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OK, Who Ordered the Mexican Heroin?
Townhall.com ^ | November 4, 2015 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 11/05/2015 5:59:41 AM PST by Kaslin

Heroin use in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2007 and 2012 alone, and The New York Times' main reaction to this depressing fact is to be overjoyed that the new addicts are mostly white.

The important point is not that ragingly addictive drugs are sweeping small-town America, young lives are being cut short, or that we lost one of the most talented actors of his generation to a heroin overdose. What matters is that that the drug epidemic is not having a disparate impact.

Excitedly reporting that "nearly 90 percent of those who tried heroin for the first time in the last decade were white" -- yay! -- the Times claimed that, with white kids dying from heroin overdoses, their parents are taking a "more forgiving approach" to heroin addiction.

Assuming that's even true, are grieving parents the best source of public policy recommendations? If we're basing our drug policies on the feelings of parents whose kids overdosed on drugs, how about having the parents of kids who have been raped and murdered write our death penalty laws?

Columbia professor Kimberle Williams Crenshaw lamented that if only whites had been dying of heroin overdoses sooner, "the devastating impact of mass incarceration upon entire communities would never have happened."

The implication that black people have always had a more "forgiving" approach to drugs -- and whites are finally catching up -- is insane. Black leaders have been begging for more aggressive drug laws forever.

In the '90s, members of the Congressional Black Caucus repeatedly held hearings on the crack epidemic, crime and drugs. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., called drug traffickers "a greater threat to our national security than communists." Jesse Jackson demanded "a comprehensive war on drugs." Lee Brown, Clinton's African-American director of national drug control policy, said that "that the legalization of illegal drugs would be the moral equivalent to genocide."

Nor did black citizens take a particularly "forgiving" approach to their children's drug addictions. In March 1987, The Miami Herald told the story of an African-American woman who called the police on her own son, telling them to arrest him, when his drug habit led him to burglarize homes in their neighborhood.

By contrast, the Times' big ideas for reducing heroin addiction in America are: (1) stop stigmatizing drug use; (2) stop imprisoning drug offenders; and (3) make a heroin antidote, naloxone, widely available, so Americans are prepared when their friends and relatives overdose.

The Times objects to stigmatizing behavior only when it doesn't really mind the behavior. It never advocates a "forgiving approach" toward things the Times dislikes. There will be no "forgiving approach" to abortion-doctor killers, Catholic priests who molest children or corporate polluters -- though those behaviors may also result from a "disease."

Instead of trying to prevent abortionists from being shot, why not give them bulletproof vests?

Rather than stigmatize priests who molest kids, shouldn't we put them in "diversion" programs, and have STD antidotes available for the molested children? And do we have to use such loaded term as "molest"?

How about "compassionate counseling" for socially irresponsible corporate conglomerates? Lets try recasting them in a less stigmatizing light -- avoiding words like "polluter" or "contaminate," and instead using terms that convey a chronic condition, like "rent seekers"?

If the Times had any genuine interest in reducing drug addiction, I suspect the paper would prefer the "stigmatizing" approach. It might even advocate policies to stop drug addiction, rather than policies to treat it.

As Rangel said in a 1992 speech to the National Press Club: "We all know that the availability of heroin and cocaine on our streets is because our borders are a sieve. I would like to believe that if the communists were still alive and well, and they were pushing bombs into communities that could cause the havoc, the pain and the cost that drugs are, that somehow the secretary of state ... would be involved."

Rangel is right. The drug problem exploded in the U.S. after we opened our southern border to one of the world's major drug-supplying countries: Mexico. The vast majority of all drugs in America -- heroin, cocaine, marijuana and, increasingly, methamphetamine -- are brought in by the people of Mexico, who make our country a more diverse tapestry of cultural richness.

In 2010, 38,329 people died from drug overdoses, twice the number a decade earlier. More people died of drug overdoses than from automobile accidents (30,196), murders (13,000) or gun accidents (700).

About 90 percent of heroin in the U.S. is brought in by Mexicans. In 2013, U.S. authorities seized 2,162 kilograms of heroin coming across our southern border -- compared to 367 kilos in 2007. The government has estimated that 660,000 Americans are using heroin and more than 3,000 are dying of it every year -- because Mexico is boosting the supply.

And yet in a major front-page article about America's "heroin crisis" last weekend, the Times never mentioned Mexico.

Even when Mexicans dump illegal drugs on our country, it's America's fault. As the Times explained in an Aug. 30, 2015, article, Mexico increased opium production by 50 percent in 2014, "the result of a voracious American appetite."

In what other circumstances do we absolve the seller of a dangerous product because a buyer exists? It's not the hit-man's fault -- that lady wanted her husband dead.

In any event, the "appetite" argument may work for pot, but America did not place an order for black tar heroin. According to a DEA agent quoted in The Washington Post, Mexican drug pushers stand outside American methadone clinics, selling their wares. Hey, senor, have you heard of this?

Despite the Times' neurotic obsession with the racial breakdown of heroin users, it seems sublimely uninterested in the ethnic composition of heroin pushers. This is more than the left's usual affection for criminals.

Contrary to the cliches, most drug dealers aren't black: They're Hispanic. In 2013, 48 percent of drug offenders in federal prison were Hispanic. Only 27 percent were black and 22 percent white.

All the left's blather about drug laws being used to lock up "black bodies" is a lie. Once again, the left is using African-Americans as a false flag to push policies that help Democrats, but hurt black people.

The Times doesn't mind black neighborhoods being seized by Mexican drug cartels. It doesn't mind if more white people die from heroin overdoses. The Times just wants to increase the number of Hispanics out of prison, on their way to citizenship, so they can start voting for the Democrats.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; drugs; heroin; wod
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1 posted on 11/05/2015 5:59:41 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

OK, Who Ordered the Mexican Heroin? Not me. I ordered the cheeseburger deluxe and Coke.


2 posted on 11/05/2015 6:05:02 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin

JESUS can set them free.


3 posted on 11/05/2015 6:06:31 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

If they can’t buy beer, some will find a way to party and choose this stuff.


4 posted on 11/05/2015 6:06:38 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Kaslin
we lost one of the most talented actors of his generation to a heroin overdose.

Who was the actor?

5 posted on 11/05/2015 6:07:54 AM PST by Blennos
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To: stars & stripes forever

“JESUS can set them free.”

Jesus only chooses to set 4% of heroin addicts free in any given year.


6 posted on 11/05/2015 6:08:09 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Kaslin
Don't be a drug addict.

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

7 posted on 11/05/2015 6:08:37 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Kaslin

Good thing our border is closed. Otherwise ....


8 posted on 11/05/2015 6:08:46 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("The bipartisan project is to destroy conservatism" .. "Cruz is a thoroughbred conservative." - Rush)
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To: ETL

I checked with Proposition Joe and found out he is dead


9 posted on 11/05/2015 6:09:02 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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To: Kaslin
Gosh, if it's Mexican heroin maybe it's entering the US illegally with all of those "dreamers".

When will the crowd we elect to go to DC WAKE UP???

10 posted on 11/05/2015 6:09:21 AM PST by grania
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To: RFEngineer

[Jesus only chooses to set 4% of heroin addicts free in any given year.]

You mean 96% of heroin addicts choose not to be set free.
Freedom in CHRIST requires a complete surrender to CHRIST.


11 posted on 11/05/2015 6:11:46 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: bert

Huh?


12 posted on 11/05/2015 6:12:40 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin

This is a serious problem, I know diferrent parents of two dead kids.

Personally, I think it’s a complex issue however this legalizing of drugs and overprescribing of painkillers isn’t helping.

Many of these kids are lost, lost following a liberal indoctrination stressing no losers, anti-work/anti-capitalism, the kids stay at home in the Obama recession and find other ways to feel successful - heroin.


13 posted on 11/05/2015 6:12:55 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: bert

I don’t know who “Proposition Joe” is, but I do know “Freddy” who used to hang out on the corner is dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A


14 posted on 11/05/2015 6:15:11 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin

What Anne did not mention is the possibility that the vast increase in “tolerance” for drug use is due to the propaganda engendered by the war on the West. All aspects are being used in the total war. The leaders of the war against us are taking advantage of the prevailing bestial philosophy infecting our people: i.e. eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels and snoring.


15 posted on 11/05/2015 6:15:30 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: stars & stripes forever

“You mean 96% of heroin addicts choose not to be set free.
Freedom in CHRIST requires a complete surrender to CHRIST.”

It also requires you not use heroin, and that’s the problem.


16 posted on 11/05/2015 6:16:17 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: grania

The clowns in Washington are already awake, it is the electorate that are asleep. (Of course, the media has not been reporting the corruption and degeneracy of our so called “leaders.”)


17 posted on 11/05/2015 6:18:27 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Kaslin

Heroin, which was primarily an urban drug, has now been adopted as a cheap alternative to pain meds. Oxy and Meth has replaced moonshine in Appalachia as the substance of choice among the non-working class.


18 posted on 11/05/2015 6:18:48 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Very well said.


19 posted on 11/05/2015 6:19:31 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ETL

You wanna be a junkie, wow


20 posted on 11/05/2015 6:19:37 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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