This is Your War on Drugs: America shipped guns to Mexico in attempt to stop smuggling of marijuana into America. Those guns killed people. The marijuana didn't.
Mexican lawmakers want to extradite U.S. officials over ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ scandal
Mexican lawmakers said Tuesday they want the U.S. officials who authorized a botched campaign to dismantle illicit firearms trafficking routes to face trial in Mexico.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (ATF) "Operation Fast and Furious" sold thousands of assault rifles and revolvers to traffickers suspected of being linked to Mexican drug cartels.
This ever-so-brilliant maneuver has been linked to the death of Mexican Attorney Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez
The botched surveillance operation has led to the deaths of American and Mexican citizens. It is yet another in a long litany of failed attempts at outwitting and outgunning the drug cartels, though admittedly outgunning becomes hard to do when the US government is directly supplying the cartels with AK-47’s.
Lawmakers are investigating the operation, in which as many as 2500 guns were sold by the ATF to straw-buyers. ATF agents subsequently lost track of the weapons when they entered Mexico.
So while the idea was to 'stop druuuuuuuuuuugs' under the disastrous rubric of America's HYPER-FAILED 'war on some drugs - mainly marijuana' we have thousands of high-powered firearms flowing IN to Mexico SOMEHOW to be linked to efforts to stop the 'drug cartels".
It's probably unpopular to point out, but I don't care about popularity - assault rifles are a bit more dangerous than marijuana.
The Cartels can be given a pink slip any day American politicians pull their fat heads out of their even fatter asses and see what's real.
But our LAW ENFORCEMENT is ever-so-committed to the FAILURE of marijuana prohibition.
They REFUSE to even entertain the idea that legalizing marijuana in America - which, for all the weenies who are reading this and cringing like frightened puppies, means REGULATION - would kill well-over half the Mexican Cartel's income. It would be a massive kick in their finacial nuts that every American SHOULD be wanting to give to them.
But noooooooooo....... law enforcement wants to keep marijuana illegal - for no known reason that makes any real sense. Marijuana prohibition is an excellent scam for LEO's because it allows scaremongering and recurrent budget enhancements, plus it's much safer to arrest pot smokers than actual criminals.
So instead of doing things remotely correctly ALL we ever hear is more prohibition, more enforcement, more stings. Protect the scam at all costs.
See, the DEA feels the more violence there is in Mexico, the better marijuana prohibition and their precious war on certain drugs is going.
Skyrocketing violence south of the border indicates the Mexican government's efforts to fight drug cartels are paying off, senior Drug Enforcement Administration officials said on Wednesday.
"Our view is that the violence we have been seeing is a signpost of the success our very courageous Mexican counterparts are having," said Michele Leonhart, acting DEA administrator. "The cartels are acting out like caged animals, because they are caged animals."
And the DEA acts like mean-spirited morons because they are, in fact, mean-spirited morons.
So why not ship thousands of high-powered guns down there to make it even more violent? That's consistent and congruent with the intention to simply make the situation worse and worse while NEVER doing the simple and correct thing.
And it makes our programs look more successful! Sweet!
Of course, you either have to be a complete tool or majorly fucking stupid to ignore the Law of Prohibition: the more you enforce the prohibition, the worse things get.
"Not content with building their own submarines, using bazookas, rocket-propelled grenades or land mines, drug cartels are now building armored assault vehicles, complete with gun turrets, inch-thick armor plates, firing ports and bulletproof glass. The monsters look like a cross between a handmade assault vehicle used by a Somali warlord and something out of a post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie, and have already appeared in several confrontations with Mexican authorities.
A look inside a captured 'monster' truck (YouTube video) reveals that in addition to swiveling turrets to shoot in any direction, they have hatches and peepholes for snipers, their spacious interiors can fit as many as 20 armed men, and they are coated with polyurethane for insulation and to reduce noise. Still Patrick Corcoran writes that the armored vehicles are not a game changer.
'While the "narco-tanks," as the vehicles are often called, make for great blog fodder and provide entertaining videos, seeing their rise as a significant escalation in Mexico's drug war would be wrongheaded,' writes Corcoran. 'In the end, the "tanks" are a sexy narrative, but these mistaken notions about the criminals' "military might" not only inflate the power of Mexico's groups far beyond any reasonable assessment, they also obscure the problem, and its potential solutions.'"
Yes...somebody has the audacity to play them down, as if these things are meaningless; but well over 100 of these things have been found - an entire factory was shut down just recently and represents the predictions of the Iron Law of Prohibition, that the more prohibition is enforced, the nastier it becomes.
So America's Federal Government, the Obama administration, the DEA, the ATF - every last one of these entitites is SOLIDLY committed to keep things exactly as they are, they are all OK with the tremendous loss of life caused by nurturing the ugly criminal elements in Mexico, and they are quite alright with flooding them with dangerous weapons.
So, retuning to the original focus: Mexican politicans want to levy charges against Americans.
During a press conference Tuesday afternoon, White House Spokesman Jay Carney said he could not comment on the incident because of an ongoing investigation, but said that President Barack Obama takes it "very seriously."
Obama has said neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder had approved the operation and that "appropriate actions" would be taken after the investigation is complete.
I tend to believe this mainly because, although Obama took over and we did clean out SOME republicans, Bush operatives remain salted through every last Federal agency, going on with their intended mission - to be fascists through and through.
Now, we all know this is hot air, that no AMerican will ever hear so much as a discouraging word, let alone see or have to worry about actual legal fallout from this. The ATF will be above the law.
Programs like this will continue, the Obama admin investigation into this debacle will dissipate quietly and things will continue unmolested.
Because this is exactly how the US Federal Government wants it.
And that's why it's YOUR war on drugs.