Regarding the call by the El Paso city council to begin a debate on the wisdom of the drug war, and the subsequent blackmailing of the city council by Rep. Silvestre Reyes, I failed to include this pithy little quote from the blackmailer:

“Reyes, however, told the Huffington Post that he doesn’t oppose a debate on legalization. He only opposed the timing, coming as it did as Obama was meeting with the Mexican president and Congress was debating the stimulus.”

Oh.  Well, excuse us.  We tried bringing this up before, but we were told the timing was bad because of Vietnam / Watergate / Recession / Rise of Communism / Iran-Contra / Fall of Communism / Fixing Health Care / Dot-Com bubble burst / 9-11 / Afghanistan / Iraq / or Wall Street collapsing.  We’ll try to be more polite next time and only bring legalization up when absolutely nothing else of importance is going on in Washington DC.

Sincerely,

The American People

And this extra little nugget of reportage I had forgotten that should make Rep. Silvestre Reyes one of the first people to call for a debate on the drug war:

A woman who reportedly is a relative of Congressman Silvestre Reyes was kidnapped in Juárez, then released with the help of U.S. law enforcement agencies.

The incident comes as kidnappings have become more common in Juárez possibly due to drug trafficking gangs snatching victims targeted for death or marks held for ransom to raise funds for the ongoing war for control of the region’s smuggling corridor.

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