You proceed from a false premise. This country is not under seige from drug traffickers. This country is under seige from militant, radical Islamic factions.
Both these factions and US government agencies have been caught trafficking in drugs, along with thousands of independents.
Drug trafficking is a lucrative business. It is that way solely because of the current environment of the drugs being ILLEGAL. If you doubt this, ask yourself how many terrorist organizations are being funded through the sales of fine, single malt scotches, and sassy little Anejo rums.
We have globalist activists from multinational interest groups seeking to define America's foreign trade policies.
This is a newsflash? Hello? All of our ex-politicians, including Dole, Poppy Bush, etc., all sell their time and influence in our government to multinational interest groups.
We have globalist activists from multinational interest groups seeking to define America's internal policies.
Hello? What are you, a World Trade Organization protestor? In today's business environment, nearly every single major corporation in the US is MULTI-NATIONAL!
And we have Blue Nation America constantly promoting cultural activism which balkanizes the American population.
Hey, Mark ... just put on that ol' sheet and start burning you some crosses, dude!
People are free to associate in this country. If you have a problem with that, go down to the local immigration office, and offer to put up in your house several dozen immigrants in order to indoctrinate them in the MarkWar School of Citizenship.
Thanks for the reply.
(1) The essay I put up at the head of this thread wasn't meant to be about a range-of-the-moment situation. Yes, we are currently fighting elements of the Islamic Revolution. But to my eyes that is only a tiny part of the problem. I tried to sketch my view of the larger picture, the picture which gave rise, in part, to the particulars of the moment.
(2) [sighs] Terrorists make lots of money from smuggling drugs. But this has nothing directly to do with the legality/illegality of the process. Terrorists also -- as we've all learned over the last few weeks -- make millions of dollars playing the stock market. Also, terrorist currently configure their organizations -- as we've also learned over the few weeks -- as loosely inter-twined charitable organizations. Terrorists make money every way they can, and they manage their money every way they can. They don't do drugs because drugs are illegal. They do drugs because it makes them money. If drugs were legalized, among many other things, it would be one less way of attack terrorism _and_ terrorists would still be able to use it to make money. (FYI, the oil business is certainly legal. But can you imagine how many OPEC petro-billions have trickled down to the Islamic Revolution over the years?!)
(3) I never said I was posting a newflash. I never said I was posting anything which, individually, was unknown. I was attempting to tie together different aspects of Blue Nation America and its consequences at home and abroad.
(4) "...just put on that ol' sheet and start burning you some crosses..." -- of all the spurious personal attacks on me in this thread, this strikes me as the most hurtful. Nothing I said evens alluded to racism on my part. Just the opposite -- in speaking about the balkanization of America, I was referring to _how bad it is_ that racists exploit racial hatred. But the word "balkanization" means much more that racial divides -- it refers to _all_ the ways a Machiavellian Establishment (or any enemy) can destabalize a population and get people fighting among themselves.
Mark W.