Look What the Fox Drug In
by Jay D. Homnick
A woman of 60, suffering uncontrollable hiccups, consults a specialist, who performs a battery of tests. She awaits the results anxiously; finally, she is called into the doctor's office. "Lady, you're pregnant," he tells her, and she runs off crying down the hall. "But she's not pregnant," the nurse complains. "That's true," says the doctor. "And she doesn't have hiccups anymore, either."
It looks like our friends south of the border are trying to solve the immigration crisis by prescribing some of that kind of medicine. I am referring to the new law passed this weekend in Mexico legalizing marijuana and cocaine when in bite-size user quantities and not in wheelbarrow-full amounts suitable for commercial purposes.
Now if you're a trusting sort, then you can interpret this as a new philosophy of drug use that genius Mexican think-tank guys came up with to reorder the mores of their society. Or just to relieve their overworked and scaredy-cat cops, who were anyway too chicken to go after every pot or to cut the lines for cocaine. If you believe that, then the timing of this in the midst of the immigration arm-wrestle between the U.S. and Mexico is the sheerest coincidence.
A more comprehensive analysis of this move tells us that this is actually designed to 'cure' the immigration problem by scaring us with the drug law. It's actually less of a drug law than a stealth immigration law. They expect us to offer a deal in which we agree to some kind of amnesty for our Mexican illegals and they repeal that law or find a way to reinterpret it into nonexistence.
Let's take a moment to consider some of the ways in which this law will exacerbate the border problems. First, it increases movement around the border. Many Americans will drift over to the other side to use and import drugs that are legal in Mexico but not at home. Mexicans with legal visas may travel more extensively if they can help finance their excursion by bringing some drugs for resale in the States. The more intense and frantic this kind of borderline illegal borderline crossing, the more crime it breeds, including 'undocumented' immigrants working their way into the hysteria.
Second, it creates an incentive for the illegal drug trade to merge with the human smuggling trade. In the past, the people walkers avoided hooking up with the drug runners, because they wanted the Federales to steer clear. Now, it may pay to join forces. Say I am moving a hundred people over the border in a truck. The drug guys give each passenger the maximum legal amount. On the American side the passengers hand it over to the confederate who accepts the shipment. This can increase profits all around and reduce risk.
A point might even be reached where people can finance their trip over the border just by transporting the drugs. Although the drug use and drug sale is illegal here, the Mexicans for the most part expect to immediately achieve anonymity once they cross the border. The reason they avoid bringing drugs over now is not fear of our cops but of theirs. Take that away and all kinds of shenanigans may ensue.
All in all, a border environment in which every person crossing in our direction is a potential smuggler of a few hundred dollars worth of drugs, because the other government tolerates it, is a recipe for absolute chaos. If we don't search people, we have massive new drug imports and trade. If we do search, that adds incalculably more man-hours of labor, slows the tempo of travel appreciably, and turns our border people into drug people. A mess.
You have to hand it to the Mexicans. Even our hero, Ronald Reagan, was ineffective when he tried to get greater cooperation on immigration. President Salinas got him a nice photo-op atop a beautiful white Arabian horse, then sent him back empty-handed; shortly afterwards, he signed the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty law of 1986. The current Fox is more wily, but the result is the same.
Odds are that even the anti-amnesty voices within the administration will throw up their hands now and make a deal. They'll use this as the opportunity to cover themselves: we were forced to make a deal or be overrun by drugs. It's like that other doctor joke, that Henny Youngman used to tell. Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just treated walked out of the office and dropped dead in front of the door." Doctor: "Quick, run out and turn him around to face the entrance."
QuoteIf we don't search people, we have massive new drug imports and trade.
Wasn't NAFTA all about free trade with our southern neighbors???
Mexico is a dump. :evil:
Mexico is scared because their economy will bust without the illegals sending their money back home.
QuoteWasn't NAFTA all about free trade with our southern neighbors???
NAFTA was created to address some of the economic issues that have plagued Mexico for generations. Problem is, aside from tequila, what would the US ever import from there? The Mexican government hasn't taken any steps to help their industrial base (insert oxymoron alert signal here) make any products that would sell here, so there are very few exports to help their cash flow...
I did some projects for a Procter & Gamble plant there, but they're producing product for sale in Mexico, not here. (P&G won't make Pampers in Mexico for sale in the US, for example) I know there are some clothing companies here that manufacture products in Mexico and ship them north, but there aren't enough pants for sale at Wal-Mart to employ the millions of people that slip over the border to work here...
One old phrase " Remeber the Alamo ! "
Quote from: InLikeFlynn on 05-05-2006 -- 19:23:47
Mexico is a total arm pit.............and Doc hit it out of the park with his take. They have ZIPPO we need...
Zippo lighters are made in Mexico?!?!?!? I never knew that! :-o
Quote from: InLikeFlynn on 05-06-2006 -- 10:42:59
BEen drinking the Formula 44 again Thrax? :-D
They make Formula 44 there too?!?!? I never knew that!!! :-o
Mexico is the largest manufacturer of Burritos.. :-D
Wily, that is a polite way of putting it. Fox is a boil on the butt of mankind. I think our PMEL_DEVIL_DOG should be assigned the position of curing that. Of course, this message will self-destruct in10 seconds.
Mexico is also the largest producer of Tacos and Salsa. They have more Taco trees than any other nation. The Salsa plants grow wild there. They also have one of the biggest Enchilada farms in the world where the enchiladas can run free and graze on the plush black bean fields.
I'm well aware of this. Flynn runs a taco stand for extra cash on the side. :-D
Yes, Flynn is very competitive in the taco market. :-D
Soon you'll be able to find Flynn's Tasty TacosTM in the freezer section. :lol:
Yeah, it pi$$es me off too. Wouldn't that be conspirecy to commit a crime?
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "treason" doesn't it?
We better be careful how we treat the Mexicans. I heard they are going to raise the prices for tacos and burritos. Salsa has already hit a market high and at these prices who can afford it. This will have a major impact on our economy. Taco Bell is already a place rich people can afford. You can't even afford a nice sombrero these days. :-o
What! salsa up to $78.00 a barrel?
I thought Taco Bell was the Mexican telephone company...!
That too.
Flynn as El Presidente! Alright. I'll come to the waste land then.
You guys seen the vids on the internet called the amazing racist? He's this jewish comedian who will deffiantly get a capped popped in his ass sooner or later...
One skit he goes to pick up some mexicans to help him with his deck at home. He ends up taking them to immigration, blowing an airhorn, car horn, and screaming in a bull horn. Boy, those mexicans scatter like roachs. It was hilarious!
He goes in a mosque and try to sell them very offensive t-shirts
He wears a KKK robe and hood in the ghetto! That was the funniest sh&t of all! Esp. when he trys to have his robe cleaned!
Do a google search for the amazing racist, you wonn't be ket down, Trust me (keep in mind that this guy is a jew)
I've seen it and it is funny.
I work in a pharmaceutical plant, but not even our products can help me see things the way you do... (we must be making the OTC strengths this week :-D)
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ran across this article on the web CAN YOU BELeIVE THIS CRAP
MEXICO CITY - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.
Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies "xenophobic," Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.
In the United States, only two posts — the presidency and vice presidency — are reserved for the native born.
In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal, naturalized citizens.
Foreign-born Mexicans can't hold seats in either house of the congress. They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. And Mexico's Constitution reserves almost all federal posts, and any position in the military and merchant marine, for "native-born Mexicans."
Recently the Mexican government has gone even further. Since at least 2003, it has encouraged cities to ban non-natives from such local jobs as firefighters, police and judges.
Mexico's Interior Department — which recommended the bans as part of "model" city statutes it distributed to local officials — could cite no basis for extending the bans to local posts.
After being contacted by The Associated Press about the issue, officials changed the wording in two statutes to delete the "native-born" requirements, although they said the modifications had nothing to do with AP's inquiries.
"These statutes have been under review for some time, and they have, or are about to be, changed," said an Interior Department official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name.
But because the "model" statues are fill-in-the-blanks guides for framing local legislation, many cities across Mexico have already enacted such bans. They have done so even though foreigners constitute a tiny percentage of the population and pose little threat to Mexico's job market.
The foreign-born make up just 0.5 percent of Mexico's 105 million people, compared with about 13 percent in the United States, which has a total population of 299 million. Mexico grants citizenship to about 3,000 people a year, compared to the U.S. average of almost a half million.
"There is a need for a little more openness, both at the policy level and in business affairs," said David Kim, president of the Mexico-Korea Association, which represents the estimated 20,000 South Koreans in Mexico, many of them naturalized citizens.
"The immigration laws are very difficult ... and they put obstacles in the way that make it more difficult to compete," Kim said, although most foreigners don't come to Mexico seeking government posts.
THIS LINE IS AMAZING?
Michael Waller, of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, was more blunt. "If American policy-makers are looking for legal models on which to base new laws restricting immigration and expelling foreign lawbreakers, they have a handy guide: the Mexican constitution," he said in a recent article on immigration.
Some Mexicans agree their country needs to change.
"This country needs to be more open," said Francisco Hidalgo, a 50-year-old video producer. "In part to modernize itself, and in part because of the contribution these (foreign-born) people could make."
Others express a more common view, a distrust of foreigners that academics say is rooted in Mexico's history of foreign invasions and the loss of territory in the 1847-48 Mexican-American War.
Speaking of the hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who enter Mexico each year, chauffeur Arnulfo Hernandez, 57, said: "The ones who want to reach the United States, we should send them up there. But the ones who want to stay here, it's usually for bad reasons, because they want to steal or do drugs."
Some say progress is being made. Mexico's president no longer is required to be at least a second-generation native-born. That law was changed in 1999 to clear the way for candidates who have one foreign-born parent, like President Vicente Fox, whose mother is from Spain.
But the pace of change is slow. The state of Baja California still requires candidates for the state legislature to prove both their parents were native born.
The world is jealous of the USA. This is typical response from people with greed. They call us greedy and they just prove that they are too.