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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican army has captured 25 gunmen in northern Mexico who witnesses say disguised themselves as soldiers.
The men were captured at a ranch in the state of Chihuahua, across from Texas, after the army received a complaint, the Defense Department said in a statement Sunday. Soldiers also seized 29 automatic rifles during the Thursday raid in Nicolas Bravo.
Mexico has deployed 45,000 soldiers nationwide to crush Mexico’s drug cartels but corruption among police and other government officials has hindered the crackdown.
In Cancun, soldiers arrested the local leader of the Gulf drug cartel, the army said Sunday. It said Juan Manuel Jurado Zarzoza was arrested Friday and that he was in charge of drug sales, extortion and kidnappings in Cancun.
The department said Friday it had turned over to federal prosecutors 10 midlevel military officers accused of passing information to reputed drug cartel leader Joaquin Guzman.
Also Sunday, authorities in the western state of Michoacan said three federal agents were killed in two separate attacks along a highway.
The agents were on patrol along the Morelia-Salamanca highway late Saturday when gunmen opened fire, the state’s prosecutors office said in a statement.
A witness told police the gunmen were traveling in two SUVs. Investigators recovered more then 500 shell casings from the two crime scenes.
Mexico’s drug violence has claimed more than 10,800 lives since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched his anti-drug campaign.
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10,000+ people have lost their lives due to erroneous* “drug policies” since President Calderon has taken office… And, that’s only in Mexico! How many people on both sides of the borders have lost their lives..?
Ahem… rampant kidnappings in Arizona, as just one example…
* I say these drug policies are erroneous because they are based upon 70+ years of corporate lies and government propaganda which has lead us to believe that all illicit drugs are so bad that even under the most strict government control, they are still a detriment to our society. And, to top it off, we are not allowed to second guess them, because their “fact finders” are government fact finders and so their research is better than yours, or Harvard’s, for that matter. However, killing thousands of people, spraying crops, poisoning our environment, lying to our Society about otherwise proven health effects, and the worst of all… Imprisoning mothers, fathers, sisters, daughters, brothers, sons, aunts, uncles and even grandma and grandpa because they choose to exercise their own Will? That is too much for any sensible society to tolerate. Prohibition of Alcohol failed in the United States because it is beyond the Government’s right, and control, to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own body as long as you do not pose “a threat to the Public Safety”. Look it up. 
So, Just Say No… To Corporate Lies, Government Propaganda, Media Propaganda and all other bullshit which cannot withstand the tests of Time… Or, better yet, your own research.
Peace,
- Ras Dro
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“Americans are also dying in greater numbers a result of drug-war enforcement. For example, members of Georgia’s narcotics task force shot and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in November 2006 during a no-knock drug raid of her home. Two officers in the raid eventually pled guilty to manslaughter and admitted that they planted drugs in Ms. Johnston’s house as a cover story for their actions.
A similar fate befell 44-year-old housewife Cheryl Noel of Baltimore, who was shot and killed by police in 2005 during a 5 o’clock a.m. “flash-bang” raid of her home. Noel’s husband and 19-year-old son were later charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Nevertheless, despite the drug war’s growing expense and civilian casualties, lawmakers continue to offer few, if any, strategies other than to stay the course. Such a mindset is epitomized by the outgoing House Drug Policy Subcommittee chairman, Mark Souder (RInd.), who authored federal legislation to withhold financial aid from convicted drug offenders, recently pushed for the use of mycoherbicides as biological agents to kill drug crops overseas, and continues to publicly lambaste drug czar John Walters for employing an oversoft (in Souder’s opinion) drug-war battle-plan. The families of Kathryn Johnston and Cheryl Noel would most likely beg to differ.”
– from http://usmjparty.blogspot.com/
I heard this story a few years back and I cannot help but think the same thing now as I did back then, “Other than police shooting ’suspects’ during raids, I’ve never actually heard of a death from Cannabis.”
Sure, people die every day due to drug deals gone bad (or, so the government wants us to believe), and some of them probably involve marijuana… However, when was the last time you’ve read an article about someone being killed because of weed (eg, marijuana, cannabis, pot, Herb, smoke, dank, crypt, dro, etc)?
All of the instances I can think of, including a more recent one involving a Californian man, were individuals that were shot by police or by individuals masquerading as police officers. Hrm…
Anyone beg to differ?
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