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Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout
An anonymous reader writes "An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war. Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story. Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police."
What makes you believe that making guns completely illegal in both countries is going to work out better?
Wait... you can grow guns in closets? Or in national forests? Or make them in homemade "gun labs"? I did not know that.
You're an idiot. The weapons used in the drug wars (fully automatic, grenades, and rpgs) are illegal here to. They aren't brought from here, but the money to pay for them is.
100 years ago there was no way to internationally distribute drugs on a large scale.
Today no matter what happens, it will be cheaper and easier to grow the marijuana in Mexico with dirt-poor farmers doing the labor. Then the material is shipped all over the planet.
All legalization would do in the US is increase consumption. The people that shouldn't have drugs and would be denied them under whatever legalization scheme there might be would then buy them from the illegal distributors for 10x the price of the legal drugs. The illegal distributors would be in business just the same and the foreign growers would still be in business.
The only way to stop illegal distribution at higher prices is open, cheap, legal distribution without any restrictions. Give drugs to seven-year-olds so they can understand what the great interest is. Give free samples on streetcorners. Make sure that nobody goes a day without some drugs in their life - better a gram than a damn. Soma in Brave New World.
Yup, that's where the drug cartels really lose money and give up. You want to live in that world?
You know why you get marked a troll? It's sad because you probably don't even intend it or know why you're being called a troll.
Did you read some of those posts above? Get your information from multiple sources. Not just ones that are spreading the same story around. See, when the economy is bad and pointing fingers won't get you anything anymore, politicians take a lovely wedge issue and run their assistants and cronies out to the talking head media shows to "put things out there". Those things get picked up, regurgitated, and passed around until everyone swears they're facts. You're part of that machine. None of this is really about racism, it's just a convenient wedge issue that happens to involve another nationality. It's about politics and winning in an election year. You didn't hear about this stuff so much last year...isn't that a little surprising? Nor did you hear about it the year before...and yet, that war has been going on for more than just this year.
Like how they use migrant workers to scare people who are scared for their jobs in a down economy, they picked a wedge issue that drives fear in the hearts of people like you and took a few minor incidents and transformed them through the media grapevine into an all out assault on your fellow US citizens. However, the numbers fly right in the face of that. There is more border security than EVER, right now, at the US/Mexican border. That's a fact that your tax dollars are paying for. There are several times more people getting deported the past 2 years...again, using your tax dollars...than there were the previous several years. That is also a fact. If you people were whining and shivering and scared about this stuff 6 years ago, you'd have credibility. But right now, you're just an unwitting tool of a political machine trying to get its people in positions of power so it can rip you off and give that money to their buddies in the industries that pay their bills, just like they did when they were in power. It's their job, and using you is a great way of saving themselves money they'd have to pay a staffer.
I think the main difference is that I have never heard of any caffeine overdose related deaths.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.