Why can’t brain dead liberals understand the need for a wall after seeing these statistics? How can we have an unsecured border with a failed third world state, where murder and drugs are the two biggest imports? Why hasn’t Trump done anything about building this wall yet?
Mexico was second deadliest country in 2016
(CNN)It was the second deadliest conflict in the world last year, but it hardly registered in the international headlines.
As Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan dominated the news agenda, Mexico’s drug wars claimed 23,000 lives during 2016 — second only to Syria, where 50,000 people died as a result of the civil war.
“This is all the more surprising, considering that the conflict deaths [in Mexico] are nearly all attributable to small arms,” said John Chipman, chief executive and director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which issued its annual survey of armed conflict on Tuesday.
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“The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan claimed 17,000 and 16,000 lives respectively in 2016, although in lethality they were surpassed by conflicts in Mexico and Central America, which have received much less attention from the media and the international community,” said Anastasia Voronkova, the editor of the survey.
In comparison, there were 17,000 conflict deaths in Mexico in 2015 and 15,000 in 2014 according to the IISS.
Rising death toll
Voronkova said the number of homicides rose in 22 of Mexico’s 32 states during 2016 and the rivalries between cartels increased in violence.
“It is noteworthy that the largest rises in fatalities were registered in states that were key battlegrounds for control between competing, increasingly fragmented cartels,” she said.
“The violence grew worse as the cartels expanded the territorial reach of their campaigns, seeking to ‘cleanse’ areas of rivals in their efforts to secure a monopoly on drug-trafficking routes and other criminal assets.”
Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 billion and $29 billion annually from US drug sales, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Rivalries between the cartels wreak havoc on the lives of civilians who have nothing to do with narcotics. Bystanders, people who refused to join cartels, migrants, journalists and government officials have all been killed.
Not on news agenda
Jacob Parakilas, assistant head of the US and the Americas Programme at London-based think tank Chatham House, said part of the reason for the relative lack of attention paid to Mexico in the international media is “it’s not a war in the political sense of the word. The participants largely don’t have a political objective. They’re not trying to create a breakaway state. It doesn’t come with the same visuals. There are no air strikes.
“Also this has been going on since the beginning of the modern drug trade in the Americas. It’s not news in that sense. And Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist. They are intentionally targeted in Mexico, which puts a dampener on the ability to report on this.”
There have, however, been significant arrests in relation to the Mexican drug trade in recent times.
Damaso Lopez Nunez, a high-ranking leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on May 2 in Mexico City and could face charges in the US, authorities said.
His arrest follows January’s extradition of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is accused of running the Sinaloa cartel — one of the world’s largest drug-trafficking organizations.
He awaits trial in New York on 17 counts accusing him of running a criminal enterprise responsible for importing and distributing massive amounts of narcotics and conspiring to murder rivals.
World conflict deaths fall
The number of conflict fatalities globally edged down last year, from 167,000 to 157,000, according to the IISS.
This was the second successive annual drop — 180,000 people were killed in 2014.
The number of deaths in Syria fell from 55,000 in 2015. But there were 1,000 more deaths in Afghanistan last year than 2015 and 4,000 more in Iraq.
Voronkova from the IISS said: “Civilians caught amid conflict arguably suffered more than in the preceding years. Between January and August, 900,000 people were internally displaced in Syria alone.”
The internal displacement figures were 234,000 for Iraq and 260,000 for Afghanistan.
“The number of conflict fatalities globally edged down last year…”
The US is in a state of decline – we can do better.
“Why can’t brain dead liberals understand the need for a wall after seeing these statistics? How can we have an unsecured border with a failed third world state, where murder and drugs are the two biggest imports?”
Because they simply refuse to look at reality. Their stubborn refusal to face facts which contradict if not outright refuse (and at the very least present a difficult challenge) to beliefs and views they consider sacrosanct, inviolable, and immutable generates a level of cognitive dissonance they tend not to be ready to deal with as to do so would necessitate managing uncomfortable emotions – and emotional types that they are, they avoid such facts.
“Why hasn’t Trump done anything about building this wall yet?”
I want to believe that it was because Democrat opposition was just too fierce, although part of me thinks he lied about it. Still, given Jeff Sessions announced “this is the Trump Era,” given Border Patrol morale has risen, and given ICE is now finally feeling free to do its job after 8 years of Barack Hussein Obama, I think there’s enough proof to believe Trump is at least partially sincere in his anti-illegal immigration commentary. And the administration did take steps on the wall, with bids for designs, etc.
I have been disappointed with Trump in some things, but I am still utterly convinced his victory was better for America than a Hillary Clinton win would have been.
“Because they simply refuse to look at reality. Their stubborn refusal to face facts which contradict if not outright refuse (and at the very least present a difficult challenge) to beliefs and views they consider sacrosanct, inviolable, and immutable generates a level of cognitive dissonance they tend not to be ready to deal with as to do so would necessitate managing uncomfortable emotions – and emotional types that they are, they avoid such facts.”
That is true but there is another even greater factor. Modern liberals, who by the way are not liberal at all in the classical sense, have been conditioned to hate Western Civilization and the European peoples who built and sustain this civilization. Modern liberalism is in fact a suicide cult, a satanic religion, based on belief as opposed to common sense or reason that is leading us slowly to disaster. Their minds have been made almost bullet proof to ideas, not unlike the minds of religious zealots, such that a fact or piece of logic that does not conform to their religion will simply not penetrate. The AGW theory of global warming is an excellent example; glaciers could advance across the US-Canada border as they did 30,000 years ago and they would still be chanting CO2 and global warming slogans. Its a bit like the Cultural Revolution in China when millions of people followed totally absurd ideas for increasing iron production and melted down their cooking implements. And it is not just a case of brainwashing the masses. I know judges, doctors, lawyers, professors, scientists and business men and they are likewise affected and in many ways less open to informed discussion and facts. The other characteristic is to quote George Orwell: “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” I live in a liberal neighborhood in a major city and it is amazing how viscous liberals can be. In these neighborhoods, paleo-conservatives or true conservatives are now politically incorrect and will not be tolerated. We have been labelled neo-Nazis or neo-fascists.
Mexico is a big country. In latest stats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country (sortable) Honduras had the highest murder rate: 84.6 per 100,000 in 2014. That’s ~ 5 times as high as Mexico. Those Central American countries are seriously fucked up. Even some of the West African countries (Ghana, Sierra Leone) are like fucken Norway compared to Central America.
Perhaps this summer and the pending tsunami of 6-10 million fine citizens of the world into Europe will provide some clues. For the Europeans I’m not optimistic, they have embraced stupid for so long (including the recent election of a Rothschild banker as an “outsider”) they are certainly doomed. Here in the US we still have a slim chance, and I do not mean that the PC, the SJW, talking heads and politicians will change their minds. They too are lost. The undecided and the clueless are our only chance for converting new followers. Even then, for some of us, our “slim chance” at survival will probably measured in millimeters and hundredths of an inch.
Hear ya Mike. But IMO the clueless and undecided will have to draw their own conclusions. I view myself as already dead. One advantage of this mind set is it allows me total focus on those I love and care for. In a sense I’m sorry my heart has hardened. Yet I see the necessity of it in a most primal sense. It’s sometimes difficult to reconcile this with my Christian beliefs. But good or bad, this is where I’ve ended up.
” Why can’t brain dead liberals understand the need for a wall ” 1) Liberals hate white traditional Christians and our Culture . Immigration of third world bottom feeders will destroy traditional America .2) They are getting paid lots of money from various organizations to betray us.Most are Jewish but Foundations like Ford foundation and liberal Catholic Church organizations are busy betraying us.There are others but you get the point.
DUI suspect in hit-run crash that left boy, 6, badly hurt was deported 15 times
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-dui-deportee-20170509-story.html
After, say, 5, they should just be summarily executed.
No, never summarily. Short trial, short rope.
Deportation.
“Wanted, DEAD OR ALIVE, if you show back up in the USA.”
I’ll be happy to be self-employed finding such scum.
For all , we can still have hope in the west.Jesus Christ said”And on this rock I will build my church ,and the GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.”Matthew 16:18
Look at all the people , Ideologies ,and Satanic religions that have come up against Christianity in the past but Christ , Christians and his church are still here. Think about it .
We don’t need a wall as much as we need to transport the liberals to Mexico ASAP!
We need the Wall to keep them there.
They might consider consulting the old East German methods used in walls. 🙂 Any wall would be so much more effective in conjunction with a mine field. To prevent people from climbing the wall they could install SM70 like trip wire booby traps.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbstschussanlage
I was biking was on a bike trip in the Bavarian Forest on the boarder with the former Czechoslovakia. I stayed at a BnB with locals and asked them how were the Czechs prevented from fleeing to Germany. They said there wasn’t even have a wall. They just relied on a mine field.
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5th Marines, DaNang ‘bro. You’ll have to take my word for it when I say nothing says “WRONG!” better than a M18 Claymore.
In addition the the wall we were *PROMISED*, Trump need to vacate Obama’s DACA executive order. Today would be tolerable.
As a nice gesture, Trump could also fire all of the worthless neocons he has appointed to various positions in the government, and his subversive leftist son-in-law, too.
Then congress, including the treasonous neocon RINO filth – like that worthless piece of shit McCain, needs to get rid of birthright citizenship – and also strip people with a claim on foreign citizenship of their US citizenship and deport them.
Flying Monkey, advocating that America emulate East Germany in any way, shape or form is a bad look and a terrible idea.
No sense spending all that money on a wall and have it being ineffective..
😉
Helicopter rides.
Nothing wrong with a wall – we are not keeping anyone in (as the East Germans) – rather we’re keeping the illegals out.
Hmmm… Why was the creator of Reichsekuritat… err, Homeland Security, the former head of the East German Stasi Markus Wolfe, again?
Because he knew how to keep people out?
The only real way to stop illegal crossings of men and materiel is with men and materiel, who are being wasted in countries that don’t want them or are not paying for their presence.
Solves a lot of budget issues when you have a super-short supply line.
Sounds like a deep state successful plan to me ! If the high figure guess is $29 billon , it’s probably a good bit more in real dollar figures .
Besides we (US) spent $8.5 billon to cut back opium poppies to reduce HERION production in Afghanistan and HERION production is up 20% and there is an epidemic of overdoses in the US . Again all part of the plan . Imagine if we made HERION legal and to regestered addicts we offer 2 choices healthcare help regarding their addiction or all the fucking pure safe HERION you can smoke drop shoot or rub into your belly , what ever you want . Overdose , gee that’s a shame we will cremate you and bottle you up for your family . As for all the other recreational drugs , fuck it legalize decriminalize and tax the sale . Wow no illegal drug trade , nothing for drug cartels to profit from . Nothing for Uncle Sam to bend the tax payers over and pound their asses till they bleed out with all the cash they can confiscate to fund themselves their enforcers pushing one failed program after another as your Wall Street supporters get wealthy supplying the tools of the trade . Do the math , I believe you will discover I am correct . Don’t leave out the Coast Guard in your cost benefit analysis !
No wall is needed. A simple, and cheap, shoot on sight order would suffice to stem the flow across the border.
But no one would dare to shoot people entering the country illegally. Not politically correct.
So, I guess it needs to be the wall.
Use the wall on the southern border. We can go with just snipers on the northern border – for now.
Can I have the 1st shot at Foxy & RiNS?
Mexico-A True History
For those of you who want a wall,Trump seems to be serious.
Why can’t that group that watched the border during Bush’s term be reconstituted?
http://www.speroforum.com/a/KGAIGTSACR53/80384-Border-wall-will-require-exercise-of-eminent-domain#.WROyDhMrIdU
Apparently we need a wall around certain neighborhoods.
http://eaglerising.com/43715/elderly-woman-body-slammed-thrown-in-pool-after-noise-complaint-video/
I don’t think it’s just brain dead liberals who think the wall is a useless idea. Several people I know who ain’t liberals say that removing incentives for immigration will solve the problem of illegals flooding in from the south.
The invasion through our airports are another matter, though. That is being done by people who aren’t going to influenced by anything short of hanging. I mean the architects of the muslim invasion, not just the individual muslims being flown in.
Why must I read articles like this on aggregator websites (e.g. zerohedge) before they are published on TBP?
Because we do not have enough original content to keep everyone glued to the screen all day.
Also,the admin tries to post good stuff no matter where it comes from.
If you’re new here,stick around,you’ll like it.
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