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| Perry sez send troops to Mexico to fight drug wars, capture Villa |
| 2011-10-04 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 No, Anguper. The drug runners would shoot one, the rest would run away, and the border would be at least as open as it is now. Now offer a BOUNTY on border crossers.... well, wolves become an endangered species for a century. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-10-04 19:07 |
| #9 Hire a few million unemployed US citizens to stand elbow to elbow along the southern border would at least temporarily solve a lot of problems for the US. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 15:41 |
| #8 Better yet, no troops. Drones and Tomahawks? Yessss |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Bourbon9196 2011-10-04 14:12 |
| #7 TW -- Read what it was like before they legalized. Entire cities given up. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2011-10-04 13:43 |
| #6 We've always had gangsterism of one sort or another, Iblis. But it was a shock to Portugal, or so I've read. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-04 13:00 |
| #5 TW -- Yeah, we never have those problems when drugs are outlawed. As for reversing the decision, we've already done it. Heroin was once sold under the Bayer brand. Coca Cola -- well, you know. Not saying that drugs are good. They aren't. But prohibition just makes it all much, much worse. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2011-10-04 12:12 |
| #4 Just ask Portugal. That'd be the same Portugal that suddenly started seeing violence in the countryside as the drug dealers set up house, bringing their enforcers and ne'er-do-wells? I'm not sure they've concluded it was a wise decision, but it most definitely is a difficult one to reverse. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-04 12:03 |
| #3 Iblis, without drug prohibition funding criminals we'd need far less prisons and police... You'd be putting loads of the police and prison workers out of a job you nasty nasty person, plus the swat team wouldn't be needed as much and where's the fun in that? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-10-04 12:03 |
| #2 Or we could just let them legalize drugs like they already want to. Not illegal = no huge stacks of cash = nothing to fight over = treat it like a medical problem in the open and not a criminal or military one. Just ask Portugal. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2011-10-04 11:33 |
| #1 Smear of the Day. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-10-04 07:56 |