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Cartels Turn U.S. Forests Into Marijuana Plantations, Creating Toxic Mess
Green Wire ^ | July 30, 2009 | PHIL TAYLOR of Greenwire

Posted on 07/31/2009 1:02:43 PM PDT by AuntB

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To: AuntB

I am absolutely convinced these pro amnesty, turn the other way politicians are in Mexico’s pocket.


I would not be surprised, either. I would not be surprised if many in the media....including Fox and some conservative talk hosts...are in the bag for Mexico, too....it is absolutely insane to continue this pro-illegal hispanic-racist pandering agenda


41 posted on 07/31/2009 2:10:50 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Know the difference between "conservative" and "republican")
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To: Ozone34

Excellent comment.Now that’s what i call thinkin out of the box:)


42 posted on 07/31/2009 2:15:51 PM PDT by Thombo2
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To: immadashell
ZWhat's the possibility that state bureaucrats are taking a percentage to keep quiet?

Quite high, I'll bet.

Do you recall those horrible murders a year or two back, I think in New Jersey, where the four black teens were hacked to death by M-13 ( a drug running gang?). At the time, I though it was weird how the black mayor of Newark, instead of being horrified and calling for eradication of M-13, instead called for calm and an end to violence against Hispanics. He basically blew the whole thing off. I thought then that the politician buy off was probably a lot bigger than we think. And I still do.

43 posted on 07/31/2009 2:21:35 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Thombo2

>> Our parks shouldn’t have to spend their limited resources fighting drug cartels when those resources could instead be used to educate and inspire our children ...

Uh, on second thought, maybe the Gummn’t chasing the dope producers isn’t all that bad a deal.


44 posted on 07/31/2009 2:22:58 PM PDT by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: humblegunner
Couldn’t this be fixed by allowing Americans to grow the weed themselves?

We can't just let people do what they want. That would be too similar to freedom.

45 posted on 07/31/2009 2:32:10 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: AuntB
Funny thing is, most of the demand for the stuff comes from the envio-hippies. They are creating the problem.

"Hey, Hippies: stop smoking pot and get a job -- save the forests!"

46 posted on 07/31/2009 2:34:16 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: AuntB

I bet the pot is growing WILD there now, though - spread from seeds. It’s nature’s way.


47 posted on 07/31/2009 2:35:05 PM PDT by 2harddrive (S)
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To: Fido969

Priced out by the individual joint, YES. The police price dope out that way to inflate their confiscation value numbers.


48 posted on 07/31/2009 2:37:31 PM PDT by 2harddrive (S)
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To: Prodigal Son
We can't just let people do what they want. That would be too similar to freedom.

Crap, I hadn't thought of that.

49 posted on 07/31/2009 2:43:52 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Redcloak

OH Boy! You ar asking to get flamed by the moralists on Freep who say alcohol is fine...mj not.
there is NO logic to this.

the straw man is always, “well, we have a bad enough problem with alcohol..we can’t let up on prohibition on mj...”

Get used to it...It doesn’t matter if we have gangs here, it doesn’t matter if we spend millions on the GREAT WAR ON DRUGS, it doesn’t matter if we fill up our prisons, who cares about our natural resources being ruined? Who cares about the lack of tax money that could help our economy and help addicts to rehab?

simple answer: alcohol good. marijuana bad.

oh, BTW...to the moralists..spare me your logical retorts” you better get more recovery ex hippie.” ( this is usually the ONLY “logical?” response I get.


50 posted on 07/31/2009 2:45:27 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: humblegunner

We’re all in this together citizen. Our leaders are just doing what’s best for us ;-)


51 posted on 07/31/2009 2:47:46 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: QBFimi

Rodger that QBF.


52 posted on 07/31/2009 2:58:04 PM PDT by Thombo2
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To: WayneS
Every time YOU you smoke a joint, a skunk dies..." -

LOL

53 posted on 07/31/2009 3:06:56 PM PDT by usurper (Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
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To: fortunate sun

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Right on!

I have a good idea of how to get our new SEALs some training and clear up another problem....


54 posted on 07/31/2009 3:18:51 PM PDT by ASOC (Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
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To: Red Boots

RAT mayor. Figures.


55 posted on 07/31/2009 3:22:23 PM PDT by immadashell
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To: AuntB

I imagine the Cartels would pay a pretty penny to see that marijuana stayed illegal in the US.


56 posted on 07/31/2009 3:23:05 PM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: AuntB
where were the whacked out enviros??? ... who do you think was smokin' the pot?
57 posted on 07/31/2009 3:34:06 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (Sprit of '76)
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To: Dusty Road; All

“I imagine the Cartels would pay a pretty penny to see that marijuana stayed illegal in the US.”

Boggles the mind and puts a knot in your gut to think how that would work, doesn’t it? It only takes one or two, not all of them to swing votes on legislation, public opinion...especially if the corrupt ones are the media darlings. Have you noticed that all the media ‘conservative’ speakers represent the ‘squishy middle’ on immigration/anything hispanic? Those honored by LaRAza every year come to mind. I think we know who they all are. We should. I hate naming names when I can’t prove corruption, it’s not something I accuse any man of lightly. However, the preponderance of the circumstantial evidence is over whelming.

And then there’s this. Mexico has more billionaires and millionaires than Saudi Arabia, and we know how that’s worked out.

2008, the 2nd richest man in the world,
Carlos Slim Helú, citizenship, Mexico and Lebanon passing Bill Gates. Gates...he sure got some ‘cheap labor’ legislation passed, didn’t he?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires_(2008)

How anyone doesn’t see that we are headed into the same Mexican political structure is beyond me if we keep up the pace of that mind set and keep allowing millions more in with amnesty.

I’ve been to Mexico a few times. I DON’T want my children growing up in a Lie, cheat, steal society...which we become more like every day. And it’s not just Mexico...it’s the illegal alien mindset, willing to be useful dupes for the same kinds of corruption that ruined their country. We’ve got 50,000 Irish liberal Illegal aliens demanding amnesty and all the goodies that go with it!

It’s a worldwide assault of mostly 3rd world socialist mentalities easily led by a few trinkets, not unlike how the Europeans managed to bribe or break the Indian inhabitants into submission.

I want no part of it.

The very rich and the masses of very poor. Nothing left of the middle.

Do the useful GOP dupes and supporters of these same corrupt politicians honestly think they or their progeny will be part of the rich group? That group is going to get much smaller, real quick at this rate.


58 posted on 07/31/2009 4:11:15 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of Left/right coast globalist party power brokers? How 'bout THE HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY??)
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To: ArmyTeach

“where were the whacked out enviros??? ... who do you think was smokin’ the pot?”

It’s even worse than that. Those are just the useful idiot disposable trash. These enviro groups, like Sierra Club, etc. are run by lawyers. They could care less about the environment, you, me, any of us. Non profits’ (ie. community organizing) is big bucks these days. It’s all about money.
And power.


59 posted on 07/31/2009 4:56:24 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of Left/right coast globalist party power brokers? How 'bout THE HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY??)
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To: WayneS
I envision a new government sponsored anti-drug ad: -- "Think about THIS the next time you decide to 'spark one up' --- Every time YOU you smoke a joint, a skunk dies..." --

Empty turtle shells, decaying skunk carcasses and a set of deer antlers lay strewn about an empty campsite in California's Sierra National Forest.

Or a turtle goes homeless!!!

60 posted on 07/31/2009 5:11:07 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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