Narco states we haz them (or would if the SJW had their way)

Ruby said one of the students gave a talk in her (Canadian) school about her home country, Mexico, and she told the student not to take drugs because that was the reason for the chaos and violence there.

Yes, that and corruption.

And that is the reason behind the chaos causing Central Americans to flee to the USA too.

So maybe get to the root causes?

Quick: When was the last time you heard a sermon against using illegal drugs in your church? (nah, too specific and might get people mad and they won't attend church and give money... Just ignore the problems that are actually destroying the families that attend church, while feeling morally superior by condemning stuff that has little or nothing to do with the daily lives of your congregation.... This is the moral equivalence of the "Bloomsberg" syndrome, where local politicians make pious pronouncements on federal or international problems while ignoring the problems going on in their own front yard).


FYI: when the Pope and the US Catholic bishops lament Trump, maybe it is to distract you from the fact that another bishop has been outed for abuse that occurred in plain site of not only the bishops bu the US MSM).

 For that matter, the Pope rarely speaks about this, and even told the government in Colombia to "make peace" with FARC, who are more of a criminal organization than a "liberation" one, but hey, they spout communist propaganda so who do you believe? Their rhetoric or your lying eyes?

Hell, he even comforted an ex FARC drug lord when he visited Colombia, because the guy asked for "forgiveness" (but didn't offer to give back some of his ill gotten loot: FARC is estimated to be worth 10.5 billion dollars... indeed, one way the gov't helped encourage them to give in and Strategy page noted one way they pressured them to stop terrorizing folks was that they took their assets away from them.)

But we were told they were penniless revolutionary heroes! (/S). Sure. and if you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. From SP:

The FARC peace deal is supposed to deal with the many rural victims of FARC. These people are not all that concerned about the cash the leftist rebels made from drug operations. That was largely foreign money. But in many parts of the countryside FARC members were unwilling to give up billions of dollars in property stolen over decades of controlling vast rural areas. A lot of the stolen property was subsequently sold by FARC. The original owners want their assets back, as well as cash for damage done to structures and improvements. The FARC leaders (of all levels) who got rich on these deals don’t want to become poor again.

and although the Pope similarly did condemned generic "violence" by cartels in Mexico, essentially he is giving out "get out of jail free" cards to bad guys under the guise of "compassion"...and alas, this cluelessness is not new, as Niehbur pointed out years ago in his classic essay.


So how naive are they? Remember, a dozen Mexican priests have been killed by drug cartels, but it is the victims who have to forgive: true. But the problem is the subcontext that the victims are bad if they don't forgive, but for the perpetrator? no repentance needed.: from Time.

The Church in Mexico also ran one video campaign called “Hermano Narco” or “Brother Narco” which encourages forgiveness as a pass to peace. One such episode shows a 13-year old girl cowering under her bed as gunmen brutally murder her parents. But later in church, the orphan walks up to the sombrero-clad head of one of the killers and gave him a hug. “Many say you’re bad and you should be killed,” the girl tells him. “But maybe they did the same thing to your parents, or they never hugged you.” The film was played in Mexico City’s metropolitan cathedral and on TV as well as the Internet.

Italics mine:  Uh fellas: thugs don't attend church... and it's not about not being hugged. It's about sin, and greed, and the fun of taking drugs and having the power to push people around.

(Thugs don't attend church, but crooked politicians do, but telling them off will get priests killed, as both the Philippines and Mexican bishops very well know).

the dirty little secret is that Colombia has essentially won their drug war, but if you google it, all the newspapers stories are two to four years old and insist the war was a failure.

No, actually it is pretty well won, partly because after trying to make nice, they got in a president willing to fight them, a population that demonstrated in the millions against FARC's crimes. and a little help from a "friend" who had drones and smart bombs.

and the result? The country is prospering, (while the Socialist paradise next door, which was praised to high heaven by Hollywood and the left, is imploding).

a similar tactic is happening here: The Muslim and communist insurgencies are involved in the drug trade, but mainly it is run by Chinese gangsters.

a combination of Duterte's drug war (with some help from Xi, who is also fighting corruption) and war against corruption is lowering crime rates (a lot of the low levels are spilling the beans on the corrupt big shots who are the main ones profiting from drugs, either by selling them here or more commonly by using the Philippines as a hub to ship drugs to SEAsian countries.) Along with offers of negotiations and amnesties of course... (most low level druggies surrendered, were detoxed and left back into the community).

what works is not just a mushy "compassionate" approach, but tough love, a carrot and a stick approach.

Whether or not it will work here, who knows? But things are slowly improving, and the economy is taking off in the hopes things will continue to improve.

But the dirty little secret is some of them only pretend to give up crime,  and so the violence will spring up again as soon as pressure is stopped...

and then there is the problem of payback:

I'll give an example. A relative in Colombia's common law husband came in from FARC in a previous amnesty, but later was shot dead after leaving a bar late at night. The family assumes it was a government hit squad, meaning the "dirty Harry" type cops didn't believe he was peaceful but faking, or maybe it was "dirty Harry" type cops killing him in retaliation for his killing a cop or a family member. Or maybe it was a killing by FARC guys for leaving them, either as a warning to stop others from leaving or because they thought he might have snitched on them.

Sigh. Too bad, He had two kids and his death is one reason my oldest son went back there, to help his sister raise them.

Sigh.

Which is why I note that the sweetness and light folks see every murder as Duterte's fault, as if all the victims were government victims, not pay back for crimes, or execution for drug dealing.

But the dirty little secret is that Duterte may not succeed, but people hope he will.

But in the meanwhile, all the SJW hate him, and one suspects they are egged on because the CIA/Deepstate/Nwo wanted the American girl to win.

so here the hysterical SJW are constantly complaining about Duterte. Who wudda thot?

Hmm... wonder how many of these affluent SJW take drugs, or their families are rich thanks to gifts/ kickbacks/ bribes etc.?

think I am being cynical?

Notice the hysteria against Trump ignores that this is a longstanding problem, but it was just noticed now....because? Uh, maybe because Trump just stopped the Korean war, and the midterm elections are coming.

Why do I say this is a long standing problem? From the ACLU site explaining why they finally got around to suing the government for mistreatment of "children" (teenagers including gang members)

Last week, the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project and University of Chicago Law’s International Human Rights Clinic published a report detailing child abuse by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The report, based on a portion of the more than 30,000 pages of government records we obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, identifies numerous cases of serious alleged misconduct by CBP officials between 2009 and 2014

Gee, I wonder who was President between 2009 and 2014? Anyone?