[ruralvoter]

Wow. $60 billion dollars a year. That is the estimated drug market in the United States. How many dollars are now a large part of business in your state? In Florida the money laundering business is thriving.

[Venturer]

The Feds never seem to prosecute the money launderers.

Ever wonder about that?

[freedumb2003]

Just legalize drugs. Banning them on the federal level was an overreach anyway (violates the IX and X Amendments).

We could save hundreds of billions of dollars in one fell swoop.

[SpaceBar]

Judging from the description of the confrontation, their mistake was getting into a conventional firefight with the cartel. Once they met resistence, they should have just bombed the compound from the air like a military target. Pulverize it into gravel, then go in and mop up.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Oh, sorry. Misread the title.

[FreedomPoster]

Besides the “generate anti-2A sentiment” angle on Fast & Furious, I think it was very likely a way to help arm a favored drug cartel.

[wildbill]

Most replies to this thread are about the drug connection to the Zetas, BUT it’s important to undeerstand that these guys are developing a full-service criminal enterprise.

They are also into the protection racket and prostitution. Even with the Mafia in its hey-day, there was nothing as vicious and dangerous to ordinary citizens as the Zetas.