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Training your own enemy:

As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.

The renegade members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The slaughter has gained urgency amid high-profile assassinations of law officers in Mexico since May 1, claiming six senior officers, five of them with the federal police.

The Mexican nation-state is slowly dissolving and antiquated US policy is part of the catalyst and now, unwitting contributer to the event, empowering drug cartels through enabling a massive and incredibly profitable black market. This will bleed north into Latino gangs here in the states (as though it hasn't, to a degree, already done so) and we can all, together, celebrate the success of America's war on drugs. Mass shootings in Texas, cartel control of east Los Angeles and a viral spread throughout the US. Won't that be fun. Can hardly wait. Just say No. Hard fried egg, brain and a well armed counter culture who's basis is a black market enabled by American policy. Good times.

Via The Metropolis Times this bit from The Drug Policy Alliance:



The "War on Drugs" is without a doubt the largest initiative to create crime that the US has embarked upon. I'll reiterate: When considering gun control or immigration reform remember well the War on Drugs. When you legislate something to be illegal you create both immediate crime (the possession or existence of the drug/gun/illegal alien him/itself) and residual crime; the marketplace born of the initial law (gun/drug trade and human smuggling.) Both feed quite effectively upon each other and consequentially grow very quickly beyond the means of policing.

On March 6 we "celebrate" the 100th anniversary of the crackdown on freedom and self-ownership. NORML Director Dale Gieringer claims it all started in California.

On March 6, 1907, Gov. James Gillett signed amendments to the Pharmacy and Poison Act making it a crime to sell opiates or cocaine in the state without a prescription. The act made California a national leader in the war on drugs seven years before Congress enacted national drug prohibition with the Harrison Act.

Many Americans don't know there was a time when people could freely buy any drug they wanted, including opium, cocaine, cannabis and other so-called narcotics. For most of the nation's history, there was no such thing as an illegal drug. That began to change after the turn of the 20th century, when an alliance of Progressive Era bureaucrats and moral crusaders began to push for prohibition of narcotics and alcohol.

An entire populace became brainwashed on the notion that the "drug war" was necessary because putting substances into one's own body or selling substances to willing buyers is somehow criminal. The arbitrary demonization of certain substances - while others remain largely untouched or merely regulated - has been lost on the deceived public. A person can toke on nicotine or go to any corner hole and indulge in alcoholic beverages until inebriation is reached, however, smoking pot on your own couch is out of the question. An entire industry makes billions selling the citizenry on its dangerous, high-powered, mind-controlling drugs (anti-depressants) while selling them as necessary comfort aids, yet what happens when a doctor in California tries to write a prescription for marijuana? The most telling point in the story is the most obvious - yet ignored - fact of all:

In the end, the drug laws became a giant crime-creation program.

Before 1907, the state's drug crime involved a few hundred opium den misdemeanors. Today, the state records 400,000 drug arrests per year, 250,000 of them felonies. Drug felons -- nonexistent in 1906 -- now account for 36,000 prisoners, 20 percent of the state's prison population. Drug gangs plague our cities, thousands of innocent people are victimized by prohibition-related theft and violence, and the rough stuff has escalated into outright war in Afghanistan, Colombia and Mexico.

Today's addiction rate is more than twice what existed during the free market a century ago -- only about one-half percent.

Thanks to M. Harris for the tip.

Emphasis is mine.

Those that would pursue an aggressive enforcement policy regarding illegal aliens would do well to read the above.