BORDER OFFICIALS FEAR GROWING MEXICAN DRUG WAR

MSNBC ^ | May 23, 2008 | Mark Potter

[wastedyears]

Armed citizens would do a better job.

[Das Outsider]

4000 deaths in 17 months. A massive number of illegal alien gang-bangers in US prisons. The US is being invaded by violent organized Mexican citizens and its likely to get worse. Hardly a peep from the US main stream media.

They would prefer to marginalize any such notion of cross-border wars between foreign, rival gangs because such a thing might just suggest that we should exercise a little more control over just who comes into the country. Oh, the horror!

Were this one of the MSM bogeymen of choice, NBC would be crying for blood by now.

[Dinsdale]

Adding weed???

Where have you been for the last 40 years. Weed is already everywhere.

Ask your kids which would be harder to get: a bag of weed or a twelve pack of beer?

Just legalize it and tax it. It’s demographically inevitable anyhow.

[eleni121]

Weed is already everywhere

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Wishing and hoping won't make it so. Caving in to the madness does not make a society civilized or safe.

IN any case, Marijuana use has declined among the young and the substance is increasingly seen as a dangerous drug which of course it is except in the foggy heads of some of their elders.

[KittyKares]

Can we seal the border now?

I don't know what it will take to get it sealed. Back in 2003 it was known that there are terrorist cells in Venezuela:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/031006/6venezuela.htm

Chavez is even less friendly towards us now, and we still don't try to protect our border. Who knows how many Muslims have already sneaked across our border and are coordinating one huge series of attacks.

[muggs]

Who knows how many Muslims have already sneaked across our border and are coordinating one huge series of attacks.

Scary thought but a real possibility.

[kitchen]

If this isn’t a reason to militarize the US/Mexican border, I can’t think of one.

We don’t need a fence - we need minefields, guard-towers and attack helicopters.

One defensive rifle and handgun for each family member, and a spare and a defensive shotgun for each pair. Anything less than 6 magazines per gun is sheer folly. Oh, did I mention major caliber only?

[Das Outsider]

Where are the FROBL’s? They can come tell us yet AGAIN how Mexico’s population doesn’t affect us.

Yes, where are they when you need them? I could really go for a nice fairy tale about the legions of would-be busboys and landscapers from Mexico whose one and only desire is to work in the U.S.

[matthew fuller]

"4000 deaths in 17 months. A massive number of illegal alien gang-bangers in US prisons. The US is being invaded by violent organized Mexican citizens and its likely to get worse. Hardly a peep from the US main stream media. "

And the Conneticut- born US Presidente, George W. Bush, has no comment.

[matthew fuller]

"One defensive rifle and handgun for each family member, and a spare and a defensive shotgun for each pair. "

ONE? I ain't planning on giving up any of my rifles, handguns or shotguns for anybody!

[AnimalLover]

BUMP

[Levante]

“Perhaps we should get our media to tell them they are in a “Quagmire” and they should withdraw their troops immediately...”

Get the Mexican Army out of Mexico, NOW! ;)

[lentulusgracchus]

Legalizing booze sure cut back the mobs cash flow. It took decades for them to recover. (Some would say they never did.)

Booze is one thing; humanity has 4000 years of experience with it. Grass is a new entry in the street pharmacy by comparison (yes, yes, I know Herodotus had heard of marijuana-using steppe peoples and their "smoker tents"), and its effects are much less well-known. It's certainly not as "user-friendly" as booze, and has more, and more socially problematic, lingering side effects. We're not talking munchies and giggles here.