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About LinkBacksAs long as you don't work for me and as long as you take a taxi, bus, or train home, it's fine by me.Originally Posted by Blood
Reporters are easy targets.
As long as you don't work for me and as long as you take a taxi, bus, or train home, it's fine by me.
Reporters are easy targets.
Last edited by Robinjazz; 10-01-2011 at 12:01 AM.
The Mexican government IS and has been fighting back against cartels since 12/01/06, the day that President Felipe Calderón assumed office, and his first operation occurred against La Familia Michoacana 10 days later.
My parents moved to San Antonio from Brownsville a few months ago. Brownsville being located at the southern most tip of Texas right across the river from Matamoras, Mexico. A city wide gun battle broke out there (in Matamoras) last year between the Mexican Military and armed gunmen comprised of the local Matamoras police, the Gulf Cartel & the Zetas. My parents could hear the gunfire from their home in Brownsville.
Read more about it here… http://www.themonitor.com/articles/m...h-fighting.htm
And check out this video…
And to think that all this is made possible there because drugs are illegal here, in the U.S., to the tune of $40 billion a year. But, one would have to equate money with power first, then realize that that power has absolutely fallen in to wrong hands second before that means anything. Remember sociopaths are not our friends, but drug users are everyday people - 'drug user' or 'druggie' just sounds bad.
BTW, Mexico is the most dangerous country for journalist (I read that somewhere).
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
Thomas Paine
You know this? How?
Why would that be the case? It wasn't for Canberra, The Netherlands or Portugal.
Legalising drugs doesn't mean you have to throw away common sense and remove DUI laws. The obvious thing to do would be to alter the laws that cover a lack of sobriety in other walks of life at the same time you are decriminalising personal choice.
The other thing I question about your assertion is how is it better to buy illicit drugs of an unknown strength or content from some guy on a street corner over something regulated and open?
Evidence says that decriminalisation results in lowered usage, not increased criminality.
Last edited by Zootalaws; 10-14-2011 at 12:34 PM.
"I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all, correcting the press.' Charles Darwin
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