Drug war sends bullets whizzing across the border

[defendandprotect]

Drug war sends bullets whizzing across the border
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago
EL PASO, Texas – The first bullets struck El Paso's city hall at the end of a work day. The next ones hit a university building and closed a major highway. Shootouts in the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border are sending bullets whizzing across the Rio Grande into one of the nation's safest cities, where authorities worry it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt or killed.

At least eight bullets have been fired into El Paso in the last few weeks from the rising violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous places. And all American police can do is shrug because they cannot legally intervene in a war in another country. The best they can do is warn people to stay inside.

"There's really not a lot you can do right now," El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles said. "Those gun battles are breaking out everywhere, and some are breaking out right along the border."

Police say the rounds were not intentionally fired into the U.S. But wildly aimed gunfire has become common in Juarez, a sprawling city of shanty neighborhoods that once boomed with manufacturing plants. It's ground zero in Mexico's relentless drug war.

More than 6,000 people have been killed there since 2008, when the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels started battling each other and Mexican authorities for control of the city and smuggling routes into the U.S. Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against the cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_drug_war_stray_bullets


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A large part of Arizona's problems are coming from the Drug War seeping over the border --

I have an idea, let's wait to end the Drug War until many more tens of thousands are dead

and the Drug War has made all our cities unlivable!!

[Fumesucker]

1. The drug war will never end..

The Senate voted *unanimously* to double the penalties for pot brownies among other things recently.

Can you think of another fucking thing that could get a unanimous vote in the Senate?

There is absolutely nothing that is more damn bipartisan than the drug war.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/07/30/senate-votes-to-double-fines-jail-time-for-pot-brownies/

[defendandprotect]

5. Can only hope you'll be wrong -- Drug War is kept in place by corruption of government, courts,

police enforcement/Customs and elected officials -- !!

How ridiculous does this sound to the average person . . .. ?

The Senate voted *unanimously* to double the penalties for pot brownies among other things recently.

We're pretty much in a Depression and they're voting on pot brownies!


Vietnam and drugs -- our military today and drugs -- great profits being made --

and whenever someone tries to report it, they suffer some strange death.

The BS reasons thrown at the public for keeping it going aren't believable --

and eventually families will figure out that their kids are in more danger of getting killed

in a Drug War -- or imprisoned -- than they are from smoking pot or eating brownies!!

Keeping my fingers crossed!!







:)

[Bobbieo]

2. Just Say Now! The new cry for legalization of Pot in the US It's time!

[Winston Wolf]

3. I Do Believe...

...and I do not have my sources available at the moment, but some historians are of the opinion that it was not the rampant crime that ended prohibition in the 1920's, but the Great Depression. The Drug War will end only if it would stimulate the nation's economy in a major way.

However, other competing corporate interests, like the alcohol lobby, timber lobby, prison lobby, and the like, are hell bent on keeping pot and other mind altering substances on the black market. After all, business never does like competition.

I am hesitantly optimistic.

[TheKentuckian]

4. The War on Drugs is societal suicide. End it or quit crying about the effects, I sez