Posted on 08/30/2023 3:39:26 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
(snip) What is often misunderstood in the Hollywood treatment the drug trade receives is that it isn’t just run by foreigners. The internal U.S. distribution networks for fentanyl are the most essential component of the foreign cartels’ operations because, without them, there are no sales and no profits. And organized crime since time immemorial exists only for those illicit profits.
By designating producers of fentanyl as FTOs, the U.S. federal and state law enforcement bureaucracies would have expanded powers to freeze the assets of U.S. citizen collaborators of the cartels. They could be prosecuted under terrorism statutes which carry stiffer sentences. The deterrent factor would be palpable.
It’s important to understand who these people are. They are the Main Street small business owners of trucking firms, warehouses and stash houses. They are the accountants, lawyers and bankers, as well as the street level dealers. Imagine if they were all now viewed by the American people and the justice system as being just as deadly as a jihadist with an explosive vest. The cartels need American citizens and U.S. residents to make their fentanyl enterprises run.
But the U.S. does not pursue them with the same intensity as the foreign bad guys, perhaps because they don’t pull the triggers, explode the bombs or kidnap their enemies. Instead, these U.S. individuals press click on small money transfers to offshore shell companies. They open their warehouse doors at a certain time and ask no questions as to what is stored within.
Ooooweee! That’ll stop it. And more SWAT teams too!
It sounds like no-borders and CCP=style law enforcement.
Our government WANTS this....
If you showed up to work at the WTC on 9/11 just before a 767 is intentionally flown into the tower and you are killed, you are a victim or terrorism.
If you show up at a crackhouse, inject yourself with fentanyl and die, you are a victim of your own choices.
Have they even designated the foreign ones as terrorists or helping them cross the border as migrants?
Prosecute the users, too.
I like Trump’s solution...capital punishment.
If it does not include closing the border, it’s a meaningless gesture.
That’s what this is. This is a substitute for securing the border
Bad idea.
And people will cheer on the expansion of the terror organization known as FedGov. FBI won’t file charges on Hunter but will swat team DJT lawyers. Cheer it on if you want but I refuse to give them any more power to abuse.
This is who this Feeley is. Open borders, Amnesty NeverTrumper
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-diplomat-who-quit-the-trump-administration
Declare war on Mexico
Issue Writs of Mark on the cartels. Put bounties on know members of the cartels.
Issue notices that those member of cartels found in the United States will charged as spies or Un-uniformed enemy soldiers
Issue public notice those US Citizens found to be doing business with the cartels will be charged giving aid and comfort to the enemy or treason.
t the Cartels are 100% US Government Property, we own them.
A ready excuse to put anyone awwy. How convienent.
This is a similar issue to a boss having just one really competent give-him-any-problem-and-it’s-solved employee. The boss gives him everything down to planning the garbage pail locations. Soon, that guy is overwhelmed and useless. I see the issue, but I don’t think this is the answer.
How about closing the damned border.
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Call them whatever you want to.
Nothing will significantly change until the borders are tightened and stay that way.
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