Posted on 03/08/2009 4:01:28 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Right here, bud. What's happening in Mexico is not a result of "drug crimes" but a result of drug prohibition. Alcohol is a drug, but Seagrams doesn't go to war with Smirnoff over market share - because their product is legal. Those companies don't need to murder police to get their product to market, either.
Drugs are very bad if misused - for the individual. When the nanny state sets out to protect that individual from his own lack of self control, however, the result for society is much more dire. You see in Mexico that ordinary law enforcement has failed. Prohibition has made drugs so valuable that the drug dealers have more money than the state, and that money buys weapons and officials. According to one website, cocaine sells for around $60 a gram. You can bet it doesn't cost that much to make. And marijuana is a weed that grows practically anywhere and would be free for all intents and purposes if it were not prohibited. Nobody kills anybody over something that's free.
How in the world did it become a "conservative" position to prohibit drugs? The same nanny state that tells you you can't snort coke is the same state that tells you you have to wear a seat belt. It's the same state that bans trans fats and prohibits smoking in public parks. Laissez-nous faire! That's the real conservative position.
Bingo. This has always, always been the case. It is not that there are not "good, conscious" people in Mexico, but in general the society is a totally different mentality than the original basis of the United States.
They are BICAMERAL.
That is, the order of society is based on fear, extortion, authority, as evidenced by the Mayans and Aztecs, rather than the internal consciousness (moral awareness) of the individual. The Aztecs for instance really really did commit mass blood sacrifice for God-induced authoritarianism.
Once understood the definition of Leftism becomes clear, authoritarian order, not necessarily from an explicit coups d'etat, but from the basic subliminal psychology of those who impose it.
Barack Obama, the Democrats, the financiers, the supporters, simply know nothing else.
This is, in an entirely non-mystical, non-proselytizing way, what Christ was about, a rebel to the Old Bicameral Testament. Socrates, Luther, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Wells, too, for that matter. It was, and is, about the individual understanding and exercising his own responsibility, and the synergy of others doing the same.
The United States in a vast perspective, is now amidst one of the most profound sea-changes in mass psychology, ever in human history.
The Borg versus the Federation.
*****Horse hockey. Many of the police are corrupt. The drug people will disappear like Al Qaeda and lay low until the heat’s off.******
Or until 0 gives them a date for when the “heat” will be off
The Categories and Random Tags are a hoot : )
It’s getting pretty bad out there.........
It was an ABC news video.
Each wall 20ft high, sensors throughout the nomans land in the middle.
Helicopter and trucks respond to all breeches. Never more than 15mins away.
Should riots develop on the southern side, allow them to end of their own energies. Should a concerted effort be launched to breech the wall, up-to deadly force should be used to ASCERTAIN the wall stands. IT should be known for 1000 years that no man ever crossed it.
and with voltage on the top layers....
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