Boycott Mexican drugs
by Hugh Holub on Jun. 22, 2010, under border issues, humor, politics
We have two problems on the border. The first problem is people crossing illegally to get work and join their families. The second problem is drug smuggling.
The first problem can be solved with a worker visa program. Problem with that issue is there are too many people who really don’t want to allow Mexicans into the US legally to work and they want to kick out the Mexicans who are already here. Whatever they say, there is a clearly racist undertone to their opposition to a legal path to work here.
The second problem is the real security issue for the border now. People armed with automatic weapons running around shooting other people is an armed invasion of our country.
The response from the federal government to this armed invasion is shockingly worthless.
Makes you wonder if all the conspiracy theories about the CIA being involved in the drug trade aren’t true.
So here’s a very off-the-wall solution to the drug smuggling problem:
Start a boycott movement against Mexican sourced drugs.
If the federal government won’t act effectively to stop the flow of drugs into the United States, and our political leaders don’t have the courage to come up with an alternative plan to deny the Mexican drug cartels the cash flow gained from drug smuggling, what’s left?
The drug users.
Ultimately the fuel for Mexican drug cartel violence is the money they gain from smuggling drugs into the US, which are consumed, one assumes, by US citizens.
Stop the flow of money to the drug cartels and they lose their power and resources to continue their reign of terror.
Who can stop that cash flow?
The people buying their drugs.
So, the idea is for drug users to boycott Mexican sourced drugs.
Obviously this will have to be a word-of-mouth campaign since no official outfit is going to start running television ads saying “dopers….don’t buy Mexican”.
But if there is an ounce of patriotism in the drug addled brains of dopers, and an alternative source of weed and crack and whatever is still available (buy American?), they might actually respond.
So put the word out on the street….don’t buy Mexican drugs.
June 22nd, 2010 on 7:04 am
” Whatever they say, there is a clearly racist undertone to their opposition to a legal path to work here.”
I fail to see how enforcing a law that requires immigrants to enter the country legally is racist, nor is requiring those who have broken the law to be deported.
The ‘great idea’ to ask everyone to boycott Mexican-originated drugs is just stupid. Why don’t you just tell them to stop drugs altogether? That wouldn’t work any better.
June 22nd, 2010 on 11:41 am
“I fail to see how enforcing a law that requires immigrants to enter the country legally is racist”
That was not the point. The point was that those who oppose immigration reform which would allow temporary workers to come to the U.S. legally are mostly opposed for racist reasons. And immigration reform doesn’t have to include amnesty either. The Dems have tried to separate it out but the Reps have blocked it. They are getting too much political mileage out of the issue.
June 22nd, 2010 on 7:05 pm
Ok, border girl, what are the “racist reasons” that you seem to know more than anyone else?
June 22nd, 2010 on 9:35 pm
Since border girl hasn’t answered, I’ll take a stab at it. The “racist reasons” for opposing immigration reform are the same “racist reasons” behind the attempt to end ethnic studies programs and the attacks on people with “accents”. Do you begin to see the trend here?
June 22nd, 2010 on 9:38 pm
I fail to see how enforcing a law that requires immigrants to enter the country legally is racist…
Of course you don’t see it. If you were forced to come face to face with it and confront the reality of your racism, it would cause you a great deal of inner conflict and dissonance. This is why you must continue to deny it, even to yourself.
June 22nd, 2010 on 7:43 am
It’s bound to work at least as well as the “War on Drugs”.
The US represents just 5% of the world’s population, yet we consume two-thirds of the world’s drugs.
June 22nd, 2010 on 7:46 am
I think the boycott is a great idea!! Especially if the pot smokers are aware that the drug they smoke to find peace causes the deaths of many innocent people. Are they aware that the cartels will kill family members of those immigrants unwilling to smuggle for them? UNION WEED…
June 22nd, 2010 on 8:25 am
Suggesting A Boycott of drugs is ridiculous. First, most drug addicts probably are not reading this. Second, most addicts are never going to give up the drug. Third, most addicts probably are unaware of where their drug comes from, Mexico, California, Washington, or the farms on the eat coast. Forth, Pot smokers probably just do not care, its what Pot does to them…
Harvard University did extensive research in Brazil decades ago, that proved Pot actually damages brain cells. Over time heavy smokers of Pot lose a great deal of mental ability. If that does not stop them, a boycott will not. Most boycotts do not work, a few do like the boycott of grapes. But, grapes are not addictive.
June 22nd, 2010 on 8:33 am
Glad to see I’m not the only person to arrive at this obvious solution. However I’d go further. We’re supposed to be fighting this “war” in cooperation with the Mex gov’t who everybody knows is in collusion with the narcos. Wouldn’t it be a simple enough matter to locate these fields, warn the innocent indentured peasants in advance and fly in there and burn them? And keep burning them every season. Money well spent instead of lining the pockets of corrupt politicians.
The Mex gov’t, if they honestly want to curtail the drug trade should be happy to cooperate. The truth is they profit from the trade so we shouldn’t expect it. So we go in there anyway and burn the fields. Who’s going to protest without revealing thier hypocrisy? or stop us?
And while we’re at it, close every gun dealer within a hundred miles of the border. This of course will make the gun nuts nuts but they’re as much to blame as peaceful pot smokers who should be allowed to grow their own. Sounds to simple doesn’t it? Yes, Union Weed.
June 22nd, 2010 on 5:34 pm
A couple of decades ago, the US in co-operation with Brazil and another country did send troops there to burn the fields. They burned Cocaine mfg plants etc. A Super secret mission under the supervision of the CIA. One of my cousins who speaks fluent Portuguese was an interpreter in a secret Air Force Unit, even the name was top secret. They burned the fields for a few years, but it did not stop the Cocaine Traffic, it just drove up the price… The same would probably happen in Mexico.
June 22nd, 2010 on 10:35 am
mleckrone:
Good points but the Cartels will just buy guns 200 miles from the border or 300 miles from the border.
To Leftfield.
Yes we consume far too much drugs, I hate it. But we are 5% of the worlds population and we produce 50% of the worlds manufactured goods.
June 22nd, 2010 on 11:55 am
“But we are 5% of the worlds population and we produce 50% of the worlds manufactured goods.”
Not sure where you got those numbers, but they are not accurate. While the U.S. is the largest producer in dollar value (China is gaining fast), when you measure per capita…the only fair measurement between vastly different sized countries… the U.S. is soundly beaten by Japan. Even using the dollar amounts, the U.S. would have to increase its output by 100% to be 50% of just the top 12 manufacturing countries.
June 22nd, 2010 on 12:27 pm
Either way, if we could just start producing at least half of the drugs we consume in country, we could put them all out of business. It’s a neoliberal’s free-market dream! We could all show our patriotism by loading the bong only with home-grown.
June 22nd, 2010 on 1:19 pm
“conspiracy theories” ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG1Id2qpSOE
Frontline: “Guns, Drugs and the CIA.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html
Join L.E.A.P …
June 22nd, 2010 on 2:25 pm
What a great idea, but since it’s a black market there are no labeling requirements. How about we let people grow their own in their backyard. It’s a weed, after all. And letting folks grow their own would take care of a lot of problems.
But, gosh, the government needs to protect us from ourselves. Another fifth of vodka and pack of smokes, please.
June 22nd, 2010 on 4:18 pm
To Bordergirl:
I may have old figures?! If you have some newer ones I would love to see them, post them here if you could. I dont want to still have bad data in my brain!!
Thanks
June 23rd, 2010 on 4:36 am
The immigration code is not racist per se, but the way some would see it implemented most certainly is. Hate groups are using this immigration debate to air their dislike for Latinos without fear of reprisal.There is an obvious animus towards minorities in AZ as the mural incident in Scottsdale illustrates and is being reflected in the legislative intent of it’s laws.
The current unconstitutional legislation (volative of both the 10th and 14th amendments) that have everybody’s knickers in a knot was penned by a bigot out of Kansas City, Mo. And before I get pounced on, yes he is a known bigot with ties to hate groups. (he’s a member of FAIR for example.) The yokel that has proposed the unconstitutional denial of citizenship to those born of foreign parents on U.S. soil is a neo-Nazi sympathizer. I am not just throwing Nazi around for fun or even dramatic effect. He and his buddy Pierce have been seen together at rallies and Peirce freely admits his association. The current legislation in Fremont NE has ties to the same KC bigot and was put in place due to the influx of Latinos moving in to work at the meat packing plant that no one locally will work at.
It’s not racist to enforce laws, provided they themselves are not inherently racist, but it is racist to selectively enforce laws based on skin color and ethnicity. As to that I find it interesting in this debate that I haven’t heard one word about those surly Canadians streaming down from the North like rats from a Leni Riefenstahl film, eating our food, stealing our jobs and cavorting with our women-folk despite that per capita Canadians are more likely to be in the U.S illegally than their Mexican counterparts. Odd that all of the desired enforcement seems to be aimed at our Latino friends.
No matter how you bigots want to hide behind the law, we know you for who and what you are. You’re not a legitimate political movement, your not really concerned with national security, you want Latinos gone even though many families have been in Tucson before AZ was a territory. They were here before your folks moved out here from the Ozarks for the golf. They have far more right to be here than you do.
As for the MJ, I always buy American! ;p
June 23rd, 2010 on 5:51 am
Right on!
July 23rd, 2010 on 3:06 pm
We are STILL missing the point here. Telling US addicts to boycott Mexican drugs is way, way off. American buyers of Mexican Drugs are DEALERS!!! Where is the rigorous pursuit and apprehension of the American dealers who are both buying and selling Mexican drugs. We hear NOTHING of this. Hugh suggests that it almost makes on believe the stories about CIA involvement. BALONEY. What about powerful American investor/politician involvement? We have already learned today of Brewer and her cronies involvment with the private prison enterprise. Who is making all the money selling drugs to the hapless American addicts who should be in treatment or jail?