Ask yourself why Mexican authorities encounter multi-ton shipments of narcotics on their side of the border while most American busts are measured in pounds. The answer is the Cartel of the Potomac, a shadowy network of lobbyists, attorneys, PR firms, fixers and others managing the flow in such a way that most make it through despite border security. That is why the price of Mexican meth has reportedly dropped 25 percent in Portland despite all the clamor over border security. In fact much of the fuss over immigration is a carefully staged diversion of resources from drug interdiction to chasing 4-year-old Hondurans. While overall trade with Mexico continues to expand more and more Customs and Border Protection officers are detaining children, increasing the odds that narcotics slip through among commercial truck traffic. The famed border wall is carefully designed to allow packages of drugs to be passed through from one side to the other. No sooner does Donald Trump become president and he seeks to divert funding from Coast Guard interdiction to a dramatic but useless wall. The Cartel of the Potomac exists to protect cross-border drug traffic, primarily by persuading the federal government to pursue immigrants rather than narcotics.To the extent traffickers provide the Trump administration with the theatre of Central Americans struggling to escape narco-violence they offer the administration great exchange......poor people swarming the frontier for easy passage of narcotics.
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Wait, you mean to tell me there are still illegal drugs coming into America???
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The drug war is a complete failure - Only in government can we take something that is failing so bad and continue to double down it. Ironically it's kinda like an addiction.
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Cartels 10,000,000,000
War on Drugs 37
GAME OVER. Can we give up the charade yet?
I support a policy of acceptance.
1. Drugs are never going away. Ever, Never, ever. (got it).
2. End the international illegal drug trade by legalizing all drugs.
3. Create a massive legitimate industry of manufacturing heroin, meth, cocaine, etc.
4. Take 30% of the profits of the manufacturing companies to build facilities where junkies can live out their days nodding off in a building instead of the street.
5. Remind everyone that drugs are never, ever, never, really, ever going away.
6. We now have more time to figure out how to continue to exist on a planet that is overpopulated to the extreme.
7. Accept that number 6 will never happen so many can choose to go to the heroin facilities and live out their days nodding off and watching TV. Did I mention the facilities have not only drugs and food but they are all equipped with FREE WIFI!!!
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We are the #1 drug consuming country in the world. El Chapo has always maintained he was allowed by the Mexican government, and protected by DEA, and other US agencies, to carry out his trade during the last three administrations. Even the son of ismael Zambada testified about a deal made by those US agencies to allow his cartel bring drugs to the US...for a hefty fee. So now without el Chapo, other more violent capos, distrustful of US “deals” , are picking up where el
Chapo left off. And the new Mexican government is incapable, or unwilling, to stop the wave of violence now affecting even Mexico City. It is just a question of time before we get more drugs into the US, and with it the corresponding violence and corruption.
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The USA's drug war is part of the military industrial cesspool's operational strategy. It's only purpose is to suck taxpayers dry in order to maintain and build the corporate portfolios of its beneficiaries. The US government has no intention to stop drug smuggling. Its point is to ensure its corporate, fascist cohorts profit from it. Isn't that obvious by now?
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The arrest of a drug kingpin is merely a promotional opportunity for his lieutenants. The Phllippine president has the right idea - harsh as it may seem to Western snowflakes - kill off all the users (and dealers). He said "I will enjoy killing three million people". Politically incorrect, yes. But Mao used the same strategy in China back in 1950; it worked. So, how many people are we willing to kill to win the War on Drugs?
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This result was completely predictable. No one should be surprised. The drug war has a long history of taking out Mr. Bad only to see him replaced by Mr. Worse.
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As long as U.S. citizens purchase illegal drugs the good Mexican people are going to pay the price. No demand means no supply.
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When you kill the lion the jackals come out.
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@srhoja
So what is the answer? If we keep decriminalizing drug possession and legalizing it we are feeding the supply and suppliers! If we can't stop this from the top down then we need to revert to the bottom up.
This means outlawing all illegal drug possession, and increasing the sentences to diminish the buyers of these drugs so they have no market.
The only other suggestion I have is to enlist Mexico and other countries to form an international drug enforcement organization that will allow enforcement, apprehension, trials and execution of the most stringent anti drug laws in the world! We could start and try this enforcement in North and South America by getting rid of border walls for illegal drug trafficking and cooperation between each countries drug dealer apprehension, arrest, trial and sentencing procedures and setting up a continental enforcement agency with a continental jurisdiction and cooperation wit one member from each country involved!