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Originally posted by Mr Objectivity
reply to post by deltaboy
And the typical drivel responses come spewing forward. Take an objective approach to all this. Decriminalize, legalize, and these morons are out of business overnight. So is our CIA black funding though, along with other countless billions gained through the extortion, manipulation, and monopolization of the drug trade.
Better yet, and you can paint me with any brush you wish for saying this, I would like to see an earth where MONEY was not the driving factor of our actions every day. But that, my friends, is another thread.
Originally posted by Solsthime331
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
Foreign troops enforcing laws on your land? You'd want some heads too.
Imagine if China had troops inside our borders...
yeah but were not going "HEY CHINESE JUNKIES AND POT HEADS WANNA BUY SOME BLOW AND WEED!?!?!" and doing it by riding up international waters/Back rivers and # that they we know about and they are just starting to find.
Under the auspices of the drug war, the United States is returning to its historical pattern of using Central America and the Caribbean for its own military and strategic purposes.
Even as a growing chorus of voices throughout Latin America argue that military responses to drug trafficking are ineffective against the narcotics trade and exacerbate existing human rights abuses and official corruption, the U.S. military presence in the region is growing.
U.S. military construction in Central and South America has more than doubled in the last two years, while a U.S. buildup on military bases in Colombia continues, despite a Colombian court ruling last summer that struck down an agreement for U.S. use of the bases.
Originally posted by cerebralassassins
clean cut way is simply to say either mexico cleans up its act or all U.S. aid will be stopped along with closing the borders, if that doesn't work then you can always send in the U.N. and we all know what the means,
Originally posted by jam321
This is probably a sign that US involvement in Mexico is paying dividends.
US has increased the agents it has in Mexico in addition to drones patrols.
At the time, it was considered a rare success in U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation. Now, unprecedented numbers of U.S. law enforcement agents work in Mexico, and high-profile arrests occur monthly. U.S. drones spy on cartel hideouts, while U.S. tracking beacons pinpoint suspect's cars and phones.
www.cbsnews.com...
Originally posted by ateuprto
Originally posted by jam321
This is probably a sign that US involvement in Mexico is paying dividends.
US has increased the agents it has in Mexico in addition to drones patrols.
At the time, it was considered a rare success in U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation. Now, unprecedented numbers of U.S. law enforcement agents work in Mexico, and high-profile arrests occur monthly. U.S. drones spy on cartel hideouts, while U.S. tracking beacons pinpoint suspect's cars and phones.
www.cbsnews.com...
The most competent reply thus far in my humble opinion. Mexico is finally opening its hand a little wider and letting us help with more boots on the ground. Go ahead and behead some U.S. DEA agents, we'll ready up a military/CIA/DHS unit and have our black out boys operating in your cartel zone. We all know how that turned out for Escobar...and 90% of his accomplices and relatives. Los Pepes wasn't just some rag-tag band of civilians. You want more blood...we'll see how you feel when cartel bodies REALLY start hitting the floor.
Originally posted by pikypiky
Gee! Sticks and stone, eh? Might I remind y'all America has nukes? Mess with the taxpayer's assets (i.e. DEA) and there will be more than heads rollin'. Drugs and money don't mix: It's all bad news, like taking expensive candies from addicted babies.
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
Originally posted by pikypiky
Gee! Sticks and stone, eh? Might I remind y'all America has nukes? Mess with the taxpayer's assets (i.e. DEA) and there will be more than heads rollin'. Drugs and money don't mix: It's all bad news, like taking expensive candies from addicted babies.
Drug and money don't mix? Yeah, like smoke and fire. I thought the whole Prohibition scam was like some economic foreign-aid package. Gringos have an insatiable appetite for drugs. You guys hardly buy our serapes, huaraches, and sombreros anymore. We make some really good quality shoes, those don't interest you? OK, whatever you want then.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by curious7
Well hopefully they step up and take these drug cartels down because who knows how many lives they're wrecking already without threatening US officials on top of that.
the CIA makes too much drug money
operating in Mexico.
Where do you think they get the funds
for those Black Ops in the ME ???
Originally posted by deltaboy
Addressed with profanity to "Gringos (D.E.A.)," the unsigned graffiti warned: "We know where you are and we know who you are and where you go. We are going to chop off your (expletive) heads."
Originally posted by Xcathdra
Come left 5 degrees and fire for effect comes to mind...
Originally posted by pplrnuts
In all honesty, those folks down there south of our borders arent known to be all that blessed in the brains-department, so I wouldnt be all that worried if I were those "gringos".
Those "gringos" could out-fox those Mexicans anywhere, anytime, blind-folded, hungover, and even sleep deprived for several days at a time.
They certainly have nothing to worry about when it comes to any dim-witted folks barking out threats down there in that MESS of a country. .