Posted on 02/04/2016 12:27:39 AM PST by Rummyfan
Any politician who claims to care about the drug overdose deaths sweeping the nation, but does not demand that we build a wall, deport illegal aliens and end the anchor baby scam, is a liar.
In 2014, more people died from drug overdoses than any year in U.S. history: 47,055. That's more than die in car accidents -- and it's not even close.
This is a huge, horrible problem -- and it's a problem caused entirely by the fact that Mexico is on our southern border.
The diverse, hardworking people of Mexico manufacture the majority of heroin in the U.S. and import "nearly all" of it, according to a 2014 Washington Post report.
The media and political class respond to this fact by asking themselves: How do we blame this on Americans -- preferably white males?
Even as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's largest drug cartel, is all over the news boasting, "I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world" (The New York Times, Jan. 10, 2016), we're informed, Hey, don't blame Mexicans! It's America's appetite for drugs that's driving the narcotics trade!
Mexicans aren't at fault for dumping these poisons on our country because ... it's the 14-year-old American kid's fault for getting addicted! Hucksters of cigarettes, subprime mortgages and fake weight loss pills should try that argument. We're just selling what Americans are buying!
About the time President Bush threw open our southern border -- followed by Obama rolling out the welcome mat for illegal aliens -- Mexico aggressively moved into the heroin business. In 2007, U.S. authorities seized 367 kilos of heroin on the Mexican border. In 2013, authorities seized 2,162 kilos.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
I like Ann, I really do.
However, (I know this is unpopular here) legalization of drugs is the best answer to this problem.... I stand with Bill Buckley Jr on this matter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTyucBinXnY
I’d rather hear it from someone who is sane.
Why people don’t think they’ll get addicted when they start playing with stuff like that, I have no idea.
Mexico has already legalized drugs.
Has that made any significant dent on the street of the drug cartels?
(not a crease.)
Build a wall, put snipers on top, bury acoustic probes under it, and execute all drug smugglers. Do a Judge Dredd on them.
Legalizing ALL illicit substances will only make the problems FAR worse!
Finally, this story is being told. I have been writing about this subject on the Free Republic for almost a year. She absolutely nails it and I hope it shines the light on the fraud the Obama Regime has done to deflect attention from the source of all lawlessness in our society. It is not about the guns, it is about the drugs and those who facilitate them.
The only television ads I have seen concerning tobacco are for drugs to help a person quit, and to claim that individual accounts of miserable diseases are from smoking.
We know cigarettes can do damage, but how much do these anti-smoking ads cost?
If it wasn't for the fact that the people making a living in the anti-tobacco industry would go find some other thing to wage war on (quite possibly something I like), I'd say shut them down.
At least tobacco companies spent their money on ads, the antis spend ours.
Drugs? Either fight it like Singapore or figure something else out (like sending the offending parties home in a bag).
Does it mean you want narcotics to be available over the counter without a prescription? Is it only heroin you want legalized or would you let people get the less powerful narcotics like codeine as well?
I don't think it's even possible to legalize heroin. No legitimate company would be willing to sell it. There would be far, far too much potential for liability and negative publicity.
-Why people don’t think they’ll get addicted when they start playing with stuff like that, I have no idea.-
Mostly we are dealing with people who make bad decisions about pretty much everything. I have a thirty-something man who works for me occasionally. He is bright, funny, thoughtful...and has no driver-s license, smokes a pack a day and until recently, had an alcohol problem. He has several impulse control problem related felony arrests. Since I am now in the low end rental business I meet people like him daily. For the most part they are great people but flawed in ways that renders them unemployed and unemployable. As an aside, I have yet to run into one of these people who are conservative. To a man, they are Democrats.
I see that as well and worry about them.
“For the most part they are great people but flawed in ways that renders them unemployed and unemployable.”
And all the while, Affirmative Action makes some people employable and under-performing with an unwarranted confidence that they’re irreplaceable.
Exactly. It would be like making all pharmaceuticals available without a prescription. The illegal recreational pharmaceutical industry is causing people to medicate themselves without the scientific information necessary to know what they are doing. And, like taking pharmaceuticals without the care of a physician, people are taking a deadly chance as we are seeing with the drug overdose deaths and the harm they do to the body's cardiovascular system.
We have seen what happens with the legal use of nicotine. No one considered the scientific evidence of the harmful effects from the smoking a leaf impregnated with harmful chemicals. This is what happens when legalization is done without regard to safety. If they did, they would have changed the method of nicotine use long ago. The liquid "vaping" is a method that has taken too long as a safer alternative.
The human inclination to use a substance that creates euphoria has been an activity throughout history. If there is any legalization, scientist should come up with a safe substance--a Soma--as Aldous Huxley says it, which has "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." Until science develops a Soma, we need to keep the poisons out of people's hands. Mexico is growing heroine in fields that used to grow marijuana (unintended consequences to pot legalization). Building a wall on our southern border, detection of submarines and tunnels will keep the poisons off our streets. Our children need a more productive way at an occupation than doing drive-by shootings at other drug marketeers who muscle into their market.
Do any of those peeps plan to move to Galt’s Gulch?
-Do any of those peeps plan to move to Galt’s Gulch?-
For the most part they live off welfare. I had a renter who made her cigarette and beer money by selling EBT steaks. (I never once saw her without a cigarette and a beer.) When she abandoned the place she took two cases of beer and left the rest of the refrigerator stuffed with steaks. In August. With the power off. This is why I started asking around as to why people on EBT bought so much meat.
If it were not for the taxpayers most of these people would be forced to stop using drugs, cigarettes and alcohol and get jobs just to survive. We, society, are enabling them to make bad decisions with no consequences.
>> It is not about the guns, it is about the drugs and those who facilitate them.
I have taken to saying lately that a large percentage of our murder rate represents the resolution of business disputes in the recreational pharmaceutical industry.
You are correct. Also, we must include the collaborative damage to people’s thinking. There is something about recreational pharmaceutical use that releases violent behavior with certain intoxicants.
“However, (I know this is unpopular here) legalization of drugs is the best answer to this problem.... I stand with Bill Buckley Jr on this matter!”
I lean in a different direction. Smuggling becomes a federal crime punishable by life in prison. I don’t care if it’s drugs, people, ivory, whatever. And if you are caught with a weapon it becomes a capital offense.
Heroin is not Mexico's problem. It is our problem ... and quite frankly, we (as a nation) are unwilling to do what it takes to fix the problem.
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