El Chapo

Guy like that cant stay underground. He'll surface and people will die in recapturing him.

No - the guy didn't just "escape", he had much assistance in doing so. And, it seems much forethought, preparation and physical work was put into that tunnel.

Is it safe to assume he had some help from the inside too?

(and, to the journalist person who wrote this article..."but his dramatic escape is almost sure to make him a folk hero despite countless wrecked lives and thousands of murdered innocents." Really? Fuck you, Michael Daly.)

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/trump-calls-fbi-over-threats-from-mexican-drug-cartel-im-gonna-make-you-swallow-your-btch-words/

Check this out....

Good ole corruption. Course we have it here as well. Money talks.

We have unlimited corporate campaign donations from lobbyists and news organizations funded by advertisers. All relative.
Though agree it's shameful how Mexican government seems powerless in dealing with powerful prisoners. And have been shaken down by Mexican police. Typical. Did have local Constable in Houston ask me for cash donation. Told him I didn't have cash and let me go no ticket.

Let's just legalize all drugs including the hard stuff. Treat medically with good education for our youth. Legalize prostitution and control our guns that go into Mexico.

The Callen.

Godfather. said:

callen said:

We have unlimited corporate campaign donations from lobbyists and news organizations funded by advertisers. All relative.
Though agree it's shameful how Mexican government seems powerless in dealing with powerful prisoners. And have been shaken down by Mexican police. Typical. Did have local Constable in Houston ask me for cash donation. Told him I didn't have cash and let me go no ticket.

Let's just legalize all drugs including the hard stuff. Treat medically with good education for our youth. Legalize prostitution and control our guns that go into Mexico.

The Callen.

legalizing all drugs including the hard stuff is not the answer death and crime will crime will sky rocket, I don't know if you've ever seen a herion junky hurting and willing to do anything to get better but it's not pretty...AIDS and other STD's will be even worse than they are now, you can't compare a drunk to a junky either the pain and suffering of a junky turns people into something they never thought possible,
I've heaed the stories of other countries making places for junkies to legally do thier thing but I'll bet the death and crime that happens in those areas is mind boggeling not to mention the lifes that are simply ruined.

Godfather.

I don't necessarily think full scale legalization is the answer, but I also know that the fact that heroin is against the law doesn't deter one god damn junkie in the streets. The problem is that cops don't do real cop work anymore because they know if they bust someone for low level possession, they get OT for showing up to court. Minimize the penalties for possession and benefits for cops arresting people for possession and they will be forced to do actual police work. Things like concentrating on rape and other violent crimes. Then you get the actual problem junkies off the street and not just anyone with a bag.

Godfather. said:

callen said:

We have unlimited corporate campaign donations from lobbyists and news organizations funded by advertisers. All relative.
Though agree it's shameful how Mexican government seems powerless in dealing with powerful prisoners. And have been shaken down by Mexican police. Typical. Did have local Constable in Houston ask me for cash donation. Told him I didn't have cash and let me go no ticket.

Let's just legalize all drugs including the hard stuff. Treat medically with good education for our youth. Legalize prostitution and control our guns that go into Mexico.

The Callen.

legalizing all drugs including the hard stuff is not the answer death and crime will crime will sky rocket, I don't know if you've ever seen a herion junky hurting and willing to do anything to get better but it's not pretty...AIDS and other STD's will be even worse than they are now, you can't compare a drunk to a junky either the pain and suffering of a junky turns people into something they never thought possible,
I've heaed the stories of other countries making places for junkies to legally do thier thing but I'll bet the death and crime that happens in those areas is mind boggeling not to mention the lifes that are simply ruined.

Godfather.

Not sure if this is quite what you mean but there is a supervised injection site in Vancouver, BC. IV drug users can use the facilities to inject drugs that they bring in (i.e. drugs aren't provided), using the clean rigs provided in a warm, dry environment and with medical staff around if needed. There are counseling services onsite for those wanting to stop using, but the overall approach is one of harm reduction. The area has been one of "death and crime" for far longer than the supervised injection site has been there - that's why it was located there. Their evidence for reduction in disease transmission, crime and human misery is strong; despite this, our federal government keeps trying to shut it down, but luckily without success so far.

Godfather. said:

Drowned Out said:

Godfather. said:

callen said:

We have unlimited corporate campaign donations from lobbyists and news organizations funded by advertisers. All relative.
Though agree it's shameful how Mexican government seems powerless in dealing with powerful prisoners. And have been shaken down by Mexican police. Typical. Did have local Constable in Houston ask me for cash donation. Told him I didn't have cash and let me go no ticket.

Let's just legalize all drugs including the hard stuff. Treat medically with good education for our youth. Legalize prostitution and control our guns that go into Mexico.

The Callen.

legalizing all drugs including the hard stuff is not the answer death and crime will crime will sky rocket, I don't know if you've ever seen a herion junky hurting and willing to do anything to get better but it's not pretty...AIDS and other STD's will be even worse than they are now, you can't compare a drunk to a junky either the pain and suffering of a junky turns people into something they never thought possible,
I've heaed the stories of other countries making places for junkies to legally do thier thing but I'll bet the death and crime that happens in those areas is mind boggeling not to mention the lifes that are simply ruined.

Godfather.

Would you run out and get some heroin if it was legalized?
Me neither.

mybe not you or I but there will be many that will and you can bank on that.

Godfather.

No I can't. We've been through this before....I post information, you refuse to process and accept it. Why is that? Is this so ingrained in your psyche that you will not accept scientific evidence because of your predetermined beliefs? Will anything (any fact) change your mind?

HIV infections do not increase, they decrease. If use increases for any drug, it is minimal....but with hard drugs, usage rates tend to trend downward. When comparing the harm done by prohibition to the harm done by slight increases in use of 'soft' drugs, the benefits are obvious. That's without the COST/benefit analysis. Throw in the correlation between increased use of MJ/soft drugs, and decreased alcohol use, and there is no good reason to continue the drug war.


http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/greenwald_whitepaper.pdf
Since decriminalization, lifetime prevalence rates (..) in Portugal have decreased for various age groups. For students in the 7th–9th grades (13–15 years old), the rate decreased from 14.1 percent in 2001 to 10.6 percent in 2006.30 For those in the 10th–12th grades (16–18 years old), the lifetime prevalence rate, which increased from 14.1 percent in 1995 to 27.6 percent in 2001, the year of decriminalization,has decreased subsequent to decriminalization, to 21.6 percent in 2006.31 For the same groups, prevalence rates for psychoactive substances have also decreased subsequent to decriminalization.32 In fact, for those two critical groups of youth (13–15 years and 16–18 years), prevalence rates have declined for virtually every substance since decriminalization (see Figures 4 and 5).33
(...)
Perhaps most strikingly, while prevalence rates for the period from 1999 to 2005, for the 16–18 age group, increased somewhat for cannabis (9.4 to 15.1 percent) and for drugs generally (12.3 to 17.7 percent), the prevalence rate decreased during that same period for heroin (2.5 to 1.8 percent),40 the substance that Portuguese drug officials believed was far and away the most socially destructive.
(...)
the percentage of drug users among newly infected HIV-positive individuals continues to decline.

More reading for ya:
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html