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Does the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have consequences?
NAFTA has introduced unique benefits and challenges. Drug traffiking is a major concern in the inner-cities of America, but how does the problem continue to exist despite the "War on Drugs?" Has NAFTA increased the drug trade?
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Permalink Reply by Bri'on on -
The sale of drugs has been an activity in our neighborhoods since who knows when, but I'm going to say the late 60's. How do the drugs make it to 5th & Broadway though and how did American banks get caught up in the laundering of money? If the U.S. focused it's resources on this issue we could reduce trafficking significantly, so why is it allowed?
Every person understands the possible end result of entering the world of selling drugs, but for every dealer that is locked up, there is another dealer ready to step up. The cycle continues and it appears to be financed by American banks.
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Permalink Reply by LibyaWest on -
Don't know how old you are but I guess you missed the Ollie North hearings during the reagan administrations. The us government has been trafficking drugs for a long time.
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Permalink Reply by LibyaWest on
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Don't know how old you are but I guess you missed the Ollie North hearings during the reagan administrations. The us government has been trafficking drugs for a long time.
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Permalink Reply by Bri'on on
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Yeah, but has it increased since the 1992 signing of NAFTA?
LibyaWest said:Don't know how old you are but I guess you missed the Ollie North hearings during the reagan administrations. The us government has been trafficking drugs for a long time.
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Permalink Reply by LibyaWest on
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I'll tell you one thing, when the us government says that its engaged in a "war on drugs", it only means thats its trying to wipe out its competition.
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Permalink Reply by PR Joe Felix on -
LIbyaWest, talk about intestinal fortitude, you sure do call it like you see it. Me and my Pops sat back and watched most of the proceedings of the Iran-Contra hearings. Every time Reagan was put on the spot he used a killer defense "I don't recall, I can't really say that I remember" I've been using that one ever since.
G. Bush senior was in the drug business with Panama's Noriega and I'm talkin "Big Money" and when the sh-t went sour and Noriega threatened to expose his ass Bush sent in the Marines. They went in, got him, and put him "under" the jail right here in the good old U.S. of A.
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Permalink Reply by Bri'on on
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I guess NAFTA's agenda of the free flow of goods and services extended more to just toilet paper and T-shirts. This combined with the agenda of legalizing Marijuana questions the market. Who will own the crop farms, dispensaries, shipping lines, and so on? If California passes the MJ law, how many states are to follow? This is big business that is about to be legalized, just like when they converted "running numbers" into a state lottery. Where you at in the food-chain?
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Permalink Reply by Bri'on on
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...only 2% of people arrested in Ciudad Juarez -- the most violent ...
"We are very mindful that the battle President Calderon is fighting inside of Mexico is not just his battle, it's also ours," Obama said. "We have to take responsibility just as he's taking responsibility. And that's true with respect to guns flowing from north to south, it's true about cash flowing north to south."
All this violence is just a territorial war for the law later, whoever is standing at the end of the fight wins all the spoils. Alcohol was against the law and prohibited at one time, but look at the business now.
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Permalink Reply by PR Joe Felix on
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Gun-running, arms sales? Nobody beats the US at that. We are the no.1 gunrunners in the world.
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Permalink Reply by Bri'on on
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It is said we are moving from an industrial to a service economy. Remnants of the industrial revolution have turned technology into an ally, hence war machines. If you build them, you have to sell them, or why would you build them, especially in a capitalistic society.
Here could be a possible thread:
*Criminals tend the crop for commissary.
*Investor's diversify through farming, mechanics, distribution and retail.
*A society that gets high and eat taco's at the place they work (Taco Bell), except for those that build guns and work security.
Joseph e. Felix said:Gun-running, arms sales? Nobody beats the US at that. We are the no.1 gunrunners in the world.
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Permalink Reply by PR Joe Felix on
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Permalink Reply by Bri'on on
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Yeah, the average Joe can @ best own a shop on Main St. & 8th Ave. I forgot to mention those who will work in the healthcare community, they get to administer the legalized MJ.
Joseph e. Felix said:
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
~C. Wright Mills~
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_wright_mills.html#ixz...
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