Look, I'm not condoning what those scumbags did. For what they put those innocent little babies through, they deserve severe punishment. But you must consider -- what is the motivation of these sociopaths? My guess is that, unlike the towel-headed terrorists who took down the WTC on 9/11, they are not driven by some fanatical religious doctrine. Rather, they are guys trying to make a dishonest buck, and because they are sociopaths, they have no problem with shoving a parcel of "illegal" drugs up a baby's rectum in order to sneak it past customs agents. This only goes to prove one thing -- when something (be it a drug, or booze, or freon, etc.) is PROHIBITED by the government, yet there still remains a demand for the something, and people will pay a high enough price for it, a BLACK MARKET will arise to provide the something to willing customers.
And, in the case of drugs, it is the existence of this BLACK MARKET, not the drugs themselves, that is at the root of the misery associated with the drug culture. Keep this in mind: all drugs were LEGAL in the United States until 1914. That year, a well-meaning but misguided group of "progressives" helped get the Harrison Narcotics Act - prohibition of opiates - passed. This was in reaction to a VERY SMALL number of cases of opiate addiction that existed at the time. And we all know what happened 5 years after that: the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act - Prohibition - which ushered in the golden age of organized crime in America.
We've had 30 years of the so-called War on Drugs, yet drugs are more plentiful, thus cheaper, than they ever have been, For every baby stopped at the Mexican border with a bag of coke up its rectum, most likely 99 others got through. If more people would wake up and realize that if the stuff were LEGAL, there would be no babies stopped at the Mexican border with bags of coke up their rectums. It's JUST THAT SIMPLE.
We've been trying to interdict this filth after it's in our cities. We leave huge expanses of our Northern and Southern borders unguarded and expect to achieve success?
Does Singapore have a drug problem?
We need to militarize our borders. We need to try offenders in military courts and punish the 'kingpins' and large quantity, smugglers with a swift execution. No more F. Lee Bailey baloney defenses and lengthy trials.
We didn't have the technology in the '20's we have now. If we have the technology to defeat hostile forces in foreign countries half a world away, literally bringing them to their knees in 60 to 90 days, we can defeat these scum, here.
Legalize this blight, this scourge, this plague on our children and our children's children?
NO DAMN WAY!