A quick update

Hello again everyone! I am stopped in southern New York and have about an hour to kill before stopping in at the receiver to drop off my latest run.

I want to give a few more thoughts about last nights post. I really am not trying to beat you over the head with this, but this may be one of the more crucial problems that our country faces in terms of it's relationship with the rest of the world.

Last night I posted unless you were in posession of the drug since it's creation that it was likely that at least some of it came from Mexico. After thinking this over some more I have come to 2 conclusions.

1) It doesn't matter if you have been the only one in posession if you share the illicit drug with even one person.

2) The source of the drug is only a secondary concern because the consumption of that drug fuels the need for more supply.

Going back to the supply and demand aspects of drugs, anyone who is caught with enough of a supply of drugs on them is going to go to jail. The people who traffic drugs are not idiots, they are aware of this. As such depending on the amount of drugs that they are carrying or are responsible for the risk increases for longer prison terms and other punishments. There comes a point where taking a life is not so much more than the punishment that they are already going to get, and once they have taken a life taking more adds very little to punishment.

At the risk of being oversimplified, if no one used illegal drugs there would be no demand and therefore no reason to go to war to bring drugs here. The lower the demand the less valuable the supply, and the risk of imprisonment becomes much greater when balanced with the financial rewards.

One last thing I want to bring up is really going to piss off those of you that are parents and still use drugs. If you use any type of illegal drug you are harming your children.

Think about this for a second. Your children have you as thier primary role model. They do everything that they can to act as you do. What happens when you are popped for a posession charge and spend a few nights in jail? What happens when they are studying history in school and learn of the Mexican drug wars and put 2 and 2 together?

I am guessing that the arguement against this is "But my child has never seen me do anything". That may be true, but they still emulate your behavior both sober and not. So if you have been under the influence around them they will emulate that behavior.

Another response might be "What right do you have to tell me how to raise my kids... I would DIE for my kids!" I have no right to tell you that you must raise your kids the way that I think you should, and honestly I will never win father of the year myself. And unless you are the most abysmal parent on the face of the earth, of course you would die for your children, we all would.

I would like to challange you to do something much more difficult than to die for your children. I want you to LIVE for them. Show them by example what it takes to be a great man or woman. If you are not proud of what you are doing than do not do it wether it can be seen by others or not.

Look I am human too, we all are, and only one perfect person has walked the earth in the past 2012 years and I am certainly not him. The point I am trying to make here is that you can serve your children so much better by being what you want them to become, because that is what they will be.

Well enough rambling for now, I need to get my load delivered and get moving again. The bills don't stop so niether can I.

Thanks again for your time and I'll see you down the road.