[CitizensTruth] FW: We did it to Mexico

[Ragen Gillam]

Samizdat

 

We destroyed Mexico

Art Hilgart

1. We instituted prohibition of non-alcoholic recreational drugs, making
them expensive, and in the absence of quality, strength, and purity control,
made them risky to users.  It also made the market for them extremely
profitable, which created a boom in organized crime, with associated
violence and killing in turf wars.

 

2. Although guns and gun owners annually kill many thousands more than drugs
and terrorists, we make guns---  including assault weapons--- freely
available and virtually unregulated.

 

3. NAFTA opened Mexico to the import of cheap U.S. corn, destroying the
Mexican agricultural sector.

 

4. NAFTA allowed American firms to export assembly factories to Mexico and
removed Mexican laws requiring local manufacture for domestic consumption.
At first this created across-the-border American factories employing
Mexicans at very low wages and with poor working conditions, which sopped up
some of those unemployed in agriculture and Mexican industry, but when the
American factories moved to China, the damage to Mexico was complete: cities
filled with former farmers, former workers in Mexican industry, and former
workers in our border sweatshops.

 

5. The main opportunity for the unemployed displaced then became the risky
but profitable occupation of exporting banned drugs to the United States .
This created opportunities to corrupt the police and courts.  As in the U.
S., this has led to lethal turf wars and endemic homicide.  The guns are
supplied by gun dealers in the United States.

 

Thus not only does the United States suffer all the evils of our failed
attempt to ban alcohol, we have also exported them to Mexico.

    

We have filled our prisons with drug users entrapped by police to fill
arrest quotas, but drug use persists, and a few more people die each year
from unintended overdoses.  And Mexico is in ruins.

 

So it goes.

 

art at hilgart.us

 

 

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