As proof, he suggested that the Feds know every drug kingpin from Columbia right up through Mexico but when the drugs cross the USA border, suddenly there are no drug kingpins. They just disappear. No, not the thousands of low-level pushers but the guys who move tons of drugs seemingly right under the noses of the specialized police forces.
When is the last time an American citizen has been arrested for major drug distribution?
Just a little to ponder about the entirely futile and unsuccessful War on Drugs.
There was a time a few years ago when I'd have laughed in that guy's face, or at least challenged his sources. Now ....
You know what I keep coming back to? After the Edmonds story, that is -- Sibyl Edmonds, the honest woman who had such a hard time being heard, but finally got to testify to a closed-door session of the House committee charged with oversight (presumaby the committee Issa chairs now).
But more than all that, I keep recalling a photograph of the two Bush brothers strolling up an airport flightline sometime in the 80's or in 1990-91, sometime right in there. In Mena, Arkansas. I wish someone would tell me that picture was wrong -- that it was really taken at an air park in Austin or Dallas, or maybe Kennebunkport. Anywhere but Mena.
Sounds reasonable to me, we hear of trails of folks acting as pack mules crossing the border, this country in a “SWAG” consumes tons of marijuana a day, that amount is not packed in, it comes in large trucks and ships..that rarely get caught..they have government protection, then the federal “G”
gangsta ...runs the prisons..a full circle of distribution, selling, and incarceration all make money...
It is not Christian to jail folks for marijuana, all other drug use demand treatment, and training for jobs so that life can be productive..much cheaper path and morally superior..
I would find the premise that many top US Federal officials are on the drug cartel's payroll more realistic and believable.
Have you seen the movie 'MACHETE' ?