Sunday saw another article on the worrisome level of drug trade violence plaguing Mexico. (The link is to the Arizona Daily Star -- the web page attributes to the Dallas Morning News, but I could not find it on the DMN web site -- let us know if you spot it there.) The tone was ominous:

The scale of the lawlessness, its geographical reach, and the apparent inability of the government to keep it in check threaten Mexico's political stability, some analysts warn.

Analyst Javier Ibarrola of the Milenio newspaper says it is worse than it has ever been:

"I have never seen anything like this, ever," Ibarrola said.

In 2003, Harrison County (Mississippi) Sheriff George Payne got a tip from a confidential informant (that's law-speak for "snitch") that marijuana plants were being grown on land leased to the Boarhog Hunting Club. Payne led a crew of lawman onto the property and chopped them all down, even though a field test on a sample plant didn't identify it as marijuana.

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A page of interest. Link to a web page about VOLSTEADISM. A short controversial, informative page LINK ---> http://www.hometown.aol.com/mrthinkit/Mrthinkit8.html

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates Necessary and Proper, Opposition to the Constitution, September 7,10, 15, 1787 (begining on page 171..175) Mr Randolph took this opportunity to state his objection to the System... on the general clauses concerning necessary and proper laws... Colonel Mason seconded and followed Mr. Randolph.. the laws will therfore be generally made by men little concerned in, and unaquanted with their effects and consequences. ...Under their own construction of the general clause, at the end end of the enumerated powers, the Congress may grant monopolies in trade and commerce, constitute new crimes, inflict unusual and severe punishments, and extend their powers as far as they shall think proper, so that the state legislatures have no security for the powers now presumed to remain to them, or the people for their rights.

Testing, testing, 123... round 7, this is a fairly complicated system thus far...