Isn't it Already Illegal to Traffic Drugs in a Submarine?
Joe Biden! Hello! I just read your new press release and I need help understanding what the hell you're trying to do:
Legislation Takes Aim at the Use of Submarines for Drug Trade;
House Passes Key Biden Provisions TodayWashington, DC – U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, introduced the Drug Trafficking Interdiction Assistance Act of 2008 (S.3351), legislation designed to help disrupt drug trafficking by criminalizing the use of unregistered, un-flagged submersible or semi-submersible vessels in international waters whose operators intend to evade detection. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) joined Sen. Biden in introducing this bill, which will give authorities a new tool to go after the drug lords who have been using this technology to avoid prosecution. [sorry, no link]
Raise your hand if you think anyone who moves drugs by the submarine-full gives a flying crap about the law. Ok, then.
This is the kind of legislation that makes drug lords cough up their caviar with laughter. They're building submarines in the f@#king jungle. They'll dig a tunnel from Bogota to Brooklyn if they have to and I really don’t understand why Joe Biden is even bothering to pretend they give a damn about anything he does. Give us a break, seriously.
The drug war is wasteful, brutal and destructive enough without our politicians goofing around dreaming up ludicrous, useless legislation at our expense. Just stop. You're embarrassing us all.
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Comment posted by smorgan on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:10pmYes, I've read about that. Good luck thwarting the drug traffickers by tossing their mules behind bars for decades at enormous expense to the American tax-payer.
Has it occurred to you that the crew is worth less to the drug lords than the dope they so casually dump to the bottom of the ocean? If you think this will change anything, just watch.