Posted on 03/25/2009 1:29:37 PM PDT by yoe
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here Wednesday with the clearest acknowledgment yet from a senior Obama administration official of the role the United States plays in the violent drug trade racking Mexico.
“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That’s “there” not “their”.
You are correct:
John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html
This is just setting the table for some sort of gun control legislation aimed at dealers.
Mexicans can buy guns from anywhere.
Taking our guns away will be the Democrats idea of “border control”.
LLS
I agree. Even if dope is made legal they will still smuggle it in "tax free" and switch to a higher profit margin product, coke, heroin, crystal-meth, etc.
Build the wall (or walls) and by all means PLEASE militarize the border because it IS a war, like it or not.
What you say is true... but few here will listen.
LLS
Here’s an idea - how about we rid them of their drug problem in exchange for access to their bubbling crude. Mexico has tons of oil, a thriving tourism economy and half of the US’s old manufacturing jobs - how long does it take them to get their act together.
I guess Clintons great legacy of NAFTA didnt really fix much in Ole Mejico...
There are basically three roads. Continue on this one and pretend like the problem is manageable in it’s present form, the Singapore way where justice is the end of a rope, or the Netherlands way where the public parks are littered with junkies and used hypodermic needles. I’m just curious if Madam Clinton mentioned that her husband earned the moniker “the vacuum cleaner”.
Gee, so let’s just legalize pot and that will eliminate the problem? LOL, don’t think so. Today’s pot is not the pot of the hippie generation, and once that’s OK, the crooks will be busy getting you hooked on the heroine they produce. Crime is a never-ending business that requires more vigilance than ever, not capitulation.
Dang...are you sure? Not even the ones in Texas?
By the way these politicians are carrying on I thought I could buy a f**king Flamethrower at Walmart and use it before even leaving the building.
Nonsense. It accounts for nearly 2/3 of their revenue. See post #22.
Take off that link and their are plenty more to exploit.
Again, nonsense. The cartels are ALREADY exploiting other avenues. Demand is already being met for cocaine, heroin and other illegal drugs. There simply isn't the upside to replace the $billions$ from the marijuana trade.
Yeah, I notice the huge demand in smuggled Kaluha coming in from Mexico.
Checked out your link.
No wonder we have to keep the printing presses running 24/7.
“Nonsense. It accounts for nearly 2/3 of their revenue. See post #22.”
LOL. (Nonsense is such an overused, silly word.) So? That doesn’t negate what I said, it being the bottom of their food chain. It’s there because it is cheap and easy to produce and sell at ridiculous profits to brainless idiots. Why should they climb to the next link? Once the profits disappear, they will no doubt ratchet up the romance of doing other illegal drugs, drugs that appeal to the same small brains that love the weed and break the law to get it now. If weed were legal, it would lose its cachet with so many immature users who use it because it is illegal, because Mommy and Daddy told them not to. Poor things, must have nothing better to do with their lives.
Yeah, it’s all our fault, Hillary.
The one hope I held out for electing Obama was getting rid of the Clintons. Silly me.
You don't think eliminating nearly 2/3 of their revenue would be a severe blow?
Today's pot is not the pot of the hippie generation, and once that's OK, the crooks will be busy getting you hooked on the heroine they produce.
LOL! Explain why the Netherlands had a substantially lower rate of heroin addiction than Singapore, Iran and the US: link to post #146 with facts and figures
Crime is a never-ending business that requires more vigilance than ever, not capitulation.
So they should have kept Prohibition rather than "capitulate" to alcohol?
Well, if Barry and Bill would lay off the drugs, it would cut down the demand quite a bit.
Question: Do you think the drug cartels would cease conducting illegal business if marijuana were legalized?
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