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[cwjerome]

Another thing we might get to look forward to in sunny Arizona: Beheadings by cartel people.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2010/10/27/20101027beheading1027.html

I guess it was just a matter of time before your typical gangland execution we are used to around here got a little more interesting. I'm afraid the worse Mexico gets with the violence the more we'll see on our side of the border.

In related news, on Monday a man was found dead in his car on a road in Casa Grande, his vehicle riddle with bullets from a Mexican drug hit. And Tuesday the body of a women (whose boyfriend was found shot to death Saturday) was found in the desert in what what is believed to be more Mexican gang-related activity. Maybe today will be a slow day...

 

[Moonbeam]

Anybody die trafficking in alcohol?

 

[PeshakJang]

I'm sure they were all racists anyway, so they deserved to die.

 

[Fear No Evil]

Anybody die trafficking in alcohol?

No, but people are dying of trafficking in the riding of jetski's.

 

[rudder]

Anybody die trafficking in alcohol?

What is the cost of an ounce of illegal alcohol versus an ounce of pure heroin? My guess is that there is a more lucrative profit working with heroin, cocaine, and marijuana than smuggling alcohol.

A lot of stills are up in the hills... so I would imagine that 1 or 2 people die a year trekking back and forth.

 

[Moonbeam]

The authoritarian mind needs for drugs to be illegal because the authoritarian mind needs to control all sources of pleasure to remain in authority. You be good and run your rat wheel like you should and we will give you a reward. You too can become dictator of the world. You just have to work for it. Work work work, obey and be normal, above all be normal.

 

[dawp]

What is the cost of an ounce of illegal alcohol versus an ounce of pure heroin? My guess is that there is a more lucrative profit working with heroin, cocaine, and marijuana than smuggling alcohol.

A lot of stills are up in the hills... so I would imagine that 1 or 2 people die a year trekking back and forth.

He might have been referring to prohibition, when alcohol was in the same legal status as drugs are now. That was a very bloody period in our history. now that alcohol is legal, you don't hear of that alcohol related violence anymore.

 

[Moonbeam]

He might have been referring to prohibition, when alcohol was in the same legal status as drugs are now. That was a very bloody period in our history. now that alcohol is legal, you don't hear of that alcohol related violence anymore.

You could be right. That might be what I was referring to, hehe.

 

[Scotteq]

He might have been referring to prohibition, when alcohol was in the same legal status as drugs are now. That was a very bloody period in our history. now that alcohol is legal, you don't hear of that alcohol related violence anymore.

Nope...

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa38.htm

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-1/58-65.htm


Though to be fair - I don't hear much/anything about pot smokers doing these things (well - except for Impaired Driving...).

And to be accurate: It's a matter of Degree, rather than all or nothing.

 

[Scotteq]

Another thing we might get to look forward to in sunny Arizona: Beheadings by cartel people.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2010/10/27/20101027beheading1027.html

I guess it was just a matter of time before your typical gangland execution we are used to around here got a little more interesting. I'm afraid the worse Mexico gets with the violence the more we'll see on our side of the border.

In related news, on Monday a man was found dead in his car on a road in Casa Grande, his vehicle riddle with bullets from a Mexican drug hit. And Tuesday the body of a women (whose boyfriend was found shot to death Saturday) was found in the desert in what what is believed to be more Mexican gang-related activity. Maybe today will be a slow day...

Further related news: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/26/world/main6993871.shtml

AP) The entire police force of a small northern Mexican town has quit after gunmen attacked their headquarters.

Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas says nobody was injured.

But he told Reforma newspaper that all 14 members of the force resigned Tuesday, a day after the shooting.

Nobody answered the phones at Salinas' offices.

Los Ramones is in Nuevo Leon, a state torn by fighting between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs. Police stations in small northeastern Mexican towns are frequently attacked, and several mayors have been assassinated.

Mexico's ill-equipped municipal forces often quit after cartel attacks.

..so apparently, direct attacks on Law Enforcement have become so common that the news added a line that it's usual for entire police forces to resign afterwards.

 

[Scotteq]

Anybody die trafficking in alcohol?

...even Al Capone or the Purple gang, (..who were so nasty even Al Capone cut a deal with them), didn't machine gun police stations.

 

[Craig234]

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[Moonbeam]

...even Al Capone or the Purple gang, (..who were so nasty even Al Capone cut a deal with them), didn't machine gun police stations.

Prohibition ended real quick after it began. We used to have some brains.

 

[BurnItDwn]

It's sad that we continue to support them as a nation by arresting their competition.