Comments on: Look The Other Way, To Our Peril

Bob Schieffer Says We've Been Ignoring A Growing Threat Facing Border Towns: Mexican Drug Cartels

[timothyone-2009]

I forgot to add, Bob's brother Tom Schieffer was long-time partners with George W. Bush, Back when Bush was also in business with Osama Bin Laden! Partners with the Bush family. Schieffer and Bush only tells a fraction of the story. Watch as brother Bob does everything he can to defend Republicans while throwing dirt toward Obama, even when the dirt belongs to Bush, even dirt he ignored while Bush was responsible! They even goose-step with their minds! Links...Links...Links, Rechts, Links! Get in line there Sgt. Schieffer!

[timothyone-2009]

Mr. Shieffer and the mainstream media are only now doing their job reporting on what is going wrong with us and around us because THEIR boy is no longer responsible, and they are all too quick to use their positions to point out any and all situations where the democratic Obama might be lacking, or where he may appear to be lacking. Bob Shieffer is a partisan hack who needs to stand behind THIS president blindly the way he did the monster who killed half of Iraq on a lie while destroying much of America's wealth and reputation. Go snap at someone else' ankle, you annoying little neo-con!

[treckymom]

My thanks to you for your commentary the end of "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
Main-stream media has sorely neglected the story of what is occurring in Mexico.
I caught a quick question about this thrown to the new Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano recently where she was asked about the Mexican crisis. Her answer was brief and frankly blew off the question and the issue. I am very concerned that the current administration is not "multi-tasking" and has taken their eye off our southern border. Candidate Obama promised to secure it, but incumbent Obama seems to have broken yet another campaign promise. It is sad
that popular media coverage no longer holds our government accountable. In order to really know what is happening in the world, it is necessary to turn to cable news.

[rstokes731]

Why can't we get it that we have to stop the buyers not the sellers of drugs. Instead of a war on drug dealers we have a war on drug users. Supply and demand this country just does not get business.

[chfnut]

An uncaring and unjust legal system has converted law to which is damaging the general public. Unethical lawyers and other "fiduciaries" appointed by the courts to protect, nothing more than predators. Nevada State agencies allow the abuse. Court officers feeding $$ to state officials with a few select others thrown in. Try and file criminal charges against a court officer, executor or trustee and see where it gets you. The greatest commonality we share is ethical misconduct of the middle/core bureaucracy. Ethical misconduct is costing this country more than 9/11. It%u2019s likely this unethical behavior is reason the "Taliban" & "Al-Qaida" denounce western society.
1.Pressure authorities to prosecute ethical misconduct as the felony it is. 2.Extend `grand jury' rights to civil justice sector & be given the same rights as the criminal `grand jury'. Allow the public to present testimony & evidence to credible groups (Ex.Community & watchdog groups,etc.) These groups of laypeople would be able to allow indictments of criminals from -us denied justice.

[spinproof]

Posted by jimmyc1955 at 08:19 PM : Feb 22, 2009

I agree with you too, but education and abstinence from Drugs will work the same way it does with teen s e x, only for a little while and during those moments when people make mistakes there needs to be a safer legal alternative, with teen s e x its access to condoms and with drugs it can be legal access to them knowing they will be safer, purer and less risky up to a point. Even Bristol Palin who just gave birth admits education and abstinence alone doesn't work! People talk the talk but sneak off and do illegal drugs anyway, many can't even stop smoking cigarettes so expecting people to stop doing drugs is not realistic so there should be safe access to them. Many Americans risk their lives going over the border to Mexico because drugs are cheaper and more readily available there. The main idea is to do what works.

[tincup356]

People who still believe marijuana is an evil drug that makes people go crazy,and commit violent crimes,,,,those are all myth stories created by those who would sell you whatever just to have their way,,,,,Alcohol is a much more dangerous drug,,,that actually kills people.....it just seems as though people should have a choice,,,,,,and right now with 80 million Americans that have smoked pot,,,,, it would be an instant INDUSTRY, that would create jobs and revenues that we desperately need right now.

[jimmyc1955]

tincup356 - I both agree and disagree. Frankly I would like to see all drugs legalized and regulated - why shouldn't the US get that money.

What I disagree about is the conviction that drugs are inevitable and so we might as well just give in.

It is the demand in the US for drugs that creates the trade. We have never actually attacked demand - not with law and order but a full on public relations and education effort.

We used to run anti-drug ads on TV but they stopped years ago. We need them full time and all the time. *** - I see Viagra and other perscription drugs getting air time - but no anti-drug ads at all.

If you decrease demand, business dries up.

[tincup356]

Looking at this in the context of the "lesser evil" you may be on to something! This was probably the same reasoning that legalized Beer, Alcohol and Tobacco. The Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agency will need to be renamed to Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Drugs! (ATFD) The government eventually may not have any choice, in the war on Drugs, the Drugs won!

Posted by spinproof at 07:42 PM : Feb 22, 2009...........the spinoof products are what America could really benefit from,,,hemp fibers are much stronger than wood or cotton fibers, and the oil could be used to make diesel fuel.....and farmers across the nation could grow it.....the laws on the books are archaic and the time is now to change them and make this work FOR America.

[spinproof]

The war on drugs....like all the other wars our government is waging on everything,,,are failures,,,wastes of money....The only answer is to repeal the prohibition of Marijuana in the United States....doing this would eliminate the cartels, and their violence,,,,,,,it would create millions of jobs here in the US and BILLIONS in revenues,,,,,,,,Prison over crowding would be eased as would court dockets ,,freeing up that manpower to go after real criminals with real victims,,,like corporate and investment fraud.,,,,At a time when America needs JOBS, INDUSTRY, AND REVENUES,,,,,it would be a good thing for the economy....A NEW GREEN INDUSTRY,,,that could be grown in ALL 50 states.

Posted by tincup356 at 06:34 PM : Feb 22, 2009

Looking at this in the context of the "lesser evil" you may be on to something! This was probably the same reasoning that legalized Beer, Alcohol and Tobacco. The Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agency will need to be renamed to Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Drugs! (ATFD) The government eventually may not have any choice, in the war on Drugs, the Drugs won!