While I believe that if people want to take drugs, it's their problem, I despise drug dealers. In my days with the tribe, I publicly advocated something like a "bounty" on dealers. Shoot a meth dealer on rez, get a free lunch at the Casino and some free slot play. While a popular idea with some of the elders and the Chief of Police, it didn't get very far. While we're rescuing the various banking houses, this would be a good time to pardon everybody in the calaboose for possession charges, give them a grand to get back on their feet, and toss 'em out. Then, legalize the shit, test it for purity and tax it like cigarettes. Be a steady income stream out of it. Close down the DEA and have them merge with BATF and the SEC.
While I may be confused by this, the news that drug runners were bringing in seven tons of cocaine is kind of interesting, especially since in the Coast Guard Video, we see the bad guys forget to use the one reason you would use a sub to do this -- they stayed on the surface. I have no idea what the Captain Nemo like tube on the back of the thing was for -- turbo, maybe? But if this was a diesel electric sub, being stuck on the surface could be due to some heavy mismanagement of air and battery supply. However, I like to think that the scum were too stoned to remember the dive sequence...
However, as I read further, I discovered that these silly things aren't really submarines in the "AhhoogahAAAhhhhoogah!Dive!Dive!Dive!" sense.
The drug subs, also known as narco-subs, are homemade and 25 to 65 feet long. They generally can carry 3 to 5 tons of cocaine and are designed solely for smuggling drugs, Navy officials said.While the semi-submersibles cannot dive, the boats are dangerous to capture, putting boarding parties at particular risk, because they have valves that allow smugglers to abandon and sink the vessel quickly, Navy officials said.The use of the subs has grown in recent years. Relatively few are captured as smugglers often scuttle them when detected.
I know the Navy boarded a couple of Nazi subs in WWII, but I don't think the Coast Guard did. So hurray for them...hey, we could use the taxes from the dope to pay for the bailout.
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