Mexican Cartels have the moral high ground over the U.S. and I am safe living around them. You are too.
Mexican cartels are more moral and much safer to live around than the American government. You must first understand the cartels are a government and not a gang of thugs. They control the drug market in Mexico just like the DEA controls the drug markets in the U.S. Just as the DEA is not a "gang" neither are the cartels. Both governments are guilty of immoral acts but in a morality contest, the Americans embarrassingly lose.
(Continue reading then watch the eight-minute video I posted above. I discuss this article and buying and selling drugs in Mexico.)
Through propaganda, the U.S. government has purposely painted a bias and unfair picture of the cartels. The purpose of the propaganda is to scare Americans and make the world believe the cartels are responsible for the drug problems and violence in the United States.
When using the Non Aggression Principle as a morality gauge, we know it is not immoral to deal drugs, sell weapons or smuggle cash. We also know it is immoral to use force unless in self-defense. The cartels are not the only government guilty of gruesome beheadings during war-time. The U.S. military and American police forces have a reputation for torturing and murdering millions of humans around the globe.
It is immoral to punish others with force while committing the same acts. Evidence proves the U.S. government is guilty of this immoral and cruel hypocrisy. It is a known fact the American government smuggles and sells large quantities of drugs. One example is the infamous Iran/Contra affair. The scandal involved Ronald Reagan using his "cartels" (the DEA and CIA) to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States. Reagan used the coke money to support the Contra rebels in Central America.
While the American drug lord was selling more powder than Tony Montana, he ordered the arrest and imprisonment of millions of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters for possessing the cocaine that he trafficked into their neighborhoods. During his violent and dark humanitarian crime spree, his wife launched a national campaign that taught American children how to avoid her husband's product by "just saying no."
In comparison, the Mexican cartel government does not arrest, cage or imprison their citizens for using drugs. I live in Mexico and we all feel one hundred percent safe using drugs. While there are over 50,000 S.W.A.T. style drug raids each year in the United States, Mexicans do not conduct house raids unless you are selling drugs. The cops will take a small fee if they catch you using drugs in public but you are free to do whatever you want in your own home. Since the cartels have the entire drug supply and sentence rogue drug dealers to harsh beatings or death, it is unnecessary to raid homes because no one is brave enough to cross that line.
Mexican authorities rarely make traffic stops and it's even more rare for them to search you auto. In comparison, thousands of Americans are arrested each month after being targeted for drug searches under the guise of committing a traffic violation.
Another reason cartels have been demonized is to scare Americans so they will stop vacationing in Mexico. The U.S. economy is struggling so instead of spending billions of vacation dollars in Mexico, their rulers want Americans to vacation in crime-ridden spots such as Florida, California, Arizona and Hawaii.
The reason Mexican cartels win in a morality contest is because unlike the American cartels, Mexican cartels allow their citizens to be free from the fear of being kidnapped and tortured in a cage for using drugs.
Forgive me if I sound like I hate Americans because I don't. I hate their government. I have nothing but love for my American brothers and sisters. I long for the day I can visit my country again but at the moment, I have warrants for my arrest.
If I offended you, please don't penalize me by forgetting to upvote and follow me. Even if this information hurt your feelings, I deserve your love because I had the balls to tell you the truth.
I promised to always keep it real with you and I can't unknow what I know. Upvote me and follow me please. I need your support.
After publishing edit: Upon reading my post, some commentors interpreted this article as me "admiring" the cartels. I don't "admire" the cartels because they use violence. I made that clear by explaining their immorality. I do like the cartels and prefer their way of governing compared to the rest of the world's governments. And I do respect them for protecting and not caging their own citizens.
About the author: Barry Cooper
"You may have seen him on the pages of Maxim, or during one of his many appearances on CNN, Fox News and Spike TV. He’s the cop who turned against the drug war. In American pop culture right now, there’s nobody quite like him. As one of the former top drug cops working the Texas highways, he was ferocious, bringing down hundreds of people for possessing even tiny amounts of an illegal substance.In his new life as an anti-prohibition crusader and activist filmmaker, he’s just as ferocious, but now it’s his former colleagues in law enforcement who are sweating his intimidating gaze…Cooper is on a mission to free America’s pot prisoners and take down the abusive cops he once sought to emulate. In the terminology of war, Barry is an insurgent, lobbing bombs into the fourth estate as his form of penance for all the people he put behind bars on drug offenses.” —True/Slant
Barry Cooper has received global attention by being reported in over 700 newspapers and magazines including Rolling Stones, High Times, a feature in Maxim Magazine and a front cover feature in Cannabis Culture Magazine and the Texas Observer. He has been a guest on numerous radio shows and every cable news channel including MSNBC Tucker Carlson, FOX Geraldo At Large, ABC I Caught, NBC Mike and Juliet Morning Show and NPR’s, This American Life. He has also appeared as drug and legal expert in five episodes of SPIKE TV’s reality show, MANSWERS. Barry recently starred with Woody Harrelson, 50 Cent, Eminem and Susan Sarandon in the anti drug war documentary, “How To Make Money Selling Drugs.” The movie features Barry freeing prisoners.
“Barry was even better than he says he was. He had a knack for finding drugs and made more arrests and more seizures than all of the other agents combined. He was probably the best narcotics officer in the state and maybe the country during his time with the task force.” –Tom Finley, Commander Permian Basin Drug Task Force
You know what Barry? I was apprehensive of your legitimacy when you came onto the site and had told your story about being a Narc.
But after reading this.. Even if you are still a fed at the very least you've got some soul left in ya. Nice to see in a government man.
Barry hasn't been a government man in quite a while. I think it's best to judge people by their actions and their statements. Barry's actions and statements have been consistent for quite a while now. While he was a cop, of course, he was grossly inconsistent, as he himself readily admits.
I've slightly disagreed with Barry on strategy and tactics before, but not on his stated goals. I consider him to be a purely benevolent person. I think if you fully explore his many offerings on the web, you'll come to a similar conclusion, but I could be wrong.
And, of course, this comment comes with the caveat that nobody should ever be fully trusted, because all cybernetic systems are capable of dishonesty and capturing nodes in less-powerful systems.
That said, I've never seen Barry act like a Fed.
Thanks Jacob. I have only been here two weeks so my long standing fans have not arrived yet. I'm glad you have. Big love.
A little song about El Chapo
Go Barry
Thanks for your insights Barry. They're always thought provoking. The spin of the media reminds me of Twain, who said something like,
If you don't read the paper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed.
He couldn't have imagined the media circus we have today.
Keep up the struggle, this can't go on forever
Wondered what became of you, Barry. Now I know and am glad you are doing well and still educating the masses.
For those of you who are not familiar with Barry Cooper, check out his many videos on YouTube.
Thanks for the shout out @buckkracker. Glad to be back in touch with you.
We should not admire the cartels in any way. Violence is anti-NAP and disgusting. People should have the right to buy AND sell drugs. However, you are right to compare the US government to the cartels because they are indeed immoral.
@porcupine305 I am a student and strict follower of NAP. I don't "admire" the cartels because they use violence. I made that clear by explaining their immorality. I do like the cartels and prefer their way of governing compared to the rest of the world's governments. And I do respect them for protecting and not caging their own citizens. Big love to you though. I'm glad you are a NAPer.
Sounds to me like you're applying the NAP to the messy reality we're living in. This messy reality we live in must account for war(both cybernetic and physical) between multiple evils. Cybernetic war(war governed by cybernetic principles) is often called "politics" if it remains nonviolent or mostly-nonviolent. Hence the statement, "Politics is war by other means." I believe this is true.
The outcome of politics is often a bland, immense blanket of highly-localized oppression or "localized threat of aggression" resulting in a tyranny that induces people to act against their own self-interest. Historian RJ Rummel (RIP) gathered a ton of data indicating that totalitarian repression resulting in democide has killed and harmed far more people than outright war. See: http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/
In asking whether the US government or the cartels are more evil, I'd have to say that they are both roughly equivalent, because they are cybernetic systems that mutually-strengthen each other. However, the most morally-culpable party is the U.S. voter and willing taxpayer.
As Thoreau said:
"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now."
I never saw it that way because of the propaganda lambasted onto our tv sets. I did know that the CIA, DEA and the US Government corporation shipped all the drugs here. People think the troops are in Afghanistan for oil. Ha! Black tar is why they are there. Oil is the biggest scapegoat. Herion production there is at 140% of what it was before the US went there. They burn down the marijuana fields and make the land owners switch to poppies. Thanks for the insight. Keep the peace rollin!
Thanks for this unconventional post. I believe that if US citizens would not consume illegal drugs, there would not be Mexiccan cartels.
You are very welcome. Can I please add some knowledge to make your comment accurate. Humans will always use drugs whether they are illegal or not. It's not the use of drugs that produced the cartels. It's the prohibition of drugs that created the cartels and placed them in power. Legalize drugs and the cartels will evaporate. Does that make sense to you? I hope I explained it well enough for you to understand.
Yes! It makes a lot of sense.
Not true. Most of the US heroin comes from occupied Afghanistan. And do you think drugs are illegal for your protection? A friend I grew up with's dad used to run cocaine from South America. He got caught with 13 kilos of pure at his million dollar house. He spent one year in the infirmary at the prison, then went back to his million dollar house and kept on keepin on, but with a new boss. The DEA. Yes most drugs are bad when abused, but what your doctor perscribes is far more dangerous when taken correctly. Look at all the mass shootings, they have one thing in common, each and every mass shooter was on some kind of perscription for anxiety and depression. Those are legal drugs and they are rotting our society.
you wrote: "Those are legal drugs and they are rotting our society."
I disagree: The society has been rotted by improper government schooling in the area of History, Economics, Law, and Philosophy. Terrible patented molecules that have to compete on level playing field (a field that contains absolute freedom of speech) are simply out-competed immediately by safer, better alternatives. Want someone to blame for the death-dealing patented synthetic molecules pushed by licensed doctors? Blame the licensing of medicine, its separation from biological teaching, and the ~ten-year "begging for permission from the FDA" before any medical treatment can be marketed.
The turn-around time for medical cures is days or weeks, given even Narrow AI of "machine learning." ...But we're still in the primitive paradigm of "surplus order" or "surplus government." (As well as "untargeted or improperly-targeted government.")
Totalitarianism is the problem, not bad drugs. Only totally free information markets are good at deciding which drugs are optimal.
I highly recommend the following videos on proper medical treatment:
Stephen Badylak on regenerative medicine:
Kurzweil on medicine:
(Also HIGHLY recommend his book "Fantastic Voyage")
"Are people dying needlessly because of all these bureaucracies and rules? And what if we say fuck you, and do it anyway?" Josiah Zayner of the-odin.com on DIY CRISPR kits.
Deceased Founder of Cambrian Genomics, Austen Heinz:
#medicalfreedom
Give freedom! Weapons can be worn, and drugs not? This government has gone mad!
Interesting perspective on the situation. Western propaganda would have us believe that our western "democracies" are the safest, and least corrupt. Simple observation shows that to be untrue, in many regards. Always good to get testimony from those in the know.
Thanks for noticing and being able to accept the truth. That's a sign of intelligence.