Comments on: Drug War Hilarity

By: ezrydn

ezrydn — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:27:38 +0000

The term the people in Mexico use for the Wall is “Muro de la Vergüenza” or “Wall of Shame.” Personally, I can’t bring myself to live inside a walled country. Smacks too much of East Germany to me.

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By: DdC

DdC — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:29:09 +0000

After China built the Great Wall a farmer made a Flying Machine, a large kite made of paper and bamboo. Flew over the wall. The Emperor cut off his head. All the work and time and lives to build a wall that was breached by a farmer. Now we’re building a wall. Go fly a kite!

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By: Servetus

Servetus — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:25:23 +0000

The monumental failure of Nixon’s Operation Intercept in 1969 should be enough to silence the Glenn Spencers of the world who claim physical barriers will stop drugs at borders.

Spencer may have been influenced by Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana, a person who lives in an infinitely smaller world than Indiana, and who also believes the Great Mexican-American Border Fence is the end-all to Mexican narco-trafficking. He is wrong. Human ingenuity—a concept alien to Souder—will prevail.

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By: R.O.E.

R.O.E. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:18:08 +0000

When they figure out how to keep drugs out of prisons..then maybe ..they can keep it out of a huge country like the USA. Problem with that is, we would all be living in a huge prison then.

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By: Nick Zentor

Nick Zentor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:06:36 +0000

People like this need to be kept busy or they’ll get into mischief.

That’s funny. According to Chalmers Johnson, that’s what the COs say about the troops, and it also happens to be what the corporate ruling-class and government say about the majority of the working-class.

While I consider it a simplistic excuse for wealthy people to practice their control-freak skills over the working-class poor, in this case, I might tend to agree, if it wasn’t an absolutely absurd waste of time and resources.

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By: paul

paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:15:17 +0000

I’ve heard the purpose of the Great Wall in China was not to keep barbarians out–it was too long to guard and too easy to go over–but to provide an obstacle that would slow them down. Chinese armies never knew exactly where barbarians would strike, so they waited for an attack to come over the wall, then chased the barbarians inside of China.

Because the barbarians ran the risk of being caught between the Chinese army and the wall on the way out, so the wall had a deterrent effect on barbarian raids. Hard to get your plunder and escape with it.

OUR wall is not nearly so clever. It is much easier to go over or through our wall than the Chinese wall, but our wall doesn’t have the deterrent effect of the Chinese wall.

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By: BluOx

BluOx — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:50:11 +0000

Did’nt China try this wall thing once upon a time? I can just hear… Chinese President Hu Jintao, while visitig Mexico in 2011, “Mr. Obama, tear done this wall/fence!”. History can be ironic.I agree,once built,are they out or are we in? Prohibition, it’s for the stupid.

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By: Jode Tuma

Jode Tuma — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:38:58 +0000

Yes, the fellow that wrote that article is a fool. He makes a faulty link of cause and effect. Miles of fence correlated with drug-related murders? What an idiot! Also, he writes that there is a “800-lb guerilla in the room.” A guerilla? Does he really mean that? The phrase is “gorilla” not “guerilla.” Besides, it’s spelled “guerrilla” anyway (as it means “little war” in Spanish).

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By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:43:03 +0000

I think we should encourage them to finish their fence. Perhaps send them a Home Depot gift card so they can buy some materials. People like this need to be kept busy or they’ll get into mischief. Building a 7500 mile fence should keep them busy, especially if we do regular roundups and citizen checks to make certain they’re not hiring any undocumented help.

“Well, you could be right. Get that thing erected and let’s see!”

I can’t imagine that indoor grows of poppy plants or cocoa plants would be that hard, considering how much cannabis is grown indoors.

Poppies very likely would work but coca (assume that’s what you meant) is a persnickety plant which takes years before it’s viable, and I understand it only grows above 1500 feet in elevation. Sure, it could be done, but the retail price of the end product would likely be prohibitive.

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By: Just Legalize It

Just Legalize It — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:42:35 +0000

CLOSE THE BORDER! CLOSE THE BORDER! oh wait, most of it doesnt even have a physical border? ok…. BUILD A CHAIN LINK FENCE! that will outsmart them cartels and mexicans!

I really wish my thinking was simple like that. I guess its true, ignorance is bliss

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