Posted on 08/09/2012 9:09:10 AM PDT by EveningStar
A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious” isn’t what you think it is.
It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels.
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How much mafia do we want in government.
looks like there is plenty..Chicago style where only criminals have guns
Yeah, the show is losing its funny-quirkiness-strunning twists, and becoming more like just a serious drama
The funny-quirkiness of the first seasons is what made it.
Especially the unexpected. Like the drug dealer they thought they killed running away from walter- right into a tree.
Like when Jesse went to shoot the guys who hurt his girlfriends’ son and at the last second Walter runs them over with the car... THEN gets out and plugs him in the head
- THAT was a great episode! I was screaming “WHOA!” (TWICE) in my living room
My kids came out to see what happend
I agree with you
The reason there is so much drug-related crime is because it is EXPENSIVE!
The reason it is expensive is because it is ILLEGAL.
If we suddenly made heroin free and legal tomorrow woould you use it? I know I wouldnt at any price. But are there some who would? sure- let them kill themselves with it- NOT MY PROBLEM ANYMORE because they are not breaking into my house to get money for their habit anymore.
Eliminate the money incentive and you eliminate the crime.
Thinking you can make it illegal to stop people from using it is like making it illegal to bite your fingernails. It won’t work.
How many poor people have retired from the low 6 figure Washington DC jobs they spent millions of dollars to get?
OK this weeks episode was not bad .. until the ending
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