Drug War Victory Watch (the series) : Lone Star Times

Drug War Victory Watch (the series)

by David Benzion · 07/20/2006 6:27 am

Wow– "Cocaine bust the largest ever in Dallas"

Police said Wednesday that they have made the largest cocaine seizure in the city’s history: 653 pounds wrapped in packages the shape of bricks.

653 pounds! I bet those Dallas area coke-heads are learning a harsh lesson this morning, now that the supply of cocaine to Dallas has been critically and permanently disrupted.

And congrats to law enforcement, for their removal of this scourge from the streets was no doubt the product of years of diligent and purposeful investigation.

"We were running some surveillance when we came across it," said Deputy Chief Julian Bernal. He said the drugs were found in two cars, one that was stopped in northwest Dallas and another parked at a modest house in east Dallas.

Never mind.

The important thing is, we’ve got these bad guys on the run. Another few months of this– maybe a year or two at most– and the War on Drugs will finally be won, once and for all.

[Hat-tip: Houston Chronicle]

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11 Responses to “Drug War Victory Watch (the series)”

malcolm on July 20th, 2006 at 6:49 am

First HA HA! Take that Shakey!
gregg aka T-BONE on July 20th, 2006 at 6:52 am

Why dont they say how these drugs got into the USA. Mexico? The war on drugs. We’re winning,get over it.
SimpleSimon on July 20th, 2006 at 7:26 am

David,

I am glad to see the Dallas police make the bust, but I can’t remember a time when the news has not reported the “largest bust ever”.

Either this is the final coup de grace to the drug lords or the shipments are getting bigger and bigger each year.

I suspect the latter. The drug war will only be “won”, when we quit buying drugs. Interdiction is working, hasn’t worked, and likely will never work as a solution. Supply disruptions only raise the price. As long as there is a demand, there will be a seller.

Of course we cannot stop interdiction efforts, because because total legalization of drugs is dumb dumb idea.

Simple (Waiting for the next “biggest bust ever headline)
OdinsAcolyte on July 20th, 2006 at 8:38 am

There is no war on drugs. There is a movement to illegally take property. Drugs are just things and they fight nothing. There is an illegal war on the citizens of this country. A sizeable number of the population (more than any survey will ever find or admit)partakes of drugs for no more than recreational diversion. Eighty percent of the prison population is there not for any violent crime, but due to drug related charges. When we take the crime from drug use, we will take away the profit motive. At that point, society will be left not with a crime problem, but a personality disorder. God forbid we help anyone with a personality disorder. Who will society choose to make the next pariah? I suppose the US would rather funnel money into an attempt to change human behavior by legislation. HA. The “War on Drugs”…a lie. A war that can never be won.
Robert on July 20th, 2006 at 8:59 am

We’ll know how much this seizure affects the availability by whether the crime rate goes up to cover the rise in cost due to supply problems. My guess this seizure in only a bleap in the supply chain. You can chalk up this drug flow partially to the open border policy we have.
navymom on July 20th, 2006 at 9:21 am

I doubt we are winning the drug war. Why buy it when you can manufacture it in your own home? I am betting money that apartment that blew up in Texas City was by the two residents in their early 20’s making methamphetamine!

I do think that drugs are another great reason for a border fence along the Mexican border, along with the immigration issue.
Maltboy! on July 20th, 2006 at 11:36 am

It would be no less significant if they reported that they successfully seized a bucket of water from the Pacific Ocean.
DanielJames on July 20th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

I wonder if that dope is being muled across the southern “entrance”? Nah…mexico is a fine country with solid leadership. bwahahaha

You think GW cares about drugs coming across the border? NOPE!
hamous on July 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pm

We need a new catch phrase in the War on Drugs. “Just Say No” is so …. 80s. Here’s my suggestion for a new catch phrase.
DanielJames on July 20th, 2006 at 6:48 pm

Sealing that border would help cure alot of woes..

Just say woe!
ColleenMcCool on July 22nd, 2006 at 10:52 am

We need to disarm our fight against drug abuse.

Drug abuse, including alcohol, is a medical problem and we’ll do a better
job of keeping kids drug free and inebriated folks off the road with
compassionate policy offering helpful treatment.

No legitimate business lasts long if it kills its customers or shoots the
competition. No legitimate business would sell drugs to children or recruit
them to sell to their peers. This happened during alcohol prohibition and it
is happening today. Once again, prohibition creates more danger to the user
and society.

The drug war is a senseless, hypocritical, failed policy. It has turned
Texas into a prison kingdom, incarcerating around a 1000 poor souls out of
every 100,000 of us, more than any totalitarian regime in the whole world..

Our official’s betrayal of the public trust is an epidemic! They have
forgotten their role as public servants! Our law enforcement have forgotten
how to serve and protect!

Big government tries to legislate morality. Like flagellant priests,
overzealous drug warriors draw blood daily from their brothers for their
medicinal and recreational drug use.

America gets an F in two out of three public safety indicators comparing
world governments’ statistics concerning homicides, assaults and thefts The
US is a material world so we get just above average marks for protection
from and solving thefts. Where our government fails is in protecting us
from and solving homicides and assaults.

Switzerland and Netherlands do a much better job with their violent crime.
Their drug laws help lessen the harm to society by triggering less violent
crime. Their teen drug use is down. Could it be because they live in a
safer, saner world? Maybe, but California’s teen use of marijuana is down
so maybe it has more to do with drug sales being handled by legitimate
business people less likely to sell to a child or to recruit a minor to
sell to their peers.

The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big
government, that money hungry beast! The beauty of it is when we focus on
downsizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure
the blessings of liberty for ourselves and future generations.