Mexican drug war
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- sea_sea0
"Mexico captures leader of gang suspected of of conspiring with corrupt police to massacre 43 missing students."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
Is anyone following this story? Witnesses claim they burned some of these 43 missing students alive! :( WTF Mexico?! Get your shit together!
- wow... we aren't hearing about this.
so fucking sad.bklyndroobeki
- wow... we aren't hearing about this.
- sea_sea0
insane.
"Blogger who used the user name, "Miut3" was kidnapped and killed in Reynosa Tamaulipas."
"Kidnappers accessed Maria's twitter page, and sent out a couple of threatening messages to the public, warning that the same fate will come to other bloggers."
- ZOOP0
The war on drugs was the first war without borders, then came the war on terror. No clear targets, no government to sanction, no end in sight for either. Taylor made for specific industries to profit from, at the expense of the taxpayers.
The next war without borders will be against _____.- the internetsmoldero
- Bingo. Then black markets, then pirates... arrrrZOOP
- damn.ohhhhhsnap
- moldero0
"The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion in 2010 on the War on Drugs, a rate of about $500 per second."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War…That $15 Billion is obviously going somewhere, and to who that $$ is going to, they do not want the drug war to end.
Hence there will always be a war on drugs.
- ohhhhhsnap0
hope this dies
- Morning_star0
It's a serious flaw in the argument for prohibition to blame the substance for the problem. Whether Opiate or Tabacco or anything inbetween the problem is within us humans, a minority of which are inclined to addiction. Education is the key not fear.
- BaskerviIle0
@ ClearThoughts, I totally agree with scientists wanting evidence based ratings systems. However, whenever I see the stats about alcohol and tobacco being 'more dangerous' than other drugs, I always wonder whether that is based on stats about deaths etc. Because so many more people smoke and drink than do drugs, so the health effects are much more obvious and quantifiable.
If cannabis was legal and everyone smoked it, would it cause more or less damage than tobacco, who knows?- yep, lots of dutch are dying from cannabis smoke, how many billions are you willing to waste on the drug was before you startmoldero
- BaskerviIle0
@ ClearThoughts, I totally agree with scientists wanting evidence based ratings systems. However, whenever I see the stats about alcohol and tobacco being 'more dangerous' than other drugs, I always wonder whether that is based on stats about deaths etc. Because so many more people smoke and drink than do drugs, so the health effects are much more obvious and quantifiable.
If cannabis was legal and everyone smoked it, would it cause more or less damage than tobacco, who knows?- yep, lots of dutch are dying from cannabis smoke, how many billions are you willing to waste on the drug was before you start seeing the flaws in itGeorgesII
- you start seeing the flaws in it, the only one making money are the dealers and the local governmentsGeorgesII
- exactlyBaskerviIle
- when I said lots of dutch are dying from cannabis smoke, I was beeing sarcastic. sorryGeorgesII
- LOL yeah figured that Gmoldero
- clearThoughts0
Anybody ever tried snorting coffee?
- clearThoughts0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politi…
"Some of Britain's leading drug experts demand today that the government's classification regime be scrapped and replaced by one that more honestly reflects the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco. They say the current ABC system is "arbitrary" and not based on evidence.
The scientists, including members of the government's top advisory committee on drug classification, have produced a rigorous assessment of the social and individual harm caused by 20 substances, and believe this should form the basis of any future ranking.
By their analysis, alcohol and tobacco are rated as more dangerous than cannabis, LSD and ecstasy."
- clearThoughts0
- Cubans and Columbians, not Mexicans.CygnusZero4
- inb4 same thing commentCygnusZero4
- dbloc0
found it.
“Nuevo Laredo en Vivo and social networking sites, I’m The Laredo Girl, and I’m here because of my reports, and yours,” the message read. “For those who don’t want to believe, this happened to me because of my actions, for believing in the army and the navy. Thank you for your attention, respectfully, Laredo Girl...ZZZZ.”
- dbloc0
- a girl who use to be a editor at a big paper became a blogger named "nena" she was then murderedHijoDMaite
- it is her dead body talking to the internet and social networks giving a warning.HijoDMaite
- _niko0
can someone give me one solid reason why all drugs are not made legal? seems to me that if you want something it's pretty fucking easy to get it. Prohibition is doing nothing other than causing violence and death.
- Because people in charges are stupid cunts.ApeRobot
- pharmaceutical companies?
Government Spending?
War is considered good to the US?capn_ron - I agreedbloc
- The government actually makes more money with drugs being illegal.dbloc
- it's controlled dude - this is exactly how the bigger powers in the world want it to beclearThoughts
- capn_ron0
Well, i will b e headed back to Ensenada a week from today. Hopefully my body comes back with my head. If it does I will post about it. If it doesn't, I won't post.
- HijoDMaite0
@ Georges
The U.S. has been trying to help for over 6 years now. The current Mexican Pres. is a conservative who has called out an all out Military war on the cartels with the help of the U.S.
The U.S. has helped with training of military personnel and federal police forces. The pentagon has even flown high altitude drones over Mexican skies which has helped to capture high ranking targets.
The cartels are running scared and under siege, this is what is causing so much violence. They are splitting up and fighting among each other for territory.
Some current setbacks and problems include, corruption within the Mexican military and the legislative system
Mexico's lawmakers need to radically change and adopt new strategies to combat existing policies that allow money laundering.
In other words they don't have the strength of the IRS' federal investigators to follow the money trails.
- that is clearly not help from the US. Because they know very well it won't stop it. It will sell arms though to all sides.clearThoughts
- yes there are reports of Mexican cartels setting up fronts here in the U.S. to buy then ship guns in to Mexico.HijoDMaite
- But no direct sales to Mexico. Weapons in Mexico are %100 percent ilegal. they must be bought through black marketHijoDMaite
- clearThoughts0
Very interesting article... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
Just to make it clear I think Cocaine is fucking evil. There are 4 things the American Shamans used in their rituals, and cocaine is not one of them.
Marihuana, San Pedro, Peyote, Ayahuasca.I wonder what would happen if cocaine was made legal in Bolivia though. For a poor country, it might boost the tourism, get more money into the country and also if it would be legal they would have to list the ingredients in the packet - so you would know EXACTLY what you would be snorting.
- why is cocaine evil, on the same line do you think alcool and fags are?GeorgesII
- Having used coaine myself extensively, I am pretty confident it brings the worst out of you.clearThoughts
- GeorgesII0
- I think the war in drugs is an excuse for stop the inmigration to the US...OBBTKN
- better a low intensity war out of your borders than intoOBBTKN
- America... stay out of the world's business. We're in trouble.. help America.ETM
- yeah once the US steps in, this gringo's moving the fuck out of Mexicomoldero