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Heads of police officials discovered in Acapulco
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| 4/21/06
| Mikey_1962
Posted on 04/21/2006 6:45:48 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: MplsSteve
Wow. I've always had a view of Acapulco as a safe, touristy city. It actually sounds like any other part of Mexico these days.I lived in Mexico for two years. At the same time my girlfriend lived in Acapulco. I used to visit her often. I actually lived in Acapulco for a few months. It was considered VERY dangerous then, back in the early 70's, for tourists and locals alike.
BEAUTIFUL natural harbor. One can CLEARLY see why it was one of the FIRST Mexican beach resorts to attract so many foreigners way back when. Merle Oberon's house was spectacular. It was a tourist site from a harbor cruise.
What made Acapulco (and Mexico, in general) so dangerous were the four "p"'s: politics, poverty, pollution and POLICE.
This policia must have been either terminally vicious, honest or stupid. I doubt that it had anything to do with bad luck.
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posted on
04/21/2006 7:02:09 AM PDT
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: Mikey_1962
To: Mikey_1962
Let's see ...
I cross Acapulco off my list and that leaves ...
Ah ... yes. LA, Detroit, Chicago and Newark, N.J.
Hello? Bob's Dream Tours? I'd like to make reservations ...
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posted on
04/21/2006 7:10:38 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
To: Flavius Josephus
I for one will not go to Mexico again. I am for a boycot of Mexico amd Mexican goods. I know they are a huge supplier of oil but we could replace their oil if we would expand drilling in the gulf and open up ANWAR.
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posted on
04/21/2006 7:14:04 AM PDT
by
BubbaBobTX
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: Mikey_1962
To: MplsSteve
Alcapulco has been gong downhill for years.
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posted on
04/21/2006 8:10:08 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: G.Mason
See if the itinerary includes East St Louis as well!
To: MplsSteve
"
See if the itinerary includes East St Louis as well!"
Good old "Bob" will send anyone anywhere.
It's the money, doncha know?
My six foot Cypress fence surrounded backyard looks like the best vacation spot around. ;)
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posted on
04/21/2006 8:31:04 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
To: mlc9852
In our are we have a strong network of Asian and Hispanic (MS13 and other gangs) murder, pedophilia, violent home invasions, etc. Most of them are illegal aliens and legal immigrants. Would be no problem to round them up. Yet little effort is directed to getting rid of them.
Considering the views of immigration, obviously many (not all) of our politicians have been bribed by drug dealers and other criminals and special interest groups.
For anyone to support amnesty, an unprotected border, and this invasion of US, they have to be traitors/One World supporters, bribed, blackmailed, and/or suffering from mental defects.
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posted on
04/21/2006 8:41:42 AM PDT
by
Dante3
To: BubbaBobTX
I for one will not go to Mexico again. I am for a boycot of Mexico amd Mexican goods. Why? What good would that do?
To: Let's Roll
"Everytime I see a story like this, I wish there was some way our druggies could be collectively slapped upside the head and told, "this is what you're supporting".
Funny, you never see this type of violence in the alcohol trade even though alcohol, as an intoxicating drug, causes more damage to society than any "illegal drug".
The reason? Alcohol is legal and it's trade is controlled by businessmen, not criminals. The "war on drugs" is making criminals and terrorists rich. Thats right, drug prohibition is making criminals and terrorists rich. The people who need to be slapped up side the head are the drug warriors.
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posted on
04/21/2006 9:09:34 AM PDT
by
monday
To: Mikey_1962
Oh yeah, send them right in for amnesty.
To: OB1kNOb
Islam is taking hold in some areas of southern Mexico that has traditionally been held by Marxists. Yes, it seems that they are learning radical Islamic methods.
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posted on
04/21/2006 9:26:44 AM PDT
by
twigs
To: monday
Understand your point - but.
If people want to fry their brains, destroy their bodies etc. with drugs that's their business - but my business is I don't want someone using who knows what flying my airplane or transplanting my kidney etc.
If there was some pretty fool proof way to check for drug induced impairment then I wouldn't have much of a problem with people choosing to destroy their lives etc.
But at this point I have to think of the WOD (with all its faults) as protecting the rest of society better than society would be protected if drug use was wide open.
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posted on
04/21/2006 9:35:16 AM PDT
by
Let's Roll
( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
To: twigs
Twigs, that's very distressing news. And when one couples that with our porous southern border which allows thousands to come into this country everyday undetected, even if just a very few of these type you describe are in the daily invasion, it doesn't take long until we have a significant army of Islamofacist trained enemy infilterated throughout our nation poised and ready for action. Very, very distressing.
It appears, for future history writers, that our unprotected southern border will truely become America's trojan horse.
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posted on
04/21/2006 9:37:42 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(History will record that our unprotected southern border became America's trojan horse.)
To: Mikey_1962
I just got back from a trip to Acapulco. Nice place. My wife and I had a lot of fun. They are just beginning to become part of the cartel wars as they had somehow been blessed to escape most of it previously. Between this gruesome killing and the earlier related shootout, it is really starting to get ugly there.
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posted on
04/21/2006 9:41:06 AM PDT
by
Spiff
("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
To: Let's Roll
"but my business is I don't want someone using who knows what flying my airplane or transplanting my kidney etc."
Drug tests. Frankly, pilots and doctors, if they are going to be drug addicts, have the money, and in the case of doctors, to opportunity to get drugs easier than almost anyone else in society, so the drug war isn't helping you one bit in that regard.
I support registering drug addicts and even casual users so employers and landlords know who they are dealing with up front. It would be a much more transparent method of dealing with addicts than we have now.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:18:53 AM PDT
by
monday
To: Mikey_1962
Just practicing for when we get that wall built.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:37:59 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Let's Roll
If people want to fry their brains, destroy their bodies etc. with
drugs .
alcohol that's their business - but my business is I don't want someone
using .
drinking who knows what flying my airplane or transplanting my kidney etc.
Substitute alcohol for drugs - same thing (maybe even worse). If I had to pick between the two - I'd rather have a doctor who just smoked a joint operate on me before I'd let a drunk doctor operate on me.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:45:18 AM PDT
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: Tokra
Joint?
Not meth, crack, heroin etc.?
For purposes of debate, you're comparing alcohol to the most "benign" of illegal drugs?
And how benign it is, is debatable. My best friend's now adult child supposedly never used anything but pot and the former honor student just barely functions now. His choice, his life ruined. But his parents and siblings have grieved for decades.
And you're preaching to the choir here about the evils of alcohol - my son donated part of his liver to his father whose own liver was destroyed by alcohol.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:09:11 AM PDT
by
Let's Roll
( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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