by Jack Lee
(7 Jun 09, one hour ago a two hour gun battle left 16 dead in Acapulco…”)
Everyone knows that narco-terrorism is rampant throughout Mexico. The corruption and greed from the money made selling drugs to Gringos is legendary. Norte Americanos have earned a rep for an insatiable appetite when it comes to cocaine, et al. I guess this means we have too much disposable cash, even during a recession.
Thanks to us, Mexican cartels have created a massive drug industry backed up by the machine gun. This cruel industry has morphed into an unprecedented crime world of competing drug gangs more powerful than the American mobs times ten. Their black tennacles reach deep into almost every facet of Mexican life and politics, corrupting the local policia to the elected officials who cave into their threats of “lead or silver”. More often they take the silver.
Frivolous American users don’t want to think that stuff. They don’t want to hear about what their purchases of cocaine, heroin and even the so-called harmless marijuana have done to so many people caught up in the trafficking or in the crossfire of cops and killers. They don’t want to think that it is their bad habit is directly linked to police corruption or that it has contributed to the murders of thousands in a bloody rampage of kidnappings, assassinations, beheadings, car bombings and gun fights that make the days of Al Capone look mild by comparison.
Our new Obama government and our liberal avant-guard tell us our drug users and even petty street dealers shouldn’t be locked up in our already overcrowded prisons, they deserve diversion in the form of medical help or counseling.
Okay, I’ll go with that if you also take the next step and legalized drugs!
But, (you probably guessed there would be a catch), I don’t want to be accountable for anyone’s drug problem in any way share or form! This is a plan for fairness and for personal accountability.
If you O.D. and can’t pay for life saving medical treatment, it should not automatically become the taxpayers problem. If you damage your brain to the point where you can’t function, we’re not carrying your dead weight for the next 40 years. If families get into trouble, we’ll take their kids off their hands for adoption, but that’s as far as we go. If employers want to regularly screen to keep out drug users, that’s not the taxpayers problem, no unemployment to fall back on for you. Same concept applies to insurance companies, no payments if drugs are involved. If you crash your car while under the influence of anything from drugs to alcohol, your insurance coverage should be zero for you and only cover those you hurt. I don’t want my insurance premiums going up because of your problem, so anything we can do to minimize your damage we should! Any crimes committed while under the influence should have some major enhancements… and why not?
Remember: With great freedom comes great responsibilities!
Think this is too tough? Not really, however I’m willing to be fair and so I offer a Plan B. Here’s how it works: We completely change our philosophy about how we deal with illegal drugs, in short, no more Mr. Nice Guy.
Drug dealers will be put to death, not life on death row either, I mean death right away. If we’re going to do it right and have the desired impact that means a speedy trial and the death sentence just days after the trial…then it’s over and done and we can all move on to bigger and better things without you, Mr. Dope Dealer, in the way. This would take all the fun out of being a drug dealer, wouldn’t it? I think so, always worrying about getting caught, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy all your drug money toys thinking about getting whacked.
If you are one of those not-so-innocent users, in Plan B you’re suddenly going to come face to face with the reality and responsibility of those first, second and third consequences traced directly to your drug abuse. You say it’s your choice with what you do with your body and then it follows it is not my problem if you screw it up! Hey, it’s your body, your choices, you take care of the consquences of your choices.
Maybe you (users) chose not to notice it, but you have the blood of many innocent victims on your hands whenever you buy a bindle of dope and therefore your punishment should fit your crime. Because you are a stupid, reckless, over-indulgent, indifferent, uncaring, selfish, ignorant fool that thinks it’s cool to do drugs. Under Plan B you will have the Hammer from Hell dropped on you for what you have done! It begins with a public detention in the town square with a good caining (cain-ing, not can-ing) for the first offenders. In one long hour it will be over. For most of you this humiliating and painful punishment will be the cure that will last a lifetime. Wait a sec … you’ve never heard of caining? Well, it’s an old British invention still used by the courts in many Asian countries. The cane is really a split bamboo staff and it is struck across the back by a person who really knows how to use it for maximum education.
The pain is excruciating and some of the toughest men have broken down, screaming in tears after just a half dozen strikes. You can only imagine what it would do to a young and tender college student. The caining does not generally do any lasting physical damage, if you have just a few strikes, but mentally this “treatment” is equal to years of expensive counseling! It’s really effective and best of all…it’s soooo inexpensive! And that folks is my Plan B…my form of a drug diversion program! Short and not so sweet, but ah soooo effective!
C’mon, we don’t want to bear the cost of locking you up in our already overcrowded prisons do we? No! You said so yourself, remember? What good would it do any way, you’ll just get out and go right back on your habit having learned nothing, right? But, doubling the caining each time you get caught for using will sure reinforce how unhealthy recreational drugs are for you! Imagine working your way up from 5 cane strikes to 40 and then doubling that on the next offense! You have in just taken yourself out of the game, because you’ll be stone, cold dead before the last strike, another poor victim of drug abuse. I am sure you will be missed by your family, but not by the rest of us, we’ll be glad to see you and your “issues” gone forever.
It’s your choice, Plan A or Plan B, but doing what we have done for the last 40 years will only get us more decades more of the same. It’s time for CHANGE!