14-02-2011, 10:22 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico
Posted by Bill Conroy - February 13, 2011 at 12:44 am
The Big Clubs in Mexico's Drug War Aren't Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole
Another series of leaked State Department cables made public this week by WikiLeaks lend credence to investigative reports on gun trafficking and the drug war published by Narco News as far back as 2009.
The big battles in the drug war in Mexico are "not being fought with Saturday night specials, hobby rifles and hunting shotguns," Narco News reported in March 2009, against the grain, at a time when the mainstream media was pushing a narrative that assigned the blame for the rising tide of weapons flowing into Mexico to U.S. gun stores and gun shows.
Rather, we reported at the time, "the drug trafficking organizations are now in possession of high-powered munitions in vast quantities that can't be explained by the gun-show loophole."
Those weapons, found in stashes seized by Mexican law enforcers and military over the past several years, include U.S.-military issued rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and explosives.
Tosh Plumley previously posted on this forum in this regard saying that a very large cache of US military weapons were (as I recall) written off or "decommissioned" from the 82nd Airborne's? period in Panama and that these perfectly good weapons were filtered to the Mexican drug barons.
The implication being that this was either a planned act or as a result of military corruption (I don't believe Tosh discussed this though).
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
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