Aetius wrote:gregrampage wrote:Doesn't seem worth it. I can understand it being cheap if it were also easier/safer but that's not a lot of money to only be around for another couple years.
Remember the context, though. Mexico is not the United States. $1,000 a month is a lot to someone who has little to nothing and no job prospects.
The strange thing is that 1,000 dollars a month is a decent salary, but it's not THAT much.
I mean, a secretary/receptionist or car salesman can earn that much. A cashier might earn around 800 dollars a month. Lowest salaries might hover around 500 dollars, talking about people who clean toilets or something.
I'm not sure why we reached this point. Maybe it's also the "promise" of becoming a boss in the corporation.
It makes sense. Freakonomics showed that your average drug dealer made about minimum wage so getting paid about double that would be attractive to folks.
Aetius wrote:gregrampage wrote:Doesn't seem worth it. I can understand it being cheap if it were also easier/safer but that's not a lot of money to only be around for another couple years.
Remember the context, though. Mexico is not the United States. $1,000 a month is a lot to someone who has little to nothing and no job prospects.
Sure, but it's not "live it up so hard for 3 years that it's totally worth it" money.
Leaving money for the family left behind does make more sense.
Not when they find out who your family is and butcher them all as well...
It's not even a particularly evil plant. I'd much rather see people stoned than drunk. Drunks can be dangerous and very disruptive. Potheads giggle.
Senator Charles Grassley cites 2009 AP article which says 305,424 confiscated weapons are locked in police/government vaults in Mexico. He also lays out the data on differences between traced weapons being manufactured in the US versus being sold in the US.
http://www.grassley.senate.gov/judic...
A weapon manufactured in the US but not sold by an FFL in the US would indicate sale to a domestic agency/foreign government or possibly theft directly from a manufacturer/distributor.
Ultralight drones are being used now that avoid radar.
Ultralight drones are being used now that avoid radar.
Interesting. It doesn't appear to be that stealthy though, I think that the only radar avoiding tricks that it has is it's incredibly small size. Couple that with the fact that it can fly pretty low and slow (the software for most radars screens out slow targets automatically to avoid false positives, and once you start actively trying to look for slower objects you have to remove those filters, and then either deal with the false positives or figure out alternative filtering methods) and you would probably have to spend a heck of a lot of money to get our radar coverage along the border thick enough to catch things like that.
Edwin wrote:Ultralight drones are being used now that avoid radar.
Interesting. It doesn't appear to be that stealthy though, I think that the only radar avoiding tricks that it has is it's incredibly small size. Couple that with the fact that it can fly pretty low and slow (the software for most radars screens out slow targets automatically to avoid false positives, and once you start actively trying to look for slower objects you have to remove those filters, and then either deal with the false positives or figure out alternative filtering methods) and you would probably have to spend a heck of a lot of money to get our radar coverage along the border thick enough to catch things like that.
I think I read about this years ago. The technology for this sort of thing has been available for civilians for decades now. Heck, even before the word "drone" was in common usage, folks were talking about flying a model airplane full of stuff to a crash site where they could retrieve illicit stuff.
I think there was even an old T.J. Hooker episode about that.
Anonymous is posting emails they got from STRATFOR and this one was interesting. US bank Wachovia laundered $70b for Mexican drug cartels | http://t.co/OPfFLvrP
Don't forget all that drug war money that's paying for NYC cops to spy on entire Muslim neighborhoods.
Fifty thousand dead in Mexico in the last five years. Fifty thousand.
So, that prompts the question: is there any outcome that they would call a failure? If Mexico City were a nuclear crater right now, would that be enough?
Ms Napolitano denied the drug war of the US and Mexico was a failure but rather "a continuing effort to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs".
Has she seen Celebrity Rehab? The effort isn't working.
Quintin_Stone wrote:Ms Napolitano denied the drug war of the US and Mexico was a failure but rather "a continuing effort to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs".
Has she seen Celebrity Rehab? The effort isn't working.
I guess our government learned NOTHING from the Prohabition Era. Making drugs illegal and treating drug users as criminals is extremely detrimental to society. These cartels and other dealers can only exist and be profitable because of this "war". I say decriminalize drugs (and fully legalize marijuana), release all non-violent users, and start treating drug use as the medical issue that if is. Addiction to these drugs is no different than alcoholism and should be handled in the same manner.
I say decriminalize drugs (and fully legalize marijuana), release all non-violent users, and start treating drug use as the medical issue that if is. Addiction to these drugs is no different than alcoholism and should be handled in the same manner.
Maybe I'm way off base here, but I suspect that for most drugs that aren't meth, heroin or crack, addiction is not the issue, and the majority of the market is recreational users. For cocaine and pot at least, both of which are big money for South American producers and smugglers. They are not drugs for which there is a 'medical issue'.
Did anyone else see that someone put out a white paper to convert crystal meth into sudafed because meth is easier to get then sudafed for when you are sick?
We are 'winning' the drug war, eh?
That's why the Texas Highway Patrol is deploying gunboats to the Rio Grande.
Never saw this coming, Pat Robertson wants marijuana legalized.
Never saw this coming, Pat Robertson wants marijuana legalized.
That was Suzanne Maulvoix. I she was in my graduating class.
At some point, with that much money, I just wish they wouldn't just destroy that stuff. I mean, 5 thousand million dollars, what the f*ck. Build schools and stuff.
Huge Quantities Of Primo sh*t Incinerated By Feds
LAKE ARROWHEAD, CA—A ton of people up and down the coast were seriously bumming Monday, when the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the seizure and destruction of huge quantities of seriously primo sh*t....
According to DEA statistics, the organization destroys more than two million pounds of marijuana a year in California alone, which is, like, who the hell even knows how many bowls.
"That's so sad, man," said local resident Bob "Midnight Toker" Roker. "I mean, sh*t, that's just a crime."
Stay safe Mex.
Holy crap, Mex. I hope you and yours are safe.
Hell, for the matter, I'd like all of Mexico to be safe. It is a pile of bullsh*t that Mexico has turned into a war zone because of our stupid drug policies.
Cell phone service is down and I can't reach my girl, although internet works =/
And you're worried that she drinks...
But seriously...be safe and stay that way.
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