Monday, July 8, 2013

Eradicate Los Zetas Drug Cartel

Open email to Atty. Gen. Holder:

Dear Atty. Gen. Holder,
    The Washington Times reports that the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas known for kidnapping random civilians and beheading its rivals has expanded its operations into the U.S.. Los Zetas is recruiting U.S. prison and street gangs, and non-Mexicans, for its drug trafficking and support operations in Mexico and the U.S.
Your FBI has issued an intelligence bulletin, which notes that “multiple sources” report the shift in Los Zetas recruiting. The cartel sought to maintain a highly disciplined and structured hierarchy by recruiting members with specialized training, such as former military and law enforcement officers. “The FBI judges with high confidence that Los Zetas will continue to increase its recruitment efforts and establish pacts with non-military trained, nontraditional associates to maintain their drug-trafficking and support operations, which may increase violence along the Southwest border posing a threat to U.S. national security,” the bulletin says.
Four men were convicted in Austin in May for their roles in a conspiracy to launder millions of dollars in Los Zetas drug money. In November, five reputed Los Zetas members were named in a federal grand jury indictment in a Chicago-based drug operation that transported more than $12 million in drug profits between Chicago and Mexico. FBI agents also seized more than 550 pounds of the gang’s cocaine in the Chicago area.
Those court actions indicate that your people are active in pursuing and inhibiting the actions of Los Zetas. However, there is no indication that Los Zetas considers this anymore than a minor cost in their continuing efforts to do business.
May I respectively remind you that this is supposed to be a country of laws; incidentally, not a country of regulations. Congress makes the laws, which you have the responsibility to enforce. We will grant that Congress makes too many laws, and it would be almost impossible for you to enforce everything. However, you have the responsibility to decide on allocation of resources to various problem areas. It seems to me that the actions of Los Zetas are a scourge on American society, and you should be making every effort to reduce their operations to almost zero, such that their cost of doing business exceeds their possible gains. This was done in handling the Mafia in 1929, and there is no reason why your organization cannot repeat it. I realize that we are in a period of trying to reduce the size of government, but law enforcement is for me an area of exemption.
May I count on you to  apply every effort to reduce the operations of  Los Zetas essentially to zero, or do you intend to only continue harassing them?

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