An Open letter to Anonymous America

Can anyone say the War on Drugs is working? Is it reasonable to think drug trafficking can be terminated while demand runs endlessly? Is it even possible supply and demand have no correlation? Can one country fight a war for two independent countries?

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"I pray daily for a war with Mexico. Mexicans are a disgraceful people who have an even more disgraceful government. Let them fight their own drug war. I dare those cartels to even try coming HERE.America needs to nuke Mexico and take over the oil wells. Making Cancun American soil would be nice too."-Anonymous in Indianapolis

Is it possible for a human being to be so intellectually challenged that spewing the above quote would actually make sense? My response to Anonymous in Indianapolis is: “Wipe the blow off your nose and open your eyes..Your love of marijuana and lines of recreational nose candy are costing us our lives!

Ever see the Brad Pitt movie Babel? It’s a sad reality, our lives intersect in ways we may never consider. I agree, you have a right to your recreational vices, we all do, but it’s come down to the point where your weekend blow and weed fix has trumped my rights, that I have a problem with. You’re taking my right to raise my children in a safe and secure environment. You may very well, at any given time, take my very right to live. Are you starting to see the big picture, Indianapolis? My drug War is your drug use..

"The BBC News is reporting that the drug related violence in Mexico was especially intense this weekend: Eleven were killed, including a young girl. So what is Mexican president, Felipe CalderonFelipe Calderon doing about all this? Congratulating himself on job well done. Of course. You can always count on the Mexican government to be in step with it’s people."-Vivirlatino

It must be so easy to sit and judge someone and their efforts, especially when one doesn’t own a mirror. Is it bloody here? Without a doubt, in some areas. Is it lawless? Damn close, in other areas. Mexico has been said to be heading towards an anarchy, the cartels are simply too strong.

Although there is no question about President Calderon’s impressive efforts and achievements in cartel arrests and extraditions, it is simply a losing battle. We can’t stop you from getting what you want, no matter how many lives we sacrifice. Perhaps we should be questioning our purpose in the U.S. supported Mexican war on drugs.

I find it incredible the U.S. has the technology to spot a pimple on a mole’s ass in Taiwan, but can’t spot narco tunnels used to receive drugs from Mexico and supply arms to Mexico within their own territory? How does the blatant internal corruption and security breeches go unnoticed? How does the obvious remain so elusive? Where does YOUR responsibility lie? Where are YOUR efforts?

Plan Mexico is not a plan, it’s a farce. It earmarks millions of American taxpayer dollars (which most of is doubled back into American agencies to provide Mexico satellite feed, IntelIntel programs, and weapons training) to fight cartels while at the same time funding the same cartels billions of dollars in annual income from consumption earnings. Where's the strategy there? What's the plan in Plan Mexico?

I honestly do not believe there is an amount of money or effort in this world that can genuinely prohibit supply from meeting demand, especially when there is no true interest in focusing on it's root.

Nobody likes to do it, but there comes a time when a long hard look in the mirror is needed. Errors and personal faults must be both evaluated and acknowledged. Then, and only then, plans can be made which can allow the beginning of true change.

As for Anonymous in Indianapolis’ wish to see the cartels try to enter the U.S.: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

This isn’t a game, we could easily wish, pray or even demand that the U.S. fight their own war, if you want the drugs, take everything that comes with it, the whole damn package. After all, our lives were a lot sweeter when we just sat back and allowed our corrupt authorities to turn blinds eye to the trafficking to the U.S. with no attempts to stop it.

But, truth to be told, seeing your corruption exposed would not diminish ours. Seeing your pain and fear would in no way ease ours. Seeing your loved ones killed in drug cartel violence, would not bring back ours. We are, in this war, one and the same, if you bleed, we bleed.

The reality of this war,Anonymous, is our lives are the only thing stopping you from getting your wish. Believe it or not, there are many here in Mexico who maintain faith that this war, these sacrifices, can and will create a much needed change.

There are still men and women in Mexico, many of us, amongst our disgusting people and our disgusting government as you so tenderly put it, that are willing to bet their lives on their hope for a safer world for you and I and ours.

Eventually, the cartels may take them too. It is then, after all faith and change have been erased, and after wiping their hands of Mexico, they will knock on your door, looking for your child, wife, or husband. It is then you will begin to see mutilations, decapitations, torture, kidnappings, extortion and corruption up close and personal. Lastly, it is then, Anonymous, if we do not act fast to create a true bilateral plan, hope will be lost..for both of us.