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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (46573)2/18/2009 8:17:23 PM
From: carranza22 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 217679
 
Wait until the kidnapping biz starts in the USA, as it inevitably will.

The entire world is eventually going to have to deal with this kind of 'new' crime, esp. after IHTF.

Having grown up in Mexico, I saw things slowly turn to s**t before my eyes. I saw my father hire a contingent of three or four machine-gun armed army guys in full battle regalia accompany the employee who every day deposited cash in the bank. I saw him start to take a different route home every day after a prominent pal got kidnapped and murdered in the early '70s. My family left in the late 1970s I think because my dad saw what was coming. It was tough to do because my family had roots there since the 1920s.

The drug stuff is very old hat in Mexico. The dealers started their biz in the 1930s, perhaps earlier. Everybody knew who was involved. Heck, I was asked by some drug dealers when I was eighteen years old [1969] to 'help' them with their biz in the US [I was in college here]. They were polite and nice as far as drug dealers go, and they didn't take my refusal personally [I am a dyed-in-the-wool believer in Mq's VVVs]. I am not so sure the current crop would take 'no' as graciously.

The incredible amounts of money involved in the drug and kidnapping trade make it a very enticing line of work for many uneducated enterprising people who would otherwise be destined to a life of poverty.
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