Originally Posted by
RagnBone
The way to stop the cartels is to stop the abject failure that we call The War on Drugs. That or Americans need to stop doing the drugs in the first place, which is really what funds these terrorist organizations south of the border in the first place. Either one of those things happening is about as likely as Scarlet Johansson walking into my office right now in nothing but a red bow and fingernail polish.
I won't go on anymore either except to say that you should really sit down to think and ask yourself whether you truly believe criminal gangs that cut off the heads of men, women and children by the bus-full are really going to just pack it up and go home because you built a %$^$&* fence...
Totally get what you're saying. If anyone is to blame for this ... it would have to be the American consumer. The criminal gangs down south of the border would go bankrupt if consumer demand for their product dried up.
We really need to have a change of heart here. This drug problem is screwing up our quality of life. It's so destructive to our families and communities. Is it really all that hard for people to see what it's doing to us ? Is it really all that hard for people to make a choice of their own free will to not be a part of it ?
I may be naive but there are certain areas that are fairly drug free. Take the trucking industry for instance. Oil drilling industry as well. Law enforcement ? They're all subject to random drug testing.
Heroin was starting to work it's way into our area but the community pushed back. We put that as a top priority for local law enforcement to deal with, set up treatment programs for addicts, and barred those with addictions from our fishing fleet. Half of the fishing fishing boat captains are a bunch of pirates but even they could agree that there was no way they were going to tolerate a bunch of junkies on their boats. They're there to work hard and make tons of money. If any of their crew aren't promptly on the job at 3:00 A.M, with their head in the game, they're quite apt to get fired on the spot.
Anyway ... guess i've rambled on long enough. Just sayin' i think there's hope that things could be different.
We've been here as a nation before in the late 1800's & early 1900's. Hard drugs and alcohol were causing a lot of problems back then. We turned the tide in the other direction during the 1920's.
Illegal drugs will always be there. It's unlikely that we could ever completely root them out. It's really more like trimming them back from time to time so that things don't get out of hand.
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