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33 deaths per day in Mexican drug war
abc.net.au ^ | January 03, 2012 19:06:15

Posted on 01/03/2012 7:44:27 AM PST by VU4G10

Over 12,000 people died in drug-related violence in 2011 in Mexico, and about 50,000 have been killed since the start of president Felipe Calderon's crackdown on drug gangs in 2006, media reported on Monday.

The reports came out as brutal violence continued to rock parts of Mexico amid a military crackdown on organised crime involving tens of thousands of troops.

Reforma daily counted 12,539 drug-related killings in 2011, which it said was a 6.3 per cent increase on the previous year.

It said the violence had become more brutal with increases in beheadings - to almost 600 - and more than 1,000 cases of torture

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: borders; drugs; mexico; prohibition; war; waron; wod; wodlist; wosd
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1 posted on 01/03/2012 7:44:28 AM PST by VU4G10
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To: VU4G10

Come on....come on.....where are the “we just need to legalize it” people. Then, we can move the “killing for market share” to the US.
Stupid, lazy and chicken American illegal drug users who are too stupid, lazy and cowardly to get off their dead asses and change their reality, so they use illegal drugs to ignore their reality for five minutes and thus fund some of the most heinous criminals in the history of the world.
“Hey! Let me have another hit of that Dead Mexican.....it’s good s&%$.”


2 posted on 01/03/2012 7:51:34 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: VU4G10

It’s worse than that.

Now innocent people are forced to play gladiator games, with only one person surviving.


3 posted on 01/03/2012 7:52:42 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: blueunicorn6

It’s the illegality of drugs that is causing the price of drugs to sky rocket to the point where any risk is well worth the risk.

It was the same in the thirties with prohibition. People were killing each other over rum running.


4 posted on 01/03/2012 7:53:58 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: AuntB; Tennessee Nana; Clintonfatigued; Condor51; TADSLOS

Oh, oh-—looks like Mexico is setting up the US for a new wave of illegals requesting “asylum from drug violence.”

“Asylum” triggers a nice SS payout....soon they’ll all be riding the US gravy train under multiple identities.

Mexico also needs to add to its voting bloc——to pressure vote-crazed Congressmen......Mexico is chomping at the bit to get its hands on greedy billions of US foreign aid tax dollars.


5 posted on 01/03/2012 7:58:03 AM PST by Liz
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To: blueunicorn6

Its not a drug war, its an anarchist power struggle.


6 posted on 01/03/2012 8:16:51 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: blueunicorn6; Jonty30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY

Here’s Milton Friedman to explain it to you.


7 posted on 01/03/2012 8:18:13 AM PST by cowtowney
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To: blueunicorn6

Sorry to tell you but drug use happens and has been happening for many thousands of years. But funding brutal criminals who facilitate drug use is fairly recent big government invented event. I would guess big government also profits handsomely from the prohibition of drug use.


8 posted on 01/03/2012 8:35:13 AM PST by jpsb
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THEY’RE NOT DONATING MONTHLY!


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9 posted on 01/03/2012 8:37:06 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: VU4G10
It said the violence had become more brutal with increases in beheadings - to almost 600

There's a video out there I stumbled across. If you've seen it, you know which one I'm talking about. It was the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on the internet and a vision that I have not been able to shake from my mind. Months later, I still think about this horrifying video almost every day.

I'm not going to give out the link so don't ask. If anyone is interested, a little sleuthing on google will get you there. Don't say you weren't warned.

10 posted on 01/03/2012 8:42:34 AM PST by Drew68
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To: blueunicorn6

Lets bring back alcohol prohibition, how ‘bout it?


11 posted on 01/03/2012 8:48:21 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: blueunicorn6

Lets bring back alcohol prohibition, how ‘bout it?


12 posted on 01/03/2012 8:48:39 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: Liz

Why formally request asylum when you can simply cross the border at will and tap into those American yanqui bennies like free spring water?


13 posted on 01/03/2012 8:55:31 AM PST by TADSLOS (Rick Perry- The Double Dipping il Duce. He'll overhaul congress and make the trains run on time.)
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To: TADSLOS

Only Mexico apparently knows why......my understanding is that wealthy Mexicans are taking the asylum route, for some reason.


14 posted on 01/03/2012 9:28:55 AM PST by Liz
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To: VU4G10

How many deaths of Americans at the hands of illegal aliens occur daily in the U.S.?


15 posted on 01/03/2012 9:31:41 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jonty30; blueunicorn6
where are the “we just need to legalize it” people. Then, we can move the “killing for market share” to the US.

It’s the illegality of drugs that is causing the price of drugs to sky rocket to the point where any risk is well worth the risk.

It was the same in the thirties with prohibition. People were killing each other over rum running.

True. Legalization would eliminate, not relocate, “killing for market share” - just as it did in the alcohol market when that drug was relegalized.

16 posted on 01/03/2012 9:53:57 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to all!)
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To: dragnet2
How many deaths of Americans at the hands of illegal aliens occur daily in the U.S.?

And how many of those deaths are motivated and/or facilitated by drug-war-inflated drug profits?

17 posted on 01/03/2012 9:57:51 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to all!)
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To: Liz
Only Mexico apparently knows why......my understanding is that wealthy Mexicans are taking the asylum route, for some reason.

Wealthy Mexicans are living in a failed state. They want a higher degree of protected status the US provides rather than having to go back and face the death squads. It's the easy way out instead of fighting for their own liberty in their country of origin- but they'll still fly the Mexican flag while they're here and celebrate Cinci de Mayo in our streets.

18 posted on 01/03/2012 10:11:16 AM PST by TADSLOS (Rick Perry- The Double Dipping il Duce. He'll overhaul congress and make the trains run on time.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies
Maybe you should ask the tens of thousands of Americans who've been run over, robbed, raped, murdered and maimed by illegal aliens. Etc.

BTW, the cartels ship world wide, so instead of blaming America, you can blame the world for this Mexican violence too.

In addition, all the WOD has done is create massive crime industries, and has grown the size of the U.S. government substantially, not to mention created a more intrusive, controlling U.S. government, costing the tax payers hundreds of billions.

19 posted on 01/03/2012 10:28:16 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
How many deaths of Americans at the hands of illegal aliens occur daily in the U.S.?

And how many of those deaths are motivated and/or facilitated by drug-war-inflated drug profits?

Maybe you should ask the tens of thousands of Americans who've been run over, robbed, raped, murdered and maimed by illegal aliens. Etc.

Would they have special access to that data?

BTW, the cartels ship world wide, so instead of blaming America, you can blame the world for this Mexican violence too.

I wasn't "blaming" anyone - and I agree that any nation that criminalizes drugs helps motivate and facilitate cartel crime.

In addition, all the WOD has done is create massive crime industries, and has grown the size of the U.S. government substantially, not to mention created a more intrusive, controlling U.S. government, costing the tax payers hundreds of billions.

I agree 100%.

20 posted on 01/03/2012 10:55:09 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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