Re: Where\'s the coverage of Nuevo Laredo?
Ikendu,
Interesting points but I know you don't mean to imply lifting prohibition solved our problem with alcohol when in fact it made the problems associated with alcohol more widespread. Less kingpins and more alcoholics isn't a solution.
The root of the problems with the drug lords, just like the kingpins of alcohol is demand which equates to money. The drugs are addictive so the idea of keeping the supply and removing the demand is impossible. The millions we spent on educating the youth over the past 30 years hasn't worked. Lowering supply is the only effective method of controlling it. I didn't say eliminating supply because that's a pipe dream. If you started giving 10 years hard labor, genuine hard labor for the first offense to the kid standing on the corner with three little bags I believe there would be a large reduction in the number of people selling at the street level. If you made it a minimum of 30 years hard labor for the guy transporting it, again first offense, I believe the driver pool would start to dry up. And finally, if you gave life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death sentence, make no mistake these guys are killing people, then the mid level distributors numbers would start getting smaller. Do all that AND build the wall on the border and drug use and the associated violence, not to mention less bad guys would all be reduced in the U.S. dramatically. The beauty of the wall is it reduces drugs and the number of bad guys entering the country.
I have a friend who's a customs inspector on the border and he said we are stopping maybe 10% of the drugs right now. Let's get that number to 50% and we've done something. Eliminating the problem at the root flat won't happen for both drugs and terrorism.
Stopping terrorism at the root would be even harder than stopping the drugs. The core problem is a large number of the entire worlds population either supports the terrorism or won't genuinely condemn it. Let me put it this way. If a group of people started blowing up subways, buses, planes and buildings in the name of Christianity in this day and age Christians would help root out the low life's and expose them. We do not see the same thing happening with members of Islam and that's a shame. Yes they pay lip service to the problem but with millions and millions of Muslims around the world not taking any action to turn the guys in when you know they see them every day or know where they are through contacts or rumors you have to wonder. Actually I don't even wonder. Until Muslims as a whole decide to stop the people committing the acts of terrorism it won't stop. We as non-Muslim Americans can do nothing to stop it, we can only reduce it. It's two different core beliefs and nothing we do, pulling out of Iraq, stop supporting Israel, nothing we do short of converting will stop the attacks and in reality it wouldn't even stop then. They tell us if we get out of Iraq and Afghanistan they will stop, that's bull. Integrity is not something these extremist Muslims are known for so we should never believe they will stop if we do this or that because history tells us if their lips are moving they are lying.
Enough ranting for one morning
Keep it civil and MAYBE we can keep it out of the Underground where I refuse to play.