Art imitates life. Or rather, art imitates Hell.
In Ciudad Juarez, young women are vanishing
Amid the drug war’s bloodshed, the Mexican border city has been shaken by the disappearances of at least two dozen teenage girls and young women. Officials have few leads…The streets of Juarez are swallowing the young and pretty.
Nicely poetic, “swallowing the young and pretty.”
Juarez has long had a problem with “the young and pretty” simply vanishing into thin air.
Two dozen teenage girls and young women have gone missing in this violent border city in the last year and half, stirring dark memories of the killings of hundreds of women that made Ciudad Juarez infamous a decade ago.
“Hundreds of women”? Imagine the outrage and outcry if this happened in an American city. Things are different down Mexico way.
Need you guess what is doing all this “swallowing”? You know the answer already—the drug trade. Women are being taken from the streets of Juarez and forced into international prostitution and drugs. None has yet been seen again.
The disappearances, which include two university students and girls as young as 13, have some crime-novel touches: mysterious dropped calls, messages left by third parties and unsubstantiated reports of the women being kept at a house.
There is no clear evidence of wrongdoing or links among the cases, which have been overshadowed by a vicious drug war that has killed more than 2,500 people in Juarez since the beginning of 2008.
In little more than a year a city that borders our nation has had 2500 murders caused by the drug war. That level of killing rivals the killings in Bagdhad and Chicago.
These girls are just more casualties in this drug war. Mexican girls will continue to be taken into oblivion as long as Americans continue to demand drugs. It is really no more complicated than that.
A drug user is not just a fool. He is an accessory to murder—and should be treated as such.
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Human slavery is and has been existent on the planet since time immemorial. See the newish movie “Taken”. Where you see drugs you see human slaves for inhuman appetites. Where you see prostitution you see human slavery.
The truly sad part is that this country in it’s enlightened life does not allow itself to acknowledge what the rest of the world knows. We are so protected and so debased that we cannot fathom what goes on in the rest of the planet. We project our reality as that of the the rest of humanity and the truth is so far from that and so ‘short, brutish and violent’ that we cannot process it.
Human slavery is and has been existent on the planet since time immemorial. See the newish movie “Taken”. Where you see drugs you see human slaves for inhuman appetites. Where you see prostitution you see human slavery.
The truly sad part is that this country in it’s enlightened life does not allow itself to acknowledge what the rest of the world knows. We are so protected and so debased that we cannot fathom what goes on in the rest of the planet. We project our reality as that of the the rest of humanity and the truth is so far from that and so ‘short, brutish and violent’ that we cannot process it.
This level of abuse to other humans is truly a sin of the mortal variety. It is truly evil. Most liberals turn their noses to such violations and would rather chastise true Americans for wanting to protect the U.S. borders from this kind of horror. I know a number of people who have come from Mexico; some of them hold these cartels up as if they are heroes.
“Imagine the outrage and outcry if this happened in an American city” (Scipio).
As written in http://www.alipac.us/article2074.html , “According to the FBI office in San Antonio some 60 U.S. citizens have been kidnapped in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo since 2004, and 21 of the registered cases remain unsolved.” This is already happening in American cities. Although it is not at the level that it occurs in Ciudad Juarez, it is still going on.
The after glow from the WWII is over. If we condone this kind of behavior from other countries, then multiculturalism is a sham. We need to get back to taking care of our own citizens. What is going on in Juarez is sin. We need to protect ourselves from it.
This level of abuse to other humans is truly a sin of the mortal variety. It is truly evil. Most liberals turn their noses to such violations and would rather chastise true Americans for wanting to protect the U.S. borders from this kind of horror. I know a number of people who have come from Mexico; some of them hold these cartels up as if they are heroes.
“Imagine the outrage and outcry if this happened in an American city” (Scipio).
As written in http://www.alipac.us/article2074.html , “According to the FBI office in San Antonio some 60 U.S. citizens have been kidnapped in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo since 2004, and 21 of the registered cases remain unsolved.” This is already happening in American cities. Although it is not at the level that it occurs in Ciudad Juarez, it is still going on.
The after glow from the WWII is over. If we condone this kind of behavior from other countries, then multiculturalism is a sham. We need to get back to taking care of our own citizens. What is going on in Juarez is sin. We need to protect ourselves from it.
I have watched this country, from my time as a child,
of being able to spend a whole night in the front yard
with no danger. To that where a child cannot go into their
front yard alone in the middle of the day.
Our blessed cover from the Lord is apparently lifted.
>In little more than a year a city that borders our nation has had 2500 murders caused by the drug war. That level of killing rivals the killings in Bagdhad and Chicago.
Chicago has not had even close to that many murders in Chicago.
Are you only lying about that because you somehow think it reflects on Obama?
Dear savage:
Please look up how the conjunction and is used to connect words and phrases. That should clear up your confusion. If you like, I can ask one of my 8th graders to help you.
Dear Robohobo:
Your statement about drugs and slavery are dismal but true, as is your appraisal of how America often views the world outside of herself. I have spent 15 years outside of this nation, and have seen this up close and personal.
Dear Profmike:
I have heard of such things spilling over into our own cities, Phoenix for one. It has the highest rate of kidnappings in the US. We both know the motives behind them.
I do not get why our polticos of both parties countenance such things as illegal immigration and the rampant social, economic, demographic and cultural problems it brings. It is as if their desire is to destroy this nation, to so change her as to render her unrecognizable to her people.
Dear Scipio,
I agree. This violence on our border is unacceptable.
An ad campaign and education programs need to be specific as to the consequences of the users’ actions.
The Border Patrol and the Coast Guard need a cool $50 billion infusion to bolster each branch.
In addition, the government of the United States should not recognize those states in Mexico as Mexico which contain this level of violence. First a whisper to Mexico then a club if necessary.
Dear maggiew65:
I have seen this decline as well. It breaks the heart.
American has kicked God out of every public space. We have demanded He leave us alone. He has complied.
“Veni Sancte Spiritus” “IHS”
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How typical of leftists– we don’t care that young women are being victimized. We only care that we won’t be able to get our lawns mowed.
Dear Skraeling:
All true. But how many of these sensible things will be adopted by the government? Republican or Democrat, both are involved in the non-defense of this nation. Mexico is culpable as well. But no one takes any responsibility for anything. Things fall apart, and the center cannot hold.
An ad campaign, that’s terribly naive, these people speak with the AK-47 and the bludgeon, some of it like the Zeta’s supplied by our own agencies. A cultural effort of some kind is needed though, who really indulged in opium, for a generation after the Opium Act. The likes of Robert Mitchum snared by pot, did
his best to be respectable, ever after. Cocaine really entered the zeitgeist in the aftermath of the great
Discarding of tradition. Now Scipio, you’re kind of a classicists, doesn’t this seem a touch like the background to the Social Wars of Late republic Rome
Scipio,
I definitely agree with you that the murders and other violence in cuidad Juarez are closely related to the drug war. Similar violence was widespread in US population centers during a similar war on another drug (alcohol) 1921-1933. Now as then, the lucre generated by government prohibition attracted evil people who tend to committ atrocious crimes.
Strangely enough, the violence abated considerably once the government discontinued its prohibition of a product for which a substantial demand had existed for several millennia. To my knowledge there are few if any turf wars between beer lords nowadays and the abuse of alcohol is confined to a relatively low percentage of the population. Most sentient humans are aware of the physical harm done to their health by ingesting drugs, alcohol and tobacco. They nevertheless choose to harm themselves by indulging in these substances. So long as these individuals harm no third parties (against which there already exists adequate legislation) is it the business of the government to penalize adults for activities harmful to their own bodies?
One could reasonably posit that the government is at least as, or even more, complicit in the existing violence than are the cretins who choose to injure themselves by ingesting harmful substances. Ultimately, it must be realized that evil has always existed in this vale of tears and will doubtless continue in spite of the best legislative efforts of the government to stamp it out.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!
A good post up until the end where you talk bollocks with:
“A drug user is not just a fool. He is an accessory to murder—and should be treated as such.”
Drug users are not responsible for crime and the violence. It is politicians and governments who involve themselves in something which is absolutely no concernof theirs – the supply of a good by people willing to supply it to people who desire it – who are responsible for this horror.
The responsibility for every death, every wasted life, every little bit of torture that comes about because some people refuse to mind their own business lies with every single politician (and their supporters) who is pro-prohibition. If i want to take cocaine, or heroin, or cannabis or whatever the fuck that is nobodies business but mine – anymore than it is your business i if i wish to gorge on fatty, sweet or salty foods, or get outrageously drunk, or go mountain climbing in bad weather or whatever.
We all choose – to varying degrees – to take personal risks with our health but they are our choices to make, not yours.
Damn them all. I can think of no more detestable trade than the sexual enslavement of innocents. All who have ever paid for sex, purchased illicit drugs, or turned their head to the truth are complicit. That this is allowed to happen in today’s world makes me wonder why God considers any one of us worth saving anymore. May it always be His will otherwise.
Dear Kerry:
Amen. Someday we will live permanently in the Real Presence.
Dear Karen:
Leftists care nothing about women. Look at how they treat them sexually and through abortion. Look at how leftist politicos treat women. To them all folks—women especially—are merely economic drones of the state. Their duty is to work—and shut up. If a few brown women south of the border vanish for the privilege of allowing leftists to shove powder up their nose, well, they died for a worthy cause.
Women of the Left behave like abused spouses, always supporting the abuser and coming back for more.
Dear narciso:
Flesh in this world will always be weak. Without the restraints of Christianity the demons of drugs will seize more and more shreds of humanity. To be lenient toward drugs is to really condemn more of these to Hell.
I see much similarity to our own nation and the decline of the Roman Republic. I await our Sulla. I recall what he did at the Colline Gate to all those pesky Samnites.
Dear Leonidas:
I have read many comparisons of the so-called “drug war” to Prohibition. Certainly both have elements of government intervention that increases their severity and violence. But then so is the “war on murder.” If murder were legal then we could avoid wasting resources trying to prevent it.
Evil exists. Government exists to lessen its effects upon the innocent.
Alcohol has had a place in civilization since Sumer. Coke, meth and pot have not. These drugs are not just differences of degree, but differences of kind. Many conservatives—Buckley, Friedman—have advocated that drugs be legalized. They are insanely wrong. Look at Holland.
The “drug war” will not be won on this earth. But that does not equate with saying that it must not be fought.
Dear Costello:
Are you really saying that the suppliers of an illegal product are responsible rather than the consumers of that product? So if I came up to you with videos of 3 year old girls getting raped by 70 year old men, you would not be to blame for buying them? After all, there exists a demand for such things, yes?
Your phrase “Drug users are not responsible for crime and the violence” has the same logical content as saying that “terrorists are not responsible for crime and violence.”
Obviously, your assumptions about evil run counter to those of Christ.
What an odd phrase, “The responsibility for every death, every wasted life, every little bit of torture that comes about because some people refuse to mind their own business.” Never before have I read that evil is caused by busybodies.
Dear goober:
They are dammed, rest assured. You are right about the complicity of those who engage in drugs and other seamy practices. They are guilty as well, perhaps more so.
I wonder the same thing about God. How does He consider any of us worth more than a bucket of warm piss? But then, I am reminded that He does, and sacrificed His own son for man. I am glad of that, and will not argue the point with Him.
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