Posted on 12/23/2009 5:19:54 AM PST by wildbill
MEXICO CITY — It had been an elaborate farewell to one of Mexico's fallen heroes.
Ensign Melquisedet Angulo, a special forces sailor killed last week during the government's most successful raid on a top drug lord in years, received a stirring public tribute in which the secretary of the navy presented his mother with the flag that covered her son's casket.
Then, the next day, only hours after the grieving family had finished burying him in his hometown, gunmen burst into the family's house and sprayed the rooms with gunfire, killing his mother and three other relatives, officials said Tuesday.
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How many straws can be carried on the camel’s back? This might be the last.
Mexico has been out of control and it’s worse than you think. The Federal budget is shrinking because oil revenues are dropping and oil makes up a very large part of the govt budget. So, less money for everything, including crime fighting.
All that misery...for what?
So sad.
There’s a better way. Simply execute the users.
Mistake. The Mexican government should not have turned over his body. He should have disappeared, with no answers provided. Not only should he have been cremated and his ashes thrown on a trash dump, no one knowing where, but the government should have blocked any attempt to acknowledge this puke's life, and arrested anyone who tried to. Sorry to say this, but the Mexican government is going to have to be more ruthless than the narcotraficantes.
But the drug lords won’t like seeing their customer base taken out by the government.
Let the drug users take themselves out..
I’m coming to the point that drug dealers/trafficers should be shot on the spot.
A failed state on your border is a huge problem. It won’t just go away, either.
The problem is the vast majority of users are here in the U.S.A., unless you meant American citizens vs. Mexican citizens? That’s basically how Mao got rid of opium use in China upon his takeover, they, and the drug peddlers, were all shot. End of story. I don’t know if there is much of a drug abuse problem in China anymore, however Mao killed tens of millions of other enemies of the state as well.
I tend to agree however the bigger problem is the insatiable demand for the drugs comes from the U.S., always has. As long as we allow for the continued decadence and weakness of people to fester, then the drugs will continue to flow. I read somewhere that 70% of crime in this country is due to the drug trade or drug use; either stop the demand or stop the supply, either way to do it effectively, it won’t be pretty. The war on drugs for the last 35 years has been an utter and complete failure, billions and billions of dollars later.
The solution? A night of the long knives, where police and military simply execute all the drug kingpins and their minions.
The problem with the solution? The police and military are corrupt to the point that the druggies would know the plan in advance.
BUILD THE WALL, NOW!
Japan did pretty much the same thing, and other countries have attacked the problem head on by focusing on the users ~ and sometimes that includes just getting rid of them.
When has Mexico ever been ‘’in control”? It’s a society so far removed from the rule of law and the respect for it as we are from Pluto.
From the 1950s until the late 90s I never thought twice about driving down into Mexico for vacation.
Now, although most of the violence is not directed against tourists or visitors, you could get killed in a crossfire from the narcos and the police.
And the drug violence is fueled by our demand.
Reminds me of what old Porfirio Diaz, a long-time dictator once said: “Ay, my poor Mexico. So close to the United States and so far from God.”
Our demand? True enough but Mexicans do drugs too. It’s a shame that Mexicans can’t find it in themselves to fix their country instead of running away from it.
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