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- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 11/13/2009, -2/+51UN - "What, are you crazy? People are killing each other down there."
- duggtodeath, on 11/13/2009, -3/+41This is no longer a criminal matter -- this is a war the Americans can ***** end.
- PolarBearFire, on 11/13/2009, -11/+45@jerrdalton
It's a free country, none of our Founding Fathers or their families needed permission to come to America. This land was illegally stolen from the natives, so don't get on your high horse about who belongs here. - setabs, on 11/13/2009, -5/+24"United Nations peacekeepers...quell...violence" That's funny.
- socrates114, on 11/13/2009, -8/+25I'm glad my parents got out of Mexico, and yes they came illegally but hey what do you want me to do, I was born here, go back to that ***** hole?
- bemenaker, on 11/13/2009, -0/+17The drug cartels have more money than the gov't, that's a fight you can't win.
- diggdong, on 11/13/2009, -0/+17they only had two trucks
- jjesusfreak01, on 11/13/2009, -1/+16Yeah, don't know what they think UN Peacekeepers will do. They only keep peace, not create it (and they aren't even that good at that).
- endgame, on 11/13/2009, -2/+14Black Water Mercs, would clean that place up real quick. Shoot first, dont ask questions & then set up our own illegal operations...-Black Water
- MonkeyOverlord, on 11/13/2009, -1/+11There is a flaw in their plans: when was the last time anyone remembered seeing headlines like "after 3 days of intense fighting, UN peacekeepers have suppressed violence in region XYZ" since the Korean War (the first and only REAL international peacekeeping conflict)? That's right... you don't because the UN believes that actual shooting would violate the country's sovereignty. Unlike, you know, putting thousands of troops on their soil.
You want troops now that will get down and dirty and kill the cartels' goons with impunity until the violence stops? I hate to say it, but they'll have to hire Blackwater, Xe or whatever they call themselves today. - simbait, on 11/13/2009, -1/+11They could write a very angry letter
- faskill, on 11/13/2009, -3/+12How can Americans end it? There is no drive to legalize cocaine, prostitution, etc.
Drugs are "bad" but there is a demand for them. People are meeting that demand although it is illegal. There isn't a call to make all drugs legal. Since there will still be a demand for heroine, cocaine etc., there will be more done to provide these. Legalize all drugs and then it will move something else like prostitution. Legalize prostitution and it will lead to to the gun trade.
This isn't something Americans can end. It has to be a global effort and it is something beyond us. We need to grow as people before we see this go away. - m0n0kr0m3, on 11/13/2009, -0/+9Quick send in the Chinese!
- bigteebo, on 11/13/2009, -1/+10Blue helmet = "please kidnap me".
- Opiate, on 11/13/2009, -0/+9That's a pretty slippery slope, I'm not sure if I would want foreign troops policing, let alone their own.
- HunterGathers, on 11/13/2009, -0/+9They can't carry loaded weapons and can't react unless they themselves are in danger. The general pop be damned -UN Security General Bosnia 1991
- newes, on 11/13/2009, -0/+8Legalizing drgss will cut off the cartel's funding. But I do agree with you that it's up to Mexico to fix it's own corruption from within and the U.S. should be involved. If the U.N. wants to go thats up to them.
- jjmdirector, on 11/13/2009, -2/+10The violence will stop when we end the war on drugs.
The government's War on Drugs, like its War on Poverty and its War on Terror, is a failure. It has clogged the judicial system, unnecessarily swelled prison populations, fostered violence, corrupted law enforcement, eroded civil liberties, and destroyed financial privacy. It has encouraged illegal searches and seizures, ruined countless lives, wasted hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, hindered legitimate pain treatment, and had no impact on the use or availability of most drugs in the United States.
Conservatives who revere the Constitution should support both the freedom to use drugs for any purpose and a free market in drugs. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize the federal government to intrude itself into the personal eating, drinking, or smoking habits of Americans. Indeed, before the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, there were no federal drug laws in the United States.
-Campaign for liberty - - robersz, on 11/13/2009, -0/+7@danfive555
Then you must live very happily.
Most people who are already parents are past regular education and need professional development, what's the point in getting education when you will end up as a janitor, gardener, or a manager at a walmart?
I'm sure you think that Mexico has no quality education but you are very wrong. I'm 26 years old and currently work at a multinational company. I earn well, have my own house, 2 expensive cars, and plenty of free time to read digg at my office.
Many of my closest friends have gotten jobs in places like NY, London, Sao Paolo, Amsterdam, etc.
Education system in Mexico in general is bad. But that's no excuse to limit yourself. We're not brain dead. - lead2thehead, on 11/13/2009, -2/+9A lot of good that would do. They may as well put blue helmets on the tourists.
- bigkeeperrabbit, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6But those berets are so intimidating.
- trying2bNice, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6Dear 3 Amigos,
Please help -STOP- El Guapo - hakkola, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6Wrong
"About 4.5% of the troops and civilian police deployed in UN peacekeeping missions come from the European Union and less than one percent from the United States."
"The 10 main troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping operations as of March 2007 were Pakistan (10,173), Bangladesh (9,675), India (9,471), Nepal (3,626), Jordan (3,564), Uruguay (2,583), Italy (2,539), Ghana (2,907), Nigeria (2,465), and France (1,975).[6]"
"Through April 2008, 2,468 people from over 100 countries have been killed while serving on peacekeeping missions.[8] Many of those came from India (127), Canada (114) and Ghana (113)." - danfive555, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6A couple of months ago the businessmen in Juarez claimed they would bring in private security and take out the delinquents, kidnappers and drug runners. I guess they couldn't afford Blackwater, so they'll settle for the UN.
- tirau, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6You mean the Alamo?
- askantik, on 11/13/2009, -1/+7One thing I want to say before people start in (even though they already have) on bashing the UN as being useless. The UN has 5 veto powers and we are, of course, one of them. That means every UN nation on Planet Earth can be in favor of something, but then we can be like, "hell naw" and it never happens. This might be considered a flaw of the way the UN operates, but it is our lack of cooperation/participation that keeps the UN from doing a lot of things. Not to say that if we were like "giggidy!!" all the time then the UN would be amazing, but it's certainly something to consider.
- bemenaker, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6And my last job couldn't figure out why I didn't want to move to El Paso, Tx, and drive into Juarez 3 or 4 times a week for work.
- SplashBot, on 11/25/2009, -0/+5They always do that :)
- aldolinares, on 11/13/2009, -2/+7The borders of Mexico would be very different if the US do something about their problem with consumption. All the problems have a root and the root of the Mexican violence on the borders are the US consumption.
- HunterGathers, on 11/13/2009, -2/+7what cocaine, meth, or any other drug they'll move to once pot in legalized. I'm all for decriminalization but your tactic will not sole this problem.
- Aliwalla, on 11/13/2009, -0/+5Cyprus.
- stoned420247, on 11/13/2009, -0/+5Your can't win this. Your fighting one of the most powerful people in the world.
This week, Forbes announced that one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world is a leader of a Drug cartel.
You think it's a win when he builds a million dollar submarine with a few million dollars worth of drugs, and it gets seized by officials?
Those millions of dollars is like pocket change. And while you call that seize a victory, 90% continue to flows freely. Worth billions of dollars every single year.
For every person you arrest and lock up, dozens will take it's place. Now you have a prison population filled with the same people. A location where business is ran and operated out of prison.
Now the money is used to corrupt the people we think is protecting us.
It's time for a regulation system. It's time we stop agreeing with violent criminals that prohibition is working. - robersz, on 11/13/2009, -10/+15@Socrates
I understand if your parents were threatened or if they're lives were at risk somehow. But if they crossed illegally just to get the easy way out and work low class jobs with no professional future, then that's just a shame and we don't need people like that in Mexico.
I hope you mean Cd Juarez is the ***** and not my country.
Btw I'm a Mexican who lives in Mexico. Happily and peacefully. - askantik, on 11/13/2009, -0/+5See "Hotel Rwanda."
- Hetman, on 11/13/2009, -0/+5When your own government and police force are ran by cartels. It is kind of hard to ask them to stop cartels. It is kind of like America and lobbyists. Accept for the fact lobbyists just want to take all your cash and crush your soul were as the cartels do the humane thing and just put a bullet in your head.
- manstein01, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4reign?
- FormerBabby, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4AHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAH....OOOOHHHHHH....HHHHAAHHHHAHAHA
*wipes tear* - SplashBot, on 11/25/2009, -0/+4Shouldn't they, ummm, I don't know, ask they own government instead?
- Random314, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4That's it, the drug lords better brace themselves for some serious condemning words from the UN leaders.
- Idonteven, on 11/13/2009, -6/+10@PolarBearFire
So because it's a "free" country, that means you're allowed to violate the law? Don't be an idiot and compare what our founding fathers did centuries ago to now. In the 20th century, it was still LEGAL to prosecute people under the witchcraft act of 1735 in the UK for ***** sakes. - Mujokan, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4It's not like Iraq, they'd actually expect results.
- BerateBirthers, on 11/13/2009, -9/+12Legalize it, legitimize it, and tax it.
- manstein01, on 11/13/2009, -1/+4And as soon as we did anything we are violating another countries' sovereignty.
Oh, also, college professors will then start pinning every single internal problem in Mexico from then on to the United States, as we interfered with our imperialist policies. - jsuther, on 11/13/2009, -0/+3"There's not enough profit/ market for those to support large scale international organized crime."
Not if Walmart is selling them. - Akairenn, on 11/13/2009, -0/+3They make corrupt oil for food deals!
Well, I guess that's mostly talking too, but there's obviously some shipping and ill financials involved. - socrates114, on 11/13/2009, -1/+4All the Idiots here, sorry I ain't going back, and now my dad is a legal citizen who makes a little more than 100,000 and let me tell you taxes are kicking his ass, so I'm sorry My parents came here illegally but then again this is not for justification but cmon the founding fathers were born here, should they have had to re-apply for citizenship? I'm going to college and trying to make something of myself, I'm sorry im not your definition of white
- ZellD, on 11/13/2009, -0/+3Yes, the International Court of Justice along with most major developments in modern international law.
- socrates114, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Maybe Americans should stop fueling them by buying the drugs
- Mujokan, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Ending the war on drugs would be the perfect solution, but let's face it -- if everything went absolutely perfectly from tomorrow it would still take five years to get it through. In the meantime, they have to look for other measures.
- faskill, on 11/13/2009, -1/+3Personal growth and societal growth need to occur. By grow, I mean people need to be less preoccupied with the actions of others, need to be less concerned with controlling others and forcing them to act as they act, to believe as they believe. On the other side of that, people need to learn to respect others. They need to learn to enjoy liberty but without infringing on others. Pursue happiness but not at the cost of someone else.
THAT'S WHAT I MEANT BY THAT.
And as for legalizing any and all substances, that isn't the way to solve this. Unfortunately, even though I tried outlining this in the comment you responded to, the short sighted idea of legalizing one thing just makes way for people to provide the next "bad thing". -
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