Posted on 08/19/2010 8:44:29 AM PDT by cougar_mccxxi
MONTERREY, Mexico—A surge of drug violence in Mexico's business capital and richest city has prompted an outcry from business leaders who on Wednesday took out full-page ads asking President Felipe Calderón to send in more soldiers to stem the violence.
The growing violence in Monterrey, long one of Mexico's most modern and safe cities, is a sign that the country's war against drug gangs is spreading ever further from poorer battlegrounds along the border and into the country's wealthiest enclaves.
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The war on drugs is a complete failure.
Decriminalizing drugs is the only logical answer.
Build the wall, lock the door, throw away the key.....
You still have to stop them from coming across the border.
A better course is finding and killing drug dealers. Mercy in the form of fast execution should be given to those who roll on their superiors
If we had political leadership with balls, I've often thought that a fair counter to Mexico's policy of exporting poverty, crime and re-conquistadors to the United States could be countered with a threat to sponsor an independent state in northern Mexico with Monterrey as the capital.
Said independent state would then be encouraged to erect a line of demarcation about 200 miles north of Mexico City and enforce the type of immigration policy on them which Mexico currently has on Central America.
I also ask of you this; did the straw man make a mistake in the 1930’s when they re-legalized alcohol?
“Legalizing drugs will not stop their violent tendencies.”
I admit, I made a mistake in my first post; I should have replaced the word “de-criminalize” with “legalize”.
My wording makes a huge difference as prohibition of alcohol was another complete failure which only generated what we are seeing today as a result of the war on drugs.
“By your illogical thinking we should legalize murder since it can’t be stopped and those who commit murder will no longer be violent”
I dont usually insult people on the forum but since you opened up the barrel of monkeys I will say you are an idiot.
Firstly, there is a bit of difference between someone growing and smoking marijuana and a mass murderer.
Secondly, of the top 15 leading causes of death in the US illicit drug use ranks number 12. The death rate from alcohol is 5 times higher than illicit drugs at number 3.
Thirdly, the prohibition experiment was repealed as it was a perfect example of government, and conservative morons such as yourself, trying to control peoples’s lives beyond the intentions of the framers.
Your turn. :)
Where, in the US? That is where most of the drugs are consumed.
Stopping pot smoking and cocaine snorting would do much more. Remember that the whole operation is financed in US$.
Hey dope, you missed the point!
1. What I, you or anyone else puts in your body is no one else’s business.
2. Making drugs ILLEGAL CREATES the illegal drug industry just as prohibition created bootlegging. Are you lost?
3. “”Firstly, there is a bit of difference between someone growing and smoking marijuana and a mass murderer.”” “Oh really? What the h*ll do you think the drug dealers are doing to push their illicit drugs?”. Murder to promote drug sales; I want the drugs you’re on dude.
4. The perfect illustration of a paranoid fog is the one you’re stuck in with the Al-Queda boogeymen. Do you not have a clue who is financing them? Hint; its not Mexican drug runners.
5. Prior to the very early 1900’s NO DRUGS WERE ILLEGAL. We created a nation, fought and won 5 wars, settled the continental United States and became the greatest nation on earth while people were still free to smoke that evil reefer.
You have fallen prey to the notion that controlling peoples lives sets them free; thats fascism my friend. By the way, poor diet and physical activity was the number 2 cause of death so get off your lazy ass; throw out your Bush bumper stickers and your Doritos while you’re at it.
It’s the way it is when the cops are part of the drug gang.
The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on poverty; all government created industry producing nothing but burden, debt and death and most importantly loss of liberties.
Hey, more for you to read. Thought you might find this interesting.
“Prohibition has two effects: on one hand it raises supplier costs, disrupts market functioning and prevents open promotion of the product; on the other, it sacrifices the authorities’ ability to tax transactions and regulate operation of the market, product characteristics and promotional activity of suppliers. The cannabis prevalence rates presented in Figure 1 show clearly that prohibition has failed to prevent widespread use of the drug and leaves open the possibility that it might be easier to control the harmful use of cannabis by regulation of a legal market than to control illicit consumption under prohibition. The contrast between the general welcome for tobacco regulation (including bans on smoking in public places) and the deep suspicion of prohibition policy on cannabis is striking and suggests that a middle course of legalised but limited consumption may find a public consensus.”
Source: “Pudney, Stephen, “Drugs Policy – What Should We Do About Cannabis?” Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, United Kingdom: April 2009), p. 23.
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