end drug prohibition. It has been just as much of a failure as alcohol prohibition was in the 1920s. The real problem isn't drug use, it's the laws against drug use.
For serious drug problems (addiction to heroin for example) perhaps some sort of rehabilitation program would be reasonable. But as far as marijuana goes, there's no reason for it's use to be any different than drinking alcohol - being that it's actually far less dangerous.
>90% of all guns used come from US (paraphrased)
90% of guns turned over the the US goverment for tracing turn out to actually come from the US. Many many guns they get are not even reported, many of the ones that are reported aren't sent back to the US for tracing. I believe they only send back guns that are suspected of being from the US.
Fields of Marijuana, or purchases of drug-making chemicals, or chemical-lab smells are easy to detect and deal with. Trafficking across a porous border is far easier to hide. You load the drugs in a van and race across the desert.
Calderone is covering for his corrupt government by the same tired line Mexico always uses - blame the USA.
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