Can anyone explain the U.S. War on Drugs to me? For years the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been laundering and smuggling millions of dollars of drug money for Mexican and other violent drug cartels anticipating someday making arrests. In effect the DEA is now allied with the drug cartels, a blatant violation of U.S. law and the sovereignty and laws of other nations.
What has this money laundering accomplished aside from facilitating the distribution of drugs? The drug wars are as widespread and violent as ever, costing thousands of lives. The U.S. is waging its War on Drugs in 50 countries. Have there been major drug busts and arrests and prosecutions of kingpins? Apparently not, but even if there were, on products this profitable, those kingpins would soon be replaced by others in their organizations. Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in their "Fast and Furious" program helped the Mexican cartels to buy and sell U.S. made weapons and to transport them. The ATF lost track of many of the weapons but they later turned up on both sides of the border and one of them was used to kill a U.S. Border agent.
While in the U.S. this 40 year War on Drugs has cost the taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and billions more are being spent with little to show for any of it. Drugs are everywhere in America including in heavily secured U.S. prisons. Meanwhile 50,000 Mexicans are winding up in body bags and thousands more people in body bags elsewhere. The U.S. War on Drugs is a horrific failure yet it continues endlessly.
Dick
To learn more, please see "U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels," New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
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There have been some arrests of "Kingpins" but just as you stated, they were quickly replaced. In fact those replacements may well have worked with the authorities to "assist" in the arrest. There is so much money to be made thanks to the black market that many senior government officials in our allied countries are directly tied into it.
The American people are being sold a bill of goods with the emotional "drugs are bad" and "just say no to drugs". There is profit all the way around except for the taxpayer who picks up the MASSIVE check for this.
When prohibition of alcohol ended in 1933, the black market on alcohol was pretty much destroyed and legitimate taxpaying jobs were created. While it causes many societal ills, the current approach of heavy regulation is pragmatic and few question it.
Hopefully people will take an objective look at this situation and will favor pragmatism here too.
Beautifully stated Kyle. Thank you.
Love,
Dad
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