Since posting alerts from CBP (Customs and Border Protection) over $2 billion dollars has been reported as confiscated from drug traffickers trying to bring the dope up from Mexico and into the United States.
SandBox began posting these alerts aprx. 3 months ago.
Sort of makes you wonder how opinion columnists like Johnny Boyd and lawmakers like Jared Polis (D-Colorado) can justify their rhetoric to legalize all drugs.
Can you imagine an unencumbered pipeline of dope flowing across all of our borders and into the US. You betcha. That's really going to lower the addiction rates and kill the market.
Since discovering "Nannygate", Johnny has learned all about google alerts. Here's a tip.
You can sign up for alerts from just about everywhere of interest to you. DOJ, CBP, ICE, DEA, every kind of sport there is, every search engine with specific keywords to tell them what to send to your email box.
'Nanny' challenges Rep. Polis and Johnny Boyd to do some homework over an extended period of time in all things dope and trafficking.
You might just think again and change your mind.
"Washington — On February 27, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Air and Marine (OAM) P-3 operating out of National Air Security Operations Center-Jacksonville, detected a go-fast vessel carrying 1,100 pounds of cocaine valued at more than $82 million.
The 35’ twin-engine vessel was spotted speeding north off the coast of Panama and appeared to be loaded with numerous packages when the Florida-based CBP P-3 began tracking the vessel. Local foreign law enforcement assets were called in to board the vessel and after inspection, several dozen bales of cocaine were recovered.
During FY 2011, the CBP P-3 fleet continued its anti-smuggling success by seizing or disrupting more than 148 thousand pounds of cocaine valued at more than $11.1 billion; 20.6 pounds seized for every flight hour, valued at $1.5 million for every hour flown.
CBP OAM P-3s have been an integral part of the successful counter-narcotic missions operating in coordination with the Joint Interagency Task Force – South (JIATFS). The P-3s patrol in a 42-million square-mile area of the Western Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in search of drugs that are in transit towards U.S. shores. The P-3s’ distinctive detection capabilities allow highly-trained crews to identify emerging threats well beyond the land borders of the U.S. By providing surveillance of known air, land, and maritime smuggling routes in an area that is twice the size on the Continental U.S., the P-3s detect and monitor illegal air, land, and maritime smuggling activities before they reach the shores.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
3 comments:
The sheer volume of drugs brought up from just our southern borders alone has always been the dirty little secret that pro-legalization of all recreational drugs hawkers never want to acknowledge or talk about.
For every $15 million dollar pot bust there are billions of dollars of pot that are not caught. We don't have enough manpower, enough funding or equipment and K-9's to do the job. These agents do the best they can and they do that every single day.
But you can count on it that billions of dollars of all kinds of drugs and narcotics do manage to get into the states every year. The same as billions of dollars more get caught and confiscated. If all those drugs were legalized we'd be a nation of addicts and have no control. To these cartels there is no such thing as enough money and they are not going to regulate themselves.
Whenever I hear the stump speech of these talking heads and politicians wanting to legalize I can't help but think that they must not have a friend or loved one that's been sucked into drug addiction. If they did and they educated themselves on the magnitude of the problem and the numbers they would not be able to advocate legalizing this killer.
What gets me in reading these posts by nanny on customs and border is how innovative these cartels are on their methods of smuggling. The other post on the pot bust you know that's not the first tanker truck or the only tanker truck that had a dual tank and fake core. Same thing on the lime bags. The biggest problem I would think is that the stuff gets nabbed but the government and cops on the cartel end have nothing to gain by working with us to investigate and prosecute. And that's where somebody like Johnny goes down another wrong path in their thinking. In order to make legalization work there has to be a mutual trade agreement between countries. That's not going to happen with south american nations or middle east. With the trump of what you're saying anonymous the legalization theory is taken down before it can get any traction. Why should we put our people in the ruthless hands of countries that do not have our interests in mind? Good busts from these border guys and god bless their drug dogs. Stay the course.
Our area is ripe with I70 running through it and a lifelong history up in Aspen of party town with a wide open drug culture. In Denver and Pueblo and the Springs we've got I25. Schrant's bust in Aspen proved the cartel ties and everything going on in Mesa county has done same. As long as this entire country has an apathetic media that also gets away with coverups by omission, spreading obvious untruths and what really amounts to a lot more than bullying by performing acts of social murder; we're going to never be able to legalize any part of the drug problem. The media is our only source of information and nobody in their right mind really trusts any outlet any more. In the case of our area we're lucky enough to have some independents and local owned and operated that at least try. I look at the final warning US attorney Walsh gave a week or two ago that the feds are coming to shut down the farce our elected officials put on us of legalizing medical pot and feel real sorry for the legit patients who need the medicinal properties. They've given up adn gone back to legal drugs that aren't controlled by the hype of these groups, lawyer advocates and the media. There's a lot to be said for quality of life as an extender of life or even a cure. The trickle down effect mass media has on the war on drugs, politics, development shams like base village and meadows, crime and justice are all wrong and unjust on so many levels it boggles the mind. People will get more independent in looking after themselves. At least the majority of our cops and agents we can count on. Thank you to these border guys. Nice job and your dogs are awesome.
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