Posted on 03/17/2016 8:05:54 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
The drug cartel in the Mexican state of Guerrero demanded from Coca-Cola one million dollars to keep their distribution center in the region. Coca-Cola refused to pay the money. The cartel retaliated and began to burn down Coca-Cola trucks. The violence got so severe that Coca-Cola removed its distribution center. This story signifies just how powerful the narco state of Mexico is becoming, even to the point of driving out major American industries. To learn more about this story, and the political significance behind it, I spoke with Jorge Vazquez Valencia, the spokesperson for the Autodefensas, a self-defense group that has been fighting the cartel with arms and valor:
These guys sound and act just like democRATS.
If it was done covertly, and in the manner I described...they would not have to coordinate it with the Mexicans.
In fact, I we would have to do it without coordinating it at all with them.
The moment we told them is the moment such a mission would fail because that government is shot so full of informants and cartel employees that telling the Mexican government is, for all intents and purposes, the same as telling the Cartels.
Despite this, we, need to send clear unequivocal messages like this to both the Cartels and the Mexican government.
I agree the only way to deal with criminals is to arrest them and segregate them from society because if you don’t they will over whelm society, I am sure that the communities that legalize crimes like drugs will find that they have More crime not less as the drugs attract the criminals and the legalization causes them to kook for other ways to victimize society to make money.
When you can vote for it in America
Post of the day!
Build a wall
Build a wall
Right in one.
A far wiser FReeper than I once pointed out to me that laws - especially gun control laws - are not there to protect citizens from the criminals, they're there to protect criminals from the citizens.
Was an eye-opener, at least for me.
gun control laws - are not there to protect citizens from the criminals, they’re there to protect criminals from the citizens.
In a nutshell!
Of course, it could be conducted covertly and quite efficiently. But it would not take very long for the signature to be determined and without government coordination ($) all hell would be launched at the UN. At the local level that hell might include arresting Americans and otherwise emptying their jails at our southern border.
We do agree on the need for "clear unequivocal messages" to both the cartels and the government. In the case of the former, I would advocate old-fashioned, well-equipped competent (low signature) assassins. The government would take notice.
‘And the criminals will move onto harder and harder drugs.’
The cartels make most of their money on meth and heroin. What harder drugs are there?
“The cartels make most of their money on meth and heroin.”
According to the drug czar (https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/wausid_results_report.pdf), in 2010 Americans spent more on pot than on any other illegal drug - so legalizing just pot would take a big bite out of cartel profits.
“I hope any American company that offshores fails. Yes I know that screams against free trade yada yada.... it is how I feel.”
I’m sure that felt good to say. Now, when are you going to start living by this principle? Feel free to type a reply on your computer that has likely 80% of its content sourced outside of the US.
This really says something about our own government. If a company is willing to risk doing business in such an environment, then how much worse are our own alphabet agencies? The EPA should be very proud to be considered WORSE than narco terrorists....
And it’s no coincidence that heroin use has skyrocketed since we’ve been in Afghanistan.
They know that Coca-Cola is not cocaine any more don’t they?
Maybe if Americans didn’t have so much demand for the drugs the Mexicans would stop supplying them.
See a need, fill a need.
Could we substitute the word "government" for "criminals" and be just about as accurate?
See a need, fill a need.
Yup. The War on Drugs is a war on supply and demand. I thought only leftists went in for that sort of thing.
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