Posted on 03/28/2010 2:23:50 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
Speaking on Fox News, Kerlikowske admitted that the U.S. is “a large consumer nation” of drugs and that the Obama Administration is working hard to combat the problem and “reduce the amount of drugs that we consume.”
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LOL! Funny stuff. Propagandists really crack me up. I guess there are a lot of people who still do take them seriously though.
Obama solution: Legalize them. Consume all of them. No more drug problem.
All of these drugs get consumed by somebody.Dry up the demand and the drug trafficers would not have any customers.
How much of the Money from the Sale of Controlled Substances goes through the Government Regulated and Government Controlled Financial Institutions??
What percentage of Controlled Substances comes through the Government Controlled Southern Border?? Which, I might add, they REFUSE TO CLOSE.
What would we do with 80% of the “Peace Officers” in the US if we didn’t have Prohibition???
Well, just about anybody might smoke marijuana. But most of the hard stuff, I suspect, is consumed by inner city welfare recipients. Not all of it, but a lot of it.
In other words, they’re doing it on our tax money.
Coming from a guy who has admitted to taking marijuana and cocaine, this is pretty lame.
“I wond how much of these drugs are being consumed by the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens living here? “
Plenty...plus several million more anchor babies and ‘legal’ residents. Having our schools full of them is pushing this on our kids.
Here is the latest NAFBPO foreign news report. Note that Mexico is still complaining that all their problems are our fault. BTW, Hillary & Gates & Napalitano went down there last week and gave away what little we have left.
Merida Initiative has Nation’s Focus
Posted: 26 Mar 2010 08:13 AM PDT
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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/24/10
Mexico not important to the United States
EDITORIAL-Until a few days ago, Mexico was not important to the United States.
Only after the assassination of two of its officials on Mexican soil did they understand the gravity of the violence at its door. It is to be seen if this time words will become acts.
One must remember the recent past. The first diplomatic actions and declarations of Barack Obama in relation to Mexico generated many expectations. Felipe Calderón was the first to be received by the then president elect. Some months afterward, already in office, the Democrat visited this country then in the sense of “mea culpa” by his
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. For the first time in history, the United States accepted, without conditions, its enormous responsibility in the consumption of drugs and the arms traffic. But subsequent actions did not reflect their alleged concern. The budget for the Merida Initiative was reduced to a level representing only what the United States spends in one day in Iraq. Besides, there was not one change in the prevention policy and attention to the addictions of the North American population. As for the arms traffic, neither was there any change, only a bill by a small group of US legislators in favor of closing the way to the marketing of rifles (armas largas). Nothing more.
Yesterday (3/23/10) Hillary Clinton returned to Mexico. No longer just to give a pat on the back to Felipe Calderón, but to agree on concrete actions that include in the diagnosis the consumption of drugs in both countries, investments in security operations, major intelligence in matters of money-laundering and financial crimes, destruction of the cartels, social investment on the Tijuana-San Diego and Ciudad Juarez-El Paso borders, as well as strengthening the institutions of those locations. At least this time there really are commitments to measure.
We must hope that in the short term, President Barack Obama’s personal disregard of Mexico will not affect the agreement. He already failed once in detecting the gravity of the problem.
The United States should understand that its level of integration with Mexico is not measured just in kilometers, but in days. Increasingly there are major commercial and cultural ties, including blood relationships. Nevertheless, integration is not fusion. The limit is in the presence of foreign troops and military bases on Mexican soil. There are many possibilities of mutual cooperation pending, enough yet to make before suggesting the possibility of that kind of help.
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Prisoners escape from jail in Matamoros
At least 40 convicts escaped from a Matamoros prison today. In a press release, the state
government announced that the escapees are guilty of federal crimes. No further information available at this time.
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Federal agents begin “Operation Holy Week” (Easter) this Friday
From Friday through Sunday, 8496 Federal Agents will spread over Mexico using 3,700 cars, 6 Blackhawk helicopters and 19 ambulances. The objective is to insure security, prevent crimes and preserve public order during this vacation weekend. They will assist returning Mexicans who live outside this country, assure that travelers use seatbelts, enforce speed limits and protect people in high crimes areas.
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Owner of Global Vision held in Venezuela
CARACAS-The Owner of privately held Globalvision, Guillermo Zuloaga, was arrested as he was attempting to leave the country. He was detained by authorities as he was leaving on an Easter weekend trip with his family. He is being held on suspicion of making statements to SIP (an international news agency) against Hugo Chavez. “This man needs to take responsibility after making such statements”, said a government official.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo
Headlines:
* Pharmacies that sell antibiotics without a prescription will be closed
* Two burned bodies found on a ranch
* Forty-one fugitives now on the loose in Matamoros
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-end of report-
What is the exit strategy on the WAR ON DRUGS. This war has been ongoing for what, 50 years now at what cost????
Billions of dollars and the lives of many many cops and civilians.
This war is unacceptable. What is the exit strategy O drug czar and Obama?Bringing home all of our front line narcs could free up billions of dollars and save countless lives. END THIS WAR NOW OBAMA!
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Obama/McCain paving the way for the Drug Cartels.....
Blame the Americans....always the case of those supporting illegals, drug cartels, coyotes
BTW Coca Cola was originally formulated as a pharmaceutical and contained cocaine, ergo its name! Thus we have Truth in Advertising which is more than can be said about the Obongo Administered uppa u nose!
Please excuse the wise CRACK!
The ‘czar’ is right.
‘.....U.S. is “a large consumer nation” of drugs.....’
Sorry, only individual came consume drugs not nations. I’m sure the socialist must keep part of the nation drugged up in order fill their agenda.
But there is a huge drug enforcement industry in this country that makes truckloads of moeny because drugs are illegal. They have a vested interest in keeping them illegal lest the gravy train dry up.
People want to kill themselves with drugs? It's a free country. People have the right to be stupid.
But the overwhelming majority of drug crime stems from the fact that we legislated an illegal market with enormous profits for the participants.
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