Posts Tagged ‘drug war’
Obama’s Demented Drug Policy
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| President Barack Obama just says no to legalization of marijuana today (03.26.09) in his first Internet town hall meeting. (RON EDMONDS/AP) |
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| The best solution to what’s plaguing Mexico right now is the one topic that will almost assuredly be off the table: legalizing marijuana. read more |
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| he most popular question asked on whitehouse.gov was about the legalization of marijuana and the possible economic benefits of such legislation.
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| President Barack Obama spoke during an ‘open for questions’ town hall meeting on Thursday. Questions were submitted and voted on by citizens via the internet and answered live by the president.
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Private-sector Arms Sales to Mexico Sparsely Monitored by State Department
Private-sector Arms Sales to Mexico Sparsely Monitored by State Department
Narco News | April 5, 2009 | Bill Conroy (see links)
“Large shipments of drugs can come into the Mexican ports or airports…. It’s obvious and logical. The government has to be involved in everything that is corrupt. … You’d have to wipe out the government to wipe out drug trafficking.”
Sandra Avila Beltran, from a recent interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. . . read more
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Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
Mexican forensic investigators work at the scene where 12 bodies were discovered in Tijuana on Sept. 29. The bodies of 11 men and one woman were found dumped in an empty lot next to an elementary school, an hour before students were scheduled to arrive. (AP)
Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
NARCO NEWS: Posted by Kristin Bricker – December 31, 2008 at 8:38 pm A record-breaking 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008, making the drug war more deadly than the drugs Mexico’s daily El Universal, which began counting drug war executions four years ago, reports that 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008. This year’s deaths more than doubled 2007’s total of over 2,700 executions. By El Universal’s estimates, about 8,463 drug executions have occurr
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Los Angeles Times, Graphic content: Mexico under siege
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Ex-cop debuts first ‘KopBusters’ trailer
From chud.com… ‘The best bonus is Barry’s speech on a college campus filmed for a 20/20 profile on him, in which he passionately rages against the war on drugs, using some fun facts and information to back up his case…’
Ex-cop debuts first ‘KopBusters’ trailer
RawStory.com, by Stephen C. Webster, Published: Tuesday December 30, 2008′KopBusters’ creator scheduled to appear Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 3:45 p.m. EST, on CNN Newsroom with Rick Sanchez An anonymous tipster appeared to be harrying cops. It sounded like the plot of the latest TV pseudo-thriller: a rogue cop, a woman scorned, a helpless father, a drug grower, a small town pastor and police that play fast and loose with the constitution, all colliding after an anonymous letter tipped off police
KopBusters: Free Yolanda
Evidence proving Yolanda was framed.
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Barry and Candi Bust Cops In Odessa!!
Barry Cooper, creator of ‘Never Get Busted Again’ and ‘Kop Busters’ (Photo courtesy http://blogs.kansascity.com…
Barry and Candi Bust Cops In Odessa!!
TX Cops Get Busted
Barry Cooper’s new reality show ‘Kop Busters’ gets the footage for its pilot on 12/4/08.
It’s called an informant plant. The Odessa narcotics unit illegally compelled an informant to plant drugs on Yolanda Madden. The informant testified in federal court he planted the drugs on her and he passed a polygraph confirming the same. Yolanda also passed a polygraph along with a hair follicle and urine test. Our broken criminal justice system ignored the evidence and railroaded her through court sentencing her to 8 years in prison.
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Armed men kidnap 27 people in Mexico
File picture shows Mexican soldiers on patrol in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico. Armed men kidnapped 27 farm workers on property owned by a suspected member of the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel, local state authorities said late Tuesday.
Armed men kidnap 27 people in Mexico
AFP Nov 12 02:30 AM US/Eastern — Armed men kidnapped 27 farm workers on property owned by a suspected member of the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel, local state authorities said. The men on Monday stormed the farm of La Guajira, in the municipality of Culiacan, officials in the north-western state of Sinaloa said in a statement.
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The House of Death
Marijuana Could Be a Gusher of Cash If We Treated It Like a Crop, Not a Crime
3 decapitated bodies found near Tijuana
Mexico: 43 dead in three days as ‘Drug War’ violence escalates
Mexico, violence, escalates, drug war, massacre, Chihuahua, Creel, CIUDAD JUAREZ, Felipe Calderon, drug trafficking, Sierra Tarahumara, Guadalupe, El Paso, El Universal, Merida Initiative
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