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:
Yep Ford, Carrier, do you really want to go this route? If so you bean counters are not as smart as you think you are.
Obama supplies weapons and cash to rebels across North Africa.
Result: Immagrant crisis in Italy.
Obama supplies weapons, cash and air support to Syrian Rebels, but only enough to ensure a bloody stalemate.
Result: Imagration crisis in greater Europe.
Obama supplies weapons and presumably cash to both sides in the Mexican cartel wars, but only enough to ensure a bloody stalemate.
Result: Imagration crisis in US.
Obama’s revolution is against West Civilization. To the extent that the drug trade is another coincident form of subversion...two birds, one stone.
Any direct supply of cash to the cartels is dwarfed by the tens of billions of dollars put in their hands every year by drug criminalization.
Anybody recall the clinton war on big tobacco?
Billions to reimburse the American taxpayer, but surprise I did not notice the change in my taxes.
Political shake down!
“Do people think these laws weren’t created by human beings for a reason in the first place? They maybe saw the human and economic toll of addiction?”
You might want to do a little reading in to the History of how we got our Drug Laws before making statements about their Origin.
It’s a long read, but the Facts are the Facts!
Report back on your thoughts about Anslinger.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm
The Cliff Notes version:
‘only seven articles treating marijuana or hashish appeared from 1920 to August 1937, when the [Marihuana] Tax Act was passed. With respect to medical opinion, the AMA Journal presented an article opposing the enactment of the Tax Act and arguing, as did their representative at the Tax Act hearings, that existing state laws were sufficient if properly enforced.
‘It seems the national media and medical opinion were far from hysterical at the time the Tax Act passed. There were a few local newspaper campaigns against the drug, but they tended to peak about two years before the passage of the Act and were isolated instances of public support for the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act. Moreover, these atypical state scares did not draw national attention.
‘In fact, whatever publicity the “marijuana problem” received during this period was attributable to Commissioner Anslinger and his office [the Federal Bureau of Narcotics], who conducted an active educational campaign for federal legislation. They prepared press stories on the dangers of the drug and traveled around the country disseminating propaganda. Despite these efforts, however, public knowledge of the marijuana proposals was minimal at best. The New York Times contained nine references to marijuana from January 1936 until it reported on August 3, 1937, “President Roosevelt signed today a bill to curb traffic in the narcotic, marihuana, through heavy taxes on transactions.”
‘As in prior years, marijuana was still not a matter of public attention, and the so-called “problem” and the federal proposal to cure it went virtually unnoticed by most of the American public. At the same time, however, the “educational” campaign conducted by the Bureau to inform the Congress of the dimensions of the “problem” was highly successful. In this sense, the Bureau itself created the “felt need” for federal legislation; the Bureau - and not public hysteria which it was unable to arouse - was the major force behind the Tax Act. We assign to the Bureau the instrumental role with respect to passage of the Tax Act even though we did not do so with respect to the Uniform Act. So successful were the Commissioner’s efforts in the Congress that the hearings before the House Ways and Means Committee and the floor debate on the bill are near comic examples of dereliction of legislative responsibility.’
Very good! I read that in High School 40 years ago.
Exactly.
They could put their bottling plant in the US.
Because of the tentacles of the one world economy that is a tough road to stay on but I do my best. I do look at labels when I buy and I tend to pay the extra for something made in America, Canada, or at least a country (and it is usually better made) that is not overtly trying to subvert us and takes subsides from us as well.
The day that I quit working for the man and move to my hovel and live without ever going to town or accessing media i will make the journey.
That sounds fine, but; after you leve the MF and use a few of the old CBU’s that released small bomblets that hung in trees etc. Damn those are nasty for folks who have to walk in the AO. I always liked the old A1E’s as they could stay on target plus it took a lot to knock a spad down. Hell, drop some WP on the place. Give them a hot time.
ok, thank you for the info.
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