DEA Announces Largest Single U.S. Strike Against Mexican Drug Cartels

“ATF’s arrest of defendants in Project Coronado highlight the almost inseparable link between illegal trafficking of firearms and narcotics between the U.S. and Mexico,” said ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson. “ATF ... focuses its investigative tools on criminal groups such as La Familia, ... It is alleged that La Familia used proceeds from the sale of drugs to purchase or obtain hundreds of firearms that were then moved illicitly to Mexico.” Project Coronado through OCDETF., (Special Operations Division), DEA, FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Marshals Service and ATF, as well as attorneys from the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug, 300+federal, state, local and foreign agencies. Project Coronado through OCDETF.

I keep thinking that there might be something to legalization. I usually get over it, but it is there as an option. One thing (the “Beau Ideal”) is to put an end to requiring prescriptions; but if you use a drug for which you have no prescription (like a recreational one...) nobody but the user has any liability...

Failing that, I am of the opinion that it is waste of time time to kill, capture or arrest, the soldiers, smugglers or dealers, seize the product, etc. These things are far to easy to replace. You have to go up the chain after their logistics and command structure to be effective.

I'd discard the usual rules, and start killing (not arresting) upper level cartel members and their entire families. No arrests, no mercy, no publicity. Just lots and lots of dead bodies. I'd kill them from the air, from the ground, from the sea. And I wouldn't give a darn about “collateral damage.” Get between “us” and “them” and you die, too. But if they surrender, and hand over the keys to the shop, well, I can see giving them amnesty and big chunk of the money to go somewhere else and not be a nuisance.

“Money” is the highest level of logistics. If they can't pay for stuff, their operations will eventually choke. I'd go after their money, and any organizations that dared to handle it for them, in the same way. Steal the money, destroy the bank or whatever organization is handling the money, and kill anyone connected to handling the it. The money is fed back into covert war, with minimal accounting, and definitely no crooked (Congressional) oversight. Again, no legal process. Just theft, destruction, and death.

I'd also go after their lawyers...

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