It’s stunning how much money drug cartels have. They have built a fleet of semis-submersible ships that can usually avoid radar detection to smuggle drugs into Mexico. Pretty soon, these ships will be true drones, requiring no crew. And, when you do catch them, they are designed to sink which destroys the evidence. Brilliant.
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It’s even more stunning that the U.S. has been running a ‘War on Drugs’ for forty or maybe even fifty years and every year the problem has only got worse and still does. So you tell me, what’s behind the whole thing? Or is it who? And the congressional rant keeps going on.
It’s a real crime!
Sh.t walks and money talks, flies and swims even under water. It [money] may be the universal solvent; it dissolves everything. Like loyalty, sensitivity, self sacrifice, virtue, grace, goodness itself. Few are the people who can resist its siren song. Few are the folks who can withstand its seductive powers which are both amazing and almost omnipotent. But, unless we find these souls and elect them to office, our civilization will crash and burn as so many others have done in the past.
Blessed be the honest ones for they will save us all.
Decriminalize drugs.
What you put in your body is your business and nobody else’s.
Makes me recall Hagbard Celine…
But these “Drug Lords” are not illuminated…
Decades of our fraudulent “War on Drugs” has produced powerful real enemies. Recently, I watched a documentary on the History Channel about Pablo Escobar and his war with the CIA/government of Columbia. At one point, they actually let him build a luxurious mountain-top prison for himself… crazy stuff.
How many countries are being destroyed by OUR war on drugs.
There is a worldwide shortage of morphine in the world….why not let big pharm into Afghanistan to buy it legally….why??
Wasn’t it supposed to keep the drug runners out? Oh, maybe that was before they got the Cessnas and submarines.
It was all a sham, of course. The idea that melanin may not be the easy road to success in the United States is the real terrifying thing for Tancredo and company.
Think of all the taxes we could be collecting!
Consider if you will, what other cargo these submersibles might deliver. There is a growing body of literature about the breakdown of the state. It includes the kind of do-it-yourself armaments implied by this story that break the state monopoly on violence. Not too long ago I suspect the common wisdom was that it would require a state with an industrial infrastructure to make a submarine. Now it can be constructed “off-the-shelf”. What’s next?
when I read this story, I only shook my head and went DAYUM.
Legalize it. The cartels collapse. Drug violence drops like a stone. Drug addiction could and should be treated medically. Addiction would not likely increase since there would be no incentive to push drugs.
If that seems too radical, start small. Legalize medical marijuana, and work your way up.
Of course, that means the state has less power over the public, which probably seems like the downside if you’re on the top of the pyramid.
Addiction would not likely increase since there would be no incentive to push drugs.
Right, just like there’s no incentive to push tobacco or alcohol.