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Possibly all the gang bangers and drugs and beheadings will spread across the borders
large possibility of a spill over into the United States starting a domino effect breaking up the United States

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Originally posted by Kirkules:
The Feds are starting to take the threat from drug cartels more seriously.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29389404/

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Originally posted by Kirkules:
The Feds are starting to take the threat from drug cartels more seriously.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29389404/

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Of course they are. [/sarcasm]

One thing I saw reported in Texas Monthly was an article which claimed that there were over 1350 murders in Juarez last year - right across the border from El Paso.

The article also mentioned in an off-hand way that there was a planeload of meth that went down. Oddly, it had the exact same registration tail number as one of the CIA's planes that was used extensively in extraordinary rendition flights.

Odd, that. I wonder if Eugene Hasenfuss was in the area? ;)

Mike

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So you were serious about wanting regime change in Mexico...

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...I thought you were just being a moronic asshole as usual.

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
http://www.operationnogangs.org/gangstersprayer.html



When a youngster joins a gang, he eventually finds himself having many enemies he may not even know. As time goes on, as a result of negative behavior and delinquent activity in the community, he ends up having to watch his back and keep an eye open at every turn. There is no rest. The gangster youth becomes defensive and secretive at home. At school he tends to take on a negative attitude that is displayed with teachers, counselors and other authorities. In all public places he finds himself having to play the part of a tough one who doesn't care much about anything.
The young gangster becomes a puppet for his gang leaders and those in his gang.
As most gang members tell us, they want to do right but feel overwhelmingly pressured to do as members and leaders of the gang say. They must show up at places others designate and perform activities they know are wrong and get them in trouble. Someone else pulls the strings, and they perform.

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
http://www.operationnogangs.org/gangstersprayer.html



When a youngster joins a gang, he eventually finds himself having many enemies he may not even know. As time goes on, as a result of negative behavior and delinquent activity in the community, he ends up having to watch his back and keep an eye open at every turn. There is no rest. The gangster youth becomes defensive and secretive at home. At school he tends to take on a negative attitude that is displayed with teachers, counselors and other authorities. In all public places he finds himself having to play the part of a tough one who doesn't care much about anything.
The young gangster becomes a puppet for his gang leaders and those in his gang.
As most gang members tell us, they want to do right but feel overwhelmingly pressured to do as members and leaders of the gang say. They must show up at places others designate and perform activities they know are wrong and get them in trouble. Someone else pulls the strings, and they perform.

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(Reuters) - Mexico's drug cartels pose a clear threat to U.S. national security, Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday as the Obama administration named a drug czar to lead the U.S. fight against narco-trafficking.

Some 7,000 people have been killed in an upsurge in violence between Mexican cartels since January 2008. U.S. officials fear the violence is spreading into the southwestern United States, where there have been abductions and execution-style murders tied to the drug trade.

"Violent drug trafficking organizations threaten both the United States and Mexican communities," Biden said at a ceremony to nominate Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske as the country's new drug czar.

Biden said Kerlikowske, a 36-year law enforcement veteran, would oversee a strategy to improve information sharing, harness new technologies and increase the interdiction of drugs into the United States and guns and cash flowing into Mexico.

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
When a youngster joins a gang, he eventually finds himself having many enemies he may not even know. As time goes on, as a result of negative behavior and delinquent activity in the community, he ends up having to watch his back and keep an eye open at every turn. There is no rest. The gangster youth becomes defensive and secretive at home. At school he tends to take on a negative attitude that is displayed with teachers, counselors and other authorities. In all public places he finds himself having to play the part of a tough one who doesn't care much about anything.
The young gangster becomes a puppet for his gang leaders and those in his gang.
As most gang members tell us, they want to do right but feel overwhelmingly pressured to do as members and leaders of the gang say. They must show up at places others designate and perform activities they know are wrong and get them in trouble. Someone else pulls the strings, and they perform.

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Go through that and replace "gang" with "army" and see if it changes anything about that post. Sounds awfully similar to me.

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