Posted on 05/15/2005 6:03:04 AM PDT by John Jorsett
The gruesome murders were each more than 1,000 miles apart, an arc of bloodshed that spanned much of the North American continent.
On a rutty street near a crowded slum in Honduras, gunmen sprayed automatic weapons fire at a bus filled with Christmastime shoppers. Twenty-eight people, including six children, were killed.
In the woods near Dallas, an innocent 21-year-old man was shot in the head, his remains eaten by animals. His pants were pulled down, and police suspect that he may have been sodomized.
And near the banks of a quiet river in Virginia, a 17-year-old informant was hacked to death. She was four months pregnant and stabbed 16 times in the chest and neck.
The killings were similar not only in their brutality but also in their lineage: Authorities say all three incidents are tied to a single Los Angeles branch of Mara Salvatrucha, a street gang formed 20 years ago in the immigrant neighborhoods west of the downtown skyline.
Today, the gang's extreme violence, vast reach and increasing sophistication have made it a top priority at the highest levels of law enforcement and political leadership from Washington to San Salvador.
In recent months, the departments of Justice and Homeland Security have launched a series of initiatives to confront the threat posed by the gang, also known as MS-13, which has between 30,000 and 50,000 members in half a dozen countries, including up to 10,000 members in the U.S., according to federal law enforcement estimates.
The FBI's creation of an MS-13 task force, the first nationwide effort targeting a single street gang, was ordered by Director Robert Mueller after several high-profile murders blamed on MS-13 in the suburbs of Washington.
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LMFAO...I just said on another thread...I wonder after Vincente Fox's remarks who will win the war in California? The blacks from Compton or the Mexicans from East LA?
I will take the blacks and give me the points to cover the spread.
If we and other nations remain unwilling to execute people like this we will never solve these problems.
Terrorists, gang bangers, child killers, they all need to be made dead at the hand of the state. Barring that, forget it, civilization will continue it's long decline.
Compton has plenty of Hispanics these days.
Believe me, a race war in LA would be a disaster for everyone out here.
But apparently human rights groups have missed the fact that these lowlifes ARE death squads and are killing hundreds of innocent people.
It's over due.If a race war happened in LA it would end quick ala Waco.
I repectfully disagree.
In my estimation it is not "due" at all.
Also, and again just my sense of the situation, once one started it would never end. Think Northern Ireland, Ceylon or Beirut.
If we and other nations remain unwilling to execute people like this we will never solve these problems.Increasingly, I am coming to the opinion that to be effective these executions have to be carried out by the police. Out on the street.
"...these executions have to be carried out by the police..."
LOL, but you know, the cops don't want to do that dirty work. Nor should they have to.
We've already had samples of this on a daily basis
The riots after Rodney King.
Daily race riots at LAUSD high schools in East and Southeast LA.
Sometimes it gets confusing, you never know if you are in L.A. or if we somehow landed in Tijuana overnight.
Early evening TV would be fine with me.
Perhaps California doesn't need saving ... maybe it needs conquering?
One good, honest work day should be sufficient.
I'm afraid you are correct that you are correct.
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