Thursday, January 15, 2009

US Army says Mexico close to collapse.

  Why?  The bad music?  The lousy plumbing?  Nope.  Our old friend, the DRUG WAR.
  That's all we need: Drugostan, right across the river.  Of course, that's what we have now, for all practical purposes...but whatever.  Let's don't change strategy or learn anything!  Just keep doing what we are doing now, only HARDER!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Also, watch civilian gun owners in the US get blamed for it.

It's like clockwork.

Sometimes I wish I lived a bit more north of Bastrop County...

the pistolero said...

But, but, but...drugs'r'bad, hmkay?

Anonymous said...

That's funny. I thought Mexico had collapsed years ago and that was why all their economic refugees were being given sanctuary here in the U.S. of IOU.

Anonymous said...

Los Angeles – The gang capital of the world is taking a new tack against them: cash damages.

The city of Los Angeles, plagued by 23,000 violent gang crimes since 2004, including 784 murders and 12,000 felony assaults, announced Tuesday that it had won its first civil judgment, for $5 million, against a criminal gang that had dominated the heroin trade downtown for decades.

The verdict could bode well for another first-of-its-kind lawsuit the city filed last month that goes after all assets of gang leaders, not just those associated with their criminal activity. Both suits seek to plow the money back into improving the neighborhoods affected by the gangs through a fund.

"By giving prosecutors more tools to fight gang activity at the local level, we are protecting our communities at the same time [that] we're able to strengthen our statewide anti-gang efforts," said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a statement released with the announcement of the $5 million verdict against the 5th and Hill gang in L.A.

The civil suits were filed under different amendments to state laws, one passed in 2007 and one in 2008,

Anonymous said...

Did pork silence El Paso's drug debate? Read the blog at
http://www.empowertexans.com/node/793