The “Drug War” drags on and on and on…
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 9, 2008; Page A01
MEXICO CITY, May 8 — Gunmen assassinated Mexico’s national police chief Thursday, blasting him with nine bullets outside his home in the capital and dealing a significant setback to the government’s campaign against drug cartels.
Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, the public face of Mexico’s offensive against drug cartels, became the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be killed since the launch of the effort 17 months ago.
The assassination could give new confidence to drug cartels blamed for 6,000 killings in the past 2 1/2 years, and embolden other anti-government groups in this violence-plagued nation.
“This could have a snowball effect, even leading to the risk of ungovernability,”
Luís Astorga,
a Mexico City-based sociologist and drug expert,
said in an interview.
“It indicates terrible things,
a level of weakness in our institutions —
they can’t even protect themselves.”
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Many people in this country want to expand the death penalty to include drug dealers. This is really stupid. Drug dealers aren’t afraid to die. They’re already killin’ each other by the hundreds every day. Drive-bys, turf wars, gang killings. They’re not afraid to die. The death penalty means very little unless you use it on people who are afraid to die. Like the bankers who launder the drug money. Forget dealers. If you want to slow down the drug traffic, you have to start executing some of these white, middle class Republican bankers. And I don’t mean soft American execution like lethal injection. – George Carlin in Napalm and Silly Putty
Susan Mix - May 19, 2008 at 12:12 am