Posted on 08/18/2008 6:36:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A massacre at a drug rehab center last week helped push the number of homicides in the Mexican border city of Juarez to more than 800 this year as rival drug gangs battle for turf.
On Wednesday a commando-style group fired a barrage of more than 60 rounds during a religious service at the drug rehab center, killing eight and wounding five. Five other people were killed elsewhere in the city on that day.
More than 100 people have been killed so far in August in the war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels, which broke out in January, the El Paso Times reports.
The homicide rate in Juarez, a city of nearly 2 million that is just across the border from El Paso, Tex., now stands at about 3.5 murders a day.
If you wanted to see what terrorism is like, you are looking at it full-fledged over there, El Paso police Chief Greg Allen told The Times.
People are getting killed in broad daylight in front of everyone.
Allen said the threat of drug violence spilling across the border into El Paso is slight. The city has had 12 homicides this year.
But the U.S. government is bringing Mexican casualties from the conflict to hospitals north of the border and paying for medical treatment. El Pasos Thomason Hospital has treated 28 victims of the Mexican drug war this year, at a cost to taxpayers of about $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Legalize drugs. During prohibition alcohol dealers used to kill each other and innocent people all the time. They also bought off judges, prosecutors, customs and law enforcement officers and generally corrupted society on every level. Since alcohol has become legal though, not so much anymore.
No way. There is too much money being made. The Mexican government isn't powerful enough to stop it, and neither is ours. If it was so easy, we'd have done it a long time ago.
Yes, Americans can stop using illegal drugs, re law of supply and demand and cause and effect.
Well, we know that wont happen. Perhaps a wiser approach would be to end the failed War on Drugs, but that wont happen, either.
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That cannot be wiser because having dopers driving on the roads or doing any of their abhorrent behavior is a menace.
Why is it that smoking cigarettes is a big NO NO but doing drugs is OK w/the PC crowd? Example: there is a fried brain in the next town who insists on taking his clothes off in public, accosting people, growling and making animal noises. Cigarettes may be bad but not that bad.
No, ending the war on drugs would not be wise. What would be wise is making drugs not PC like they did smoking regular cigarettes.
If the border were closed, the drug trade would drop to a trickle. Mexico could close it, as could the US. The problem is money going to the politicians on both sides for keeping the borders open. No will equals no way. We agree.
I don’t think we want to emulate the Chinese way of law, do we?
It is proven to work quickly and it is what liberal stealth laws eventually cause, the removal of rights for the good of the government. When black and white turns to grey in the law only we lose. We allow our cities to disregard our laws as they see fit until we have to go draqstic to fix what we know is a problem ,borders, drugs, crime,illegals etc.
sometimes you have to use the cure to take back the street. talk only works when people have a reason to listen.
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