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Mexican Marijuana Cartels Sully US Forests, Parks
ABC News ^
| October 11, 2008
| TRACIE CONE
Posted on 10/11/2008 2:31:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana
So let me get this straight. If any of US used these chemicals, we’d be in deep do-do. We are paying millions in tax dollars to take care of our national parks.
Meanwhile, illegals are pouring over the border into the U.S. and even though they are benefiting from our health care system, our education system, and our legal system, they’re also forming gangs, committing murders, and poisoning our land.
The government (which is to supposed to protect our borders) says: “Problem? What problem?”
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:01:56 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.)
To: Man50D
Better McCain than Obama!
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:03:29 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.)
To: marsh2
Our law enforcement officers have taken at least 200,000 marijuana plants from the National Forest so far.
_________________________________________________
Nope...
2.2 MILLION...
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:08:03 PM PDT
by
Tennessee Nana
(McCain/Palin Now that's a ticket that deserves a tagline)
To: rabscuttle385
You forgot to thank Jorge.
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:11:29 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Put Palin in the White House. Send McCain to Sun City, AZ)
To: TADSLOS
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:21:43 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Baldwin/Castle '08 - Gilmore for Senator from Virginia '08)
To: Tennessee Nana
A couple of years ago MJ was the #8 cash crop in Washington, with a significant portion of it raised in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:22:40 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts.....)
To: Bean Counter
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:28:35 PM PDT
by
Tennessee Nana
(McCain/Palin Now that's a ticket that deserves a tagline)
To: Tailback
Imagine what could have been if Joe Kennedy hadnt been able to make a fortune rum running. Imagine how different Chicago politics could be. Imagine 50,000 of our finest not dying half the world away.
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posted on
10/11/2008 5:34:26 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: TADSLOS
JOHN S. MCCAIN WOULD WIN 85% of UNDECIDED VOTERS in these last few days if he would EXPRESS HIS OPEN SUPPORT OF THE GOP 2008 PLATFORM ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and he and Sarah Palin made Clear, Definitive Comments on Amnesty (their opposition) and The Fence (their support).Obama could not answer this because his party's platform and he himself is for mass legalization of these invaders.
There you have it. This is how McCain get swoop up massive segments of the Undecideds.
Do YOU want him to do this?
Do YOU want him to win the election?
Does HE want to win the election?
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posted on
10/11/2008 6:22:00 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Silver Lining to McCain's Defeat: We can, at once, seize the GOP from RINO leadership & clean house.)
To: Just Lori
Better McCain than Obama!
A socialist by any other party is still a socialist.
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posted on
10/11/2008 7:41:41 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: Tennessee Nana; Clintonfatigued; Liz
Thanks for the pings, ladies. Well, finally someone besides Lou Dobbs noticed! He’s the only major outlet we’ve been able to get to see this problem...where are the envirofreaks on this?????
Lots of interesting photos of these drug cartel camps here:
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
The Mexican border has moved 800 miles north-
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:00:46 PM PDT
by
AuntB
( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: Tennessee Nana
We're seeing more of this because of tightened border security. The more we tighten our border, the more we're going to see. It's easier for them to get away with growing it in Mexico, but it's getting harder for them to smuggle it into this country. Here they have to have smaller grows than they'd have in Mexico to avoid detection, so they have to focus more on quality than quantity to keep their profits up. Next they'll really start getting into growing indoors under lights like the Asian gangs do in Canada. Then the price of the super potent stuff will come down, as has happened in Canada. Average potency of marijuana on the street will go even higher.
Personally, I think it's time to regulate this entirely unregulated industry and take all those billions and billions of dollars in profits away from organized crime. Then tax paying law abiding farmers would be growing it on their farms and non one would be growing it in our national forests.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:03:54 PM PDT
by
TKDietz
To: humblegunner
” Thank God the water got diverted in those PVC pipes.
That keeps the the chemicals out of the regular streams.
Kick ass environmentalism from the dope growers. “
To be clear, what they do is run water pipes from the water source to the plants, downhill. The chemicals are put on the plants. The chemicals then wash down the entire watershed.
These people destroy the area they’re using. The scrape the trees and make canopies to cut the view and cut more for shelter. The dig huge pits for garbage and to hide things and whatever. More damage to the watershed.
There is NOTHING environmentally sound out of this bunch. They use chemicals long ago banned here.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:09:14 PM PDT
by
AuntB
( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: freekitty
“Some job our Federal Government is doing stopping this. Not”
Our local sheriffs get some help from forest service and DEA, but Homeland Security says it’s NOT their problem. It’s all they can do to keep up with the Mexican Drug cartels.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:12:38 PM PDT
by
AuntB
( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: Just Lori
Lori, our sheriff caught one of these growers who had a USA issued agricultural green card. He was family of one of the biggest known drug cartels in Mexico, but he got in legally anyway.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:15:16 PM PDT
by
AuntB
( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: TKDietz
“. It’s easier for them to get away with growing it in Mexico,”
Not really. Down there they have to split the take with law enforcement. Up here they pretty much have free reign over hundreds of thousands of ‘protected’ uninhabited land where no one goes. They’re nearly impossible to spot by plane, though that’s how they find some.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:18:29 PM PDT
by
AuntB
( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: Man50D
Given that we have to choose between the two, what is your choice?
As CIC, Obama would throw us to the wolves. McCain would NOT.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:37:48 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.)
To: AuntB
I have a story too, but I can’t tell it.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:38:35 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.)
To: Just Lori
Given that we have to choose between the two, what is your choice?
As I've posted to many others who are willing to submit to socialism, my answer is neither. I don't vote for socialists.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:41:46 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: Man50D
Well your NO VOTE helps to get the greater of the 2 evils elected. Sleep well.
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:00:08 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.)
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