Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Mexican candidate killed while handing out campaign flyers" video.

  1. How about we recognize that the War on Drugs only finances crime. We should have learned our lesson with Prohibition, a hundred years ago. Vice crimes cannot be stopped by legislation, and have no victims, get rid of vice laws. Do as many states have done with cannabis. Legalize all drugs and sell them in state run stores that tax them. This will both reduce crime, which would help reduce our prison population, and bring in revenue. It also would take away drug cartels' profits. Also, legalize prostitution so that sex workers are protected from disease and violent customers. That would also reduce revenue to mobs.
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  2. You're trivializing the power drug cartels have in Mexico and Central America. This is much more like Chicago a hundred years ago. The mobs run everything, and fear nothing. Police, politicians and judges are in their pockets. When a crusader comes along, attempting to clean things up, they are either corrupted or killed. Militia groups are like a pimple on the US's backside, the cartels are a cancer, that are eating the body of many Latin American countries.
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  3. The two things are totally unrelated. You may not like the GOP, but they are not a mob running drugs. Get a little perspective.
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  4.  @squirrelhunter1300  You're insane. We still have honest police and an uncorrupted justice system. You've no idea what it is like living in a place where the cops won't do their job, and everyone is on the take.
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  5.  @silkcitysocialist420  Thanks for the first intelligent comment.
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  6. Don't be an idiot. There is no comparison.
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  7. It takes a lot longer than four years for the corruption at the top to totally infest a country. Our courts held, and the DOJ is taking Trump on now. What is happening in Latin America is so much worse than anything you can imagine. There really is no justice. Break a law, don't worry, you can bribe your way out of it. This is a long time problem, not just four years ole. My family went to Mexico every year, in the 1960s and 1970s. My father carried a roll of $20 bills, and if we ever ran into problems, just kept pealing off one after the other, until the official was satisfied. And the problem went away. It was already corrupt then, and has only gotten worse.
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