BWHAHAHAH!!!
Oh, goody. A WOD thread.
Pinging our dearly departed drug war thread dude, under whatever pseudonym under which he now dwells.......
What more need be said?
I guess I tend to be a libertarian on the drug war, insofar as I see no reason for the government to be given or to excercise ever-increasing power to monitor what people do in private when it refuses to enforce its laws against people who commit crimes in public. Sure if the government raids a crack-house it won't be too long before another springs up. And once that's raided another will spring up somewhere else. But eventually the drug dealers will start to realize that the only way to avoid all the moving around that's bad for business is to clean up their act sufficiently to ensure that their activities don't bother their neighbors.
Otherwise, for the government to demand all sorts of surveillance powers while refusing to acknowledge open-air drug markets just reeks of hypocrasy.
Except for the election, I can't figure out why there would be a declaration of near victory right now. Those usually come around appropriations time, as a spur for more funding.
If I were peddling lies like this, I'd want them to avoid using my name as well. "A Senior US Official" indeed.
The payload of a Boeing 747 is about 100 tons in round numbers - in other words the entire US supply could be flowin in in 3 747's or 28 fishing boats or 13 20ft containers. The smugglers only have to get lucky a few times. Those who would stop the flow of cocaine must be lucky every time. The smugglers can afford large losses because the difference between manufacturing costs and street value are enormous.
This may be a naive and simple-minded suggestion, but if both supply and demand go down, wouldn't the price remain stable?
Yep. Just a few more troops and a couple million more in funding, and we'll have this thing wrapped up by Tet.
I am surprised to learn that the demand for cocaine is still there. I thought it was an "80's" drug that had pretty much dropped off in usage.
Oh no, should I sell my Wackenhut stock yet?
The HBO show the WIRE shows the drug war in all its glory and how stupid it is especially the captain using the bag anology for booze
Now he is esentially legalizing it in his district by getting it to move into an isolated area
What really is the irony is almost every segment one or more of the cops gets blotto on booze after spending the day fighting SOME DRUGS
Well if a senior us official said it then it must be true.
I mean if you can't trust senior us officials who can you trust ??????????
With the WoT in full swing, I don't think the feds are screwing around anymore when it comes to drugs. Hopefully the gloves are off, finally, and someone's gonna get hurt. Good.