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Topic: 'Paige' at Brand X: "This is what Mexican Truckers are bringing in" (Read 488 times)
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IBMMuseum
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At Brand X (http://tinyurl.com/cfjhnx), Alicrapper Paige titles and gives a leading comment on a news article. I've marked up the article to show some details. My comments are below.
"This is what Mexican Truckers are bringing in"
It ain't food http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=44678426&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Police seize 1,200 pounds of pot in spinach cans New Mexico police seize 1,200 pounds of pot packed in cans labeled as spinach Staff AP News Mar 10, 2009 20:19 EST Police with the New Mexico Motor Transportation Division found 1,200 pounds of pot packed in cans labeled as spinach during a stop at the Gallup port of entry. An inspector noticed that only a few of the cans were labeled and that the weight printed on the side of the can didn't match the actual weight. A closer look during last Friday's bust revealed the canned drugs, which were worth an estimated $1.5 million. The four pallets of cans were being transported along with fresh produce. The 50-year-old truck driver said he was on his way from California to the East Coast. The driver and the pot were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Source: AP News
I had watched this news story on Univision a few days ago, but didn't remember the specifics until the post at Brand X. For those actually keeping up with the news, I know this isn't a Mexican truck (specifically for the timeframe, the distance from the border in New Mexico, and the route the driver gave). The Gallup "Port of Entry" isn't even on the border (almost 400 miles away), but rather along I-40 in the Northwest corner of the state (interstate inspection stations). The truck originated from California and was travelling east, not coming north from Mexico.
Under previous arrangement (now up in the air) Mexican trucks were allowed 25 miles into New Mexico, California, and Texas, 75 miles into Arizona (at the same time of Canadian trucks being unimpeded for the same agreement)...
So Paige should have titled the article: "What U.S. trucking is hauling while the United States doesn't honor its North American Free Trade Agreement commitment"...
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tony_cheek
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I don't know about that.
That "Amero" story is still going around...
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It's coming out now that the majority of US Senators and Representatives knew nothing of the nuts and bolts of the Mexican truck program. Ray Lahood, now Secretary of Transportation asked in February who "owned" the Cross Border Program and what it was about. He voted to end it when he was a Congressman.
North of Laredo, we see trucks in impound at the checkpoint constantly and these trucks are US registered and owned, driven by "good ol true Americkun patriotic Amerikun good ol boys" trying to make a buck off of those they publicly denounce
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It's coming out now that the majority of US Senators and Representatives knew nothing of the nuts and bolts of the Mexican truck program. Ray Lahood, now Secretary of Transportation asked in February who "owned" the Cross Border Program and what it was about. He voted to end it when he was a Congressman...
Yes, making the "Alicrapper Assumption" that thinks 'Mexican' when they see 'marijuana' (and many other things) much worse. Speaking of the word 'marijuana', how is that an entire AP wire says 'pot' instead? Maybe I am wanting the article to be more professional, and providing details on the truck and truck driver:
Where was the "spinach" canned?
Why did the state of Arizona miss the same things (label not being wrapped all the way around the can, difference in weight between dry-packed marijuana and spinach in water) the NMDOT inspection station found?
(Seeing the picture) Doesn't the NMDOT have a proper can opener in the Gallup office?
I've found a couple other comments around on the story, so it isn't limited to Alicrappers:
"...i wonder how many cans of special mexican spinach have not been found at the border..."
"...Let this be a lesson to anyone who is considering smuggling drugs into the country..."
There is also a more recent incident at the same inspection station with more drugs (and thankfully more information, where the same AP wire service actually says 'marijuana' this time):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29882144/
NM officers find cocaine, pot in crates
KOB-TV
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - A random inspection at the Gallup port of entry turned up a stash of cocaine and marijuana inside wooden crates that were being transported on a flatbed truck.
Officers with the Motor Transportation Division stopped the truck Sunday and found 57 pounds of cocaine and 1,400 pounds of marijuana wrapped in cellophane and hidden in the crates. The load was covered by a tarp.
The two men in the truck - a 41-year-old man from Nevada and a 36-year-old man from California - told police they were on their way to Michigan. They were arrested and turned over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Authorities say the cocaine was worth an estimated $570,000 and the marijuana about $1.7 million.
But even with the additional information, more questions:
Cocaine is appromately $10,000 per pound street value?...
And marijuana $1,250 per pound?...
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IBM, that sorta kinda makes sense - after all, no one goes to the local streetcorner pharmacologist and orders marijuana by the pound (except maybe Cheech and Chong, and lets face it, those those dudes are facing Social Security. It's usually bought by the gram, and there's 454 grams (rounded) to the pound. the average marijuana cigarette holds .4 grams of weed (Google is wonderful!) so a gram would make about 2.5 cigarettes, or about 300 "roaches." So, divide $1,250 by 181 (the number of marijuana cigarettes you would make, on average from a pound of mj,) and you come up with... oh, about seven bucks per. Not exactly Wal-Mart prices, but then, affordable enough on a stoner's salary.
Regardless, you have some good points in that post - who's canning the pot? I for one would look into bankrupt or recently closed small canneries. The story doesn't mention whether the cans were fresh or recycled with welded caps on them, so it could be a small plant. I wouldn't think a functioning plant would try to can pot, especially since it takes so long to clean the equipment (not something you could do on a night shift, for example.) However, a recently closed cannery would be ideal: machinery still in place and operational, no need to sterilize the machinery, and once the process was automated,you'd only need a skeleton crew to keep it running.
And the shoddy job of labeling...man, no one trying to sneak something across the border would be that sloppy, especially when it takes next to nothing to strip the label off a can and glue it on a new can.
No, this is some homegrown, lazy-assed white boy shit.
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...Regardless, you have some good points in that post - who's canning the pot? I for one would look into bankrupt or recently closed small canneries. The story doesn't mention whether the cans were fresh or recycled with welded caps on them, so it could be a small plant. I wouldn't think a functioning plant would try to can pot, especially since it takes so long to clean the equipment (not something you could do on a night shift, for example.) However, a recently closed cannery would be ideal: machinery still in place and operational, no need to sterilize the machinery, and once the process was automated,you'd only need a skeleton crew to keep it running.
And the shoddy job of labeling...man, no one trying to sneak something across the border would be that sloppy, especially when it takes next to nothing to strip the label off a can and glue it on a new can.
No, this is some homegrown, lazy-assed white boy shit.
Yes, this is a domestic operation (by someone seeing a "stash-can" advertisement and thinking they could take it one step further). To get a shoddily-packaged pallet of cans across the border, then to have it quickly detected at a DOT inspection station crossing state lines would be near-impossible. The second news story could even be a more sloppy (hide it in crates, covered by a tarp) follow-up by the same operation since the first shipment was stopped.
And that was a "random" check...
So it is clear a few things need to be done. Use at least the same effort (I realize the different agencies at play, where you can't quickly shift personnel from one to another) that happens at workplace enforcement raids in checks for drugs on domestic trucking (thus cutting into potheads rather than workers). Instead of Border Patrol checkpoints and stops, do that more with the American transportation industry (and bring in more drug dogs).
What is a delay at a checkpoint if you have nothing to hide (typical Alicrapper Argument)?...
We could even do some CSI shit to roughly figure out where it came from (the pot, not cocaine). A few years back they caught a hunter in Michigan (it just sealed their theories with evidence) by analyzing what the deer ate. Turns out there wasn't that type of plant where he was licenced to hunt.
After all, we need to shut that drug transportation organization down, right?...
The irony here (not being Mexican trucks), is particulary rich...
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