1 (edited by Chris_Balsz 25-Mar-2009 19:36:01)

Topic: Stupid Question

MEXICO CITY

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> So....does Mexico have to own up to its insatiable demand for weapons and its inability to prevent drugs from flowing across the border?

I'd say no, although it would be nice as it would make people feel-good that it's not the fault of the USA.

It's not up to Mexico to prevent the flow of drugs across the border. They are entering the US, it's your border, you protect it. Mexico should stop the flow of weapons into their country. It seems like they are trying - just like the US is trying to protect your border.

Here's my own couple of questions Balsz; you would like Mexico to own up to wanting more and more weapons, but would this help in any actual physical way? I'm no Clinton supporter (neither anti-Clinton), but I'd like to know what you would do, if you were in charge. Status quo?

Finally; if it Mexico was the gun-producing country, I'm pretty damn sure that the US would have an "insatiable demand for weapons". How would those Texan's get peace of mind at night? .... hmm how would many I guess.

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Mexico's government is a front. It's controlled by the cartels. Obama needs to declare nuclear war in order to stop the drugs from entering our country.

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I WOULD lock down our border, no question.  You know that, you saw me fmod. Screw the "fence"...I'd have a killzone on their side of the border.  Nothing too big, maybe just a 1000m.  And then I'd raid 'sanctuary cities' until they gave up.

Yeah, it is wholly our fault we don't do that.

Did Clinton add anything by badmouthing the US for its lax policies? I mean, if anybody asked her if she supports MORE searches, MORE arrests and MORE border barriers, what's her answer?  It just costs her nothing to dump on America, so, bombs away!

I wouldn't mind QUALITY mexican guns, most guns are not made int eh USA anymore.  We import a LOT from Argentina under old American brands.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

5 (edited by Econamatrix 25-Mar-2009 20:56:13)

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> Chris_Balsz wrote:

> I WOULD lock down our border, no question.  You know that, you saw me fmod. Screw the "fence"...I'd have a killzone on their side of the border.  Nothing too big, maybe just a 1000m.  And then I'd raid 'sanctuary cities' until they gave up.

heh heh.... on their side of the border. "If you stay within your own country on your own land.... you will be shot".

Otherwise if I lived in the US I'd probably have something decent to stop the #$%#'s from coming in. But not sure how much a 2000 mile??? (guess) long kill zone would cost and being surrounded by water doesn't help the UK much - just too many trucks and plane to search them all.


> Did Clinton add anything by badmouthing the US for its lax policies? I mean, if anybody asked her if she supports MORE searches, MORE arrests and MORE border barriers, what's her answer? 

No idea.



Ps I dont know what fmod means and I don't know if I saw you do it.

Gondor: wtf, im not even mentioned. I was the glue to this family. Thats BS!
Econ: Gondor, if you were the glue, then I was the glue sticky thing that applies the glue.
(edit: I believe that's called the brush).
Torqez: Econ you forgot the part where you say "and I made Torqez delete!"

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Um,they even use submarines to smuggle their stuff into the US.

The inmates are running the asylum

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In order to stop the drugs and weapons from crossing the border they would have to put a stop to the invasion of our country by illegal aliens.  This will not happen because the Commie Dems. need every illegal vote they can get.  Besides illegals only cost the American taxpayer a little over 1 billion dollars a year.

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1 billion dollars,wow.
Thats even more than AIG pays as bonus for their execs.

The inmates are running the asylum

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My mistake.  The cost for illegals is over 300 billion.  Sorry

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10 (edited by Zarf BeebleBrix 25-Mar-2009 23:57:21)

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> Econamatrix wrote:

> But not sure how much a 2000 mile??? (guess) long kill zone would cost


A lot!  A 2,000 mile kill zone, starting from the US southern border, would cover the entirety of Central America.  I don't think the border patrol was meant to deploy tactical nukes.  smile

The Yell meant "1,000 meters."

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> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:

> > Econamatrix wrote:

> But not sure how much a 2000 mile??? (guess) long kill zone would cost


A lot!  A 2,000 mile kill zone, starting from the US southern border, would cover the entirety of Central America.  I don't think the border patrol was meant to deploy tactical nukes.  smile

The Yell meant "1,000 meters."




I meant it's probably 2000mi long from coast to coast....

Gondor: wtf, im not even mentioned. I was the glue to this family. Thats BS!
Econ: Gondor, if you were the glue, then I was the glue sticky thing that applies the glue.
(edit: I believe that's called the brush).
Torqez: Econ you forgot the part where you say "and I made Torqez delete!"

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My solution to illegal drugs is to legalize what we can tolerate, and eliminate the consumers (except for elites) who consume those drugs.

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We could get rid of America; then we eliminate their main consumer of drugs AND their supply of illegal arms.

AMIRITE?!

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Did Justinian just say that he should kill himself?

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> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:

> Did Justinian just say that he should kill himself?>

?

I'm not a consumer of drug.

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Yeah!

His whores are though, so he may have a slight problem...

17 (edited by Justinian I 26-Mar-2009 01:23:54)

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> ☠ARFeh☠ wrote:

> Yeah!

His whores are though, so he may have a slight problem...>

They aren't drugs, let alone even a good. They are people who deliver a service, like a massage therapist.

Edit: My business partners don't consume drugs either, except for alcohol. The druggy ones work on the streets and charge $20.00, lol. There is a reason they are considered low-quality services.

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> Justinian I wrote:

Edit: My business partners don't consume drugs either, except for alcohol. The druggy ones work on the streets and charge $20.00, lol. There is a reason they are considered low-quality services.<

That's what I was implying.

And just because they're "higher quality" they can't be drug users?

Uh huh...

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I think the US->Mexican border is closer to 3,000 but whatever.  A wall won't fix it as they already have tunnels.  And yeah the US should do something about guns flowing into Mexico and Mexico should do something about drugs flowing into the US.

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Tunnels are easy to detect.  We have the tech. I repeat my earlier statement "In order to stop the drugs and weapons from crossing the border they would have to put a stop to the invasion of our country by illegal aliens.  This will not happen because the Commie Dems. need every illegal vote they can get".  A barrier wuld work but it would still have to be manned.  Overlapping fields of fire, mines, dogs and mobile fire teams would do the job.  Shoot to kill and feed the bodys to the hogs.

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A dead enemy always smells good.    Allus Vitelllus

21 (edited by Justinian I 26-Mar-2009 04:18:46)

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> &#9760;ARFeh&#9760; wrote:

That's what I was implying.

And just because they're "higher quality" they can't be drug users?

Uh huh...>

They could be, but they're less likely to be. The ones I see also have no visible signs of using drugs that alter the teeth or skin such as meth, and they look perfectly normal. They also have no signs of needle marks either.

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the US has a huge millitary. the problem is its spread across the world. stationing more troops at the mexico border would if anything lower costs. mexicans are a good supply of labor, so republicans wont cut them off; and democrats cant afford to loose the hispanic vote, so they wont cut off the immigration.

23 (edited by Question 26-Mar-2009 15:33:59)

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"Tunnels are easy to detect.  We have the tech"
Right, so it;s not done? And even Israel that tries the whole walled city thing has issues with some tunnels surviving?  And you understand that Mexico is an important trading partner with the US?  And it is probably the second most common destination to US tourists.  So sealing the border is not a "good" solution even if it could be done and again, Israel has tried to seal it's border which is MUCH smaller.

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Why not just wait for Mexico to collapse and then march into the failed state and save the day? Then you can do whatever the hell you like and people will applaud you for it.

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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big_smile and for the record I am not stupid, honest, atleast not on Thursdays.

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