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TX Missionaries Found Murdered in Mexico — Drug Violence Feared

Missionaries John and Wanda Casias Murdered in Monterey, MexicoMEXICO CITY (AP) — A couple from Texas who moved to a remote and violence-plagued area of northern Mexico to run a Baptist church were found slain at their ransacked home, their children said.

John and Wanda Casias was originally from Amarillo, Texas, but relatives said they moved to an area outside the city of Monterrey in the late 1970s or early 1980s and made it their home

Valerie Alirez, the eldest child of John Casias, told The Associated Press from her home in Greeley, Colorado, that one of her brothers found her father and stepmother on Tuesday dead in their home in Santiago, Nuevo Leon.

John Casias was a Baptist preacher and the couple ran the First Fundamentalist Independent Baptist Church in Santiago, Alirez said.

Her brother, Shawn Casias, who lives in Monterrey, said he went to his parents’ home around 4 p.m. Tuesday to pick up a trailer. After he had hooked up the trailer outside he went into the home to say goodbye. He said he found Wanda Casias lying on the floor with an electrical cord around her neck and a gash from a blunt object on her head.

Missing from the house were a couple of computers, a plasma television and a safe that had been chiseled out of the wall.

The couple’s Chevrolet Suburban was also missing, and Casias said he initially thought his father had been kidnapped.

But about four or five hours later, he said, a forensic investigator informed him that his father’s body had been found in a storage room of a small building on the property. His father also had an electrical cord around his neck.

Fighting between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels has brought a surge of violence and other crimes to Monterrey and the surrounding region since 2010. In poorer suburbs, entire blocks have been held up by gunmen and young people snatched off the streets.

Casias said a sister-in-law in Dallas had spoken to their mother around 11 a.m. Tuesday and everything was fine. So he believes there was about a five-hour window when the killings could have occurred before he showed up.

He said the killers did not take everything they could have, leaving two of the three TV sets. He said perhaps they were warned that he was coming, because anyone watching the winding road approaching the home could have alerted them.

“They’re scum. They’re not sophisticated,” he said.

Speaking from his parents’ home, Casias said the house was burglarized two years ago when the couple were on one of their periodic visits to the United States to talk at churches about their work in Mexico.

“We‘re convinced that it’s somebody he knew,” Casias said of the killers. He said authorities had some leads based on people seen around the home.

John Casias was 76. He had recently priced a knee replacement because he couldn’t walk more than 100 yards (100 meters) without having to sit down, Shawn Casias said. Wanda Casias was 67.

Casias said his parents held services and prayer meetings at a church about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from their home.

The couple maintained a website, http://www.casias.org , with details of their lives and their missionary work

“The only hope for the Mexican people today is Jesus in them, the HOPE of glory,” they wrote in one dispatch from last summer. “I confess that it’s getting easier to witness to the wealthy, at least they are listening. The wealthy are fleeing to Canada and the USA for protection. The only problem is that when they return to re-new their visas the cartel is waiting, and either kill them of (sic) kidnap them for thousands of dollars, in some cases millions. The cartel has NO mercy or value for life. They are ruthless murderers!”

It was the second slaying involving American missionaries in a year in the Mexican region bordering Texas.

In January 2011, a Texas couple who had been doing missionary work in Mexico for three decades were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of the country’s most violent areas.

Nancy Davis, 59, was fatally shot in the head while her husband, Sam, sped away from suspected drug cartel gunmen who may have wanted to steal their pickup truck, authorities said.

The Davises were driving along the two-lane road that connects the city of San Fernando with the border city of Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders Nuevo Leon.

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Associated Press writer Katherine Corcoran reported this story in Mexico City and Christopher Sherman reported from McAllen, Texas.

Comments (148)

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:25am

    “Conservatives should know better than to fall for libertarians’ superficially appealing arguments about the “right” to do drug… John Locke himself argued that man’s power over his own body was not absolute, that liberty didn’t cover the right to enslave or destroy one’s self:

    …] a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another, to take away his life, when he pleases. No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it […] But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself […]

    Liberty requires that we to put up with a lot from our neighbors, but indulging the chaos that mind-altering substances inflict upon society is just a bit over the top.”

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:46am

      Well said! These fringe libertarians are really moral anarchists. And guess what, anarchism is an offshoot of communism. That is why these neo-lib youthful idiots are gleefully supporting an old man.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:52am

      The flip-side to that argument:

      ———————————–
      “The effects of Prohibition were largely unanticipated. Production, importation, and distribution of alcoholic beverages — once the province of legitimate business — were taken over by criminal gangs, which fought each other for market control in violent confrontations, including mass murder. Major gangsters, such as Omaha‘s Tom Dennison and Chicago’s Al Capone, became rich and were admired locally and nationally. Enforcement was difficult because the gangs became so rich they were often able to bribe underpaid and understaffed law-enforcement personnel and pay for expensive lawyers.”
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act

      Prohibition is a direct taxpayer subsidy to the participants of organized crime…..it does nothing more than eliminate smaller competitors and allows the remaining participants in the market to establish oligopolies or monopolies for themselves.

      The taxpayer’s commitment to artificially reduce competition is the magnet that keeps luring more and more criminals to the industry and is essentially similar to an attempt to eliminate an infestation of ants by putting a bowl of sugar out for them to eat.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:08am

      “One of the nations with the lowest usage of illicit drugs in the Western world is Sweden, because it has one of the toughest, just-say-no approaches to drugs.

      In Australia by contrast, which has a much weaker policy (really based on the harm-minimisation model) illicit drug use is much higher. The data bears this out quite clearly. Consider just a few figures: around 4 per cent of Australian adults use amphetamines, compared to just 0.2 per cent of Swedes. And 13 per cent of Australians use cannabis compared to 2 per cent of Swedes.

      Prohibition and get tough policies work, in other words. Legalisation or weak enforcement policies however result in more such activity. And even Prohibition in the US, much maligned by the libertarians, was not such a failure. It had many good results: consumption of alcohol declined substantially, as did the cirrhosis death rate for men (cut by two-thirds between 1911 and 1929), and arrests for public drunkenness dropped 50 per cent between 1919 and 1922.

      The bottom line for many libertarians is that they simply want their various ‘pleasures,’ be it consumption of porn or drugs or free sex, and they don’t want anyone denying them their right to get all they can.”

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:50am

      Mexico is a defenseless place. There are too many guns to protect yourself against. These drug cartels are killing whoever they want with impunity. Hell, the police are told to go live in hotels because they can’t defend their own homes anymore! Mexico is in anarchy … soon to come across our borders enmass.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:10pm

      Anarchists are often useful idiots used by communists…

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:41pm

      Must be horribly difficult to kill old helpless people like that. Mucho strongo, eh? I imagine that increased your sphere of influence considerably.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:48pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:08am

      And even Prohibition in the US, much maligned by the libertarians, was not such a failure. It had many good results: consumption of alcohol declined substantially, as did the cirrhosis death rate for men (cut by two-thirds between 1911 and 1929), and arrests for public drunkenness dropped 50 per cent between 1919 and 1922.
      =======================================

      OK….if that’s the case then…

      Would you be in favor of repealing the 21st Amendment so that red wine and Budweiser would be illegal again at the federal level (like it was during the 1920′s)?

      Yes or no?

      If it worked before (as you claim that it did), then what would be wrong with bringing it back?

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    • Kitkarr
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Kid – I would.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:30pm

      KIDC…… I’m a non-drinker, so I in particular would have no problem if alcohol was a thing of the past. I see no use in the beverage of false courage myself… just like illegal and abused legal drugs. If you need a buzz or intoxication to have a good time you are a weak person. But hey, that’s just me.

      I did laugh that time I saw the video of the Ron Paul groupie getting loaded into the squad car for DUI and his little alcohol fueled Ron Paul rant? Didn’t you? Glad he didn’t get a chance to kill someone.. aren’t you?

      I guess we’re stuck with alcohol and the dumbarses that have a need for it, but the war on drugs is a just war and I have no problem with my money going towards that just cause. You can’t possibly disagree with helping to save kids lives right… KID?

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:55pm

      @KidCharlemagne
      If it worked before (as you claim that it did), then what would be wrong with bringing it back?
      ————-
      Several points: First, once you have opened a Pandora’s box you more or less need a civil war to revert to the former state.

      Second, taken in moderation alcohol is not addictive. Most drugs can be addictive in small doses, and most require increasingly larger doses to create the same effect. In the long term, it leads to serious mental and physical health issues for most drug users.

      Third, you can’t just bring back the Constitution WITHOUT THE GOD WHO INSPIRED IT ***AND*** a people who acknowledge Him. That is Ron Paul’s big lie (I’d say mistake, but he panders to the left, so he is just plain corrupt). God may have abandoned us to our fate because half of America has been radicalized by the left and you libertarians are shilling for them — unwittingly or not.

      Like you said, it’s 2012. Wake up, man.

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    • JMorcan
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:06pm

      KRYPTONITE: “anarchism is an offshoot of communism”

      Stupid comment of the week.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:31pm

      KRYPTONITE. One thing we do know is that Anarchists-Communists and Libertarians can work hand in hand in an ideological or working relationship.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:01pm

      @JMorcan
      KRYPTONITE: “anarchism is an offshoot of communism”

      Stupid comment of the week.
      ———
      Ignoramus… of the year?

      Anarchism is often considered to be a radical left-wing ideology, and much of anarchist economics and anarchist legal philosophy reflect anti-statist interpretations of communism, collectivism, syndicalism or participatory economics….THE CENTRAL TENDENCY OF ANARCHISM AS A MASS SOCIAL MOVEMENT has been represented by anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism, with individualist anarchism being primarily a literary phenomenon… [emphasis added]
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

      Modern anarchism has a shared ancestry with – amongst other ideologies – socialism… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism#Historical_origins

      Anarchism is an offshoot from the world socialist movement of the 19th century. Anarchism was of little importance until the spread of socialist ideals. At the time large numbers of Europeans were immigrating to the United States, introducing RADICAL SOCIALIST AND ANARCHIST THOUGHT to the American labor movement and political discourse. And this included anarchism. Seeing the poor working conditions here and a government largely favoring moneyed interests, they [prominent Americanized anarchists]… inisisted that as in Europe, violence was acceptable to overthrow capitalism. [emphasis added]
      http://histclo.com/essay/war/com/soc/soc.html

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:12pm

      @TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12 Nobody said we have a ‘right’ to a drug you won’t find that anywhere in the constitution.Rational people believe the government doesn‘t have the right to tell anyone what they can ingest so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else.You so called conservatives sure do want the government to have so much control over us,why is that? I personally have no use for illegal drugs but if someone wants to use them and not harm anyone else what business is it of the government ?

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Sure..drugs are illegal now and I say see how it’s working..Holder and Homeland Security passing guns to the Hezbollah Drug Cartel in Mexico.. Every one of the progressives have voted against us except for the little ole man..all are for big government.. have voted against us on the 1rts and and 2nd amendments.. have voted or supported higher taxes.. in favor of the Patriot Act..Indefinite Detention..and right now Homeland Security is keeping dosiers on journalists and bloggers.. The little ole man has proposed a bill repealing Indefifnte Detention.. None of them have a plan to get us out of debt except the little ole man and he would remove the 5 communistic gov agencies that hinder our financial progress..He would bring our military home..build it here to counter terrorrism.. Why is it we are out policing the world at 2 trillion a year. and aren’t minding the store(home) ? Why were 9 million muslims allowed in since 1965 just because they were trying to make way for holocaust survivors and why are 11 thousand a month trickling in. Why were up to 350 jobs in gov made available to Arab Muslims?. The Constitution would weed out foreign theocracies..But go ahead..get caught up in the bs of legislating morality.. Go ahead and let them disarm you and take all of your money and your religious freedoms.. Most of these people are ready to get it on..but you won’t be able to if your are disarmed..

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Thanks for the quote. Could you give the citation? Thanks.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:42pm

      ASHES,
      God legislated morality: “You shall have no other gods before me; you shall not murder; you shall not steal; you shall not commit adultery/fornication,” and so forth. Conservatives don’t want to legislate morality. From the Christian standpoint, no man has a right to legislate morality. That’s Islam, and they are destroying the free world. Rather, conservatives want to UPHOLD and PROTECT the values GOD, Yahweh, the Eternal I AM has legislated and upon which our forefathers have build this great nation. Ashes, why do you insist on echoing one of the main arguments/attacks LIBERALS and God-haters wield to transform America?

      You are indignant at my use of the adjective “old,” but it is an important political incongruence that must be pointed out. One of the reasons young people overwhelmingly voted for Obama and against McCain in 2008 was that they had a “crush” on Obama (which he is trying to recapture now, e.g., by singing love songs). By contrast, they found McCain too old and unappealing. That’s how teens and young adults tend to think. So ask yourself, WHY is a 76-year-old man attracting so many young neo-LIBS? I’ll tell you why. They are hearing his message of moral anarchism loud and clear, while you stick your fingers in your ears and refuse to hear.

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:25am

    Pastor Casias said, “The wealthy are fleeing to Canada and the USA for protection. The only problem is that when they return to re-new their visas the cartel is waiting, and either kill them of (sic) kidnap them for thousands of dollars, in some cases millions. The cartel has NO mercy or value for life. They are ruthless murderers!”

    And these murderers are coming over the border in droves while Obama has arguments with a female Governor who is begging for help from the Feds…good grief…

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  • kryptonite
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:57am

    Watch out for the Ron Paul doctrine on this thread. His sheeple are here. America has said NO to this deceiver’s moral anarchism.

    If Ron Paul were president — thank God that will never happen — these monster criminals would come in droves to America to buy drugs LEGALLY and then sell them ILLEGALLY in the rest of the world, where most governments are sane and have made drugs illegal.

    Ron Paul’s moral anarchism would mean the end of America. This corrupt career politician who looks like a harmless old man is as fringe as Obama. He is now pandering to illegals in Nevada, even though he was the ONLY candidate unable to name a Hispanic he would appoint to his cabinet in the CNN FL debate. That’s because he is a pathetic political loner who has been unable to garner any support in Congress for his bills. This selfish divider will take his sheeple with him once he FINALLY comes to terms with the fact that he can’t win, despite the neo-libs and Obamanots voting for him in the caucuses. Ron Paul is a power-hungry, do-nothing, self-aggrandizing, fringe D.C. insider who will help Obama win in 2012.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:10am

      Ron Paul, the phantoms which reside in his head and his leftist leaning supporters need to be put on the DMZ in Korea so our troops there can come home to patrol our borders like they (the Paul groupies want). Fair exchange IMO.

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    • Churchill
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:39am

      That‘s the most bizarre post I’ve seen in a long while. You really know very little about Dr Paul. Stick to the likes of Romney who’ll give you a nice little talking point to keep you occupied while those of us with a brain will actually research the candidates policies instead of believing what the MSM says.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:40am

      You two would call the Founders crazy too. You don’t like LIBERTY…YOU LIKE CONTROL! That is a LIBERAL PROGREESIVE way of doing things…call yourself what you are…LIBERAL TURDS!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:51am

      @Churchill
      those of us with a brain will actually research the candidates policies
      ———
      You don’t research anything. You LISTEN to your cult leader’s lies and believe them. Then you proceed to rationalize the extremism of his doctrine. Talk about “bizarre.”

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    • booger71
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:53am

      You guys have it a$$ backwards. The Cartels make and grow the drugs in Mexico, and come in droves to the US to sell them. If drugs were legal in the US, the cartels would not have a profit incentive to come here.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:01am

      kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:57am

      Watch out for the Ron Paul doctrine on this thread. His sheeple are here. America has said NO to this deceiver’s moral anarchism.

      If Ron Paul were president — thank God that will never happen — these monster criminals would come in droves to America to buy drugs LEGALLY and then sell them ILLEGALLY in the rest of the world, where most governments are sane and have made drugs illegal.
      ===============================================

      Organized crime would go out of business tomorrow if drugs were legal and the killing would stop…

      ……just like it did in 1933:

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      “Some supporters of Prohibition, such as Rev. Charles Stelzle in his 1918 book Why Prohibition!, also believed that prohibition would eventually lead to reductions in taxes, since drinking “produced half the business” for institutions supported by tax dollars such as courts, jails, hospitals, almshouses, and insane asylums. In fact, alcohol consumption and the incidence of alcohol-related domestic violence were decreasing before the 18th Amendment was adopted. Following the imposition of prohibition, reformers “were dismayed to find that child neglect and violence against children actually increased during the Prohibition era.”
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_Prohibition

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    • Dan_o
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:09am

      I’m not sure how you guys come to these conclusions. While I don’t agree with everything about Ron Paul, and the issues where I differ are pretty important, he is by far the most conservative candidate running. In fact, he’s so conservative on most policies (and so out there on the rest), that if he was elected he would never get a chance to implement anything.

      I don’t expect you to take any advice from a blog, but your rhetoric and hyperbole really makes you sound like the fringe.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:29am

      @KidCharlemagne
      Organized crime would go out of business tomorrow if drugs were legal and the killing would stop…
      ———
      You forget that, unlike alcohol, drugs are illegal and highly priced in most of the world, so organized crime would operate unhindered from America. We would effectively become a narco state.

      One other thing: You moral anarchists refuse to consider the nefarious effects of drug legalization on a society, especially on children, who are the most vulnerable sector of the population. Statistically, alcohol abuse has increased among minors on a global level. There is a direct correlation between the liberal debauchery that has taken over Western societies and alcohol abuse and drug addiction, ESPECIALLY among children and young adults. Go ahead and be an advocate for moral degradation. It is the liberal agenda, so you’re in good company.

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    • GUNNSUP
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:32am

      TIME 2…KRYPPIE….bla bla bla bla

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:39am

      Dan_o
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:09am
      I’m not sure how you guys come to these conclusions. While I don’t agree with everything about Ron Paul, and the issues where I differ are pretty important, he is by far the most conservative candidate running
      ——
      RP is not a conservative; he is a libertarian and a fringe one at that. How did I come to these conclusions? Easy. Look at what libertarian-liberal laissez-faire policies have done to societies that have embraced them. Those are not conservative values, my friend. You have bought into the RP “Constitutional” hook, and since the MSM won’t attack RP for something they as liberals embrace, you won’t hear much criticism leveled at him for his nefarious domestic policies.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:44am

      BOOGER71. You think drugs are the only criminal enterprise that cartels are involved with? This is a criminal organization which has many avenues to make money. Research just their criminal activity in the Mexican oil Industry and how that activity relates to us here in the U.S.

      We war on the cartels… and we win on many other fronts too.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:49am

      KRYPTONITE

      In addition to being conveniently right next door, the U.S. is the number one consumer for these cartels. Losing the income from here would cripple them financially.

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:55am

      @ kryptonite
      Here’s one for ya legalize drugs and tax them.
      How many of the drug dealers now are keeping books and claiming it as income ?
      Do you get a reciept of transactions to deduct for health care ?

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Cartels just supply the demand.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:07pm

      GUNNSUP
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:32am
      TIME 2…KRYPPIE….bla bla bla bla
      ———-
      Great counter-argument. Keep that muzzle pointed upward; you just might shoot RP’s pie in the sky.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:14pm

      kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:29am

      @KidCharlemagne
      Organized crime would go out of business tomorrow if drugs were legal and the killing would stop…
      ———
      You forget that, unlike alcohol, drugs are illegal and highly priced in most of the world, so organized crime would operate unhindered from America.
      ======================================================
      As for your argument that: “drugs are illegal and highly priced in most of the world,”……

      Let’s look at why are they highly priced:
      #1 artificial reduction in supply (arrest and confiscation)
      #2 artificial reduction in competition (arrest, murder, etc.)

      These are the two elements that keep prices high (and net profits higher as a consequence) for any item (like orange juice for example), so why would you want to provide this economic incentive to criminals who wanna’ make a quick buck??

      As for your second argument that “so organized crime would operate unhindered from America.”……

      …….then show me where organized crime is selling Budweiser on the black market in this day and time…

      If you can show me where organized crime is involved in the illegal production and trafficking of beer, wine, and liquor in the year 2012 then I’d be more inclined to believe you…..however, we already know from previous history that organized crime tends to abandon industries in which there is a sudden influx of competition into the marketplace.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:48pm

      Bible Quotin‘ Science Fearin’ Conservative American
      In addition to being conveniently right next door, the U.S. is the number one consumer for these cartels. Losing the income from here would cripple them financially.
      ———-
      We would change our status from consumer to provider, i.e., a NARCO STATE.

      It wouldn’t cripple the Mexican drug cartels financially because there is still a black market for illegal drugs in most of the world. They would just change their MO. We would open ourselves to wars between the Mexican cartels and our own cartels, as they vied for the world market — which means bombings and heinous crimes would become commonplace. Moreover, consumption would increase, especially among minors and young adults.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:56pm

      kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:48pm

      It wouldn’t cripple the Mexican drug cartels financially because there is still a black market for illegal drugs in most of the world.
      ========================================

      Where is the black market for Budweiser after the year 1933??………and how come you don’t see the cartels involved in the production and trafficking of Budweiser in this day and age?

      I have as of yet to find anyone that can show me where there is currently a black market for Budweiser.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:04pm

      KidCharlemagne
      …so why would you want to provide this economic incentive to criminals who wanna’ make a quick buck??

      No one wants to provide economic incentives. But the “cure” is not to give them free rein. There is still a black market out there, plus you have to analyze a scourge of that magnitude from all angles. It is not just an economic issue; it is a social and moral matter.

      => “If you can show me where organized crime is involved in the illegal production and trafficking of beer, wine, and liquor in the year 2012 then I’d be more inclined to believe you…..”
      —
      In Muslim countries where alcohol is prohibited.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:16pm

      @KidCharlemagne
      Where is the black market for Budweiser after the year 1933??………and how come you don’t see the cartels involved in the production and trafficking of Budweiser in this day and age?
      ———–
      Drugs are FAR more profitable. Remember, unlike drugs, beer is legal in most of the world. Don’t worry, dude, nobody is taking your Bud away from you. :)

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:33pm

      Yes indeed let‘s have the government tell the people they can’t use ‘drugs’ because the government has deemed them illegal.Do you own your body or does the government own it? Personally I have no use for illegal drugs but if you‘re not harming others it shouldn’t be the government‘s role to tell an adult what they can or can’t do with their own body.

      The war on drugs has created a black market and all the violence that goes with the illegal drug trade.
      Decriminalize drugs and the violence goes away and the only war we have is a war on the constitution and the sooner we accept that fact the sooner we can get back to a constitutional form of government.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:15pm

      kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:16pm

      @KidCharlemagne
      Where is the black market for Budweiser after the year 1933??………and how come you don’t see the cartels involved in the production and trafficking of Budweiser in this day and age?
      ———–
      Drugs are FAR more profitable.
      ==================================

      Are you economically ignorant???….

      What happens when you simultaneously restrict supply and reduce competition in the marketplace???….

      If you answered “the price of that item goes up”, then you’d be correct…..

      What is the net effect of Prohibition??:
      #1 reduces the supply via artificial means
      #2 restricts the number of marketplace participants via artificial means

      If beer went back to a prohibited status once again, then there would be far more profit in beer than in drugs because:
      #1 the demand for beer in the U.S. is far greater than the demand for other recreational substances
      #2 the supply of beer would be restricted
      #3 the number of competitors in the marketplace that sell beer would be artificially restricted

      If beer went back on the prohibited list again, then it would be a euphoric situation for organized crime again…

      Why do you think that Al Capone at the time smuggled alcohol into the U.S. (as opposed to marijuana)?….do you think it’s because marijuana was still legal at that particular point in time (while beer wasn’t)?

      C’mon man! Use your noggin’!

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:25pm

      kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:04pm

      KidCharlemagne
      …so why would you want to provide this economic incentive to criminals who wanna’ make a quick buck??

      No one wants to provide economic incentives. But the “cure” is not to give them free rein. There is still a black market out there, plus you have to analyze a scourge of that magnitude from all angles. It is not just an economic issue; it is a social and moral matter.

      => “If you can show me where organized crime is involved in the illegal production and trafficking of beer, wine, and liquor in the year 2012 then I’d be more inclined to believe you…..”
      —
      In Muslim countries where alcohol is prohibited.
      =============================================

      Yeah, but drugs are illegal in Muslim countries too!……so you’ve pretty much nullified the argument that you were originally trying to make about black markets existing in other countries regardless of whether or not drugs became illegal in the U.S….

      Shoot…..if you wanna’ take it that far, then bacon is illegal in Muslim countries too and there’s probably a black market for it there as a result….

      But does that mean that we should make bacon illegal in the U.S. too just because it’s illegal in Muslim countries??

      C’mon man! Use your noggin’!

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:50pm

      @ KidCharlemagne
      http://www.fabianobrothers.com/

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:29pm

      @KidCharlemagne
      Where is the black market for Budweiser after the year 1933??………and how come you don’t see the cartels involved in the production and trafficking of Budweiser in this day and age?
      ———–
      Drugs are FAR more profitable.
      ==================================

      Are you economically ignorant???….
      ———
      Whoa! Re-read your initial comment. You asked me about our *present-day* reality, NOT about a hypothetical (if alcohol was banned again.)

      To your hypothetical: If we went back to Prohibition (we’re talking America, not the rest of the world), I wholeheartedly concur. Imagine football without your Bud! Most men would rather be waterboarded.

      It ain’t gonna happen, pal, unless Islamists take over our country. ****!! That’s a REAL possibility with Hussein or RP at the helm. Think BEER before you cast your vote, man!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:05pm

      @KidCharlemagne
      Yeah, but drugs are illegal in Muslim countries too!
      ——
      AGAIN, drugs are illegal wherever sanity prevails. i.e., in MOST countries.

      ==> “……so you’ve pretty much nullified the argument that you were originally trying to make about black markets existing in other countries regardless of whether or not drugs became illegal in the U.S….”

      What the….! You repeatedly throw out a challenge on this thread regarding BEER — not drugs — and when I take you up on it, first you twist it into a hypothetical case and then you conflate MY argument with YOURS, by saying that disproving YOUR claim that alcoholic beverages are not illegal anywhere in the world in 2012 somehow invalidates MY argument that legalizing drugs in America will not end the drug black market in the rest of the world. Huh? How so? I know you have been brainwashed, but how about showing a modicuum of intellectual honesty?

      => “But does that mean that we should make bacon illegal in the U.S. too just because it’s illegal in Muslim countries??”

      C’mon. You’re grasping at straws. Bacon is a staple food in America. I don‘t think we should do ANYTHING in America because it’s done in the freaking Muslim world. Don’t get me started on that subject. I promised the Lord to watch my tongue, but it’s tough.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:24am

    So they moved to a remote violence plagued area, and were murdered……. Hmmmmm, let me put on my Sherlock Holmes hat ……..hmmmmm, thinking,,, thinking,,,,, got it !!! They died of stupidity… That is the official cause of death ! Case solved

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    • bikerr
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:58am

      You are the reason there is a hell!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:05am

      And you are the reason there is penicilin…

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    • fellow
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:11am

      Stupid is as stupid says. They went 30 years ago to a peaceful Mexico, and stayed because they were on a mission to save people like those that they were murdered by. Look up “fool” in your Bible if you have one and you’ll see yourself described, ignorant.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:20am

      @fellow
      No bro, a fool is someone who moves into a war zone… Look up douche bag and you’ll see yourself !!! Extra large douchebag , that is ….

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:05pm

      I feel for these people, but the word “fool” that is used in the Bible now didn’t mean the same thing it did when the Bible was first written.

      The Bible is a book written by men, collected by men, decided by men on which books would be part of a Bible, taken from accounts decades after Jesus supposedly died and has since been translated, and translated, and translated, and translated, and translated, and translated to the common language we use today.

      But yeah, I can see why you think it’s the word of a God. sigh

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:19pm

      In the bible missionaries are told to go out into all the world, even to places they will be persecuted.

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    • GUNNSUP
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:08pm

      KRIPPY, your opine is simply that….an opinion. Not worth the time to argue, I’ve heard it all before. My support for Ron Paul goes way beyond leagalizing drugs.

      Why are you & TIME_2 so concerned about trying to discredit Dr Paul. My advise is that you concentrate on helping your guy to defeat RP, he is NOT going away anytime soon……

      So, what do you guys work for Karl Rove?

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:19am

    Thousands of people died last year and its time it ended………….to die in such a manor for these people is disgusting………..we must as a nation ban against Mexico and these killings.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:34am

      Not a chance with this bunch in the WH.

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    • Machtyn
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:02am

      I would phrase it slightly differently.

      Let us band with Mexico against these atrocious killings. They are in a civil war, but both El Presidente and our own “Dear Leader” are turning a blind eye to the plight of the people. As long as cash comes across the border from drug money and cash comes in at port towns like Cancun, nothing is likely to be done.

      STOP DOING DRUGS PEOPLE.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:12am

      Commie rulers help finance the drug cartels outside their countries, because it is often the case that these cartels are also guerrillas and other terrorist orgs, and commies want free societies to collapse.

      If Obama stays in power, he might want to take charge of the market within America eventually. It would depend on how long it took him to fully bankrupt the country. Once that happened, he would need to resort to illegal activities to pay for his luxurious lifestyle.

      Don‘t think things can’t get much worse in America, if the WH Occupier stays in power. He’s just getting started with us, folks.

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  • 2theADDLED
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:09am

    We know who the drug cartels are and where they live. We have some very talented sniper groups who could take them out in a short time. Why don’t we do it ?

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    • islamhater
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:14am

      No one forced them to go to Mexico. Just because you believe in god does not mean bad people won’t kill you. They were foolish to go there. They made the choice to go into a war zone. Stupid is not my problem.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:23am

      Cause Obama needs there vote silly.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:00am

      @islamhater–you are wrong STUPID is your problem.

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    • fellow
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:13am

      Islamhater, apparently stupid IS your problem. They went to Mexico 30 years ago.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:40am

      @fellow
      You are an idiot, who cares if they went there 30 years ago ? For that matter you coulda lived in downtown Bagdhad 30 years ago…. When it becomes a war zone , leave or take the risk of death… but i would suggest its a great place for you to go live… Good neighbors tooo ! Hell, if you read the story, you can read , correct ? They posted on their own website about the murderous cartels all around them …..im sure they were wonderful people, but now they ‘re dead, wonderful people…its sad but it was avoidable and predictable !

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    • islamhater
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:55am

      Look there heart was in the right place no doubt about it. But to stay in a war zone with no way to protect yourself is not very smart. Now who will they help. Killing 2 elderly people who are just there to help is EVIL. I’m not stupid. you just don’t agree with me.This happens all around the world cause people put themselves in harms way in the name of god.

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  • GulfPeg
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:55am

    Their relatives should sue just like Terry’s relatives!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:12am

      Hey bikerr, is that your posts ? Your the reason there is hell? Your stupid ? Really , just state one good reason for living in a war zone… Just one , you know, like the number of teeth u have , just one !

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:41am

      @Detroit paperboy
      They had a reason, namely, spreading the gospel to the people in that drug war zone. Whether that’s a “good” or “stupid” reason depends on your belief system, so nobody can claim to be right about a case that is totally subjective in nature. My belief system — which you obviously don’t share — tells me we don‘t know whether it was God’s will for them to stay put or leave. We lack info on how they actually lived their Christian life and preached, so it’s impossible to tell.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:36pm

      @kruptoturd
      If it such a good reason and your so biblical, pack your bags and roll on down… Oh thats right its probably not the lords plan for you……. For that matter why dont you go hiking along the Iraq-Iran border …… Thats a good idea tooo… Right ?

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:44am

    Beautiful people…may they rest in peace.

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  • Kara_ite
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:37am

    Make drugs legal.
    Keep it simple, stupid.
    When drugs were legal : 11% of the population were drug addicts
    When drugs are illegal: 11% of the population are drug addicts.
    The addict you will have with you always.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:44am

      yep…Then you cut off the freebies to the drug addicts and let them figure out life on their own…WITHOUT MY MONEY!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:35am

      Wrong! When illegal drugs become legal, addiction shoots up (double entendre intended). Ron Paul lies, and his sheeple parrot his lies ad nauseam.
      http://www.justice.gov/dea/demand/speakout/06so.htm (In America)

      From 1984 to 1996, marijuana use among 18-25 year olds in Holland increased twofold. Since legalization of marijuana, heroin addiction levels in Holland have tripled and perhaps even quadrupled by some estimates.
      http://www.justice.gov/dea/demand/speakout/09so.htm (In Holland)

      Reject Ron Paul’s moral anarchism and neo-liberal policies.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:02am

      @kara ite
      You are 100% correct ! It did’nt work with alcohal and its not working with weed or any other drug….. Besides, the most abused drugs in the world by FAR… are prescription drugs, and they’re legal !!!! Everybody who wants to do drugs , is doing drugs… Especially weed, my Lawyer smokes pot, my Dentist smokes pot, and i’d lay money on it that my congressman does toooo !!! And they also drink beer….. Ooooooohhhh,

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:19am

      Detroit paperboy
      Everybody who wants to do drugs , is doing drugs
      ———
      And everybody who wants to kill is killing. Moral anarchism gives me a high. Aaaahhh!

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    • TEIN
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:34am

      @Kara_ite…yeah…I can see no ill effects in a community where you have the local strip club and crack-house…or the corner weed shack next to Walgreens….or people tearing open packets of cocaine from the supermarket shelves… I can almost see crime going down when more addicts are robbing from others to get their “legal” fix…..please keep this Nirvana vision of America in the closet…

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    • Highland
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:51pm

      Stop calling addiction (and obesity, while we’re at it) a “disability” for the purposes of Social Security, too.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:30am

    Take the money out of drugs with some sort of light regulations and selling in the private sector. End the FDA who is withholding life saving drugs too…The money for the crops (drugs) will dry up, the cartels will go away and people will not be killed for the profit.

    The drug wars have cost us billions, maybe trillions of dollars. If some idiot wants to ruin his life with drugs, so what? He must be held responsible for his own actions and we must protect our children as we do with substance abuse now. If an adult wants to do coke or weed or heroin…knock yourself out. No Government assistance for you, no free healthcare, you can die in your own puke with a needle in your arm for all I care.

    As long as the Police State existsa and wants to go after drugs we wil have deaths like this all over the world. Remove the profits and it disappears overnight..

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    • let us prey
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:48am

      Remove the profits and it will disappear over night? There will always be a black market. More or light regulation means more government intervention like (alcohol,tobacco etc). So when children and teenagers can’t purchase what will they do? Find a dealer in the black market. IMO.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:53am

      @kryptoturd
      By far the most abused drugs are prescription pills, and alchohol.. Both legal, i choose to abuse neither… But history shows, prohibition does not work, and leads to powerful underworld criminal activity… and if cocaine was legal i would still not touch it, but everybody who likes coke is doing it anyway.. Why not remove the power of the murderous cartels, and legalize it all ? I would bet usage would be the exact same…Or are you afraid you might become an overnight coke freak ? Do u drink a bottle of whiskey before work each day, cuz its legal ? Do u even work is a better question…

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:05am

      let us prey
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:48am

      Remove the profits and it will disappear over night? There will always be a black market.
      =================================================

      OK….then show me who is selling Budweiser on the black market these days….

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    • let us prey
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:46am

      Kid char
      Drugs. I did not say alcohol. But black market alcohol=moonshine?.?…

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:26pm

      @Detroit paperboy
      Why not remove the power of the murderous cartels, and legalize it all ? I would bet usage would be the exact same
      ——-
      First, you are so focused on name-calling, you don’t even post replies in the appropriate places. You are proof that Paulists are no better than liberals.

      Second, you can bet all you want. Look at Holland. Usage has gone up.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:29pm

      let us prey
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:46am

      Kid char
      Drugs. I did not say alcohol. But black market alcohol=moonshine?.?…
      ===========================================

      By its very definition (at least it is according to Webster’s Dictionary), alcohol IS a drug:

      ———————–
      “3: something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation, or a marked change in consciousness”
      http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drug
      ———————–

      And as for moonshine…then I have as of yet to hear about one of the Mexican drug cartels having a shipment of moonshine seized….

      Again….organized crime got out of the booze business in the early 1930′s because net profit margins on booze dramatically dropped due to the sudden surge of additional competitors due to the repeal of Prohibition.

      The obscene profit margins to be reaped from sales of contraband is THE magnet that keeps attracting criminals to the business.

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:29am

    The mentioning of the “safe” in the wall tells me that one, or more of the congregation were involved, or passed the word to the ones who committed the crime?

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:48pm

      @kryptoturd
      So now your the posting police? Appropriate spots for replies ? And talk about name calling , im not even a big paul supporter but i would take him over Obama any day…. You’ve been name calling paul supporters in many of your posts, sorry if i hurt your feelings , but if the turd fits… Eat it.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:46pm

      @Detroit paperboy
      Appropriate spots for replies ?
      ——
      That’s why there are divisions between comments, so people can clearly spot your reply to their comment. I could have missed your “outstanding” reply, since I usually don’t have time to scroll to the bottom of the page every time I post.

      How old are you? Judging by all your replies on this thread — and I mean ALL — your cognitive and emotional maturity is at an adolescent level. You do behave like a boy, so don’t expect me to keep on reading your replies.

      => “You’ve been name calling paul supporters in many of your posts…”
      ———-
      No, I don’t use this blog to name-call other bloggers. Sometimes I do respond to personal attacks, if there is an argument in the comment I want to debate. You are confusing diagnosis/assessment with name-calling. In fact, you seem to have a hard time understanding other commenters’ line of reasoning, and you often respond to things that haven’t even been posited. So although you have included a few arguments in your comments, none of them are cogent.

      ==> sorry if i hurt your feelings , but if the turd fits… Eat it.
      I am not offended by adolescent or troll language. If it’s a kid, I patiently overlook. If it’s a troll, I simply ignore. Now, if you were someone who could truly hurt me or turn my country upside down like Obama or Ron Paul, well then, you are my enemy, and I will fight you and oppose you.

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  • Nations
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:23am

    Mexico is out of hand and certainly off the reservation of Great Nations. I have lost many friends to the bandits of Mexico over the years. One was a reporter from a newspaper that I worked for not too long ago. Many of these were folks who had Mexican ties through their ancestors or were formerly from Mexico. Their belief was that Mexico had so much potential with vast resources and a massive past as the first melting pot of this hemisphere. Most of the people are hard working folks who are being taken for everything they are worth by the fraud of that poorly run nation. It is full of evil and needs to calm down. But No. With a president like Obama we have no chance of seeing that part of our world settle down. I feel a great loss for some of my friends who still revel in their love for the old days of Mexico. There is vast danger as it stands now. Do not go there.

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    • chips1
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:42am

      You don’t have to go there. It’s coming here. The danger zone has moved 80 miles north of the border.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:25am

      @nations
      Indeed , exactly correct !

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:09am

      @Nations
      You’re right. If you go there as an American, you’d better make sure God is sending you there.

      @chips1
      Looks like the Traitor got away with Fast & Furious too. That alone should allow us to put him in Gitmo with his fellow Muslims. Most Dims still ignore or refuse to see how much damage Obum has done to America.

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  • ZABO
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:23am

    not that drug gangs and or common theives wouldn’t kill you in fla. or texas. but these loving humans doing the lord’s work might still be alive today people if they were in the u.s.a.! please, all americans get the heck out of that piss-hole dirty watered country known as mexico.

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    • CaptMickeyd
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:08am

      Well, that’s not going to happen. Missionaries in Mexico who feel that their calling is to preach in Mexico will go to Mexico based on what they feel God is telling them to do. The danger to themselves is negligible when weighed against the souls of a godless country. the same for those missionaries in the middle east, where they could have their heads lopped off for just saying the name of Jesus. God’s love constraineth.

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  • Locked
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:21am

    A real tragedy, but a couple of ways the reporting went made me feel the article is exaggerating for emotional impact instead of reporting accurately:

    “TX MISSIONARIES FOUND MURDERED IN MEXICO — DRUG VIOLENCE FEARED”
    “John and Wanda Casias was originally from Amarillo, Texas, but relatives said they moved to an area outside the city of Monterrey in the late 1970s or early 1980s and made it their home”

    Calling them “TX missionaries” seems a bit of a stretch. If 30+ years ago I had lived in MA, but since then I had lived in FL, would I be a MA missionary? I feel “ex-pats found murdered” would be more accurate.

    “John Casias was 76. He had recently priced a knee replacement because he couldn’t walk more than 100 yards (100 meters) without having to sit down, Shawn Casias said. Wanda Casias was 67.”

    100 yards is around 91 and a half meters, not 100.

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:22am

      Not that it lessens the horror of the story, of course. Just that the reporting seems inaccurate.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:15am

    Coming here, folks. On our knees in humble supplication for God’s mercy on our souls and on our land. Remember in Peter when we are told, “Resist him (devil), steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.”

    Pray on, American Christians and Christians around the world.

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:06am

      I will pray for all the lost souls to violence. I am comforted in knowing that they are in the hands of GOD.
      Pray for our enemies that they shall see the light of God and not be tempted by the Devil.

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  • CIAtroll
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:11am

    http://www.infowars.com/drug-war-hypocrisy-drug-traffickings-big-money-benefits-big-brother-and-corrupt-banksters/

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  • CIAtroll
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:10am

    (NaturalNews) The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. The son of a convicted notorious mobster, John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs cracked, “No, we can’t compete with the government.”

    Today in Afghanistan, American troops have been seen guarding poppy fields used to make heroin. Those fields were all but wiped out by 2001 when the Taliban destroyed them and forbade that agricultural pursuit. Now they’re flourishing again after the American occupation.

    This doesn’t make sense despite all the mainstream reports that American troops are protecting the poppy farmers from the bad guys. Internet sites such as Prison Planet, Info Wars, The Political Coffeehouse and others report otherwise. They connect the CIA and US military to restarting the poppy fields in Afghanistan in 2002, increasing poppy growth by over 650 percent. Who’s telling it like it is?

    One way the CIA keeps their drug trafficking hidden from public view

    The CIA’s secret operations to influence journalism started in the 1950s by infiltrating the media and bribing journalists to be operatives and assets for the CIA. By 1976, then CIA director William Colby reportedly bragged that the CIA owned the press. Supposedly, this too secret to name operation was coined “Operation Mockingbird” by Deborah Davis in her book Katherine the Great.
    http://www.in

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:09am

    .
    Very Sad. They should have found a Mission here in the U.S…….

    The Mission calling the rest of Ya’ll are hearing is God telling you to “Stay Out of Mexico”……

    There are folks here that need your help more. I HAVE A MISSION FOR YA’LL…….

    Go Save A Democrat……………..

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:09am

    I would not take a job in Mexico for nobody or would I take a vacation to Mexico. With that being said, I would also secure the border so there would be no crossings on the border into the USA. May this couple rest in peace and I hope their family finds some kind of closure.

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  • CIAtroll
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:02am

    If one truly believes in God then none of this really matters

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:52am

    May they rest in peace. God be with their families.

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  • decendentof56
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:50am

    While I feel sad for the family, I can’t help but think the belief that they could change things in Mexico was misquided. Total anarchy exists in that area.

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  • MonkeyBeagle
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:49am

    Sad Sad Tragic.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:48am

    Why would drug cartels target these poor people? It just sounds like Mexico is lawless and it’s like the old West again down there.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:18am

      Because they were spreading hope and Love and Charity.
      The cartels need people to be in fear and dependent upon THEM!
      Not upon God. (Much like the socialist / marxist democrats in America)

      Their message of hate and violence withers in the light of TRUTH and LOVE.
      So, they must destroy any source of real hope, of truth, and of love, so that they are the only remaining option to vulnerable people.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:15pm

      You’re probably right but, I think everything has devolved to the point down there that petty criminals are running amok and it gets laid off on the cartels. Of course the cartels ARE the root of the problem…that and a corrupt government.

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    • Darlie
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:24am

      Mexico’s history is filled with hundreds of years of corruption and regular revolutions. This church did good work for innocent people and shared the Gospel in a dark nation. I am sorry to hear Santiago is left without them.

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  • democritusoilder267
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:46am

    This is sad.

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