Posted on 01/30/2005 4:20:21 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
2nd Ammendment Rules!
I think they have more to fear of the US military doing covert operations to kill a few drug lords. Wishful thinking though...
This is insane. if this becomes an all out war in mexico where do you think it will spill over into?
Are Americans safe now with all that is coming across the border?
How many from the drug cartel will sneak into America and than we will have the violence and drug wars right here and still the government is doing nothing to protect OUR Borders!! WHY??
But if the mafias get too bold, the government could unleash all its power, and cartels seldom are a match for armies.
Do drug cartels really have anything to fear from the Mexican "Army"?
the same week bodyguards diffused a bomb at the president's granddaughters' school
Maybe they defused the bomb before it could diffuse.
The passive agressive acts of terrorism Mexico unleases on us daily will in the end prove to be more devastating to the US way of life then the attacks of 09-11
imo
Vincente Fox is as crooked as a snake with arthritus. That scum, will never wage a war against the drug lords in Mexico, since he needs his cut of the income...the part, that is, he does not get from illegals in the U.S. -- Mexico and credibility do not belong on the same page.
Just keep the borders wide open, Jorge.
Mexico's carnage has been spilling over the border into Texas scince before 1836. This aint nothing compared to Santa anna or Poncho Villa.
They could stop this right now if they actually tried to control the border and what's coming over it. If the large shipments of cocaine, meth, pot don't get to where they're supposed to go --- the money for the drug lords would dry up. If the drug lords can't pay large mordidas, they loose influence over their government.
With all out war breaking out --- Vicente will pull the campesinos leaving by droves into the army to protect himself. Mexico would close the borders.
i think what we're seeing is mexican society imploding.
Can't say we didn't try to warn people. You could see this coming a number of years ago. It's escalating quite fast now. Soon it will be unstoppable --- or maybe it already is. Too late now to undo the big mistakes. Mexico is in trouble.
They cut off the big drug money coming in --- well that's Mexico's largest economy. To control drugs, we'd have to control the border --- and if the illegals instead have to stay an fight --- there goes their second largest economy. Too much more violence --- and the maquilas aren't such worthwhile cheap labor --- there goes the third. And tourism --- that goes too.
you're right.
we've been having this discussion since before i joined the forum.
and, there's always the communists in mexico, waiting.
the communists in the city of los angeles were influential in the 1992 l.a. riots.
Bump
LOL! You smart-alec!
i don't think the drugs can be stopped.
when i've been in tucson i've met law enforcement officers that complain of strange-goings on within our enforcement,
including every alphabet soup law enforcement that you can think of.
Bump4later.
I believe the in-flow of drugs to the US can be stopped.
But the key is lessening the demand. We have a tremendous problem in the US with our desires for marijuana, cocaine, etc.
If it wasn't for US consumers, many of these drug lords wouldn't have a pot to pi$$ in.
WE are making them rich.
yes, i've said that.
but only by education.
i'll never forget a black minister that i met in los angeles in the late 1980s who was hospitalized for a coke habit. he said:
"they told us this stuff was safe".
who's "they"? i asked.
he said, "the hollywood actors and actresses".
And Texas Rangers have been taking care of the problem, thank you.
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