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Posted: 4/7/2006 5:59:32 AM EDT
You know the smugglers are out cold on their own product when....
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Yep, your shit is definitely weak when a cruiser can sneak up on you.... |
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If drug dealers can't even ship their own illicit products and move their own people around without GI Joe breathing down their necks, then al-Qaeda will worry about hiring them to hit the USA. |
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AAAAARRRRRR! Keelhaul the lily-livered dope smugglers! Make 'em walk the plank! AAAARRRRR!
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Can't wait until we get some LCS's in the water. A guided missile cruiser IS a bit of overkill for a bunch of potheads.
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Heroin and cocaine are the sourge of our society. There is nothing is nothing like being on in the high seas and realizing that you are next to a man-of-war right next to you.
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The screwed up thing about this is that coke in my neck of the woods is way cheaper than it has ever been. When smugglers are getting complacent and resting on their laurels like this it just really means we are not even putting a dent in things.
Hopefully they stay that way but that is a hell of a shipment to lose so I doubt it. |
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We used to call them smugglers. |
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If you want me to get excited about the Navy enforcing civil law, deploy it on the Rio Grande.
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Local cops just busted a bunch of shoplifto-terrorists, this came a day after a successful sting of prostituto-terrorists. Not resting on their laurels. The milwaukee sheriffs set up a road block and succesfully interdicted speedo-terrorists.
Yes using the terrorist label certainly dilutes its meaning. But think of the possibilities when you can attach a terrorist label on something. |
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From my understanding, the Marines are already there. eta : was told they were without beer and gals for 90 day prior to deployment. |
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They have used CG's for a long time. When I was in on a CGN, we did 2 of those. 3 months out floating near central america. Got to see Equidor(sp) a couple of times a month.
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With a guided missle cruiser! |
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What is a narco-terrorist? Well Ever since 9-11 Every dickwad has been trying to attach their pet "cause" to terrorism in some way. So the "neo-prohibitionists" try to attach the name. No biggie, just more "Orwellian" proaganda from the social engineers. To bad the treasury guys in the 1920's did'nt have the smarts that these guys have, They could've labeled Rum runners as "Alcohol Nazis" OR maybe "Beer commies"??! Then to this day we'd still be as dry as Saudi Arabia, BUT NOOOO! The "alcohol nazis" gotta poison our society with their wicked devils piss! So now millions of babies are born with Fetel Alcohol Syndrome and Millions get slaughtered on the roads from DWI'ers, too bad!
Welcome to politic' Real. |
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Just imagine all the criminal organizations in the world getting mad right now. "Those damn terrorists are bringing in all this heat! Damn Americans are looking over everything. It's bad for 'bidness. Hey Tony, mebbe we should take out Butt Laden, eh? Set things back to easy mode, huh?" |
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god damn those alco-terrorists! clearly, Anheuser-Busch is an international alcoterorrism organization and needs to have it's bank accounts frozen and it's employees sent to gitmo! |
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Clearly you guys don't know much about the reality of Columbia. The place is a rats nest. I don't know about you, but theres no way in hell I want any of those FARC mofos (or anyone involved with them) anywhere near my country.
I say the CG should spin the turbines up to RAMMING SPEED whenever they encounter these guys. |
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please dude, don't you watch the news....the USA can do anything it wants. |
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In all, Gettysburg and its embarked U.S. Coast Guard LEDETs detained more than 40 narco-terrorists, and together seized or interdicted more than 750 bales containing some 28,000 kilos of cocaine and heroin. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates this amount of contraband to be worth nearly $1.95 billion to the world’s drug trafficking organizations.“I cannot say enough about this wonderful crew,” said Gettysburg’s Commanding Officer, Capt. Phil Davidson. “They understood their mission, met its challenges, and delivered success time and time again. No one has ever done it better.”
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the wifo-terrorist has been subdued with a trip to applebees. But the dishes still remain
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today they do coke, tommorow.. looking like coke.. they do a nuke... |
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The mean depth of the Rio Grane is? The navigational draft of a CG is? If you can answer those two questions, and you posses a modicum of common sense, you'd understand why your post was retarded. |
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With a USCG boarding team. A couple of points, if there is doubt about the flag of the boat/ship in question you can stop it to determine it's proper registration. If they are operating in our Economic Exclusion Zone they are subject to USCG inspection to make sure they aren't doing things like "fishing out of season." If the ship is inbound to the US the USCG can board it. Etc, etc, etc. |
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And Colombia is that way because of our prohibitionist policy. If drugs were made legal for adults to purchase in the United States then Colombia would export to us through the proper channels. Business men would profit off of it, and both our countries would be better off, however as it is now criminals are profiting off the war on drugs. Whenever I go to a store and see bags of Colombian coffee, I always imagine an alternate world where the war on drugs has been ended and adults could go in and buy vacuum sealed bags of unadulterated cocaine, where they could ring it up at the cash register and legitimate business men can profit off of it, and the local government gets it cut of the sales tax. |
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All they accomplished is driving up street price and the slowing of natural selection. |
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It's a win-win situation. |
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Actually, I think he's onto something. My plan for the war on drugs would be to legalize it for a period of about 20 years. Then, after people have been knowingly using it for 20 years, and despite the warning label, I'd send in the lawyers to claim that "Big Cocaine" was an evil corporation preying on these poor innocent crackheads, and sue the cocaine industry into submission. Bam, problem solved. |
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Used to be perfectly legal to buy drugs and other pharmaceuticals in the US, till one day some people in the government got it in thier minds that they should control what people do to themselves.
Cocaine and all other drugs (tobacco, alcohol included) are good for society in the same way that fast food and a sedentary life style are. They may not be in and of themselves good for society, but freedom, and choice are definately good for society.
If you think Colombia is as fucked up as it is now because of cocaine then perhaps you are either ignorant or are on drugs yourself. People do not commit crime because of drugs, they commit crime because of money. Prohibition makes drugs worth alot of money.
Because of prohibition drugs are not legal, the govenrment never sees any of that money, they cannot tax a sector of the economy that is illegal. Drug money goes to criminals because of prohibition. |
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They should turn the boat crew loose where they originated, the supplier will deal with them more efficiently. Best part less tax money spent, hoods off the street. Can you imagine street value on that, I personally think we should chip in for the shovel or supply it they will need it for the hole they will be put in. |
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A lot of funding for terrorists comes from the drug trade. Cocaine smuggling provides funding for such outfits a FARC in Columbia, and Al Queda used to get funding from heroin production in Afghanistan. |
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They lost someone of likely low ethical standards millions, let them deal with it. Also most of the coumtries these come from don't extradite, so shit why not just deliver them. They lose millions in product, they knew the risk. They dig hole, they go in it, no tax money wasted. Personally I say legalize it all. The drugs will be slightly safer in all likelyhood allbeit still self destructive, but alot less crime. Hell I would not even tax it, beyond any other business. If they want to kill themselves good for them, just don't put me at risk or be a burden on the system (we pay for)and have the dignity to die in your own home. |
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Just a bit of peer pressure is all it takes, "Oh everyone snorting cocaine little Jimmy. And it's legal too. Just hit one line with us. You can get off it anytime". Now imagine a more dangerous situation where cocaine is used for "binge snorting" or "date drugging". That's something I don't want or need around my family and friends. If we make cocain legal, then it will become a gateway drug to something FAR WORSE! |
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You misinterpret my words. I never claimed it was okay to commit crimes for money. I was only pointing out that drugs do not cause crime. Most of the crime committed in the drug trade has nothing to do with drugs, it has to do with the money that the drugs are worth. Prohibition makes drugs worth real money and not pocket change. If you end prohibition then you take alot of the government sponsered price controls out of drug trade and you then cut out the middlemen which are the drug dealing criminals. |
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Just like alcoholics and tobacco users right? I guess maybe we should ban them too, its for the children right?
So you think freedom and choice are not important things in society? Do you think that government should ban all "bad" things and protect us from ourselves? |
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Having freedom has its risks. For the most part we live in a nation that respects an individuals right to defend themselves with lethal force if necessary. God gave us freedom to decide for ourselves what to do in this word, and he also gave us the right to defend our lives.
If you do a proper job of raising your children and being involved in thier lives you should have little problems, if on the other hand you let the TV be your babysitter and dont involve yourself in your child's life then ofcourse you will have problems as you will have been a failure as a parent.
Like alcohol? |
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You're also showing your TOTAL IGNORANCE when it comes to pricing. When prices go down, more product is sold, so it's still worth real money anyway. Look at Wal-Mart or online pricing. They totally contradict your assertion. Crime will not go down because more addicts will do more "small" crimes, or the addicts will just commit the same number of crimes to buy more cocaine. What's wrong with you man? You don't think people commit crime for a pack of smokes or a case of beer just because that middleman Al Capone is dead? Isn't that obvious? What if the taxes on "legal" drugs go up? Like that hasn't happened before? What are addicts going to do now? Oh gee, commit more crime so they can continue buying! So we might as well fight the problem as often as we can in as many ways as we can. Since we're paying for the military and they need practice to keep their edge; then we might as well go after real targets, with real cargo, defended by armed men in real conditions. |
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Read Article 108 (and others) of the International Law of the Sea. Basically warships have the right to board and visit craft at sea with the permission of the flag state. If it isn't flying a flag it's subject to other rules. It isn't all that complicated, and it's legal no matter what the tin foil guys think. |
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