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"You want to grab that country by the shoulders and shake it to its senses." You mean the USA, right? The "Narco Cultura" would not exist if it were not the Un
by cpursley 11y ago
"You want to grab that country by the shoulders and shake it to its senses."
You mean the USA, right? The "Narco Cultura" would not exist if it were not the United States "War on Drugs".
- sigma2015 11y agoIt takes two to dance Tango ... The perverted War on Drugs inflicted by the US onto Mexico and other countries could not have evolved as it did without corrupt governments in the first place.
- talmand 11y agoCorrupt governments. Consider this... You are a middle level government employee that has certain responsibilities. You are sitting alone at a restaurant enjoying your lunch. A nicely dressed man sits at your table with a briefcase. He places the briefcase facing you and opens it to show $100,000 in cash. He then tells you that you can either take the money and ignore certain activities or they'll kill you and your entire family. He then places photos of your spouse and children with addresses/times of their whereabouts. He then leaves. What do you do? Sometimes the corrupt government thing isn't as black and white as you may think.
- sigma2015 11y agoThe decision is of course that you would comply ... but that's at the end of the day b/c police fails to protect their citizens in Mexico ... even worse, they directly cooperate with the cartels to an extent that they become hardly distinguishable. Think about the dozens of students mass murdered few months ago.
- talmand 11y agoPolice that don't protect citizens. Consider this... You are a cop in a city overrun by a major drug cartel. You are sitting alone at a restaurant enjoying your lunch. A nicely dressed man sits at your table with a briefcase. He places the briefcase facing you and opens it to show $100,000 in cash. He then tells you that you can either take the money and ignore certain activities or they'll kill you and your entire family. He then places photos of your spouse and children with addresses/times of their whereabouts. He then leaves. What do you do? And so on, and so on, and so on.
- Nadya 11y agoThe power of enforcement is given to those with power. The cartels hold more power (in dispensable cash, manpower, and weapons). They bribe whoever needs to be bribed to look the other way. Those who can't be bribed are threatened and everyone can be threatened. The brave and honest people get turned into examples... and with enough examples, there are no more brave and honest people left. There are parts of the U.S that operate in the same manner. We have "bad cops" who use their position to help drug traffickers smuggle weapons and drugs. It's no different... you just hear it less in the media.
- rayiner 11y agoThose people who are capable of those things and that level of corruption to make a few bucks on illicit drugs would still exist. I just don't get this line of reasoning. If you take marijuana out of the equation, 80-90% of Americans think drugs should be illegal. They don't want drugs in their communities and in their society. And they're the bad guys for exercising their democratic right to regulate their own society, because some opportunists in Mexico are deranged enough to kill a bunch of people to circumvent those rules?
- keithnoizu 11y agoIt's the difference between how we would well meaning-ly like the world to function and the way in which it actually does. The war on drugs is responsible for the cartel situation in the same manner that the prohibition was responsible for the rise in prominence of the Mafia during the 20s. Individual individuals decided to go down the path of providing these illicit services but the well meaning legislation provided the substrate on which they could go about making their fortune exploiting. This is simply the economic reality of what happens under these scenarios. The conservatives Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell correctly predicted many of these negative outcomes decades ago during the start of these policies.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoI don't buy it. American people do want drugs in their community and in their society or else the US wouldn't be the biggest market for illicit drugs in the world.
- rayiner 11y agoOnly about 10% of Americans over 12 use any sort of illicit drugs, and most of that is marijuana. The vast majority of Americans don't use illicit drugs and don't want drug use in their communities.
- monstruoso 11y agohttp://www.gallup.com/poll/163835/tried-marijuana-little-changed-80s.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/163835/tried-marijuana-little-cha...
- paulhauggis 11y agoNot true. The violence in mexico is allowed to continue because of corruption, not the legality of drugs in the us. Stop spreading fud.