Special Report: Mexico's Zetas rewrite drug war in blood

Reuters ^ | 5/23/12 | Ioan Grillo

[raygunfan]

if this passes legal muster in state houses, so be it, i would still find it morally wrong, and i have a hunch, so would most folks.....and it would nvr come to fruition....

[raygunfan]

and you dont seem to have a grasp on sarcasm either.....im as conservative and christian as you can get....im a pure Reagan/Palin, tea partier......and have no interest whatsoever in anything having to do with our bloated ineffectual government.....

[raygunfan]

and you dont seem to have a grasp on sarcasm either.....im as conservative and christian as you can get....im a pure Reagan/Palin, tea partier......and have no interest whatsoever in anything having to do with our bloated ineffectual government.....except to get rid of it.

[Pox]

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your speculation is derived from ignorance, IMO. Your beliefs do not reflect reality. The “hood” is not a primary hub for illegal drugs. In fact, your belief is actually backwards in some respect. In any case, suburban users do not have to leave their neighborhoods to find what they need, most likely. Distribution is widespread amongst all levels of society and it’s always more of a matter of who you know.

[freedumb2003]

>>I would be in favor of legalizing drugs if:

1. Employers have the right to drug test...just because you do drugs, doesn’t mean you have the right to work.

2. Drug testing for welfare recipients, and denial of benefits for users...You want to partake, I am not going to pay for it.<<

Those both exist now. Thanks for signing up!

[freedumb2003]

>>The war is not “lost”. Do you think the intention of the war was to stop drug use? That is pretty funny. The intent of the war was to increase the power and scope of government. It is working out just fine for the statists in both parties. <<

*DING!! DING!! DING!! DING!!*

I hereby declare you the winner of the thread!

[freedumb2003]

>>fine if you want to be ‘free’ to get trashed, i shouldnt have to pay for it.....when your ‘freedom’ to get trashed causes bodily harm to your or someome else, cause you are trashed government supplied drugs, or property damage as a result of you exercising your freedome, that then interferes with my freedoms to avoid such occurences, and that is where i draw the line....
<<

I have 2 comments on this:

1) People use welfare now to buy drugs. That is happening whether you like it or not.

2) Why do so many on this thread equate decriminalization with subsidization? The proposal is to make drugs legal. In one single stroke of a pen we could save untold billions and many lives put in prison. Something like 70%+ of all crime is drug related. We can’t completely get rid of that part but I would wager we could cut that number down to 25%

[wildbill]

Most replies to this thread are about the drug connection to the Zetas, BUT it’s important to undeerstand that these guys are developing a full-service criminal enterprise.

They are also into the protection racket and prostitution. Even with the Mafia in its hey-day, there was nothing as vicious and dangerous to ordinary citizens as the Zetas.