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originally posted by: Lazarus Short
I just wonder why Mexico fails to send in the army to suppress the cartels. Fear? Infiltration? Could it be that at the national level, the cartels ARE the government...?
originally posted by: Lazarus Short
I just wonder why Mexico fails to send in the army to suppress the cartels. Fear? Infiltration? Could it be that at the national level, the cartels ARE the government...?
originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: Lazarus Short
There was a documentary i watched on netflix about cartels and the people trying to fight back against it.
It's a bit old now, but basically it was saying that corruption runs incredibly deep. Army, politicians, local and state police, ect...
I would imagine it's still the same case.
And in fairness, the usa is heavily feeding the cartels. We need to legalize weed, psychedelics, and make it harder for people to develop a opioid addiction.
That will help a little bit. Maybe we should just legalize meth and heroin?
originally posted by: muzzleflash
originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: Lazarus Short
There was a documentary i watched on netflix about cartels and the people trying to fight back against it.
It's a bit old now, but basically it was saying that corruption runs incredibly deep. Army, politicians, local and state police, ect...
I would imagine it's still the same case.
And in fairness, the usa is heavily feeding the cartels. We need to legalize weed, psychedelics, and make it harder for people to develop a opioid addiction.
That will help a little bit. Maybe we should just legalize meth and heroin?
Those aren't the main drug coming from the south.
Meth is cooked locally with local ingredients.
Heroin is from Afghanistan more than its from anywhere else.
Weed is legal already in a third of the USA.
Psychedelics are usually local too.
The main drug the Cartels deal in that is sourced from South America is a white powder from the coca leaf.
Which is bizarre to me because every hospital carries multiple variants of coca for pain relief and every Coca-Cola still has coca leaf in its formula to this day.
So yeah - we should legalize everything.
Everyone has a right to their body AND it would economically defeat the Cartels overnight because with it legal they'd have to form a corporation and get legal and make profits the normal civilized way with permits and #.
originally posted by: Lazarus Short
I just wonder why Mexico fails to send in the army to suppress the cartels. Fear? Infiltration? Could it be that at the national level, the cartels ARE the government...?
The highest values of living lie in material well-being and in the furtherance of material progress.
Why is it deadly? How can you avoid becoming infected?
“AFFLUENT SOCIETY HAS LED TO MATERIALISM,” read a boldfaced headline in the Edinburgh (Scotland) Evening News of May 18, 1963. “POSSESSIONS NOW ‘MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE,’” the secondary headline continued.
The article that followed observed that today people are concentrating attention on attaining material things, to the neglect of relationships with fellow humans. The community “has become merely a place to earn the money to buy things, and the idea that a man might make friends there and get emotional satisfaction out of relationships with his mates has gone by the board,” a prominent Leicester University lecturer noted.
Few observant people will deny that this is often true. The materialistic philosophy embraced by godless communism, namely, that ‘the highest values of living lie in material well-being and in the furtherance of material progress,’* is as closely adhered to in Christendom as it is in Communist lands. Observed a news commentator in U.S. News & World Report (October 19, 1959): “America stands self-hypnotized hugging the Communist philosophy of life with all the zip and gusto of a parvenu nation. . . . America, in clear violation of her own past traditions and the beliefs of her Founding Fathers, has today accepted this deadly philosophy in toto.” Not only is this materialistic outlook prevalent in America; it is characteristic of much of the world.
WHY DEADLY
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*: Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.
originally posted by: Lazarus Short
I just wonder why Mexico fails to send in the army to suppress the cartels. Fear? Infiltration? Could it be that at the national level, the cartels ARE the government...?