It’s Canada.
Just heard an interview from one of the families that lived down there in that community. Apparently they’d been living there for 4 decades. Somethong bugs me about the media portraying this tragedy as innocent, helpless, whitebread Americans butchered at the hands of evil cartel members.
In reality, these folks don’t live in the US, they don’t want to live in the US, they don’t want to live under US law or in US society. They are child raping incestual polygamist likely armed to the teeth that practice an extremely fundamentalist form of religion.
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The children the Cartel murdered aren’t.
But they wouldn’t have been there if their parents weren’t psychos. I mean, suddenly we care about these kids because they were murdered but when they were “only” rape victims no one said anything. I feel bad for them because they were screwed (no pun intended) regardless.
Also:
could be followed by “yet.” Not that that makes it OK to kill them. Just that this particular group is not worth going to war over (against, maybe). We shouldn’t fight so they can continue to be perverts in peace.
I do not like your judgmental tone about child raping incestual polygamists sir.
Honestly, probly not a whole lot different than a bunch of Islamic fundamentalist getting murdered over in ME. Rubs me the wrong way that folks care in this instance strictly because of skin color.
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I want to state a reality, and let others draw their own conclusions.
These Cartels kill, maim, extort and terrorize Mexican families; (including children); on almost a daily basis. In some cases; whole towns are caught in the crossfire of what is essentially one long War between the Cartels themselves; and the Cartels and mostly the Mexican Marines (the only form of law enforcement left relatively untouched by the Cartels).
For many Mexicans its a way of Life.
Is this a US problem to solve? The Mexican government is hopelessly corrupted by drug money. Those that aren’t corrupt are just killed to make room for the next corrupt guy. Other than the US making drugs legal or the US invading Mexico I don’t see how we stop it.
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The U.S. is the number-one driver of the Drug Trade because of our voracious consumption of the Cartels Product.
So yes…it is a U.S. problem.
To “solve”? Not alone. But the U.S.; especially us as citizens and drug consumers; sure as hell better not look at this as a “Mexican Problem” only.
Well, having a failed state on the border would be a problem, wouldn’t it?
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Nor would they be dead had some cartel goons hadn’t murdered them.
Point taken. I think the Cartel violence is getting to the point that an American response is inevitable though.
As a side note:
These young men are as bad-ass as they come.
They can never obtain a lot of Public Recognition because it would put them and their families in danger from the Cartels.
Kudos to the Mexican Marines who risk their lives everyday.
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They’ve been a failed state since they sacked the Alamo. Hasn’t really affected us.
So how has the war on drugs gone so far? Serious question, how do we as a culture stop funding the cartels? Grow poppies/coca/ganja/shrooms in the basement?
Those are separate issues, @Basement_Gainz.
One…you asked were the problems in Mexico a U.S. problem, and I answered yes (and stated why).
What to do about it is another issue entirely.
Not everyone in America sees the cartels as bad guys. Who knows how much the CIA is involved with their ability to do business here.
Exactly. Legalize it or stop using it.
There’s simply too much money to be made by drug trafficking and the laws of free market dictate that someone - in this case “entrepreneurs” lacking moral fiber - will fill the gap.
If Mexico is too complicated, look at a microcosm example, namely the town of La Linea de la Concepcion in Spain, just next door to Gibraltar.
If you can earn almost 1,2k as a lookout per night, why bother with a 9 to 5?
Mena notes that even those on the lowest rung of the narco ladder are well remunerated. “The guy with a scooter and a mobile phone who keeps an eye out for the Guardia Civil and the national police will get €1,000 a day,” he says.
“The guys who haul it off the beach and into cars can get €3,000-€4,000 and the guys who drive the drugboats can make anything between €30,000 and €60,000 a trip.
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I agree that people should be allowed to ingest whatever they want. But when people suggest that politically they get shouted down as trying to kill children.
The entire world knows prohibition doesn’t work and enriches bad people.
ALCOHOL prohibition doesn’t work, but drug prohibition definitely does. Alcohol prohibition also required a constitutional amendment, but drug prohibition doesn’t. Weird.
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It’s unclear why we can’t legalize but control? (Like we did with alcohol).
What is the argument? (Seriously, I don’t know).
If we did, is it that things would be worse than they are now? In what way?
By the way…
I realize that the “legalization” of marijuana has been a complete clusterfuck.
It ain’t going to happen with Coke and Heroin.