Heads will roll...

There's a guy in the Mexican security establishment who is making a bit of news today with a claim that US anti-drug strategies are designed to manage the drugs trade, not eradicate it.

No shit!

But his head's gonna roll.

When heads roll in Mexico we're not talking metaphorically. His head will roll.

To get a head to roll requires that it be severed from the body that it is appended to. No problem. Our allies in the War On Drugs are sure to look after that.

But that bit of news trivia led to quite the discussion here at Falling Downs.

Seems the Farm Manager was a social worker in her youth. Worked for a few years in the Regent Park area of Toronto, where then as now the drugs economy is pretty much the only economy.

The Rob Ford anti-drug policy is a bit of a gray area at the moment. Rob is the law-and-order Toronto mayor who got elected by promising the middle-class masses he was gonna get tough on crime.

Crime has been on the down-tick in Toronto as well as in the rest of Canada for the last forty years, so you might think it's tough to get elected on a get-tough-on-crime platform.

You'd be wrong. The Rob Ford mayoral campaign had a secret helper; niggers with guns.

If there's one thing that scares the shit out of middle-class folks everywhere, and I'm not just talking about the white middle class, it's the prospect of young black gangstas packin' Glocks and Berettas and Colts.

So a couple of our young gangsta wannabees gave Rob Ford the gift of a lifetime a couple of weeks ago by emptying their clips at one another at a neighborhood streeter.

They didn't actually manage to shoot each other, but they got a couple dozen bystanders. Two of those bystanders died.

That's led to the predictable tsunami of anti-gun rhetoric in the Canadian media.

Should we ban all guns everywhere?

Should we ban bullets?

Should we should we ban ban ban....

No.

Guns are not the problem.

As the Farm Manager figured out in her sojourn at Regent Park all those years ago, the problem is that there are no opportunities for young Black men to achieve meaningful lives in the mainstream economy.

Which leaves them the drugs economy.

Idiot Ford can rant all he wants about banning convicted gun-crime felons from his city. None of that will change the fact that when you don't have a hope in hell of making it in the real economy, you're going to take whatever chances you have to take in the other one.