Posted on 01/01/2009 6:29:13 AM PST by Flavius
Many Mexican “officials” are trying to blame their drug-war defeats on guns imported from the US! What a JOKE.
Does the contract call for a certain quantity to be purchased? If not, when the price drops below $70 don't the buyers look elsewhere?
THE WAR NEXT DOOR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151549/posts
[snips]“How do you begin to understand that so many people are dying in Mexico? More than 5,000 casualties because of “narcotrafficking.” That’s more than all of the American troops that have died fighting an actual war in Iraq.”
One grisly new tactic is beheadings. A headless corpse hung above a busy highway almost two hours before police covered it with a sheet - the head found in a nearby park.
In Tijuana, nine men were decapitated last month, three of them policemen, their badges stuck in their mouths - some of the 40 murders in Tijuana occurred in just one weekend.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/eveningnews/main4672172.shtml
Echoing your words from last Sunday’s LA SLIMES
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-mexico-drugwar28-2008dec28,0,4782979.story
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico — Yudit del Rincon, a 44-year-old lawmaker, went before the state legislature this year with a proposition: Let’s require lawmakers to take drug tests to prove they are clean.
Her colleagues greeted the idea with applause. Then she sprang a surprise on them: Two lab technicians waited in the audience to administer drug tests to every state lawmaker. We should set the example, she said.
They nearly trampled one another in the stampede to the door, Del Rincon recalled.
“I have been to Mexico. If fell decades ago.”
Yep.
“It does seems hard to believe, but there are many of our neighbors who risk every day their physical well being to stop corruption at every level.”
It’s not hard for me to believe, rovenstinez. We hear reports every day of good people in Mexico being slaughtered for trying to uphold the rule of law or reporting the corruption.
We should be helping them in their own country, not here.
What do you recommend that America can do to actually help Mexico?
Agreed in principal, but in fact the results will be confiscation of more of our money to support the non-functional addicts (especially with radical liberals about to take control), and a black market in untaxed drugs (since they will not be cheap due to the taxes) aimed at the recreational user.
< /runonsentence >
Yes, this was future quantities of oil sold at places like the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Mexico Hedges Nearly All Of Next Year's Oil Exports
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130103/posts
Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sounds like Illinois! Joisey, too!
Legalization of at least marijuana and its derivatives is the only rational answer here.
1) Decrease cash flow to criminal organizations (OK, I’m not counting the US gummint in that category just yet)
2) Decrease law enforcement, criminal justice, and correction dept expenditures for the stoners
3) Increase tax revenue
What’s not to like here?
How about the radical solution of CLOSING THE FREAKIN' BORDERS? That will help by forcing a revolution that will bring the communists to power; then we can invade them, conquer them, restructure their society (think post- WWII Japan) and build a good neighbor from the ground up!
Is the < /sarc > tag really needed?
One thing the drug legalizers never get around to is explaining exactly how drug legalization would work. Would we walk into the convenience store and see a selection of marijuana cigarettes right next to the Winstons and Marlboros? And for those who like to roll their own, nice tins of loose marijuana next to the Skoal and Copenhagen? Oh, right there next to the BC powders are little packets of cocaine? And where to display the crack cocaine? Or maybe that would be one of those "under the counter" products?
Just how would it work.? Who could sell all these legal drugs? Who could buy it? Would we just say anyone who can buy alcohol and tobacco legally can walk in and buy the recreational drug of their choice?
Mexico is a cesspit.
It won’t change until the average Mexican citizen has had enough and revolts against their corrupt goobermint.
The USA is rapidly following their example, and the cure is the same as prescribed above.
Yes.
And the dumb@ss dopers would kill themselves more quickly because the prices would be lower.
And the stoners would just be useless; except that they would buy more junk food because of the munchies.
One: Declining oil reserves combined with declining oil prices leads to a drastic shortfall in state revenues. The first leg of the Mexican economy collapses.
Two: Declining tourism due to the American recession and Mexican crime stories. The second pillar of the Mexican economy collapses.
Three: Declining remittance checks from Mexicans in the USA due to the American recession, coupled with out of work Mexicans returning to Mexico at the worst possible time. The third pillar collapses, and the returning workers bring a new factor of higher expectations and social frustration.
I’d like Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona to highlight some of the history of 1810, and redress or as they say a revisionist view of Mexican History, and put a good face upon some of those Patriots in Mexico of 1810 who were friends of Andrew Jackson, readers of the Federalist papers like Juan Alvarez, Vicente Guerrero, Quintana Roo. The 1st Vice President of Texas the Nation was De Zavala, who is despised in history books in Mexico, looked upon in Mexico as a traitor, and not a true Patriot of a Free Country. There was in 1810 a group of people who wanted a Gov’t OF the People, By the People and For the People, but what they got in 1810 was a Gov’t of the Catholic Church, By the Mexican Army and FOR the wealthy elite. I think Texans could help Mexico by firmly holding true to their battle cry of the Alamo, that without REPPRESENTATION, there can be no Taxation. Many in Mexico want a Gov’t that is more sensitive to business, and not just labor and the poor with their continual demands. This for starters, what Americans can do for Mexico...join us in our BiCentennial, but with a spin or twist towards the concepts of the Founders of the Great Nation of the United States of America, put it in your schools textbooks.
Cartel members kill because they like it. If drugs were legalized it wouldn't stop the killing. Murder is a moral issue that exists with or without drugs.
you bring up a very valid question that I can’t answer.
You are already paying for that now. It is a small fraction of the cost of the WOD. So factoring that, there should still be a net decrease in the cost to taxpayers. The WOD warriors will oppose the move because it would empty their rice bowl and remove most of their cool toys.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.