Posted on 08/26/2010 5:43:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
Border: Monday's discovery of the slaughter in Mexico of 72 illegal immigrants by Los Zetas cartel underscores that drug and alien smugglers are the same evil. It's a warning to Mexico: It won't win without halting both.
Mexico and the rest of the hemisphere gasped in shock at the terrible spectacle near San Fernando, at a ranch 180 miles outside Matamoros.
The 72 non-Mexican illegal immigrants on their way to the U.S. were gunned down in cold blood, with the sole survivor claiming they died resisting cartel demands to become assassins in the U.S.
It was the sixth mass killing since Mexico declared war on cartels in 2006, and the worst.
Just last May, Mexico's president lashed out at Arizona for trying to halt the tide of illegal human trafficking through the state from Mexico. Sadly, today, he's probably a bit more understanding.
Unfortunately, Amnesty International is busy blaming Mexico, not the cartels, for the killings. It absurdly claims Mexico should have done more to protect the illegals — we suppose by providing armed escorts across the Texas border.
The massacre has also made front-page news in Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras and El Salvador, homelands of the migrants, and is likely to bring diplomatic heat to Mexico from its neighbors.
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The only thing different in Mexico now and back when Pancho Villa was running around is the names. This place has forever been having very similar things going on. Now its the drug cartels and the crooked government fighting for who gets the drug profits.
mexico is and always will be a zone, not a country. Never has had a stable moment other than colonial times. No laws no system no honor. Nothing.
Most of Latin American looks upon them as savages. The ruling class trys to put a good front on with euro/American TV types spokespeople but the reality is totally different.
Tell me again why Calderon saw fit to lecture the US on how it violates the civil rights of Mexican illegals.
hate to disagree but mexico then was probably more stable. Most of one side of my family left about that time and moved south. They had lved in the zone for a few generations but now thankfully I can proudly say there aint no mex in the family anymore!
how about blaming the mexican govt for not bringing those cartels down?
instead of accepting all their bribes
“Never has had a stable moment other than colonial times”
Actually, the colonial times are precisely what lead to this modern disaster, Mexico. The european monarchs and the church abused that place to an unimaginable level. Mexico is nothing more than another example of colonial wreckage,, like india, africa, etc.
Educating kids was a crime during the hacienda era. Most mexicans were literal serfs, barely over 100 years ago. This place is a living breathing example of what european govenment creates. A book called “wilsons war” also gives a very good explanation of how mexico became what it is today.
Oh this has, though not necessarily over drugs, gone on ever since Santa Anna and maybe before. In Villa’s day the only stability as the gov was more powerful relatively speaking.
The cartels have won and every American that buys their drugs has supported them. Snort up folks! You’ll hardly notice the smell of blood on the dope.
The entire Mexican system is designed around an incredible oligarchy that has no interest whatsover in a moral system. They have not the slightest interest in education, progress or infrastructure.
At the time of the revolution the land in that nation was nearly 99% owned by the church, and the Haciendas. On the Monarchy grant-based haciandas, every square foot inside it’s borders, villages, private homes, etc,,were all owned by the hacienda. You couldnt legally leave from one to another. Education of peons was illegal. AN individual there had one chance to improve his lot if he wasn’t born well, to revolt.
In all honesty, Zapata and Villa were in the right. But neither had the skills to govern. Villa didnt even try. After throwing out a corrupt order, they turned it over to the ones like Carranza who turned out to only be more of the same.
The Mexican revolution is an astounding subect to research, and it’s still profoundly affecting the USA. It’s like we have a Congo/USSR combination next door. We will eventually be involved in a war there, or we will lose America as we know it. But as for now, Obama is the worse threat.
You are correct, the bad guys got rich and powerful. That always happens during a prohibition. We should have listened to Milton Friedman instead of Bill Bennett.
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"An Open Letter to Bill Bennett"
by Milton Friedman (1989)
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You are not mistaken in believing that drugs are a scourge that is devastating our society. You are not mistaken in believing that drugs are tearing asunder our social fabric, ruining the lives of many young people, and imposing heavy costs on some of the most disadvantaged among us.
"You are not mistaken in believing that the majority of the public share your concerns. In short, you are not mistaken in the end you seek to achieve. Your mistake is failing to recognize that the very measures you favor are a major source of the evils you deplore. Of course the problem is demand, but it is not only demand, it is demand that must operate through repressed and illegal channels.
Illegality creates obscene profits that finance the murderous tactics of the drug lords; illegality leads to the corruption of law enforcement officials; illegality monopolizes the efforts of honest law forces so that they are starved for resources to fight the simpler crimes of robbery, theft and assault.
Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
-end excerpt-
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