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Yes my love, everyone on the floor. [What?], no, nothings happening just put your little heads down. Precious put your little heads on the floor, nothing is happening, just don’t put your heads up please!………..Lets to sing a song? class says yes, Lets sing…..I know which! ♩♩♩The rain drops are made of chocolate, I would love to be there, who wants chocolate!!!??? Opening our mouths to taste the flavor♩♩♩ Put your heads down yes? Now put your heads on the floor and lets open our mouths ♩AA AA AAA AA A AA♩ Are you guys opening your mouths? You have your little mouths open facing up? So the rain drops can fall into your mouths! Miguel you havent opened up your mouth?

A teacher calmly reassures pupils while five men are gunned down in a drug-related shooting outside her kindergarten in Monterrey, Mexico. -reddit

I'd like to force all American politicians who still favor the catastrophic "War on drugs" policy to live in Ciudad Juarez for one year.

In the history of the human race, no political ideology has come close to causing as much senseless death and misery as has the criminalization of drug use.

When I was last in Mexico I spend a weekend down in Tabasco and in that weekend 5 police officers were killed in that state. In the week prior this had happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clHmPwmF2bw

That particular news report says the haul was related to meth, but I'm not sure. I wonder how much money is made on each specific drug because I really don't see a good answer to violence caused by the trade of these hard drugs.

That woman is a fucking hero!
hats off.

Chocolate rain!

petpeeved, your argument is fairly hollow. This incident may have been drug related, but the firefight itself was allowed to happen because the cities security is no where near the level as ours. With our level of police work we could have mexico cleaned up pretty damn tidy. I mean we are by no means clean as a whistle, but you really don't see acres of hemp and weed being grown in the US. US's drug problems is that of importing, not production. Mexico has corrupt gov, officials, and a lacking police force to police their land and thus the drug cartels have made it their home.

>> ^jmd:

petpeeved, your argument is fairly hollow. This incident may have been drug related, but the firefight itself was allowed to happen because the cities security is no where near the level as ours. With our level of police work we could have mexico cleaned up pretty damn tidy. I mean we are by no means clean as a whistle, but you really don't see acres of hemp and weed being grown in the US. US's drug problems is that of importing, not production. Mexico has corrupt gov, officials, and a lacking police force to police their land and thus the drug cartels have made it their home.


It's their own damn fault for being too poor to pay for proper policing! We shouldn't feel bad at all for our massive demand that we are preventing ourselves from fulfilling.

Echoes of neocon elitism.

Its not a lack of police to fight drug cartels which is the cause of the violence. That analysis is hollow. You are leaving out the devastating consequences of NAFTA and imperialism on these countries.

Poverty and unemployment have only worsened as a result of subsidies going towards big agrobussiness instead of local farmers. This is what leads to crime. Its a reaction by the working class getting even more fucked. When you can't get any $ by growing corn and instead have the chance to make $ selling drugs, yeah, you do it.

It isn't a coincidence that the majority of immigrants come from countries that have had dictators and death squads with the support of the US. Guatamala, El Salvador, Mexico. Destroyed economies create migrants which are CHEAP LABOR. Add to this the criminalization of immigrants with AZ's SB1070 and GA's copycat HB87. The AZ bill was pretty much written by Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison corporation which gets $200 per bed a night.

Its all part of the imperative of profit, the inherent violence of capitalism, duh
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Additional reading:

http://blog.sojo.net/2010/10/28/prison-and-profits-the-politics-of-az%E2%80%99s-sb1070-bill-revealed/

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/25/harvest_of_empire_new_book_exposes
"And then there's this from independent journalist Zafar Bangash:

"The CIA, as Cockburn and (Jeffrey) St Clair reveal, had been in this business right from the beginning. In fact, even before it came into existence, its predecessors, the OSS and the Office of Naval Intelligence, were involved with criminals. One such criminal was Lucky Luciano, the most notorious gangster and drug trafficker in America in the forties."

The CIA's involvement in drug trafficking closely dovetails America's adventures overseas - from Indo-China in the sixties to Afghanistan in the eighties....As Alfred McCoy states in his book: Politics of Heroin: CIA complicity in the Global Drug Trade, beginning with CIA raids from Burma into China in the early fifties, the agency found that 'ruthless drug lords made effective anti-communists." ("CIA peddles drugs while US Media act as cheerleaders", Zafar Bangash, Muslimedia, January 16-31, 1999)

And, this from author William Blum:

"ClA-supported Mujahedeen rebels ... engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government," writes historian William Blum. "The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and a leading heroin refiner. CIA-supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the Afghan/Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that used in Western Europe....""


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18877

*music *talks *livemusic

Adding video to channels (Livemusic, Music, Talks) - requested by ant.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110530/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_heroic_teacher and http://www.milenio.com/node/731300 (Spanish and with two embedded videos) from http://digg.com/news/world_news/teacher_maintains_her_kindergarten_class_during_gun_battle/20110529162059:af8b4f4125bb47bf9dbeec4ff0848190

>> ^petpeeved:

I'd like to force all American politicians who still favor the catastrophic "War on drugs" policy to live in Ciudad Juarez for one year.
In the history of the human race, no political ideology has come close to causing as much senseless death and misery as has the criminalization of drug use.


Right. The fact you can't legally buy weed in America is the single greatest cause of suffering in Mexico...

>> ^bcglorf:

>> ^petpeeved:
I'd like to force all American politicians who still favor the catastrophic "War on drugs" policy to live in Ciudad Juarez for one year.
In the history of the human race, no political ideology has come close to causing as much senseless death and misery as has the criminalization of drug use.

Right. The fact you can't legally buy weed in America is the single greatest cause of suffering in Mexico...


*double citation needed*

I'd go with NAFTA & the good 'ol War on Byproducts With Names™, for causes.

Aren't little non-white children used to such violence? That's what my pappy told me growing up in drug free America.