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Hillary Clinton: the U.S. shares blame because of its demand for drugs and supply of weapons.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cemented her pledge to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Mexico, in its struggle against the Mexican drug cartel, by sharing the blame in admitting that our insatiable desire for illicit drugs, fuels this drug war. A great diplomat lays it out on the line, so that is the reason for her 71% approval in her job as Secretary of State.
The United States is not responsible for the thugs that make up the drug cartel. They chose that criminal behavior, but our country supplies 90% of the guns they use and 90% of the money they take in. Mexican drug usage is on the up rise, and corrupt Mexican government officials are also part of the blame.
The United States must not succumb to the cartel’s intimidation methods, by legalizing marijuana (60% of their cash crop), because that just sends a message of weakness. Elliot Ness brought down Al Capone, corrupt city officials, and the Mafia by being persistent.
Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. It is in many ways similar to the United Kingdom, except with much more severe prison terms for even the smallest gun law violations. That leaves the United States (primarily Houston, TX) as the gun shop of choice. I read an article in the Houston Chronicle about how the cartels were buying guns. Other than criminals selling to criminals, the cartel would recruit a Mexican-American without a criminal record and steady job, to throw off the suspicious gun dealers. Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security, and the Administration knows that it would not be political feasible to outlaw assault weapons because the gun fanatics and the NRA would go ballistic. I believe reasonable gun-owners would not mind a 6 month moratorium, but that’s a moot point.
The Mexican drug cartel is outspending the Mexican government bribing the government officials and buying military-style equipment such as night vision goggles and body armor. Besides efforts in stopping the gun smuggling, Hillary Clinton promised extra money for training, technology, and about 450 more federal law enforcement officers. This might raise the price of drugs, but I would look for the cartel to look for other routes, like the 2000 miles of unprotected Canada/US border.
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She knows this from personal experience! Both her husband & Obama are the cause as they have both admitted use of the illegal substances.
March 29, 2009 at 12:51 a.m.Given the soundness of your parties policies, I invite you to keep your miserable hands off the Bill of Rights.
March 26, 2009 at 9:19 p.m.Obama-because everybody deserves some of what you worked hard for.
Exaggerations will get you nowhere....Deport what they can't catch(drug cartel who come to sell drugs, and buy guns)?
March 26, 2009 at 3:24 p.m.Get rid of the hate,get out of denial,and learn the issues.
March 26, 2009 at 3:17 p.m.Since Hillary is joining with her boss in blaming HER OWN country for all the evils on the border I give you the ultimate solution: Since THEY are the cause of all these murders and kidnappings, deport (and take away their passports) All American drug users to Mexico. Then there would be NO reason for violence. The drug users and drug providers would be all on the right (SOUTH) side of the border!
As for all the lavish praise bestowed on Hillary by you excuse me while I go over here behind this tree and throw up!!!
Barry
March 26, 2009 at 1:13 p.m.You make some very interesting points,that I never considered.
I don’t fully agree with the sanctuary city bit, because I was stationed in El Paso and I still have in-laws there..The flow of traffic was never really monitored, and a green card was used like a passport, but that was a long time ago….I understand sanctuary cities hammered law enforcement once illegal immigration got out of hand but I am able to separate illegal immigration from the drug cartel turf war....…12 million undocumented is pretty scary….
I think since the drug cartel turf war has spilled out to about 250 American cities ,the government has to step in because the public outcry will be too loud to ignore….I heard the president say if the current tools do not quell the violence, troops will be sent…
All this has to be coordinated with the Border States governors, Mexican government and Homeland Security, so we don’t have another Katrina response.
Again, thanks for the different perspective, which has a lot of merit.
The fact is, the US has never really put out the amount of effort required to stop drugs from entering our country and the reason is simple...money. It has been reported that if money tied to the illicit drug trade were to be suddenly removed from our monetary/banking system, it would collapse. This is probably true because we continue to set record dollar seizures yearly. It is obvious the cartels don't miss the money and that the loss doesn't affect them. The US has always been willing to rely on scaring US citizens away from drugs by threats and promises of lengthy prison/jail sentences. Now our prisons are full, too expensive to operate and extremely dangerous places to be whether you are a prisoner or a corrections officer. Greed allowed this problem to grow into what it is today and the problem is too big to correct at this stage, without some drastic changes, many of which would violate our Constitution. States bordering Mexico are going to become dangerous places to live very soon. Already Phoenix, AZ is the kidnapping capital of the US and the cartels are behind that. The fact that Phoenix was allowed to become an illegal immigrant sanctuary city facilitated this transformation, which does not bode well for Houston, because they too are a sanctuary city. The US/Mexico border must be closed and secured and without military involvement, it will take a herculean law enforcement effort, to accomplish that task. It doesn't appear that President Obama and the Democrats have any interest in doing that however. So......
March 26, 2009 at 12:55 p.m.