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Title: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: JI_Joe on July 24, 2013, 12:02:19 PM
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Quote22 Killed in Mexican Clashes
Twenty armed gang members and two police officers were killed Tuesday after a shootout in Mexico's western Michoacán state. Another 15 people were injured, officials said. The shootout began after the gang members from the Knights Templar drug cartel blocked roads and bridges and ambushed the police patrols and ambulances. Tuesday's violence came just one day after five people were shot and killed by Knights Templar gangsters in a demonstration protesting their violent tactics. The cartel controls much of the methamphetamine and marijuana trade in western Mexico and are war with the Zetas cartel, whose leader, Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, was arrested earlier this month.

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  Well earlier this month the Zetas cartel (the most destructive to date) had to make do with out its leader thanks to the Mexican Marines and I thought it would all call down for a while but sadly that is not the case.  :cry:  :oops:
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: Shiranu on July 24, 2013, 12:21:57 PM
20 to 2 though? That's a pretty damn good ratio for the police, especially if they were jumped.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on July 24, 2013, 06:56:07 PM
All thanks to our wonderful failed WOD policies. Nothing turns people into hardened criminals like turning ordinary citizens into criminals to protect corporate profits.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: SGOS on July 25, 2013, 12:40:24 PM
Make it legal and tax the Hell out of it.  Well maybe not meth.  I might have to rethink this.  But if you want more crime, make highly valued commodities illegal.  Gangsters love it.  They've got a whole gangland infrastructure just wanting to bring that kind of stuff to the public, and at very high prices, which they are not taxed on.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: Jason78 on July 25, 2013, 01:02:45 PM
Quote from: "SGOS"Make it legal and tax the Hell out of it.  Well maybe not meth.

Legalise the weed and people wont need meth.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: Plu on July 25, 2013, 01:02:48 PM
Do even meth. Give people good education, good alternatives, and help if they want to kick and the real junk will no longer be interesting soon enough. One of the reasons people get addicted to meth is that it's pushed on them by charismatic drug salesmen and then they're afraid to get help for it.

(I don't know what happens in the US if you go to the government and tell them you use meth and want to kick the habit?)
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: Colanth on July 25, 2013, 02:11:40 PM
Quote from: "Plu"Do even meth. Give people good education, good alternatives, and help if they want to kick and the real junk will no longer be interesting soon enough. One of the reasons people get addicted to meth is that it's pushed on them by charismatic drug salesmen and then they're afraid to get help for it.
Many drug addicts just want to get high enough to forget how miserable their lives are.  No one is pushing them into drugs.  (Other than the corporations that make their lives so miserable.)

Quote(I don't know what happens in the US if you go to the government and tell them you use meth and want to kick the habit?)
Most of the time, you're told that there's no room in any rehab facility unless you have lots of money.  We treat our garbage better than we treat our drug addicts.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: Plu on July 25, 2013, 03:14:59 PM
QuoteMany drug addicts just want to get high enough to forget how miserable their lives are.

They'll still not be worse off if meth is legalised. They might even switch to something else because it gives the same/better high with less downsides. (I also have a hard time bringing up pity for people whose lives are so miserable they manage to spend huge amounts of money on drugs instead of fixing their issues.)

I wonder what would happen if we'd do some real research into drugs. See if we can come up with one that gives massive effect at no downsides.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: frosty on July 25, 2013, 10:29:29 PM
This thread reminds me of a guy I grew up with, a strange dude. He literally believed that drugs made you awesome and that he was better than almost everyone because he had done so many drugs and had so much more "awesome experiences" and has "seen more" than they have. He literally defined himself and other people off of how many drugs they had/had not done. All the stuff he took changed him into an aggressive conspiracy theorist that held a grudge against everyone. I tried talking to his parents, maybe to get him to rehab or a psychologist, but they are co-dependents that want to believe with all their might that their son is a good person. And thus another life was ruined.
Title: Re: 22 killed in Mexican police/drug cartel clash...
Post by: Colanth on July 28, 2013, 04:00:08 PM
Quote from: "Plu"(I also have a hard time bringing up pity for people whose lives are so miserable they manage to spend huge amounts of money on drugs instead of fixing their issues.)
Many of them have only one problem - that they can't earn money (except by theft).  So they steal to support their habit, do drugs, can't work due to doing drugs, need more drugs to forget their problem, etc., etc.  (Not that I feel pity for them.)

QuoteI wonder what would happen if we'd do some real research into drugs. See if we can come up with one that gives massive effect at no downsides.
The downside would be that you can't be productive when you're high.  Even if there's no other downside, it wouldn't change the current situation much.  (The fact that most drugs end up killing the addict isn't the main problem with most drugs, the fact that they get the addict high is the problem.)