Posted on 02/28/2011 12:38:35 PM PST by OddLane
The ringleaders behind the premeditated murder of special agent Zapata continue to be rounded up south of the border, including two very important handlers of the criminals who shot Zapata and his fellow ICE agent, Victor Avila.
However, I’d like take a step back from the gritty details of this investigation and examine the some of the misguided media coverage of the purported “root causes” of the attack on these two courageous ICE agents. Specifically, the ongoing libertarian narrative that decriminalizing drugs and opening our borders will somehow cause narco-criminal/paramilitary groups like the Zetas and Beltran-Levy cartels to magically disappear.
For the record, I do support some form of marijuana decriminalization, not because I think it will be a panacea for solving the problems currently afflicting Mexico, but because I believe the costs of enforcing pot prohibition have come to outweigh the perceived benefits to the American public. Plus, it is the sort of drug that can be regulated in a relatively routine manner, a la alcohol or tobacco, without incurring great social or economic costs as a society. It would probably decrease the profit margin of most Mexican drug cartels as well, since over sixty percent of the drugs that are imported to the U.S. through Mexico are controlled by gangs that subsist on the profits of marijuana cultivation and/or distribution.
That being said, one of the things that irritates me to no end is the assumption by the left-and for the purposes of this discussion, I’ll include libertarians in that group since they agree with the left wholeheartedly on both Mexico and emigration from Mexico-is the notion that it is the proliferation of drugs in this country-and violence directly related to those drugs in Mexico-is somehow uniquely America’s responsibility.
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Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
Libertarians would let a billion Chinese come to the US.
I am Libertarian and I am only for legal immigration. I think all illegals should be deported.
That 9 billion Chinese. Dude.
And you’re going to post to each one of em...
Liberals support the “War on Drugs”.
They think we’re responsible for Mexico’s murders because we supply the guns.
Someone's enter key is busted.
Carolla is for legalizing drugs too-at least, according to his book-but this guilt trip that's laid on us because we're the evil white man oppressing poor, brown Mexicans-who can't do anything to improve their own lives, evidently-has got to end.
That is the most serious stuttering problem I’ve ever seen on FR, you need to have a doctor check it out.
I’m Libertarian leaning and I want all immigration stopped for at least 2 years, troops on the border and round up each and every prescious illegal in the country and boot their butts back across the border where they belong.
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