Posted
3/01/2009 05:50:00 PM
by Douglas
Kidnapping, executions, home invasions and military grade weapons. No, not an African militia or Uzbeki Islamofacists. Suburban
Phoenix.Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man.
Armed kidnappers snatch victims from cars and even a local shopping mall across the Phoenix valley for ransom, turning the sun-baked city into the "kidnap capital" of the United States.
Violence of this kind is common in Mexico where drug cartel abductions and executions are a daily feature of a raging drug war that claimed 6,000 lives south of the border last year.
But U.S. authorities now fear that violent crime is beginning to bleed over the porous Mexico border and take hold here.
"The fight in Mexico is about domination of the smuggling corridors and those corridors don't stop at the border," Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said.
I wonder how those that support the disastrous "War on Drugs" can justify this to themselves, considering how much we already
spend on it. Prohibition worked out so well for reducing alcohol sales
and curbing organized crime.
There is
no hope for this country.