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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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&%$.”
It’s worse than that.
Now innocent people are forced to play gladiator games, with only one person surviving.
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.
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.
Its not a drug war, its an anarchist power struggle.
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.
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.
Lets bring back alcohol prohibition, how ‘bout it?
Lets bring back alcohol prohibition, how ‘bout it?
Why formally request asylum when you can simply cross the border at will and tap into those American yanqui bennies like free spring water?
Only Mexico apparently knows why......my understanding is that wealthy Mexicans are taking the asylum route, for some reason.
How many deaths of Americans at the hands of illegal aliens occur daily in the U.S.?
Its 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.
And how many of those deaths are motivated and/or facilitated by drug-war-inflated drug profits?
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.
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.
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%.
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