Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal government now does unconstitutional.
“I don’t think there’s any way to solve this permanently without military action,” Meckler declared. “[We need a buffer zone] like the DMZ between the Koreas. It needs to be a kilometer of cleared territory that is a no man zone; you come in here and we believe you have hostile intent, we’re going to clear you out.”
“We need to exterminate the cartels and that means going into Mexico,” Meckler asserted. “Now people would say, ‘You’re violating a sovereign country’s territory.’ Well, Mexico is not a sovereign country any longer. Mexico is a failed narco state. The federal government is not in control of their military. The federal government is not in control of their police Their state governments are not, their local governments are not in control of their police forces. That is a failed narco-terrorist state and so we have to treat it as such.”
“To me, this is like Gaza. They’re invading our country. They’re invading our country every day. They’re killing our people, and we have to go in and use maximum force to oust them and create a buffer zone along the border. If we do that, we’ll have border security. It’s that simple.”
ok, well, lets roll that back a little bit.
Let’s say we help mexico in getting rid of the cartels. And then mexico can actually deal with it’s problems. Now we’re getting somewhere.
Frankly, i think the only true border solution, is dissolution of the cartels, in whatever manner that happens to be. Then facilitating good relations with mexico, considering their place as a trade partner at the moment, that just seems universally beneficial.
You know, because the only people crossing the border are Mexicans. And Mexican cartels have been the only driver of emigration.
the cartels are a significant driver behind trafficking. It doesn’t matter that it’s only mexicans, it matters that the cartels have control over the border. As that’s what allows them to traffic.
We could end Cartels in a year by just decriminalizing all drugs. And there is evidence that this, accompanied by a comprehensive addiction recovery drive is actually MORE effective at reducing drug use than punishing addicts.
But since Cruelty is the Point here in the U.S. for half the voting population don’t see it happening any time soon.
that is also a valid strategy, but there are complications to that of which i will not get into since that is beyond the point. Though that would really only remove the drug trade from the cartel, other crime, and various shenaniganry would still be up for the taking (they might even increase human trafficking)