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To: TobagoJack who wrote (66189)	9/19/2010 12:14:15 AM
From: Hawkmoon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218551

I'm assuming you mean the shootings at Kent State during the Vietnam war by National Guard soldiers? Do you have any concept of how dramatic an impact that action had upon the overall of US society? It happened, it was wrong.. and it created political change and the government was held accountable at the polls. en.wikipedia.org Btw, it's a MAJOR DIFFERENCE when a government uses military force to suppress the voicing of it's citizens will via demonstrations BECAUSE THEY LACK ANY POLITICAL MEANS OF DOING SO VIA ELECTIONS. Demonstrations in a democratic society have little excuse for becoming violent since participants ultimately have the ability to exercise their vote at the polls to hold the government accountable. And btw BJ, why do you continue to equate HK as reflective of the policies of Bejing? From my perspective Bejing is exploiting the capitalist entrepreneurialship of what UK administration created over the past 160 years. As for the "drug war" and US responsibility for Mexico's plight, my off the cuff response is that it's a border control issue. The US federal government has been consistently derelict in controlling it's borders. This is evidenced by the number of illegal immigrants we have living here. But there is a growing debate about legalizing marijuana as a means of transferring the profits from the cartels to the coffers of the Federal and State governments. I'm not particularly opposed to this if the majority of tax revenues are directed into rehabilitation and de-tox. But this is not going to solve the overall lack of public order, if not a threat to Mexico's political existence, by criminal organizations. Increasingly Mexico is becoming a "Narco-state". And the amount of violence there is rivaling the human toll we've seen in Afghanistan, and currently in Iraq. Hawk