The Cartels are a Bigger Problem than ISIS Mexican drug cartels are a real threat to national security, not ISIS and certainly not Ebola. If a WMD ever got into the homeland, it would probably have gone through one of the air-conditioned tunnels normally used to get in brick-weed, cocaine, heroin, human slaves and illegally harvested organs; but never mind nukes or dirty bombs, small arms and drug overdoses together have killed more people and destroyed more lives than atom bombs ever will. The brutality and scale of drug trafficking organizations are just products of circumstance; humans aren’t foreign to the concept of mass killing, persecution and drug taking. It’s not only the money to be made that’s motivating them; it’s the ease with which they’ve been able to get away with it. In the wake of one of the worst financial crises in history, it’s all too clear how easily banks get away with committing crimes. The Department of Justice fined HSBC $1.92 billion for allowing itself be an easy channel for drug-money laundering, a tiny fraction of the profits it earned off the cartels alone. The bank had Mexico in its lowest risk category for money laundering, a denomination too naïve to not be deliberate. [ Click the link to read this article in full hightimes/read/cartels-are-bigger-problem-isis ]
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:30:00 +0000
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