Slightly OT: Mexican Militias

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by Raellus

I wonder where this militia is getting its assault weapons

I am thinking here

[Raellus]

The question is, though, who's paying for all of those guns? The militia members profiled in the articles I've read aren't the types who could afford to purchase their own assault rifles, and it would take quite a bit of planning and organization to acquire hundreds of such guns through straw purchasers in the States. This all leads me to believe that there are bigger forces behind this self-styled "grassroots" movement.

[Brother in Arms]

In the U.S. Private sale isn't illegal except in certain shitty states...But most of america you can sell your firearm to another resident of the state you live in as long as they aren't under age or a felon.

But lets face it when you have millions of American dollars in Dope money you can pretty much do what you want were ever you want. And in my opinion government wants these illegal drugs and the associated crime that goes with it in the country for there own reasons. A well as illegal aliens (which amounts to legal slavery, but slaves that pay taxes!!!) also human sex trafficking. It all adds up to a lot of money, bribes, extortion and increased budgets for government types. I think everyone is on the take.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Brother in Arms

But lets face it when you have millions of American dollars in Dope money you can pretty much do what you want were ever you want. And in my opinion government wants these illegal drugs and the associated crime that goes with it in the country for there own reasons. A well as illegal aliens (which amounts to legal slavery, but slaves that pay taxes!!!) also human sex trafficking. It all adds up to a lot of money, bribes, extortion and increased budgets for government types. I think everyone is on the take.

Surely it would be better to legalise (under tight regulation) some of the currently illegal drugs, tax the hell out of them, treat the inevitable addiction problems as a health issue rather than a criminal issue, and use some of the resulting massive revenue stream to help enforce the system and greatly improve accessibility to the healthcare system?

I mean, that might seem like crazy lefty talk, but is the system in place now working very well? I would say that very clearly it's not.

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Targan

Surely it would be better to legalise (under tight regulation) some of the currently illegal drugs, tax the hell out of them, treat the inevitable addiction problems as a health issue rather than a criminal issue, and use some of the resulting massive revenue stream to help enforce the system and greatly improve accessibility to the healthcare system?

I mean, that might seem like crazy lefty talk, but is the system in place now working very well? I would say that very clearly it's not.

I think most of the right agrees with you. I consider myself conservatived and listen to conservative talk radio daily and most of the hosts and callers I hear agree.

[Brother in Arms]

Targan

I think American's are in Denial about the drug trade, sex trade,slave trade. All of these things work together to support each other and create a very powerful group of bad guys just to the south of us. It's like the Pancho villa days at this point! But almost no one says anything.

They will of course legalize marijuana nation wide soon. But other "hard drugs" probably not any time soon. Big Pharmaceuticals are all but legal in this country with bogus prescriptions for almost anything. What they hate to do though is treat drug addiction like a disease then people would actually get better.

It's better financially to treat it like a crime that way they can waste (steal) billions in tax payers dollars. In paying for increases in law enforcement (paramilitaries) And to pay for arming them (with military weapons) and creating prisons (money laundering factories/ criminal training centers) It will take a really long time and a lot more people being addicted to drugs for them to actually realize that they are losing control on the country. Because believe it or not someone benefits from all of this crime. And that is the government.

I don't think they care about the health care system they just care about money and the more people who are drug dependent, the better. More money legal and illegal the government can steal from all of us in one way or another. treating addicts will likely become a boondoggle they can make money off from soon enough.

Also the more crime ect. the more excuses they have. They can "prove" it to us how unstable we are as a nation and how unsafe it is!!! So they can limit(steal)our rights.

Brother in Arms

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Brother in Arms

Also the more crime ect. the more excuses they have. They can "prove" it to us how unstable we are as a nation and how unsafe it is!!! So they can limit(steal)our rights.

And here was me thinking it is a cultural issue. You're convinced it's a giant conspiracy?

Edit: In case the tone is coming across wrong, I'm not ridiculing what you're saying, I'm genuinely interested. I'm a long way away and can only really speak to how things are here. I wouldn't be surprised to see New Zealand independently relaxing its laws regarding cannabis, but that won't happen in Australia under the current government, and perhaps not under any Australian government unless the US does so first. The reason that Australia tightened up on drug laws in the 1960s was mostly due to pressure from the US.