Posted on 09/19/2015 5:39:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Regarding the moment when I first saw the title of the article, Hillary Clinton Willing to Cross Border to Combat Heroin, I have a confession to make. My first thought was, send us a postcard and be sure to wear some body armor. I mean, why not? She still looks pretty scrappy for her age, and if she managed to take out a few cartel operatives then at least she’d have something to point to as an accomplishment as she runs for president. Sadly, that’s not really what she meant at all. (ABC News)
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton said that she would take the fight against heroin beyond America’s borders if need be, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News affiliate WMUR.
Substance abuse has become a mainstay during Clinton’s campaign. When confronted by WMUR’s Josh McElveen at an event earlier today about soaring heroin usage in the Granite State, Clinton suggested turning the war on drugs to the Southern border.
“I think you have to,” responded Clinton. “This has to be a comprehensive strategy. And we know that this cheap heroin that is killing so many people is coming across our border.”According to the White House, Mexico is the “primary supplier of heroin to the United States” and “cultivation in Mexico remains high.”
I really didn’t expect the “war on drugs” to rear its head as a major campaign issue this cycle and I’m not entirely sure it will, no matter how much Hillary talks about it. What we’re likely seeing is her attempt to show her concern for the SJW forces making the case that too many blacks and Latinos are in jail for drug charges and the fact that our jails are full. (Valid points of discussion, by the way.)
I’ve gone back and forth over the years in terms of my attitude towards the drug wars. I’ve seen first hand the wreckage that drug abuse can cause for people, their families and society at large. By the same token, I still hold on to some libertarian views which identify it largely as a victimless crime, at least until you consider the secondary effects. Drug addicts are far more likely to turn to other forms of crime to support their habit and their health problems inevitably overburden emergency rooms and the healthcare system with costs that are never recovered in too many cases. Yes… it’s a mess all the way around.
But how do you combat it? Much like the illegal immigration system, it would be ideal to stop the flow of drugs into the country by significantly reducing the demand. As the market evaporates, the flow decreases… simple Capitalism 101. But how do you reduce the demand? Legalization does it for the most part, but then you’ve still got the aforementioned host of other problems to deal with. Beats me, really.
But back to Hillary for a moment, what exactly is she proposing here? How do you plan to cut down on the flow of heroin into the country from Mexico when you’re not even serious about cutting down on the flow of human beings? Will you be sending troops into Mexico to take on the cartels? Good luck with that. Or perhaps you’re thinking of working with the Mexican government to inspire them to get rid of them. That would be an awesome idea if the cartels didn’t seem to be running many of the regional government entities themselves.
These are some lovely talking points about a very real problem, but I’ve yet to hear a serious proposal from Clinton as to what she’d actually do about it. Maybe it’s time for the former First Lady to strap up and head down there after all. While she’s there maybe she could put El Chapo back behind bars.
How is she supposed to combat all those drug dealers when she wants to ban all guns?
You can’t fix retarded.
She’s just looking to practice the art of the deal with El Chapo.
It means nothing and takes absolutely no guts to be this bland.
She will insist that bill stop the continual shipments if illegal drugs into that small airport in arkensas
Should be crappy, not scrappy.
ROFL ROFL
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, the U.S. War on Drugs was being fought in Mexico, Central America, and South America by DEA NBRF (Northern Border Response Force) in Mexico, DEA CADENCE (Central America Drug Enforcement Center) in Central America, and DEA Operation Snowcap in South America, but by the election of 1996, Bill Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, had shut them all down.
Now, Hillary is going to start them up again?
RE: but by the election of 1996, Bill Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, had shut them all down.
I’d like to know WHY they decided to do that and what the consequences were...
You ask Why? Well, it’s my personal opinion, and my opinion isn’t worth squat, but the only logical explanation of why the U.S. Government hasn’t sealed our border with Mexico and deported every illegal alien within this country is that the drug traffickers have done here what they’ve done in every country between here and the Andean Ridge, they’ve simply bought elections and put their people into key positions within our government.
As for the consequences, if you haven’t been out into the rural areas of the U.S. lately, you’ll be surprised to find how much they’ve changed in the last twenty years. Where you once found trailer parks and shanty towns where poor whites and blacks lived and toiled in the surrounding fields, hog/chicken farms, and meat processing plants, you’ll now find those trailer parks and shanty towns filled with illegal Mexicans who now work these fields, and you’ll ask yourself, "Is this an American success story? Are these poor blacks and whites who no longer toil in the fields now living the American dream?" Where are these poor blacks and whites now living and what are they now doing for a living?" Have they learned skills that will now sustain themselves and their families?"
For the most part, these poor blacks and whites moved to the cities, are now living in government housing, and are spending their welfare checks on the drugs that illegal Mexicans bring into this country. They’ll live happily ever after only as long as they vote Democrat and you and I continue to work and pay taxes.
Just as Mao once said, "The people are the sea that the guerilla swims in," so does Mexican drug traffickers live within the "sea" of these rural illegal Mexican farm working communities here in the U.S.
With a combination of ruthless aggression and cost effective efficiency that rivals that of UPS and FEDEX, these Mexicans have now seized control of, with few exceptions, the entire movement network of illegal drugs into and throughout the United States.
Will it be like the Fast and Furious program?
I have always though that she came up with that
and handed the idea to 0bama and Holder.
She is ready to continue lying, cheating, arranging murders and cackling all the way.
I’ve pondered the same way and came up with basically the same thing you did-that too many people in too many high places are profiting from the drug trade in the form of being paid off some way.
That is the only thing that makes sense to me.
“I’ve pondered the same way and came up with basically the same thing you did-that too many people in too many high places are profiting from the drug trade in the form of being paid off some way.
That is the only thing that makes sense to me.”
You are absolutely right. The drug trade is a multi-billion dollar business, and the people who have the power and the moral obligation to stop it do not have the desire. It is nearly certain that many in government, federal and local, have been bought off by the ceaseless flow of easy cash. How many in congress are actively trying to stop the drug trade? Some do lip service, but none are seriously trying to do anything about it.
This is nothing new. Bill Clinton ran one of the most corrupt administrations in our history, second only to the idiot now in power. Barry Seal and several others gave their lives for knowing too much, or trying to stop the Mena, AR cocaine flights operation. Google his name or Mena and you may be shocked at what you find, providing the incriminating parts have not been scrubbed.
The last report I’ve read said that over 85% of the drugs consumed worldwide are consumed in the US. That makes a grand market for the illegal trade. Many people, some that I know personally, think it’s pretty cool to light up a joint on Sunday morning, or snort a line or two on Saturday night, totally oblivious to where it came from or how much misery and death it costs south of the border.
Government involvement in the drug trade has by no means stopped. Fast & Furious armed the Zetas in Mexico, and gave the Sinaloa cartel free reign in parts of the US, Denver and Chicago in particular. The arms found from this operation are probably only the tip of the iceberg, and we see the “investigation” going nowhere. Politicians are notoriously easy to buy off or scare off.
Operation Castaway armed the Mara-18 in Central America. Arms were flown in from Tampa to clandestine airstrips in Honduras, at least one of which was intercepted by the Policia Nacional and reported in La Prensa in Tegucigalpa. Those captured were found in possession of fully automatic M-16 rifles, RPGs, grenades and shoulder-fired AA missiles, as well as a load of cocaine ready to be loaded onto the plane for the return trip.
Here in Central America we see the effects of the US drug habit every day: Massive government corruption, poverty due to violence or intimidation because of the expansion of drug gangs, innocent people killed because they refuse to become “mules” or hit men for the gangs, loss of business and infrastructure and constant violence between rival gangs wanting a piece of the drug pie. All because Americans want to kick back and get high.
The war on drugs is as phony as Barack Obama. The government has no desire to kill the goose laying golden eggs, and it undoubtedly adds a good percentage to the overall GDP, one way or another. As long as Americans have the money to buy illicit drugs this war will continue. I see no solution because the collective habit is not about to stop.
The first thing I thought of when I saw that headline was Mena.
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