Google to help fight Mexican Drug Cartels?

Joel Cohen and Eric Schmidt had an op-ed yesterday in the Washington Post that suggested that technology/clutternet can end the violence in Juarez where denizens who are scared to combat the cartels can snitch via secure communication systems like email.

On the surface, it is pretty much a nothing piece, but it deviates from the meme that Americans' need for illicit drugs is what drives the cartels to administer violence, while the weapons supposedly originate in the US.

Do all Mexicans have smart phones? Schmidt and Cohen suggest that Mexico is a primitive nation where peasants live without electricity, yet cartels use GPS to monitor their shipments.  Why not use their GPS to hone Predator Drones in on them?

Combining the two to end the violence from Mexico is perhaps already in the works. Domestic use of drones is all the rage in the news, about as much as what to do about undocumented persons living within the country.

If all non-citizens living within the country are made citizens via amnesty or DREAM Act, then anyone crossing the border afterward is thus an invader.

Drones are nice since they eliminate profiling based on race. Simply monitor the boundary looking for GPS signals moving north and gun them down once they cross. Drug flow is impeded without border patrol officers or citizens being caught in the fray, and there's less violence in Juarez.

Schmidt and Cohen are brilliant!