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Mexico Decriminalizes Drug Possession For Personal Use
This from the AP:
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers.
Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico’s corruption-prone police from extorting casual users and offers addicts free treatment to keep growing domestic drug use in check.
"This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty," said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney general’s office.
The new law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution.
It will be interesting to see what effect this has on Mexico if any.
The 90 Percent Myth: Only 17% Of Guns In Mexico Traced Back To U.S.
You know that statistic gun grabbing politicians have been relentlessly shilling in the press for weeks? The one claiming that 90% of all weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.
The only problem with that statistic is that it’s a total and complete lie. It’s one of the most dishonest stats ever to be uttered by a politician.
The truth is that only 17% of guns found at Mexican crime scenes or recovered in Mexico are traced back to the U.S.
When confronted with this, a spokesman from The ATF told Fox News that 90 percent of traced firearms originate from the U.S. The keyword here is traced.
The facts:
In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced — and of those, 90 percent — 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover — were found to have come from the U.S.
But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
The vast majority of guns are smuggled into Mexico from Russia, China, and South America. Most of the AK-47’s used by the cartels that John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder are always crying about do not come from America.
Most are fully automatic and have been illegal to own in the U.S. since the mid 1980’s. The drug cartels use their vast financial resources to buy shipments of fully automatic weapons from the third world.
Hand grenades and machine guns from South Korea and China have been recovered. Guatemala is also a major source of weapons getting into Mexico.
The other issue is corruption on the part of the Mexican military. Legitimate shipments of fully automatic M16 rifles from Colt have been sold to the Mexican government only to turn up later in the hands of drug cartel assassins.
According to Mexican officials, more than 150,000 Mexican soldiers have deserted in the last 6 years and most took their weapons with them.
You know our politicians know all this, but they continue to peddle these outrageous lies in the public as an excuse to pass more gun laws.
Democrats didn’t give a damn about border security until they saw an opportunity for a gun grab. This is an outright attempt to spread propaganda about what is really happening in Mexico.
-Chris Jones
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Border Patrol Agent Held At Gunpoint By Mexican Military
This from The National Border Patrol Council:
A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint by the Mexican military last night south of Ajo. Mexican military personnel crossed over the border and pointed rifles at him. Backup units arrived from the Ajo Border Patrol station, and the Mexican military personnel eventually returned to Mexico. Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years. They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of “Oh well, they didn’t know they were in the United States.” A few years ago the Mexican military went a step further and put a .50 calibre rifle round through the rear window of a Border Patrol agent’s patrol vehicle south of Ajo. Nothing was ever done. Nobody was ever held accountable. Particularly galling is the fact that the Mexican military often pulls these stunts in Humvees donated to them by the American taxpayers (although they were apparently on foot this time). We note that Border Patrol agents have historically driven worn-out, junk vehicles.
I cannot imagine the United States just shrugging off the continued incursion of foreign military into the United States. This kind of thing should provoke unprecedented outrage by American citizens. Armed Mexican military should be shot on site if spotted on the U.S. side of the border.
Turf War In Mexico
Take a look at this great clip from the best private intelligence firm in the world, Stratfor. It offers a very easy to understand explanation of the ongoing war between the drug cartels in Mexico as it relates to the U.S.
Via JunkYardBlog
Mexamericanada
The North American continent is one large piece of land. The people who live on the land are as varied as the landscape. And as in the old world, from which many have come originally, the people speak English, French, and Spanish. That is not to say other languages are not spoken in Mexamericanada, because they are, plenty of them. The number of dialects spoken on the continent, reflect the number spoken throughout the world.
The question is what language should be the “official language?” Since picking English would be unfair to Mexico with its dominant Spanish speaking population, maybe we should pick one that would force everyone to learn a new language. By changing all the road signs, books, voice mail answering machines, manuals, assembly instructions, labels, and brail documents we could generate trillions in new revenue with the change over. There would be an explosion in demand for certain professions. Teachers, interpreters, linguists, even therapists to help people deal with their sense of inadequacy in learning the new universal language.
I’ve taken the time to look up languages spoken by more than 10,000,000 people on the earth, and have taken the liberty to list some of them to chose from. Some of the more interesting ones are: Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Panjabi, Javanese, and Bengali. If we picked one of these, no one would have an edge over the other in the scramble to learn and be proficient in speaking the new standard of Mexamericanada.
Maybe we should settle for a form of the Akkadian language used in ancient Babylonia, where the people were devoted to materialism and the pursuit of sensual pleasure just like us, here in Mexamericanada.
Written By Lloyd H. Frye
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