NY Daily News Offers Virtual Lynch Mob
June 11th, 2009 by Russ
Tuesday’s New York Daily News featured a story about an artsy fellow entrapped by police in a sting operation for selling weed, ecstasy and LSD. The obviously non-violent William Delp described himself as an filmmaker, composer, and social activist. His part time work at a Columbia University art studio apparently earned the headline in the paper.
While Delp is chalked up as another non-violent victim of the War on Drugs, a far more interesting development was the comment stream on the Daily News’s website.
User hjo4 noted:
I don’t know what world you live in but a drug dealer does more harm to society at large than a sick demented person who roasts a kitten. Both acts are despicable but drug abuse cost us ALL.
Thank you, hj04. If only we pursued serial kitten-roasters with the same fervor as casual psychedelic users in this country — we might one day eliminate the scourge of charred kittens altogether.
In response to a Delp neighbor comment that he was seen often flashing the peace sign, internet humanitarian, ThisisJoeGaggs noted:
Anyone who is constantley using the peace sign is a coward, only a coward will seek peace on a constant basis. When I want to use a greeting I use the WAR sign, which is done by holding up the first three fingers to form a W. Columbia is filled with a bunch of dis-illusioned future cowards who don’t have the brains or balls to understand that in order to achieve peace one must destroy his enemies.
There you have it folks. The voice of the War on Drugs. Murdering, raping, and turning cities into rubble is fine and dandy as long as it is done to enemy peoples (and preferably in countries that most Americans can’t visualize on a map.) Expanding your mind with plant cultivation, on the other hand, is the refuge of cowards and kitten roasters. Well said.
Federales Nab Colombian Smuggler/Seaman
December 16th, 2008 by Perry
Enrique Portocarrero, a Colombian shrimp fisherman, was recently arrested and now faces extradition to the United States, on smuggling and conspiracy charges.
Portocarrero was charged with building more than a dozen mini-semi-submersibles, similar to a submarine although the crafts don’t fully submerge.
The vessels are designed to carry up to 8 tons of cargo and went for a million dollars a pop. The real value lied in the ship’s ability to avoid detection; leaving a small heat signature and negligible sonar appearance. The craft could make make the money back several times over after one trip.
The shift to submarines was made over a year ago, when all licensed craft off of the Colombian and Ecuadorean coasts became required to carry GPS signals, so police could track them.
Some of the semi-sub’s specs:
- 60-feet long
- 350-horsepower diesel engines
- Four-man crew
- State-of-the-art radio, GPS and satellite telephone communications
- Range of 2,000 miles
Fiberglass, Submarines & Drugs
November 4th, 2008 by Alex
We all know the new hot fad in drug smuggling is homemade submarines, but have any of us ever seen one?
Well, here are two images fresh from the wire. A fiber glass submarine with 1.6 tons of cocaine was found and seized in southern Colombia. Good times.
One more after the jump…
[photo via AP Photo/Fernando Vergara]
Colombian Drug Cartel: Driver Wanted
April 25th, 2007 by Tim
Since we’re already on the subject, here is one more photoset of another large cocaine bust.
In Colombia, a place not known for its traffic safety, a ton of cocaine was discovered after the truck transporting it crashed. It must be a nice day for police officers to have 2,000+ pounds of coke just fall into your lap like that.
You know that heads were rolling in someone’s bodega after a screw up of that proportion.
See more pictures after the jump…
Don’t Drug Traffic in Columbia
February 5th, 2007 by Alex
At the end of 2006 and continuing into this year, certain Latin American governments have launched a heavy offensive against drug cartels. The most publicized of these was Mexico’s various efforts, including the use of it’s army to eradicate grow operations in extremely rural areas.
Columbia is another country pushing forward with anti-trafficking operations. The picture above is of police guarding more than two tons of marijuana that was confiscated near the border of Venezuela.
So here’s my question, are the red-packaged bricks individual size and the giant white one’s a valu-pack?
[AP Photo/Leonardo Munoz]
