Posted on 11/21/2011 5:55:32 AM PST by AtlasStalled
The Mexican drug cartels have supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in hundreds of communties throughout the United States, and in New Mexico the state's Region II Narcotics Task Force Director Neil Haws has a dire warning as reported by Leigh Irvin for The Daily Times:
"What's happening here is reflective of what's occurring in Mexico," said Haws. * * * Drug-related crimes such as kidnapping, homicide and money laundering are picking up. * * * "These people are already here . . . and I believe it's just a matter of time before what's happening in the U.S. towns bordering Mexico will start to happen here, and our citizens will start to be affected more and more. The problem is here. It's real. And it's what we're dealing with every day," he said.
Earlier this month New Mexico Attorney General Gary King announced the formation of two teams to target money laundering operations in the state as reported by Diana M. Alba for Las Cruces Sun-News:
Gov. Susana Martinez, who was Do-a Ana County's top state prosecutor before taking office in January, said the problem of drug-related money laundering is one she brought to the attention of federal officials about a decade ago in her work as district attorney. * * * "This should have been started a long time ago," she said of King's effort. "We should have moved on it a long time ago. This isn't a new problem."
The Mexican drug cartels have overpowered U.S. law enforcement, and the county is descending into anarchy.
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You suck cuz you excerpted. Unfortunately, I am way too lazy to click the link, and that means I cannot read the rest of this article, and seeing as you wrote it, you could have changed my life. You have ruined everything. You may have killed many people, who commit suicide, because you excerpted your own material. You should be brought up on war crimes, you animal, you horrible horrible vermin, you excuse for a human being. You are the reason I favor the possession and use of nuclear weapons. If we use them and kill millions, perhaps one or two of them will be people who are as evil as you.
I take it all back. You, AtlasStalled, are the finest person on the planet. You should be given many Nobel Prizes, and a Pulitzer, and the Stanley Cup (even though you may not play hockey at all). You are why kittens are fuzzy and balloons are fun. Everyone brightens when you enter any room, and The Most Interesting Man In The World comes to you for advice.
Don't hold your breath on that one. King Barry is too busy supplying weapons to the drug cartels and encouraging millions of undocumented Democrats to pour into our country.
Against who, the Mexicans or their own govt? It was the fed that created the environment for this to occur. They have no interest in rectifying the situation. I think before the Mexicans can be dealt w/ the fed needs to be put right.
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So, he checked the 'excerpt' box. It probably was an accident. Point is, you took a shot at the guy before even checking to see whether he'd posted an excerpt or not.
Whatever. Enjoy your fetish.
“It probably was an accident.”
It wasn’t an accident. This pimp only posts his own material and always excerpts.
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True story.
Gangs and cartels rule through intimidation. In my town in Ca. gang members killed a black man just because he was black. A Latino woman came forward to testify. She received death threats and her brother was beaten bad enough to go to the hospital. I have been warning for many years the that this country does not have a clue concerning the violence heading north.
“The Mexican drug cartels have overpowered U.S. law enforcement”; proving once again the impotence and growing irrelevance of the U.S. Gov’t. The “center” is not holding and its past time for the States to take charge of their destinys.
Traffickers now face a real threat of death - from competitors and twitchy customers - yet there is no shortage of traffickers nor of replacements for those who do fall.
Or we legalize it all and defund the cartels and street gangs that have effectively “occupied” the US, in numbers well over a million.
Now yer talkin'. That was the least bad solution to the problems caused by alcohol Prohibition, and it's the least bad solution to the analogous problems caused by today's prohibition of other drugs.
All that would end up doing is increasing the price of drugs further.
We continue in this morass and watch the Constitution and national sovereignty go up in flames.
We make narcotics trafficking a life offense, no probation, parole, no appeals, no chit. [...]
Or we legalize it all and defund the cartels and street gangs that have effectively “occupied” the US, in numbers well over a million.
All that would end up doing is increasing the price of drugs further.
Which would end up doing that? Basic economics says that lowering barriers to entry in a market, such as by legalizing, lowers prices (as the history of Prohibition bears out.)
Let the drug cartels take US cities?
Let the drug cartels take US cities?
? Who's proposing that we Let the drug cartels take US cities - and what does Libya have to do with it?
I was talking about the instant executions and further barriers raised to try and prevent drugs from entering the marketplace.
The only way out of this is to legalize and regulate to ensure safety of drugs, just like we do alcohol.
The only way out of this is to legalize and regulate to ensure safety of drugs, just like we do alcohol.
I agree 100%. The idea of creating a society free of alcohol or any other drug by force of law is the kind of big-government utopianism that liberals trade in; conservatives should know better.
We haven’t tried either method yet. I am open to either one but prefer the second since it will mean alot less police raids, innocent people getting the lives disrupted and destroyed on screwed up raids based on faulty intel, and my profession getting a black eye doing things like killing dogs for being a little nervous at the tumult.
With making dope dealing a life WOPP offense, the first set captured won’t believe it. All those who come after will have to make the decision, do I sling this last button to this guy who could be a source, and thereby earn a guaranteed life sentence, or do I get out of the game?
Of course, liberals world wide will decry this as cruel and unusual punishment, but in my experience every dope dealer I worked to get indicted was a violent SOB to boot.
If we go the other way, we must control the market and distribute the narcotics at clinics free of charge with the understanding that the user must stay on the clinic grounds. This will inevitably lead to more overdoses, but all the associated narcotic crimes plummet.
The WOD is ripping up the Constitution.
Traffickers now face a real threat of death - from competitors and twitchy customers - yet there is no shortage of traffickers nor of replacements for those who do fall.
We haven’t tried either method yet.
True - but the fact I mentioned casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of life sentences. If the real risk of death isn't getting you out of the trade, why would the real risk of life without parole?
I am open to either one but prefer the second since it will mean alot less police raids, innocent people getting the lives disrupted and destroyed on screwed up raids based on faulty intel, and my profession getting a black eye doing things like killing dogs for being a little nervous at the tumult.
Ditto.
in my experience every dope dealer I worked to get indicted was a violent SOB to boot.
I don't doubt it. Rumrunners weren't nice people either.
If we go the other way, we must control the market and distribute the narcotics at clinics free of charge with the understanding that the user must stay on the clinic grounds.
I'm not sure that's the optimal approach. But it's miles better than the status quo, and makes sense at least for true "narcotics" (as opposed to, for instance, marijuana).
The WOD is ripping up the Constitution.
Yup. When even Iran and China have drug problems, we can't hope to have both a War On drugs and freedom.
If “I” am threatened, “I” am NOT waiting for the Fed’s or anyone else!
True - but the fact I mentioned casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of life sentences. If the real risk of death isn’t getting you out of the trade, why would the real risk of life without parole?
I don’t really expect many will get out, but they will never be able to re-enter society as is the case with the failed catch and release policy so prevalent in our justice, excuse my faux pas, legal system. And eliminating repeat offenders is good for our citizens and society.
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