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Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers
An anonymous reader writes "While drug cartels in Mexico are disemboweling people they accuse of blogging about drug violence, Anonymous busies itself taking down Mexican government websites. With all the problems facing people in Mexico right now, including drug cartels extorting teachers for 50% of their pay and killing schoolchildren (thus shutting down the school system), Mexico's biggest oil field in terminal decline and drug cartels kidnapping busloads of people and forcing them into gladiator-style contests to the death, Anonymous' actions appear particularly petty."
Legal trade causes far less trouble, clearly the best way forward is to legalise the trade and use the extra tax income to police and jail those who still engage in crime.
RIAA Label Used In Massive Cocaine Trafficking Ring
http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-label-used-in-massive-cocaine-trafficking-ring-110916/
Earlier this year record label boss Jimmy Rosemond was arrested on the suspicion of leading a massive cocaine trafficking ring.
The founder of Czar Entertainment used shipments of music equipment to transfer cocaine across the United States.
These shipments went to several music studios, and according to a recent court filing uncovered by The Smoking Gun, Interscope Records is one of them.
This suggests that people at the RIAA label were in on the game.
Previously entertainment industry representatives have suggested that piracy can be linked to organized crime, and the above suggests that the same can be said for the music industry.
How many people in the music industry were part of the drug ring remains unknown at this point, but we would advise the RIAA to carefully investigate its members to avoid the practices from escalating.
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"ruthless right-wing pro-government paramilitaries": from where do you think the mafia cartels came??
This is a troll, right? Nobody is this dumb, are they? Just in case, those Mexican cartels only even exist because of the War On [some] Drugs here in the USA.
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Actually the complete opposite needs to happen. The way the government stopped the smuggling of alcohol and the related gang/mob violence during prohibition was to re-legalize alcohol. Make drugs a legal product and have the government tax the profits. It will immediately stop all this wasteful drug related violence and security expenditure.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Government saves on law enforcement costs trying to police drugs...
Not necessarily:
http://www.fear.org/chicago.html
http://www.dpeg.org/legal_issues/assetforfeiture.htm
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For those who don't know, The Daily Mail is The Onion with a strong right-wing slant. Only less amusing.
It's somewhere between "ranting homeless person with a bottle of mouthwash in his guts" and "politician expenses claims" in believability.
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Do you realize society got along just fine with legal drugs for centuries - it wasn't until the late 1800's/early 1900's that prohibition became a big thing. Guess what came out of prohibition of alcohol - organized crime and bootleggers. What has come from the prohibition of drugs? A booming underground industry. Lets also not forget that one of our founding fathers and first presidents, George Washington, was an avid pot smoker, grower, and distributor - just read his letters to his gardener at mount Vernon in reference to "Indian Hemp" - aka Cannabis Sativa. Should we have shot him too?