Rio de Janeiro on the edge of Civil War - Page 16

On November 29 2010 00:37 D10 wrote:
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On November 29 2010 13:48 Tschis wrote:
It was actually 40 tons of weed, and 200kg of cocaine

//tx

On November 30 2010 01:31 FortuneSyn wrote:


yeah I just read this in the newspaper this morning about the weed amount. the cocaine amount was more though?

err 1000kg = ton. IE, 1/5th of a ton (400lbs) of cocaine and 80,000lbs of weed.
Which is insane if true.

People love to blame anyone who does a little puff over all violence problems.

The fact that police quickly got organized and destroyed one of the most violent gangster strongholds in rio, where 2 of the biggest criminal factions in rio were united dishing out terror, doesnt say anything to who the blame should really fall too ?

If the state didnt completely abandon the situation decades ago, it would never get to the point it is today, and at the first sign of necessity, they quickly fixed the situation.

They have allowed violent gangsters to murder people inside the favelas with almost 0 punishment for decades, because they were either too coward or too corrupt to get their duty done, and you see this legion of uninformed people claim some rich kid smoking a joint somewhere is responsible for all that is happening.

Its simply not true, this situation is 100% the states fault, the state allowed favelas to be built, then ignored their existance, and focused all its manpower into stopping stoners and getting bribes from them for DECADES.

It was not until we got the olimpics and the WC that this "who the fuck cares about the favelas" mentality changed in politics.

Had they not caved in to illegal settlements, payed their officers more and hired more police always confronting them gangsters instead of giving them fucked up recognition, we would have never seen this kind of escalation.

Even the US and EU, places where theoretically the system works, you can mostly score weed in almost every single american town.

As long as its illegal, there will be an illegal market for it, imagine the billions of dollars in tax that could be benefiting education, health care, and public security, but instead of harnessing this potential money to the people the almighty state and the dictatorship of the majority decides in its infinite wisdom that this money is best used by gangsters building bathtubs in favelas.

On November 30 2010 02:33 fabiano wrote:
Brazil has everything it takes to be a developed country, but there are just a few things that is holding us off:

- Political corruption
- Criminality
- Lack of complete education (since primary school up to university) culture for the majority of people (usually poor people). Every child wants to become a Ronaldinho and not an Einstein.

If you have formal education, you will live a good life in this country. We just need to change our culture so education is priority, and not sports.

Brazil has everything it takes to be a developed country, but there are just a few things that is holding us off:

- Political corruption
- Criminality
- Lack of complete education (since primary school up to university) culture for the majority of people (usually poor people). Every child wants to become a Ronaldinho and not an Einstein.

If you have formal education, you will live a good life in this country. We just need to change our culture so education is priority, and not sports.

On November 30 2010 02:39 StarCraft2arena wrote:


True, sad but True !!