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2006-01-27 Home Front: Politix
Mexico Suggests (US) GIs Aided Pot Smugglers
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Posted by ed 2006-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Fine - fire at will. No Mexicans will be harmed
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-01-27 00:19||   2006-01-27 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 That's gotta be the most pitiful attempt at lying I've ever heard. It wasn't us. It was, uh, you *dressed* like us Yeah, that's it!
Posted by SteveS 2006-01-27 04:03||   2006-01-27 04:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe its time we asks our Congressmen to direct a military exercise on March 16th around Columbus New Mexico in remembrance of the start of the punitive expedition conducted by General Pershing after another Mexican incursion upon American territory. Sort like a diplomatic shot across the bow.
Posted by Sharong Ebbosing6626 2006-01-27 07:29||   2006-01-27 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 However, he offered no evidence.

Lotta that goin around lately...
Posted by tu3031 2006-01-27 08:00||   2006-01-27 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 What a shame no one got pics of the identifying marks on the Humvee.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-01-27 08:03|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-01-27 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Was this a Saturday Night Live skit? Oh, it was real? The diplomat must be smoking some of the stash. Or he just might have stayed too long in that mile long tunnel found in California yesterday.

I suppose all the hawks are right on this one. Its time to let them see what a real US military vehilce looks like and send in the Bradley fighting vehicles and strykers to defend our borders. After reading the AQ passport issues in South America I think we really need to get tough on the border and use DOD on this. OK here's where Beo and .com chime in with "Its about time!"
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-01-27 08:15||   2006-01-27 08:15|| Front Page Top

#7 When the Foreign Secretary of Mexico lies to cover the tracks of drug smugglers, you know then that the entire government -- from soldado to presidente -- has been corrupted by the drug trade. I think that whether you take a libetarian or absolutist position on the war on drugs, you have to agree that we need a radical reassesment of our current policy.
Posted by 11A5S 2006-01-27 08:27||   2006-01-27 08:27|| Front Page Top

#8 It's a SET UP!
Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-27 08:30||   2006-01-27 08:30|| Front Page Top

#9  When the Foreign Secretary of Mexico lies to cover the tracks of drug smugglers, you know then that the entire government -- from soldado to presidente -- has been corrupted by the drug trade.

11A5S, Is this news to you? The Mexican culture is as thoroughly corrupt as any other. That's part of the reason so many Mexicans want to escape here. But if it weren't drugs, it would be something else, booze, sex, whatever. We're going to have to clean the place up sooner or later.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-27 09:09||   2006-01-27 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10 It's a SET UP!

The actual quote is "It's a trap!"
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-01-27 09:41|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-01-27 09:41|| Front Page Top

#11 We're going to have to clean the place up sooner or later.

I'd prefer that we didn't, as they've been riding on our coattails for way too long. They made a mess of their own house, they need to clean it all up. And not by sucking more of our blood.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-27 10:25||   2006-01-27 10:25|| Front Page Top

#12 "In Mexico, kidnappers and drug smugglers regularly wear police gear, which is sold at street stands."

Just a thought but it might even be in Mexicos best intrest to crack down on that sort of thing.
Then again you don't want to start a revolt from the Peasant Contraband Uniform Union.
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-01-27 10:59||   2006-01-27 10:59|| Front Page Top

#13 

Yeah, it was... um you...yeaaahhh... dressing up like me, yeah thats the ticket. Now stop bothering me about this. I have to get back to my wife...um.. Morgan Fairchild, yeaaahhh, yeah, Morgan Farichild. Thats the ticket.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2006-01-27 11:54||   2006-01-27 11:54|| Front Page Top

#14 In Mexico, kidnappers and drug smugglers regularly wear police gear, which is sold at street stands.

They also wear it becasue it is issued to them by the government.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-27 11:58||   2006-01-27 11:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Lol, YS...
Posted by .com 2006-01-27 13:37||   2006-01-27 13:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Dang, I thought I had the only three possibilities the other day. Definitely didn't think of this one.
Posted by eLarson 2006-01-27 15:24|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-01-27 15:24|| Front Page Top

#17 thanks .com - didn't know if many would get that!
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2006-01-27 15:38||   2006-01-27 15:38|| Front Page Top

#18 I guess I see an order of magnitude leap in the corruption, Nimble Spemble. I don't think that we'll have a problem with booze unless we launch prohibition again. Sex? Most US jurisdictions tolerate it if it's kept in the Yellow Pages and off the streets. Look at what happened when Bloomberg put punitive taxes on cigarettes in NYC. Gangs started moving in and for the first time ever we have people getting killed for a few pallets of smokes.

In all of my research, I've only been able to find two approaches that work with street drugs. Start shooting drug dealers or decriminalize the product. Believe it or not, I'm really don't have a preference one way or the other. Just fix the problem before the corruption spreads here.

What is a spemble anyway? It started here as some goofy Shipman inside humor. I guess that I was one of the uncool kids left on the outside looking in.
Posted by 11A5S 2006-01-27 23:39||   2006-01-27 23:39|| Front Page Top

#19 it was goofy Ship humor on a nym from the auto-generator. Especially the "ironic Spemble humor"...it's taken on a life of its' own IIUC
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-01-27 23:42||   2006-01-27 23:42|| Front Page Top

#20 11A5S : you need to shoot the junkies as well. When the Chinese did that under Mao, it effectively eliminated their drug problems for 20 years. A little hard on the junkies, but oh well.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-01-27 23:43||   2006-01-27 23:43|| Front Page Top

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