The Cartel Gunfight in the Foothills of Silicon Valley 

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@@PentaRaus you wish lmao the cartels are their pride and joy, they're definitely keeping a close eye.

In the wealthy community….

Some of the memebers of those wealthy communities also demand some magic powder.

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Mike - thats a very interesting aspect and aligns with my own comment above - fight fire with fire. Would Trump get support to gear up on home defence ? Australia

@jamesrebbechi5247 So far no. Trump had considered it before, but backed down.

Yeah at least some of us get it. I grew up in a gang neighborhood. Thinking these guys are like the Bloods and the Crips is hilarious. They are more like the super villains in Bond movies.

The Taliban have taken out our most top elite, not to mention that all those precincts combined have more men and I’m sure a good majority have an extensive military background do there is that.

Maybe they are elite by gang banger standards. They aren’t elite any sense of the word as it applies to legit elite military units like US Special Forces.

The border? They've been allowed to infiltrate the whole country.

Well the reason fentanyl is so prevelent is because the cartels pockets got hit with weed legalization so they started pushing actual poison.

Understand just because you legalize something such as a cannabis that there will not be a black market demand with a criminal element protecting and profiting from it! Why, the state and federal taxes! Organized crime groups will have a product just as good and cheaper! So legalizing cannabis will not eradicate the criminal gang profiting! I would venture to say when this shootout occurred cannabis was fully legal or severely decriminalized in California!

@@MTG9878 incorrect. This so-called shoot out happened in 2005. Cannabis wasn’t legalized in California until 2016 by proposition and ballot measure. Get your facts straight before commenting on things that you don’t understand.

​@@MTG9878Nice dissertatio but extremely misinformed which generates incorrect statements

Currently, weed is legal in California. What are the gangs and cartels doing? They are selling it for cheaper on the “black market” Additionally, they are buying out or destroying the competition. Forget illegal drugs, this trend continues with tons of products and services. Real estate, agriculture, etc.

They are very Smart 🤓

I don't think Biden was president in 2004...........

This administration is funding these Cartels and enabling them to spread Fentanyl et al

@@thomasmikel3566 Sure isn’t helping now that he is either. The point being. This conversation involves cartels having gunfights with federal law enforcement in the foothills of CA in 2004. How enormous do you think that problem might be now with wide open borders?

@@WesleySnipes3568 it's a problem that will continue to get worse. I understand the context of the original post. But neither party is committed to stopping illegal immigration. You have extremely large corporations literally bussing people in to work in their plants. Those business owners are not all democrats. Two wings, one chicken.

cia funded cartels go back to reagan era.

I TOTALLY AGREE

He’s full of shit

Bay Area, silicon valley, northern Cali. not San Diego, southern Cali.

That would have added hours to do that with in flight fueling for a chopper

Show me where in the constitution the founding fathers made drugs illegal. Remember the same people behind the DEA are the same people behind the NFA. The only thing prohibition does is create a criminal class .

You mean the FBI?

You have it backwards. Organized crime in the US like the Mafia got it's start through prohibition. Enormous profits were there to be made by people that needed no special skills or training or education, just the willingness to break the law and risk prison time. But the money made it worth it to a lot of guys. That's how the Italian mob first made it big. Prohibition raised the price of alcohol so much it was really a subsidy for organized crime. The so called war on drugs is identical. It has transformed a bunch of poor, donkey riding, Mexican mountain farmers into a global power that controls the entire Mexican government. They control governments along Central America too. They do legitimate business and illegitimate business. And for God's sake don't imagine for one second that they haven't infiltrated US police and Border Patrol just like they have down south because they have and that is the most dangerous thing to our country that there is. Law enforcement that can be bought. They know from decades of experience almost everybody has a price. And it's Plata o Plomo. Silver or Lead for you and your family. Your choice.

@@bryanbrowning9294if there is no demand the business shuts down.

Jerrys mixing Pears, Peaches and Baked Beans. You are as much to blame as anyone else unless youve never voted D or R, because both parties along with the FBI, DOJ, and CIA have been financing drug manufacturing and importing narcotics into this country since the days of Lucky Luciani smuggling boy with carte blanche as a reward for helping us through the Italian mountains.

What happens to the general public if they stumble across this, that's why you take the fight to them. People disappear all the time, for unexplained reasons in rural areas and this is one of the reasons.

Because it’s a short step to anarchy when they control the citjes

Because they are mercenaries maintaining the status quo

Time to end the prohibition on cannabis

@@zzzxxzzz3248 that won’t stop cartels. The govt will tax it and the cartels will sell untaxed weed ,they do in Colorado

It's always worth something if anything these foreign entities take the money to there country we're it's worth more it's totally invading our country in Japan the government supports Yakuza to keep our foreigners

Who doesn't want a better life ? Bloody Wanker 😅 am I right?

Fox News is a bunch of out of state conservatives. Out of state conservatives pride themselves on despising California citizens and their real life problems. The usual BS copout "answer" they give is "U voted for that". I'm a native California Conservative, and I didn't vote for any liberals, OR a foreign narco insurgency. Stop helping Ukraine, help your own goddam citizens here in the US who have an ongoing armed foreign insurgency going on.

Fox is compromised.

Problem is the Drug Cartels are more then just about Drug Trafficking. One can argue at this point the term "Drug Cartel" is a misnomer as the Cartels have expanded into all sort of businesses and activities, both legal and illegal.

Not back then. It was 2005.

It still happens. The states tax the living daylights out of it. Illegally grown weed is cheaper and easier to get. The idiots who thought by legalizing weed would stop Jose the pusher on the street corner are just that, idiots. And every doper and sympathizer are right there with them.

@@MoellerMike1977 Totally right. They are into legitimate corporations, agriculture, finance, politics etc. The entire Mexican government goes in fear of the cartels. The government exists at the pleasure of the cartels

Decriminalizing cannabis will not get rid of black market demand! Cartels grow a product just as good and cheaper! State and soon federal tax skyrocket the price! Legalizing cannabis believing it will get rid of the criminal element completely false!

This was 2005. It wasn't legal then

alcoholics are annoying, but I don't hate them 🗽🏹🪶🦅

They got them too

i really mean on both sides why guard plants with guns and why raid a grow with guns? im not a fan of the cartel or drug cops.

lol this has nothing to do with Biden this has been going on for years.

This was 2005. You'd be thanking George Bush Jr. with that logic. But you really ought to thank the war on drugs for transforming some poor donkey riding Mexican mountain farmers into a global cartel producing countless billions of dollars in legitimate and illegal revenue. That's what the war on drugs did.

Agreed. Reclassifying Marijuana to a Schedule III will help decrease the senseless violence brought on by Nixon and the Controlled Substances Act. Thank You President Biden.

This is on Governor Newsom and Governor Brown. Now, home delivery of your drug of choice in SOCAL. Some counties are absolutely unable financially for their Sheriff's Dept to police what is largely federal and state lands. Toxic chemical, stream diversion, and killing of game go with the drug grows. No tax on illegal drugs, legal marijuana growers cannot compete. This is happening in the forests from the souther border to the border with Oregon. Bless the Game Wardens!

This happened in 2005

Can you expand upon your experiences and what you have learned?

Simply google “Ciudad Juarez in 2010” it’ll provide you with a glimpse of what living in terror looks like; During that time, Juarez was the murder capital of the globe, with a life expectancy of 25 years of age. There were better chances of survival as an American soldier in the Middle East, than there was for civilians in Juarez Mexico trying to live a regular life.

These are cartels not American growers did you not listen

Picture this, I am out with my friends during deer hunting season and we are out with our rifles on public land. Who do you bump into? Cartels illegally growing pot, they see you and obviously don't know you are law enforcement or not so they start shooting their weapons at you which likely have full auto and have high cap mags. This is an actually realistic concern why folks are scared to hunt/fish on public lands in CA. This guy speaking who used to be a game warden would be the fish and wildlife law enforcement that would have jurisdiction and would have to deal with this. Shit is scary, I want my country to be safe to enjoy for others and myself.

The rule of law!

Way to go ,Chad. Showing your smarts again.

How about that "little bit of weed" be grown by US citizens and not some F'd up cartel from a foreign country?