On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com wrote:
Or, if our government actually got smart, they could offer a bounty on the Mexican drug lords. There are a lot more poor people in mexico. A Mequilladora (spelling?) to export drug policy? I think if they offered to make Tijuiana a protectorate and infuse a billion or two in cash after the last drug lord was eliminated the border problems would cease.
Of course they aren't going to do that. The FEDs make way too much money on the drugs anyway. If they weren't, they would have closed down the trade a long time ago, or legalized it to make money off the taxes. It's all ecconomic. But they're making much more money this way than if it were sold and taxed legally. Everything that's illegal comes down to tax money. From drugs to prostition to murder to gambling. Yes, even suicide: if you kill yourself, you won't work, so they get less tax money.
But the US doesn't consider this "fair". They would rather send our military in as they did in Haiti and Panama, have lots of people on both sides killed, and bring them back for a show trial, or battle to a stalemate like with Iraq and Somalia.
Hey, them marines and army boys need to cut their teeth on some real action once in a while or else they get soft, wouldn't want that, would we? If I remember my history correctly, and I probably don't, either FDR or Teddy, durring the depression hired two sets of crews of people. On set to dig a ditch, the other to fill it, and the next day it would be dug again, so that they could have jobs and get paid and stimulate the ecconomy. Same deal. Military get target practice, Feds capture and resell the dope, buy weapons to sell to Iran or whatever, local cops bust down the door, the hardware and home supply stores get money in sales and installation of doors and windows busted by the local cops, etc... Only ones who wind up losing are the citizen units. The drug dealers aren't hurt much. Sure they need to ice one or two off every once in a while to give the appearance of a justice system, but, the rest go out on the street to sell again.
But instead, they are going to raid the homes of more people who install central air conditioning so their electric bills go up, which is reported to the police who cannot concieve of anything except a basement full of grow-lites over marijuana plants as using any electricity.
Of course, keeps the citizen units in line. And heck with the new laws pretty soon they'll be applied to EVERYTHING, not just business with guns... pretty soon they'll raid people's homes and confiscate everything whether they find something illegal or not... just to hold it for 50-200 years for um, evidence, yeah, um, that's it. And boy, that's a mighty fine leather couch the Jones bought yesterday, you know, we should raid them just incase it's full of heroin, them cushions are mighty soft, no? And heck, we just happen to have a perfect spot for it in our precinct recreation room. :) And boy, that land on Ruby Ridge looks mighty fertile, you know I bet they're growing marijuana plants in the trees... We could use it to build a park, heck... And shit that Koresh compound, let's burn it and say they commited suicide and raped their kids... we could use the land and come out looking good...
10 years from now they will still probably be paying informants in person with $20 bills with consecutive serial numbers, but only if they insist on not getting a check or direct deposit :). Where is BCCI when you need it.
Naw, that's not how it's done, they'll pay'em with counterfit $20's and then arrest them when they hit the grocery store to buy a six pack and some milk, then when they get'em at the stationhouse they'll stuff'em in the bathroom to be sodomized and beat up with toilet plungers and brooms. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if the cops had a small dope quota every month to plant as evidence in the cars of the people they ticket for speeding, or having tinted windows, or actually using their turn signal lights. And hey, here's a thought, let's pass some more laws and like confiscate cars that are speeding. Heck, we ain't makin' enough money as is from stealing cars off the street for parking for more than five minutes... =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder@sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ==========================