Sunday, March 6, 2011

Booze, Guns, Drugs and Trucks


Precedents and Parallels among the following:

Bartenders who are liable when they sell alcohol to obviously drunk patrons; and,  

Gun manufacturers who are held liable for murders committed with their weapons; and,

Truck manufacturers, i.e., Kenworth Corporation, which is known to have sold its entire year's output of 18-wheelers to a Mexican drug dealer for the cross-Mexican <---> US-border transport of cocaine.    
[source: Don Ferrarone, ex-DEA Agent].

Truck manufacturers should be covered by a Federal law which holds them liable for international drug-smuggling.  This would occur when they are found guilty of selling their 18-wheel products to Mexican dealers (or anyone else, for that matter) for cash.  E.g., 

08:00 AM, February 29, 2000
Not that we don't want Kenworth to make a profit.  But what is the difference between the obviousness of $10,000 bank transactions wherein those bankers have to inform the authorities and the cash-for-annual-truck-output of a U.S. manufacturer?