Posted on 06/21/2013 6:13:00 PM PDT by seacapn
For more than a day, the plastic orange toolbox sat on the lawn under a cherry tree, a few paces from the sidewalk.
No one passing the Canby home took notice. Not the runners. Not the dog walkers. Not the kids riding by on bicycles.
Then curiosity drew a 31-year-old landscaper who had come to the home just after sunset to help a friend move. Ivan Velasco Rodriguez poked the toolbox with a wooden rake handle.
The pipe bomb lurking inside exploded. Metal shards flying at bullet speed fatally injured Velasco Rodriguez and slammed into surrounding homes. Pieces fell on roofs two blocks away.
Canby police and federal agents swarmed the scene that night in December 2011. Who planted the booby trap that killed Velasco Rodriguez, a married father of four? And who was the intended target?
Police made no arrests, and the crime faded from public view.
But behind the scenes, federal law enforcement sources say, investigators reached a chilling conclusion: A Mexican drug cartel most likely commissioned the bomb to kill a witness who once listed the address as his own. Their suspicions deepened when they discovered the bombing was eerily similar to twin explosions in central Washington, where rigged devices killed two men hours apart in 2008.
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But for some reason, I doubt that today's GOP will want to highlight these kinds of stories... at least not the leadership. Not during the shamnesty negotiations...
End the war on drugs.
Law enforcement has its hands full with tea party members, and people who fly the American flag in defiance of their homeowner association rules.
No, put the buyers in jail - no rehab - for a couple of years and the sellers will have no customers.
Illegal alien drug cartel murders PING
End the Drug War on Children. I can defend myself- children are at the whim of drug addicts.
I believe our founders would recoil at your thought.
Maybe they're just slipping back to Mexico because Rubio and Ryan haven't given them amnesty yet.
Hey, dope is legal in WA now. I wonder how the cartels will react to the government taking part of their action. Probably cut prices and there is no tax collected on Mexican weed. Govenor Inslee’s dreams of balancing the budget may go up in smoke. (Anyone not see that pun coming?)
The road to serfdom is paved with good intentions.
If the federal government has the power to outlaw substances you despise, they have the power to outlaw anything.
Yes, end it by executing drug dealers, sealing the borders, and deporting illegals. Then the “war” would be won.
It would also help if the US gov hadn’t armed and laundered money for drug cartels.
My idea is better. Execute drug dealers.
No sign of an immigration problem here. Heck, legalize them all!
That’s just as much terrorism as what happened in Boston.
Read about how the Bank of England and the East-India Company destroyed the Chinese Empire with drugs.
The people behind the drug Cartls want to destroy this country. You’re just an ignorant running-dog.
The Founders knew who wanted to destroy this nation. So should you.
If you’re not violating someone’s inalienable rights, I don’t care what you’re doing. It’s none of my business. I’m not in the business of dictating your man-made rights.
Yep, and they left it up to the states. Will you? I will.
Plus, I’ll converse with you without calling you names!
Just building the violent, murderous drug cartels than Americans are too lazy build.
sí se puede.
I don’t understand why anyone is surprised.
These cartels...
Throw grenades into crowded nightclubs.
Display decapitated heads on city streets.
Dump bodies on the highway during rush hour.
You think borders are going to stop them?
Even worse you really think even 700 miles of fencing and 4,000 new border patrol agents are going to stop them?
Mexico is in the middle of a civil war. And now it’s spilling into the US.
The only way we are going to stop the cartels crossing the border is either
1. Militarize the borders,
2. Legalize narcotics,
or
3. Force an end to the civil war.
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What I really don’t understand is why politicians are so fired up to send weapons and even troops to Syria, which is in another continents.
When there is a real honest to goodness national security threat right on our border?
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