Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, alleged head of the TOTALLY AWESOME Zetas!!!, who goes by the totally awesome alias "40," was apparently captured by Mexican authorites over the weekend, a few miles from the United States. This should lead to some totally awesome head-chopping among the Zetas's lower echelons as underlings fight for succession, and between them and other gangs as their rivals sense an opportunity to kill the wounded beast. If you live in Mexico and are nostalgic for the bloody ol' days of 2010, break out the, um... whatever now-out-of-date stuff people wore in 2010. We don't pay a lot of attention to fashion.
(Not for nuthin', but the Mexican Army really needs to install some no-slip flooring the in detention center men's room. Poor Treviño looks like he must have fallen face-first into the edge of the sink three or four times before his booking photo was taken.)
Of course, like many sociopathic Mexicans who use American guns and American money to terrorize other Mexicans in order to ensure the safe passage of America's drug supply, 40 honed his criminal chops in that bastion of zero-tolerance law and order, Texas.
Film aficionados will recognize this as basically the character-development part of Scarface.
Needless to say, this should be a pretty interesting trial. With a lot of English-speaking witnesses, we imagine.
Stolen entire from Burro Hall. Did we learn nothing from Prohibition? NO WE DID NOT, and further we refuse to learn anything. We are AMERICANS and we can be as stupid as we want to be. If you aren't part of the ruling class we will use whatever excuse we want to take whatever we want away from you. I should stop now, before I get myself all worked up this. It just makes me angry, which makes me grumpy, and then I annoy my family. On the other hand, it entertains my friends, so maybe being grumpy isn't all bad.
(Not for nuthin', but the Mexican Army really needs to install some no-slip flooring the in detention center men's room. Poor Treviño looks like he must have fallen face-first into the edge of the sink three or four times before his booking photo was taken.)
Of course, like many sociopathic Mexicans who use American guns and American money to terrorize other Mexicans in order to ensure the safe passage of America's drug supply, 40 honed his criminal chops in that bastion of zero-tolerance law and order, Texas.
Much remains unknown about Treviño Morales’ time in North Texas and about his transformation from teenage delinquent to cartel capo. But law enforcement officials say his time here was formative, presenting opportunities for the young man and shaping his attitudes, which took on a hard edge. It was here, they say, that Treviño Morales came of age as a criminal.
“Dallas became sort of his playground,” said Jeff Stamm, a veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent, adding that Treviño Morales and other Zetas-to-be advanced their careers in North Texas. “That’s part of the game here — they can transform themselves.”...
...In his time in Texas, Treviño Morales learned about power, money, weapons and the vast consumer market for illegal drugs, law enforcement officials said. Texas offered opportunities, but with an anti-Mexican bias, a factor that grated on him.
“He felt Mexican immigrants were discriminated against, that Americans were too prejudiced against Mexican immigrants,” said Oscar Hagelsieb, assistant special agent in charge of the investigative unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso.
Film aficionados will recognize this as basically the character-development part of Scarface.
A fifth federal indictment, unsealed in June 2012 in Austin, accuses Treviño Morales and others of banking drug profits in the purchase of more than 400 quarter horses, including top prize winners, in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and California. U.S. prosecutors are asking for forfeiture of $60 million in an amended money laundering indictment. ...
Treviño Morales hasn’t been seen in Dallas since 2005, when he was reportedly seen in a strip club, law enforcement officials say...
Needless to say, this should be a pretty interesting trial. With a lot of English-speaking witnesses, we imagine.
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Stolen entire from Burro Hall. Did we learn nothing from Prohibition? NO WE DID NOT, and further we refuse to learn anything. We are AMERICANS and we can be as stupid as we want to be. If you aren't part of the ruling class we will use whatever excuse we want to take whatever we want away from you. I should stop now, before I get myself all worked up this. It just makes me angry, which makes me grumpy, and then I annoy my family. On the other hand, it entertains my friends, so maybe being grumpy isn't all bad.
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I have not read this book, but plan to:
https://newjimcrow.com/
There are many negative reviews and, initially, I was swayed. But then I realized that these reviewers were being obtuse and simply avoiding the author's central premise.
The war on drugs consists mostly of arbitrary made up crimes. These "crimes" can be detected and prosecuted, or not, with extreme discretion. That's why a prosecutor once asked Rick Steves why he was so passionate about legalizing cannabis. After all, he said, "You're a rich white guy; you'll never be prosecuted." QED.
You might want to take a look at this:
https://alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/black-history-month-will-it-ever-be-black-future-month/
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