3 police killed, 1 decapitated in Mexico

AP via Yahoo ^ | October 28, 2006 | N/A

[ARealMothersSonForever]

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ACAPULCO, Mexico - The bodies of three state police officers, one of whom had been decapitated, were found Saturday in a sport utility vehicle abandoned outside the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, police said.

Acapulco has seen a wave of beheadings, shootings, stabbings and grenade attacks on police stations. Criminals have left the decapitated heads of at least six victims in front of government offices with threatening notes attached and authorities say the violence is part of a turf war between drug traffickers over shipment routes.

The two commanders and an agent with the state's Ministerial Investigative Police were kidnapped Friday in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state. Their remains were found the next morning in a vehicle abandoned near a highway linking Acapulco and Mexico City, 180 miles to the north, said Jorge Valdez, a spokesman for the state public safety secretary.

No arrests have been made in connection to the killings.

One commander, identified as Isaac Nava, was decapitated and his head recovered inside a black plastic bag in Chilpancingo, 60 miles north of Acapulco. Another victim was wrapped in a blanket and the third had colored tape covering his face, Valdez said.

Revenge may have been the motivation for the killings, Valdez said, noting Nava was involved in the recent capture of two suspected drug smugglers in Acapulco.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Nothing to see here. Just another beautiful day in Acapulco. Odd that the beheadings are becoming more common.

[metmom]

That wall needs to go up, now, before this spills over into our country. This is getting waaaay too out of hand.

[ConservativeMind]

I hate drug smugglers.

[DoughtyOne]

Just a few more jobs American citizens refused to do.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Unfortunately the construction of physical barriers at this juncture is known as closing the barn door after all of the livestock has left. The only option at this time is military force on the part of the US. Diplomatic and economic incentives have failed miserably. PFP riot soldiers are in Oaxaca, preparing for a showdown with the APPO Marxists. The last time this happened in Mexico (October 2, 1968), we sent CIA military advisers. Fidel just showed up on TV supporting the Marxists, and Hugo is getting froggy.
Good thing I took advantage of Early Voting. Things are going to get ugly before next Tuesday.

[zarf]

Is Queen Elizabeth I in charge of Mexico now?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I dunno. But their government website is offline:
http://oaxaca.gob.mx/

[zarf]

I hate drug smugglers.

Legalize the stuff and they're out of business with no incentive to kill.

After we do that, then the gubermint geniuses can ban cigarettes to get the smugglers back on their feet.

[SwinneySwitch]

Acapulco ping!

[sully777]

As always the libertarians claim that legalizing controlled pharmaceuticals will bring a happy tomorrow. Libertarians claim that government control will bring in tax revenue and secure drug purity. Libertarians claim that government legalization will end gangs. The irony is that libertarians hate government intervention and see failure in everything the govenment involves itself in.

I got an idea, let's go back to the "good old days" of US drug policy when our forefathers went to China and the Near East and brought back opium for an awaiting public. Fully 20% of the US population were smack junkies alone. We can regain our trade deficit. We can offset our profit margins. I even concocted an ad tagline: "Don't get shakey: Demand your laudanum tonic!" Or wait, "Get rid of tough migraines: Ask for New Bayer Aspirin with our secret morphinate formula!" Or wait, "Make it a zippy day with New Pepsi Zing. Look for Mr. Methmouth on the label kids." Or a toothpaste ad can say "Oral B Teething Gel with patented fast acting Dentacaine. Now with 25 mgs Dantacaine--up from our 10 mgs from last year." Life will be super as we can drink a 2 liter bottle of Methmouth Pepsi to offset the laudenum sleeping tonic and we can apply Dentacaine to our gums after we drink our Methmouth Pepsi. And we can do all this without doctors' scripts.

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Users and dealers: The only ones that want to legalize uncontrolled access to controlled pharmaceuticals. How much will you pay for your freedom to possess addiction slavery? The dealer's market force will decide and the government will tax. And then Utopia will reign.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Thanks for the heads-up.
No pun intended.

[SwinneySwitch]

I guess we're supposed to have tea and crumpets while discussing our third world neighbor?

[Jack Black]

Lets see how the little leftist "photojournalist" killed in Oaxaca will get 10 or 100 times the coverage of these dead police.

[wolfcreek]

The word's out that Federal employees of this country are ordered *NOT* to visit our good neighbor to the south. IMO, things are getting worse in Mexico by the minute!........Hate to be a spoiler......who's up for a Margarita?

[zarf]

I got an idea, let's go back to the "good old days" of US drug policy when our forefathers went to China and the Near East and brought back opium for an awaiting public. Fully 20% of the US population were smack junkies alone.

I go an idea, let's go back to the days of Al Capone, speakeasies and gangland murder in the glory, carefree days of Prohibition.

[RamingtonStall]

As always the libertarians claim that legalizing controlled pharmaceuticals will bring a happy tomorrow. Libertarians claim that government control will bring in tax revenue and secure drug purity. Libertarians claim that government legalization will end gangs. The irony is that libertarians hate government intervention and see failure in everything the govenment involves itself in............

Users and dealers: The only ones that want to legalize uncontrolled access to controlled pharmaceuticals. How much will you pay for your freedom to possess addiction slavery? The dealer's market force will decide and the government will tax. And then Utopia will reign..........

==================================================== Milton Friedman told us in 1969 that a "War on Drugs" was doomed to failure. He was right then and he is right now. How long does the government need to do the same thing before they realize that they have to find a different way to deal with this scourge on our society?

Whether we like it or not, the "War on Drugs" has been the Government Price Support System for the Illegal Drug Trade.

Several years ago when challenged as a candidate to come up with an alternative plan, I proposed the following:
1) Start by Making it NOT illegal to posses and use Marijuana, thus reducing the Government Price Supports.
2) Allow Cigarette Companies to sell MJ Cigarettes, paying taxes to Government but seriously undermining the Illegal Drug Trade.

Sounds pretty bad so far, huh?

Then (3) Make Drug use or MJ use, even when the employer smells it or resulting B.O. (body odor) on the Employee's person a "fireable without recourse offense". Create specific Language in the Law to bar challenges by the ACLU and any other Parasite Lawyer Group.
Anybody who has ever dealt with a child who was using MJ will be instantly familiar with the heavy use of perfume and after-shave (even on sons who don't shave) to cover up the Body Odor that is produced by the use of MJ.

The punishment for using MJ would be administered quickly (i.e. Discharge from employment) by the market and not by the Government. The Government Price Supports would be eliminated.

I am not saying it would work for all drugs, but you have to start somewhere, and although, I would claim to be a John Stossel type "Classic Liberal" or Libertarian, I am sure that this approach is different from what is attributed to Libertarians.

Peace, Joy, and enough Ammunition to hold it all together.

RamS

[sully777]

zarf, I proposed a real time of free drugs and the real results. Don't pull that BS.