Christopher “Dudus” Coke has finally been arrested outside Kingston and all of Jamaica can rest at ease now that America has gotten their man. I have remained rather silent about the whole affair because of how volatile the subject is but I felt it was time to make some remarks. I have no doubt that Mr Coke is a bad man and drug dealer who deserves to be arrested but my only question is why does Jamaica have to hand over one of their citizens to the United States at this time.
The common rationale is that this drug kingpin has committed crimes in America but I have to ask how many other drug kingpins are out there and the timing of the US actions. If you look at statistics it seems that Jamaica has become rather lax in enforcement of drug laws with drug seizures in the last year a small percentage of the amounts seized in previous years. Actually it seems the statistics show that Jamaica has been lax on drug enforcement ever since California legalized ganja and one must question why the United States government has chosen this drug kingpin to be arrested now when we know of so many drug kingpins in the United States, Mexico and even Canada.
A total of 76 Jamaicans died trying to apprehend this man and he is not even charged with a capital crime. The Cali cartel in Mexico is directly responsible for the death of 100′s of Americans but they have never chosen to go after those guys. As a matter of fact US police officers in Mexico border states are receiving death threats in America by Mexican drug lords but no one seems to care about that. We don’t see any US DEA agents knocking down the capital city like they did in Kingston.
The Jamaican police shot and killed those 76 Jamaican men and women using guns given to them by the United States. Do the American need to send some more guns to Mexico so they can capture the kingpins there or should we not worry about our southernmost neighbor with the longest border touching American soil? Mexican drug dealers dig tunnels into America and funnel drugs and illegal aliens directly in the country and all Dudus has been accused of is paying other Jamaicans to suitcase drugs way back in the 90′s.
Apparently Dudus is a has been in the US drug trade and his influence in America is weak at best. If Dudus was in fact importing cocaine into America it is a crime but the question is where does the cocaine come from? its not grown in Jamaica. There are no cocoa plants or drug labs in Jamaica. It’s nothing more than a small middle man in the billion dollar drug trade. If we want to stop cocaine from entering America maybe we need to invade South America where they actually make the cocaine.
Beyond the 76 persons killed I can assure you that a number of my friends have canceled travel plans to Jamaica this year because of the news of violence and unrest in the capital. How much do you think this has cost Jamaica in tourism dollars? Is 76,000 a reasonable number or do you think it approaches 76 million instead? how much is one drug kingpin worth and at what cost do we say thats enough? Would it be ok to have killed 100 men in search of a drug dealer? How about 100 million in lost revenues and bad press? Is that too small or too large a price to pay for one man?
Alleged drug kingpin arrested in Jamaica – CNN.com
Kingston, Jamaica (CNN) — Police in Jamaica issued a plea for calm after the arrest of alleged drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke outside Kingston.Tags: guns, Jamaica, jamaicans, kingston, re, travelThe arrest occurred just outside the capital city on Tuesday afternoon. A failed attempt to arrest Coke last month resulted in four days of gun battles between security forces and his supporters that left 76 people dead, and authorities want to avoid a repeat of the violence.
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Unfortunately the US has strayed from is roots of freedom starting in the early 1900s. Nothing in the constitution allows for the regulation of any substance an adult chooses to put into their own body. You can’t legally smoke a joint but you can abort a child if you don’t want it, how is that sane? But the government just grows more powerful and selectively ignores the constitution and what is stands for,
The drug war is a failure, a waste of resources, and has created massive criminal networks around the world, just like prohibition did in the 20′s. The US has strayed from it’s founding principals of freedom of choice and leaving other sovereign countries alone. I don’t know about this Coke guy, no doubt he has committed many crimes beyond drug trafficking but I doubt if cocaine and ganja were legal that anyone would resort to such extremes as the profit in the product would not exist and you could grow your own.
The good thing is that recently portions of America have begun to wake up, educate themselves on history and are attempting to turn us back to the principals of our founding fathers and reduce government control. And one day, hopefully in my lifetime, we will see the US stop it’s financial and physical bullying of other countries, legalize freedom once again, and repair it’s relationships.
I could go on and on, I’m sorry for the hassles this country gives others but the Libertarians have never given up respect for others and their rights. We just happen to be in a very small minority.
I’ll be down there soon for a tour and some good ganja, live on Bob, we miss you.