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    #15914744 - 03/07/12 04:22 PM (11 years, 10 months ago)

Biden, in Mexico, Says U.S. Won't Legalize Drugs .

By JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA
MEXICO CITY—Vice President Joe Biden, on a two-day visit to Mexico and Central America amid growing sentiment in the region for the U.S. to legalize drugs, said that won't happen.

Mr. Biden is expected to repeat that message on Tuesday when he meets with five Central American presidents in Honduras, some of whom have been pushing for U.S. drug legalization as a way to stem the power of drug cartels and the scourge of related violence that kills thousands here each year.

"It's worth discussing, but there is no possibility the Obama-Biden administration will change its policy," Mr. Biden said after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón.

Last month, Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, a right-wing former general, caused a sensation when he pledged to push for drug decriminalization at a hemispheric meeting of heads of state in Cartagena, Colombia, in April.

Mr. Pérez Molina's pro-legalization statements, the first by a sitting president, garnered wide support within Guatemala, where violence has risen as Mexican drug capos have moved their operations to escape increased pressure in Mexico. Regionally, the presidents of Costa Rica and El Salvador have also expressed support for Mr. Pérez Molina's position.

"Guatemala is being crushed by all this," said Bruce Bagley, an expert on drugs and Latin America at the University of Miami. "It's important for Pérez Molina to say that Latin Americans are not willing to let their countries be devastated in order to keep drugs out of the U.S."

But Mr. Bagley pointed out that drug legalization was unlikely to happen in the U.S., especially during an election year, and discussion of it at the Cartagena meeting was likely be discouraged by the U.S.

Mr. Biden said he had spent 17 years and "thousands of hours" of hearings devoted to the drug problem, but that legalization was a simplistic reaction and would only worsen rates of drug addiction and violence.

Separately, Mr. Calderón's office said the president reiterated the "urgent need" for the U.S. do more to stop the flow of guns to Mexico and combat money laundering. In the briefing, Mr. Biden said he agreed on the need for both countries to do more about money laundering and that the U.S. had increased its efforts to stop the flow of guns south.

More than 50,000 people have died in Mexico since Mr. Calderon sent thousands of soldiers, sailors and police to regain control of large areas of territory run by the country's powerful drug cartels shortly after taking power in 2006. But Mr. Calderon, aside from capturing and killing scores of drug capos, has not been able to contain the drug violence, which has spread to many parts of the country, leading to increased criticism of his policies.

At times, even Mr. Calderon has seemed to support legalization. Last year, he said that if the U.S. was not able to curb drug consumption, then it should look for "market alternatives" to control drug traffic, which most took to be a reference to the legalization of drugs.

Criticism of U.S.-backed drug policies has also increased throughout the region. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said last year he was willing to discuss drug legalization.

Meanwhile, the decriminalization of marijuana has been proposed by an international blue ribbon panel of Latin American statesmen which includes former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former Colombian President César Gaviria, and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

Separately, Mr. Biden also met with the presidential candidates of Mexico's three leading political parties. His aides didn't give details of what was discussed at those meetings


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Re: DemoKKKrats hate you! [Re: Luddite]
    #15918157 - 03/08/12 07:09 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

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legalization was a simplistic reaction and would only worsen rates of drug addiction and violence.






This is the first time that I have completely agreed with Mr. Biden.


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    #15920227 - 03/08/12 03:30 PM (11 years, 10 months ago)

'One-Party Martin' O'Malley hates two-party accountability

Oh, did you hear Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley use the phrase "Republican obstructionism" on his recent "Face the Nation" appearance?

What exactly does O'Malley mean by "Republican obstructionism"? Why, what all Democrats mean, of course.

They mean how dare Republicans form some kind of opposition party. (Maryland Democrats especially seem dismally unaware that we have a two-party system for a reason.)

They mean how dare Republicans keep them from riding roughshod over the electorate, abusing the Constitution and raiding the taxpayers' wallets at will.

It's particularly galling -- yet quite revealing -- to hear O'Malley talk about "Republican obstructionism." He knows, better than most Democrats, the kinds of abuses, monkeyshines and chicanery that can happen when there is no "Republican obstructionism."

Let me return you to those days before O'Malley became governor of Maryland, when he was mayor of Baltimore. There was no "Republican obstructionism" in Baltimore then, and there is none now, because not one Republican holds an elected office in the city.

What were the results of a lack of "Republican obstructionism" in Baltimore?

O'Malley implemented an anti-crime strategy that called for police to arrest anybody and everybody for even the pettiest of crimes.

Police officers who would routinely write citations for these minor offenses found themselves pressured to make arrests instead.

So we had a situation where some people were arrested for "loitering" on the front steps of their own residences. One student at the reputable Baltimore Polytechnic Institute -- one of the finest high schools in the state -- was arrested for loitering after merely walking out of a neighborhood store.

It got so bad beat cops had to go to their union leaders to have them demand that O'Malley cease and desist. But with no "Republican obstructionism," and few Democrats willing to challenge O'Malley's draconian crime-fighting strategy, he never did.

The result of that strategy was a disproportionate and negative effect on the city's young black male population, many of whom ended up with arrest records when they had none previously. Democrats in the city and state knew this, and said nothing.

They should have been appalled when, during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign that pitted O'Malley against former Gov. Robert Ehrlich, O'Malley had the nerve to accuse Ehrlich of racism. But we didn't hear a peep out of them.

"Republican obstructionists" would have at least questioned O'Malley's crime-fighting strategy, if not challenged it outright.

When a Baltimore district court judge chided police for not properly documenting Terry stops -- which allow police to stop and frisk people they think are acting suspiciously -- Baltimore Democrats said nothing.

Let's be clear here: When police don't document Terry stops, they're breaking the law. And when police break the law, the buck stops at the top, not the bottom.

O'Malley, as Baltimore's chief executive, was at the top. "Republican obstructionists" would have called him on the cops breaking the law and laid the responsibility for it squarely where it belonged, at the feet of one Martin O'Malley.

During his mayoral tenure O'Malley had several police commissioners. The first resigned inexplicably after only 90 days on the job. Another, Ed Norris bolted to take a job as superintendent of the Maryland State Police.

A third, Kevin Clark, O'Malley fired. Clark filed a lawsuit, claiming that O'Malley had fired him illegally. A Maryland appeals court agreed with Clark that O'Malley did indeed fire him illegally.

In other words, O'Malley broke the law when he fired Clark. Were there even one "Republican obstructionist" on the Baltimore City Council at the time, I'm sure he or she would have been quick to point that out.

With no "Republican obstructionists," O'Malley ran roughshod over Clark's rights, and the rights of hundreds of Baltimoreans who were doing nothing more than minding their own business.

Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/03/one-party-martin-omalley-hates-two-party-accountability/347151


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Re: DemoKKKrats hate you! [Re: Luddite]
    #15925503 - 03/09/12 04:47 PM (11 years, 10 months ago)

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Biden, in Mexico, Says U.S. Won't Legalize Drugs .

By JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA
But Mr. Bagley pointed out that drug legalization was unlikely to happen in the U.S., especially during an election year





I doubt either party would support legalization in the U.S., especially during an election year.


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Re: DemoKKKrats hate you! [Re: spock]
    #16102752 - 04/17/12 04:49 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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spock said:
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Biden, in Mexico, Says U.S. Won't Legalize Drugs .

By JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA
But Mr. Bagley pointed out that drug legalization was unlikely to happen in the U.S., especially during an election year





I doubt either party would support legalization in the U.S., especially during an election year.


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Colorado democratic party just did.


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