The white stone arch that welcomes visitors to the town of San Juan, Mexico is no longer an inviting landmark. Instead, it's a marker of Mexico's latest atrocity in the gruesome two-year old drug war that has claimed over 50,000 casualties south of America's border. This past Sunday, the people of San Juan awoke to news that 49 headless bodies were discovered heaped on the road next to the stone arch at the edge of their town. Those responsible for the killing, the Zeta drug cartel, left their calling card – a large black Z – painted on the white stone archway for all to see.
Stop and reflect for a moment. Over fifty thousand people have been slaughtered in Mexico over the past two years for one singular purpose: to allow Mexico to be used as a transportation conduit for illegal drugs intended for shipment to the United States. Seventeen times the number of people who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks had their lives brutally extinguished over a two-year period just so Americans could have access to marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
When I think of the stench of decaying human flesh that authorities must have confronted outside San Juan last Sunday morning, it makes me want to drag of busload of illegal drug users and dealers to the sight and make them inhale the smell of the atrocity they helped create. I say that because, to me, they are just as responsible for the deaths of those forty-nine victims as was the Zetas drug cartel. Without illegal drug users and dealers, the Zeta drug cartel would not exist.
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