Posted on 06/29/2012 5:25:01 PM PDT by LSUfan
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four individuals and three entities involved in laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking for drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa. Treasury also designated a Colombia-based individual under its terrorism authority, Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, for directing Hezbollah’s fundraising activities in the Americas. This individual was previously designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for his role in narcotics-related money laundering. Today’s designations further expose Ayman Joumaa’s network as a major narcotics and money laundering enterprise that has reach throughout the Americas and the Middle East with links to Hezbollah. As with the February 2011 action against Lebanese Canadian Bank, these actions again highlight Hezbollah’s links to major South American narcotics money laundering organizations.
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How soon do we start shipping machine-guns to them, I wonder....?
The Treasury Department as a flow chart of the Joumaa network here.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/06272012_harb.pdf
Fast and furious.
If it wasn’t for the stupid WOSD ( War On Some Drugs—liquid kind are OK ) these problems won’t exist
Like Al Capone said about bootleg booze—gambling—prostitution —I am only giving people what they want
If it wasn’t for the stupid WOSD ( War On Some Drugs—liquid kind are OK ) these problems won’t exist
Like Al Capone said about bootleg booze—gambling—prostitution —I am only giving people what they want
Have they visited the White Hut lately?
I don’t think that Hezbollah and terrorism will disappear just because America legalizes drugs, or any other crime.
Hey, hussein needs to invite his brother to the white hut for a strtergy meeting. Maybe thepotus can hand this thug some guns as well.
That is deep, never heard about that prohibition argument, of course comparing banning something so fundamental to health, entertainment, social life, food preservation, daily life, and the church, as alcohol has been for many thousands of years in Western Civilization to dealing with a modern drug issue is the same to you.
Yeah it is the same
Show me how it is different
Alcohol is a liquid drug
BTW I would rather have people smoking POT than drinking beer or hard liquor
And in case you are interested
I don’t use drugs—liquid—powder or leaf
Try looking at the thousands of years of the relationship of alcohol in Western Civilization.
Yeah those 1000s of years have produced far more problems for individuals and families than drugs have
But the fallout from the WOD is far worse than what PROHIBITION caused—Hell whole countries have become battlefields Mexico—Colombia—and our own streets
Not to speak of the on going loss of our freedoms and corruption in the police departments etc that is occurring
Prisons are overcrowded and criminals are out on the streets because of lack of prison space
We learned nothing from the evils that PROHIBITION caused
If you agree with the left and want to make drugs legal then do what you feel you must, leftist activism has it’s place to I guess.
So no rebuttal to the points in my argument but ‘Agreeing with the left”
Sad to see so many on the Right wanting more government control over our lives
BTW William Buckley and Milton Friedman agree with me As Friedman predicted because of the huge monetary rewards involved the WOD will be a complete failure and it is
You can get POT anytime you want—Just ask any honest cop
Even Sarah Palin said legalizing POT should be studied
Biggest problem on our college campuses is not drugs but alcohol use
There is more spousal abuse child abuse traffic accidents etc etc involved with alcohol than drugs
Gosh, Will Buckley, never heard that argument, that was as amazing as bringing up the short lived prohibition.
You have the total devotion of the left to your agenda, conservatives will fight to prevent the legalization of Heroin and Cannabis and Meth and Crack, and of all the new stuff the scientists around the world can devise form today and in the future.
Well there are a heck of a lot of posters on this CONSERVATIVE site that more than agree with me
I guess they are all left wing plants
And again all you do is say I am in bed with the left but not one rebuttal to the points I delineated
As far a PROBITION yeah it was short lived because the people had enough sense to see the great harm it was causing unlike the WOD
And I guarantee the one group that positively does not want the WOD to end are the DRUG LORDS
And if using drugs is illegal why not arrest the users not just the so called dealers
If they didn’t use it all this would end
As Al Capone said during Prohibition “If the public didn’t want it I couldn’t sell it I am just giving the public what they want “
The only way you will ever end drug use is through a POLICE STATE because the current WOD with the tons of $$$$ spent on it sure ain’t working and the WOD was lost years ago
But I am sure all you will reply is that I agree with the left
Crime gangs and criminals will always have some crime to sell, to perform, and the more they can penetrate and corrupt mainstream non-drug using America, then the more havoc they can wreak.
Mainstreaming Heroin and Meth, Pot, Hashish, and Opium, and Crack and all the stuff waiting to be invented in the laboratories, mixed into cocktails and sold at the 7-11, release that in combination with modern welfare and social support, and lack of community and a population of third and second world immigrant Americans by the tens of millions, and we will have hell on earth.
Drugs law in the first place started in the 1800s because even that well churched, Christian, homogeneous, small, non-welfare population was starting to weaken through abuse and addiction and crime in the urban areas.
The mafia, tongs and countless other cartels and crime gangs predate American drug laws, and yes there are drugged up people here on FR who agree with the left on drugs, we even have libertarians here.
Sure there will always be gangs etc etc
But the explosion of drug wars drug cartels that are ruining Mexico and Colombia etc stared with the WOD circa 1964
And the stuff is readily available NOW in all our big cities
And I can play that association game as well as you
Good to see your are in agreement with the groups that more than any others want it to remain illegal—the Drug Cartels and Drug Lords
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