Posted on 03/08/2009 4:01:28 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Many people ABC-7 talked to in Juarez believe if the military does indeed take over the police department, which we refer to as “martial law” in the U.S., the calm will end and the attacks will increase to a whole new level.
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/mark
it’s not the drugs, it’s the fact that they’re illegal. If the government prohibited the sale of apples, you’d have violent gangs smuggling apples into this country. Decriminalize this stuff and the violence associated with the black market would disappear overnight. Are drugs a good thing? Of course not. But the drug war is not stopping a single addict from getting high anyway. Time to try another approach.
Isn’t this over marijuana? How has the drug war helped the US? It seems things are worse everywhere because of our corruption.
I guess you're right, we should have read more carefully. That being said, if the military does take over the PD, it doesn't really matter what they call it, it would be real martial law... or alternately it could just be consolidation of power by the king-pins.
Read about Columbia in the 1980s-1990s. Every major presidential candidata killed in one election cycle, half the Supreme Court killed, bombs in markets daily, airliners exploding, judges & mayors & governors & congress extorted, the most wanted men in the world walking around openly & freely. If anything 1/4 as bad as that happens on our large & open southern border, we'll have some real problems.
Semantics, I suppose, but what we would call martial law is business as usual in third world countries.
in fact, it’s rogue elements of the military (who we helped train) that provide the muscle for the drug cartels. Google “Los Zetas.” That said, the Mexican government has to try something or risk the country collapsing around them. Maybe this will work. Probably not though.
La ley marcial es la imposición del estado militar, en el cual todos los civiles se convierten en militares, sometidos a las leyes propias del estatuto militar.
Yeah, but who or which are the good guys? Does anyone really know?
Really! Where are the usual-suspect liberal-tarians on this thread? Can’t they put down the bong long enough to express their support for the drug gangs they’ve been supporting all this time?
In fact, one of the biggest impediments to Mexico ever becoming a viable country is the widespread corruption ... from the highest politician to the neighborhood cop.
How can you reform a country that has thrown ethics completely out the window!
I think we need to change the “War on Drugs”..... It has been a disaster imho...
You are correct in that it may not be martial law as we know it but when you pour a few thousand troops into a city to help control the situation martial law is in effect what you have. jmo.
http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1245213.html
Yes, military dictatorships (Cuba, Venezuela) are ruled via de facto martial law. But we must observe that words mean things. And some words or terms are more 'hot' than others. "Martial Law" is such a term.
Federal police arrive to patrol Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last week as part of a government effort to free Mexican citizens from a daily spectacle of assassinations, kidnappings and beheadings ordered by rival drug czars. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/MIGUEL TOVAR
We need a UN Resolution condemning the drug cartels, and maybe another one condemning Mexico for ‘repressive measures’.
That should take care of the entire problem.
Some mid-level UN bureaucrat might even get a Purple Heart out of it, for recieving a paper cut in the line of duty, inflicted by a particularly sharp Note.
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