Fast and Furious Folk Get Promotions Instead of Prison

This was actually news a few weeks ago. The people in charge of this botched operation that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent Mexicans as well as Americans, should be on trial for their incompetence, not getting raises and getting promoted.

Story #6: Fast and Furious: ATF Director Moved to New Job

RUSH: Hey, guess what, the head of the ATF is gone, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The guy's name is Kenneth Melson. The bureau's acting director on Wednesday will move to the Office of Legal Policy where he'll be a senior advisor on forensic science. So he's not gone. They're just moving him and they're keeping him on the payroll. This is the guy ostensibly behind the Fast and Furious operation. It's called getting him out of the way before the election. They're making him the fall guy but they're taking care of him, basically. 'Cause we all know what this was. This was a back door attempt to get gun control back in this country, precisely because they've lost it legally at the Second Amendment level.

There have been a lot of horrific crimes in Mexico recently - drug cartel members setting fires to casinos etc., committing mass murder against innocents.

What can be done? My own thought is to send a squad of Marines into the country to kill them all.

According to the President of Mexico, it is the US's instatiable desire for drugs that is also partly to blame. A while ago I would have scoffed at this, but really, isn't it true? And its not the poor that are buying most of these drugs. The middle class and wealthy are the ones who buy this crap...

Below is an article about US drug users.... albeit 10 years old...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/whoare.html#ixzz1WZZlxsgG

According to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, in 1999 an estimated 14.8 million Americans (see the chart) were current illicit drug users, meaning they had used some illicit drug during the month prior to the survey. This represents 6.7 percent of the population 12 years and older. This number is down more than 50% from the peak year of 1979 when 25 million people (14.1% of the population) were using illegal drugs.

In 1999, more than 4 million of the drug using population were hardcore users: 3.3 million chronic cocaine users and 977,000 chronic heroin users, according to Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates. While casual use of illicit drugs, and cocaine in particular, has fallen dramatically (see the chart) since the early 1980s, the number of hard-core users of cocaine and heroin has remained virtually unchanged.

In terms of age ranges, the highest rate of illicit drug use is found among older teens: the 1999 Monitoring the Future study found that 22% of 10th graders and 26% of 12th graders reported using an illicit drug in the past month.(5) They are closely followed by young adults; the Household Survey found that 20-21% of Americans aged 18-20 reported past month use of some illicit drug.

Men have consistently had a higher rate of drug use than women. In 1999, 8.7% of men were current users of illicit drugs, compared to 4.9% of women. Among children aged 12-17, the rates for boys were only slightly higher than those for girls. (8.4% vs. 7.1%)

Of the major racial/ethnic groups, the rate of drug use is highest among the American Indian/Native American population (10.6%) and those reporting mixed race (11.2%), followed by African Americans (7.7%), Hispanics (6.8%), whites (6.6%). The lowest rates are found among the Asian population. (3.2%). [Note, 6.6% is only 1.1% lower than 7.7%. Not a lot of difference.)

Drug use rates have historically been highly correlated with educational status, and remain so. College graduates have the lowest rates of current drug use (4.8%).

Drug use is more prevalent in metropolitan than non-metropolitan areas, and higher in the West (7.9%) than in the Northeast (7.4%), Midwest (6.7%), or South (5.6%).

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