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2010-03-29 Home Front: WoT

Obama's Mexican Drug Gang Progress Report

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Posted by Snash Sforza6070 2010-03-29 09:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "What do you tell a 10-year-old that sees that?"

How about telling them we're sending in a Brigade of the 82nd Airborne to cross the border and wipe out the bad guys. We need a thousand horses with saddles, along with mounted, armed and ready volunteers. Pack for a 30 day exercise. Stronger message to follow.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-29 10:51|| 2010-03-29 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, you mean BO is not focusing like a laser beam on the problem? You mean he was justing blowing smoke up our collective arses again. As long as there is a demand for illegal drugs and illegal immigrants (cheap labor) in the U.S. and there are huge untaxed profits to be made by the Mexican cartels, there is going to be a problem here. Couple what was just said with a border that is uncontrolled and porous and there is a huge problem here. I don't see anyone in the Federal government really getting serious about this. So long as (illegal immigrants = unregistered voters for which ever party can capture that vote), there is not much interest in fixing the problem. Control is a policy problem more than a Border Patrol or police problem.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-29 11:03|| 2010-03-29 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Control is a policy problem more than a Border Patrol or police problem. Posted by JohnQC

Absophuechinglutely! And the policy is, don't disparage future democratic voters!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-29 11:09|| 2010-03-29 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Legalizing marijuana will have what consequences on the drug trafficing?? Should I assume that hard drugs will then become the problem?

Posted by bman 2010-03-29 12:41|| 2010-03-29 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Black Jack Pershing, c'mon down!

Posted by mojo 2010-03-29 13:37|| 2010-03-29 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know what affect legalizing marijuana would have on drug trafficking or for that matter our society. I believe it would have effects. We are moving towards de facto legalization of pot in the U.S. whether it is good or bad. BO has said growing and selling pot in California is not a Federal enforcement issue. California has the legalization of pot on the ballot in November. Washington, D.C. is considering allowing people to grow "medical" marijuana for personal use. We have Mexicans around Tennessee who have been caught in the National Forests growing marijuana. They don't speak a word of English. Probably their families are being threatened back in Mexico. The criminality of marijuana trafficking leads to a great deal of violence. Personally, I think alcohol, cigarettes, crack, cocaine, heroine, and meth can horribly waste lives. I'm not sure pot is in the same category. For some, pot is a gateway drug to harder drugs. For most others, pot is a not a gateway drug to harder drugs. Many things can be addicting such as sex, risk-taking, religion, and other kinds of behaviors that we tend to get obsessive about; all such things cannot be controlled by a government. I do think marijuana tends to make people studid although users would probably tend to disagree with me. Forty years ago, one of the jobs I had was counseling teenagers with problems. Most but not all used drugs; mostly marijuana. Most of them were relatively good kids--not seriously disturbed or criminal--a few were. I'm not certain I have contribute much to this conversation. I do think our borders need to be controlled. I do think we need to address the drug problems we have in our country; everything from illegal drugs to medically prescribed drugs to which people get dependent. I think we need to stem the flow of illegals to our country. Pot, I'm not so sure about as the degree of a problem it causes in this country. I know we spend a lot of money chasing marijuana growers, marijuana users, and keeping some of them incarcerated. In Tennessee we had a law on the books that required marijuana growers and dealers to buy a tax stamp. That was about a worthless law because no one was going to step forward and purchase such a stamp. I think the law got struck down because it was unconstitutional base of the Constitution--self-incrimination issues and the Fifth Amendment.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-29 14:10|| 2010-03-29 14:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Correct ~~studid~~ to stupid.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-29 14:12|| 2010-03-29 14:12|| Front Page Top

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