Mexican Drug Cartels & U.S. Public Corruption

Friends of Ours ^ | 09/12/10 | Friends of Ours

[AtlasStalled]

It is axiomatic that organized crime cannot exist without public corruption. Indeed, given that the Mexican drug cartels have well-established supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in 230 locales throughout the United States from which they pull $20 to $30 billion in cash a year, one can only wonder how they have gotten away with so much for so long without some inside help. Well, the problem apparently starts -- but certainly does not end -- at the border where dirty U.S. border agents such as Martha Garnica make a mockery of law enforcement as reported by Ceci Connolly for The Washington Post:

Cartels based in Mexico, where there is a long history of corruption, increasingly rely on well-placed operatives such as Garnica to reach their huge customer base in the United States. It is an argument often made by Mexican officials - that all the attention paid to corruption in their country has obscured a similar, growing problem on the U.S. side of the border. The cartels have grown so sophisticated, law enforcement officials say, that they are employing Cold War-era spy tactics to recruit and corrupt U.S. officials.

Last month, Los Angeles County, CA District Attorney Steve Cooley warns that the street gangs -- most of which are tied to the Mexican drug cartels -- are in a strong position to compromise public officials as reported by Jeffrey Anderson for The Washington Times: "If I was a drug dealer and I didn't want to be interfered with, I'd move to a city where I could exploit dysfunctional city governments, corrupt the police or be left alone in a neighborhood where people are not as active in monitoring their communities."

[jmacusa]

So lets cut to the chase— it’s all Americas fault.This is news?

[hosepipe]

Always Americans have the government they deserve...
ELSE they would change it..

The government (fed, state, country, city) reflects the people.. A corrupt government has a corrupt people..

[count-your-change]

Public corruption on the U.S. side isn’t something officials want to talk about but pretending it doesn’t exist and impact the flow of drugs across the border won’t make it go away.

[Vaduz]

Hey that’s a bunch of crap we have the best congress money cab buy.

[jnsun]

The Suntrade Institute has been saying this over and over; there is nothing that says government segments in the US, including the federal government at the highest levels, are not under the influence of Mexican drug corruption.

Gray areas? Of course. But stretch it to say for instance, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, who says and does absolutely nothing about the Mexican invasion or the sinister forces therein.

When a person or group is so vested in power over others, then all principles of integrity are abandoned to perpetrate that end. Ala Soros, Pelosi, Clintons, the CFR. This incidentally is the definition of Crime, imposing one's self on others.

Our government, and thus we the electorate, either have unshakeable principles of responsibility and self-honesty, or we go the tragic path of the LEFT. We don't desire to be proselytizers, that's just the way it is.

Johnny Suntrade