General Discussion

I have read that this guy Hernandez was directly responsible for the importation of 500 tons of cocaine into the US.

500 tons * 2,000 lbs/ton = 1,000,000 pounds of cocaine

1,000,000 pounds of cocaine * 2.20462 kilos per pound = 2,204,620 kilos of cocaine.

Yes, that's correct, over 2 million kilos of cocaine.

I then quickly googled the retail price of cocaine, and saw the number $28,000 per kilo. So,

2,204,620 kilos of cocaine * $28,000/kilo = $61,729,360,000.

That's right, folks, the street value of the cocaine this guy sent into the US currently exceeds 60 beel-yon dollars.

This guy just got pardoned by the president of the United States.

We are murdering people on the high seas without ever making the effort to confirm whether they are smuggling drugs into the United States. If they were guilty, they would be sentenced to prison time, I guess of up to 45 years or more depending on the circumstances, but certainly not to death.

Do you see an asymmetry here?