Posted on 06/02/2008 3:56:48 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Seven officers named in previous list killed
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - We're getting word a drug cartel in Mexico left another hit list with the names of 12 police officers. Now some of the officers named have already resigned.
A similar list of 22 names appeared earlier this year at a monument for fallen police officers in Ciudad Juarez. That list had this message: "For those who still don't believe..."
Of the 22 named, seven were killed. Three were wounded in assassination attempts, and all but one of the rest quit their jobs.
This new list of officers left at a Ciudad Juarez police station had the message, "Thank you for waiting..."
Ping!
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Thanks for the open border policy, Jorge Bush!
From The Washington Times May 31, 2008
He recalled a Denver plainclothes police officer saying, “Congressman,
are you aware of the threats on your life here today?”
” ‘More than usual?’ “ Mr. Tancredo asked.
The officer read aloud from his notebook what people were overhead
saying about “whacking” Mr. Tancredo that day. More alarming, a
parade-route sweep had turned up high-powered rifle ammo taped
inside a trash can.
And we just keep letting Illegals invade our country.
More than 400 murders in Juarez so far this year.
Yeah, previous presidents had that border sealed up tight as a drum. There was no coming across it until Bush came in and opened the borders wide up. He needs to put the wall back up, the guard towers and hundreds of thousands of troops we always had on our Southern border before him.
Strange that a President who likes lower taxes doesn’t care that U.S. citizens are paying paying ever higher taxes for prison incarceration, the ravages of the drug cartel, bankrupt public school districts, and insolvent hospitals forced to eliminate public emergency medical care. At the same time he’s oblivious to the dangers of open borders in this age of international terrorism. Oh well, I suppose one must have priorities. It’s more important to secure the borders of Iraq than our own.
Of course this would not stop the drug trade or really even slow it. Killing Pablo really didn't stop the flow of cocaine or even slightly interrupt it more than for a brief period. What it would do is show the drug traffickers that we are not wimps who will allow them to take over governments through terror and intimidation. They're getting too big for their britches and if we don't start taking some of them out they'll try to pull the same tactics in our country.
In the long run this never stops though. As long as there are billions and billions of dollars to be made selling contraband there will always be powerful organized crime groups that spring up in order to make that black market money. This is not so much different than alcohol prohibition. Personally, if it were up to me we'd completely legalize marijuana, which would rob organized crime of many billions of dollars every year, and we might even do some sort of drug maintenance programs where we provide some of the super addictive drugs at cost to hardcore addicts who aren't going to quit anyway so we can take away the core customers these drug trafficking organizations rely on to make it in the hard drug business. The only way we'll really ever get a handle on the drug trade is to take most of the money out of it.
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