So everyone in the world has by now seen the US military blowing up a speed boat carrying drugs from Venezuela to the US.
And some of you probably heard that some members of Congress, including some republicans have called this strike, murder. Okay, I’m really glad that they have gone on the record as being against killing people importing cocaine, heroin and fentanyl into our country to kill our kids. I think that’s a great way to get these people out of government. At the very least, the Republicans have given their primary opponents a nice easy commercial to use against them.
I guess if you’re a hopeless libertarian you can justify legalizing hard drugs like fentanyl. But even the boneheads in government in places like Washington and Oregon have had a change of heart about their decriminalizing opiates. Their streets are filled with dying addicts murdering each other to get enough money for another fix. And the spillover from the crime and disease that it has spawned has bankrupted cities like Portland and Seattle and driven all legitimate businesses out of their downtowns.
I would welcome Donald Trump blowing up narcotraficantes wherever and however he can do it. Boats, planes, trucks, burros, human mules, you name it. In fact I’d applaud it being featured on a television show called, “They Blowed Up Real Good!” There could be footage from drones, attack aircraft of various types and even boats and land vehicles. Just whenever they find a plane, truck or boat loaded with drug substance on its way to American citizens.
And sure, I know these addicts are culpable for their choices but I’ve known people who got started when they were basically kids and once hooked they never had a chance of escaping. So for the sake of saving a generation of American kids, I think we should “blow them up real good.”
And for good measure, we should put huge price tags on the heads of the drug kingpins and have their loyald minions sell them out and drag them off to some prison and then finish them off with a shot of fentanyl just like what they sell to kids.
And I realize many people disagree. They think the war on drugs is a waste of time. And of course I think they’re allowed their opinions. But I think they’re wrong. And making it a real war might be the way to win it. I’ve always heard that Singapore doesn’t have a drug problem because they use the death penalty for drug traffickers. Well, I’m sure it’s not as simple as all that and I know that the United States is many orders of magnitude larger than Singapore in both geographical size and population. But it’s my opinion that destroying the opioid drug industry is a worthwhile goal that would eliminate untold misery and criminality from our country. And I commend President Trump on his first video of the new season. Hopefully he can finish off the season with a video of Maduro being hauled off to a Supermax prison in anticipation of his star turn in the death chamber.
I think they should take a page from Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger. Drug shipments take off, and just never arrive. No film, no news report. The boats and planes just vanish. We have classified them as terrorists and pirates, treat them as such. As the odds of being “disappeared” increase, the cartels will find it harder and harder to find pilots and crews for their shipments. Then go after the labs and cartel jefes themselves.
I didn’t read it but I saw the movie with Harrison Ford as Ryan. But somehow by the end of the movie the President was killing Americans for some reason. I like the game show version where I can applaud explosions on tv.
The movie was nothing like the book. As with most, they kept the title and some character names and threw the rest in the shitter.
That’s Hollywood.
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