Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Lawmakers Look at Narco-Terrorism Risks for U.S.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90062387?Lawmakers%20Look%20at%20Narco-Terrorism%20Risks%20for%20U.S.

Adam C., Chris G., Kathy P., Que Vonne T., Joel F., Jarrett C., Abigail S., Lance T.

16 comments:

  1. Hello my name is Abigail. I’m from Erin McCoy’s class. I’m majoring in nursing. The article I read was about lawmakers looking at narco-terrorism risks for the United States. The whole drug cartel scandal has taken a major toll on the U.S. Violence appears to be everywhere and more commonly around the Mexico border due to drug sales. Michelle Bachman made a point about building fences along the southern border. Is building a big, long fence going to be an effective way to stop the drugs from coming through? I don’t believe so. They will find other ways to make sure the drugs get through. They could fly them over or send them on a boat. You’re not going to be able to stop the people from selling drugs and receiving them. This has gotten way out of control over time and it’s to the point that it’s hard to completely have control over it. It’s a constant battle everyday with the drug cartels.

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  2. Hello group,
    My name is lance Timberlake. I am from Erin McCoy’s class. I don’t have too much previous knowledge on the drug wars or cartel. I have learned a little in my English class this semester. We watched a ESPN documentary about the connection between drug cartel, Pablo Escobar and the Columbian national soccer team. Pablo Escobar, a cartel billionaire was legalizing dirty drug money through the soccer team. Most people outside of Columbian seen Escobar as a villain and someone that needed to be stopped, but the people of Columbia seen him as a savior. He was giving back to the community and trying to better Columbia. These same drug problems are now in Mexico and the US is trying to take a stand to stop it. This drug violence is leaking into Texas and has cost some ranchers their lives.

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  3. Joel Ferree


    Lawmakers Look at Narco-Terrorism Risks for U.S.

    Hello my name is Joel Ferree. Basically what this article looks at is what our future leaders tend to do about the narco-terrorism that is crossing the border into our nation. Rick Perry who is a Republican candidate sees this as a major issue that it needs to be dealt with, and I strongly agree. He even recently infuriated many Mexicans by saying that if he were elected into office; he would consider sending to troops to help fight the cartels in mexico. Another one of his solutions was to build an appropriate fence that covers every inch of the Mexican American border. I agree with both of these ideas of Perrys because America needs to start reacting to this terrorism with action rather than words.

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  4. Hi Group,

    The thought of putting a fence around the whole southern part of the state’s border is nonsense. What good would that do besides make the smugglers bust threw them or go around and just make the smugglers push farther to the north and even heavier to the west. Rick Perry’s idea to send U.S. Troops to Mexico to fight the cartels may work, but then the U.S. would be in yet another war on top of the others. I do believe we need to do something with the cartels because ye, they are affecting the lives of many U.S. citizens. As for the ranchers carrying guns everywhere they go, I do not see a thing wrong with it. Maybe Americans in the southern Border States should carry a weapon with them until the cartels begin to diminish.

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  5. Hello group,
    My name is lance Timberlake. I am from Erin McCoy’s class. I don’t have too much previous knowledge on the drug wars or cartel. I have learned a little in my English class this semester. We watched a ESPN documentary about the connection between drug cartel, Pablo Escobar and the Columbian national soccer team. Pablo Escobar, a cartel billionaire was legalizing dirty drug money through the soccer team. Most people outside of Columbian seen Escobar as a villain and someone that needed to be stopped, but the people of Columbia seen him as a savior. He was giving back to the community and trying to better Columbia. These same drug problems are now in Mexico and the US is trying to take a stand to stop it. This drug violence is leaking into Texas and has cost some ranchers their lives. Drug cartels grow more powerful and knowledgeable by the day. It seems that every trap that is set to stop them, they adapt and learn from it and come back stronger. This is something that needs to be stopped and the more time it takes the more lives that are lost.

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  6. Hello my name is Adam Care. I am in Erin McCoys class. Im majoring imn Criminal justace law enforcement. To me the article was about hiw diferent polititions felt about the drug cartels and what they would do different to sove the problem. The part that caught my attention was about the rancer that got murdered and how it changed the way ranchers acted and how they delt about the isues.then how Michelle Bachman said that we should just build fences on every inch of the border to control the problem.

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  7. Greetings from your boy Chris G.

    I'm a education major, 18 will be 19 next month:) i work at ups as well as GATTILAND!!! I read the artical, I never really researched or even talked about mexican drug cartels in school or anythinig. I do find it very interesting though. The most interesting part to me is how organized and legit everything is and how much money they bring in is absolutley ridiculous. It makes you wonder if one day they will just legalize the operation it would sadly but truly help the economies of both countries, probably the whole continent.

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  8. Hello my name is Que Vonne. I do not think that the Michelle Bachmann really know what she is talking about. A wall is not going to stop mexicans from coming to the U.S. They will just find another way to do so. I really do not think that America should send troops to fight another war. We can bearly afford the one that we are in. It’s sad that the officers had to die but know the people in his community know to be more aware of their surroundings.

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  9. Hello my name is Kathy Parker. I am a student in Erin McCoy ENG101 class. I attend jefferson Community College where I am majoring in Business. After reading this article I have found that the drung cartel has become a major problem on th U.S. violence because it is everywhere which is causing people to loose their lifes due to living in the high drug areas. This problem is most commonly on the Mexico border where the drugs are being sold. In order to protect the children as well as their homes from drugs Michelle Bachman has came up with a solution by putting fences around the Southern to protect them from the drug abuse.

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  10. All right, so we're evenly divided on the idea of building a fence on the US and Mexico border, and we're all in agreement that the violence spilling over from the drug wars needs to stop, yet we also all agree that sending US troops into Mexico is not something we really want to do. So this is an interesting conversation:) Kathy hit a major point when she notes how this article is focused primarily on securing our borders; Adam was most interested in the rancher killed in New Mexico - clearly, we don't want drug cartel violence inside the United States. But as Chris and Lance point out, drug cartels are organized, international businesses that have found a way to survive in some form since there were borders to defend. Wasn't it interesting to know that terrorism all the way over in Afghanistan is being funded by South American drug money? This money moves around - so perhaps, as Joel mentioned, we can stop the violence with a fence (as GOP candidates Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann said in the article), but we won't be able to stop the drugs.

    Because the United States was founded by immigrants and many of our greatest inventions and personalities were those from immigrants (Albert Einstein, Anheuser Bush, Madeleine Albright, Levi Strauss, and even Steve Jobs' dad was Syrian - our current President's father is Kenyan, etc.) I personally don't see the reason in building a fence, though I could see an argument that it would be something that would temporarily provide many Americans with some much-needed jobs, though who wants to work on a violent border? “Make no mistake,” Perry said. “What we are looking at south of the border is nothing less than a war waged by these narco-terrorists. They are spreading violence in American cities and selling poison to our children.” GOP Candidate Rick Perry, who has appropriated $400 million dollars to secure Texas's border, made a remark about "Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s effort to eradicate drug cartel influence in his own country. Calderon ordered troops to help police fight the cartels in December 2006, prompting a war that has killed about 41,000 people." This is an important remark because it shows how badly Mexico's struggles within its own country have gotten. What would make sense, just as Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, aka "Popeye" crudely explains in *The Two Escobars*; you cannot stop drug cartels, much like you cannot treat an STD, by only dealing with the infected surface area - you have to get to the root of the problem (I paraphrased). Perhaps what would be interesting for your group to look at is how US government has tried to do that. What has Rick Perry done with that $400 billion? Has what he's done yielded positive results? What have other border states done? What's been successful and what hasn't? And do you think that the various uses of the term "narco-terrorists/ism" was used correctly in this article, or did it, in some cases, seems to be used more to scare the audience? If Mexico has lost over 40,000 people to cartel gang violence, and we've only just been getting angry about it spilling over the borders, should we have acted earlier? What can we do to secure our borders logically and with the future of BOTH countries' prosperity (we are big trading partners with Mexico, remember) in mind?

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  11. Lance
    i just don't know what we can really do to secure out borders. In any situation when your face with adversity, you adapt. I feel there is no boarder that can not be penetrated. To fix the problem, we have to hit it in the heart. we most force our justice on the cartel.
    http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/01/if-this-isnt-narco-terrorism-what-is.html

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  12. Hello my name is Abigail. I’m from Erin McCoy’s class. I’m majoring in nursing. I think we should have acted earlier when this first started. We can’t control the entire border securing us from Mexico. We must watch how we respond to all this since we are big traders with them. I don’t think that sending troops over there will help the cause. I believe it’ll just make things worse and could potentially hurt our trading system. I’m not sure how they intend on keeping the border safe. We have let this go on for too long. We must protect our border from violence and drug cartels. I can’t think of any ideas of how they plan on doing all of this.

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  13. Hello my name is Kathy Parker. I am a student in Erin McCoy's class. As I have already mentioned I am majoring in business where i attend JCC downtown campus. I would have to agree with Abigal we should have acted with the problem early because now that the problem has already occured it is way to out of hand to do anything at all to stop it. There are innocent people being killed to due to high drug crime. No matter where you go you still will be involved because it is widely spreaded along the border of Mexico. True there could be fences put up which was mentioned already in the article but the people would only find away to get through the fences to continue in dealing with the drugs We also must protect our people from the drug cartel and the violence which continue to follow us. Im not sure if there is any other way to keep the border safe at all.

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  14. Que Vonne
    I think that the U.S. should have acted earlier but at the same time I can see why they didn’t. We already have troops in afaganistan and I don’t think we can afford to help them out at this time. I really think that if mexico is really trying to stop the cartels. As far as a fencing the border its not gonna work. if people want to go somewhere they will find a way legial or illegial.

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  15. Chris g here
    i missed class last week my bad!! but i just finished the two escobars its pretty intense. the whole drug money thing at first seem to help so much so they were like why not but it brought violence and killings and mayhem to columbia. in the end if you ask me i dont think it will ever end if it does not for a long time. its a legit business thats what's so interesting to me everyone is involved and everyone is getting paid but if something happens or goes wrong there is killings and chaos. the drug cartels would probably work if they didn't come with gangs and guns and thugs and murderers. why can't we all just be peaceful and love? the documentary really opened up my understanding alot on the drug cartels.

    Here is a link to a little article I found on the drug cartels :)
    http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Every-day-is-Day-of-the-Dead-in-Mexico-drug-war-2242631.php

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  16. Adam
    We shoud of started much earilier on worrying about any problems containingto the united states. However everytime the US has delt with a problem evev if we waited to long to respond. The government did happen to the right thing. Sure we all worry that cirtain things will happen but it will be solved in the long run. Even if it seems to take to long to take care of the border problem everyone will learn how to better the fixation of the protection.

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