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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:33 PM Original message |
Mass graves in Mexico reveal new levels of savagery |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. not until it is legal to grow your own in the USA nt |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Probably not going to solve the problem. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 09:12 AM Response to Reply #7 |
38. Exactly. the whole weed/drug problem was the first part. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. Let's send the DEA and a few Billion $ there..... problem solved... |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm with you----plenty of other nice places. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. Wow. Thanks, buddy. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. Horrible. What can be done? |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. So don't go.. |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Essentially what I heard from my co-worker ... |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:19 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. I live there for part of the year... |
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axollot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #34 |
52. I've traveled through out Mexico too. This makes it sound like there |
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rbixby (716 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
45. It all depends on what part of the country you go to |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 07:08 AM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Thanks, but I'm pretty sure you and I... |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. you're completely wrong |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:18 AM Response to Reply #21 |
32. The odds of ending up, as a tourist, in a mass grave... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #32 |
50. Personally, I try to avoid travel to places where the "odds" are above ZERO. |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Edited: Oh never mind... |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
36. Yep. I go to Mexico all the time, was there a few months ago. |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
8. The "savagery" is in keeping marijunan illegal. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. I wonder how I would feel watching people being killed with a sledgehammer, knowing my turn was |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I would think ... |
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Kurmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 10:05 AM Response to Reply #9 |
41. We went after Milosevic and Saddam for similar reasons, yet do nothing when it's on our border.n/m |
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lutherj (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
12. How does this kind of behavior advance the interests of the drug cartels? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. I have the same question |
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chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:19 AM Response to Reply #12 |
33. They rule by fear. |
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corpseratemedia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. Proof the war on drugs makes things worse!! |
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Krakowiak (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hola from Mexico! Just going to comment on the last part of your post.. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Omg. Please wave to the Plaza Libertad for me. |
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Krakowiak (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Alas, no need to do that . . . |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Tourists ARE being targeted, if you are driving |
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Krakowiak (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:55 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Well I wouldn't drive through the entire country.. no question |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Haven't people always paid bribes? We have, anyway. |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. El Giganton, sounds like a lucha libre wrestler! |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Mexico is a big and varied country |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:17 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. are there mass graves being discovered in America? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. There is no war on drugs in the America neither n/t |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:24 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. there isn't? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:36 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I have not seen any soldier inspecting vehicles for drugs |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #26 |
39. Well that's the cause, but pointing out what is causing Mexicos violence is not the same thing as |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Before the war on drugs, how many mass graves were found? n/t |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. You seem to think I'm disputing the cause |
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Krakowiak (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. no, but there aren't in most parts of Mexico either, and that's my point. |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 07:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
48. +1 |
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Krakowiak (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 09:19 PM Response to Reply #48 |
55. This thread made me doubt myself enough to check what country I'm actually in. |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-27-11 06:27 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. My mom goes on a vacation once a year with her girlfriends. |
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vanbean (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 09:27 AM Response to Reply #14 |
49. I don't know about that. When I was in high school I was an exchange student in Los Mochis |
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Krakowiak (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 01:06 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Los Mochis is 600 miles away from Guadalajara - about as close as Compton, CA is to Salt Lake City |
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vanbean (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #51 |
54. I would call that close. It is on the same coast, and 600 miles is nothing in Mexico. |
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whoneedstickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. A world of "less government" |
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chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:24 AM Response to Reply #15 |
35. Exactly - this is the invisible hand guiding the market. |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 09:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
40. I get what you're going for but in a sense it is run by several competeting entities |
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mojowork_n (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
46. Not exactly. The army and government are in it... |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
25. Exactly! this speaks volumes of the Mexican government |
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LetTimmySmoke (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
31. This is the price of prohibition. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
37. Quien sabe? Maybe the authorities is Mexico killed a bunch of drug |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
42. I'm telling ya'll, this has everything to do with the Santa Muerta cult - it is bloodthirsty |
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