Drug Cartels to Mexican Police: 'Join Us or Die'

newsmax.com ^ | May 18, 2008 | staff

[kellynla]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die.

The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico's acting federal police chief.

Mexico has battled for years to clean up its security forces and win them the public's respect. But Mexicans generally assume police and even soldiers are corrupt until proven otherwise, and the honest ones lack resources, training and the assurance that their colleagues are watching their backs. Here, the taboo on cop-killing familiar to Americans seems hardly to apply.

Police who take on the cartels feel isolated and vulnerable when they become targets, as did 22 commanders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez when drug traffickers named them on a handwritten death list left at a monument to fallen police this year. It was addressed to "those who still don't believe" in the power of the cartels.

[matthew fuller]

"This is what the illegals are bringing to U.S. "

This is what George W. Bush wants to bring to the USA and what John McCain is promising to give to us if we elect him. God only knows what the muslim will give us.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I am not a libertarian but I have come to believe that our government's drug policies are creating this problem and many others.

China once had a drug problem. They had legal opium dens. The nice English supplied the drugs. It ended in war.

Libertarians have to answer several questions. Where will users get money to buy the drugs? Theft. What will people want to do when the see teenage addicts? Spend tax money to cure them. Where will you put all the criminal addicts? We will need more jails. Just how much tax money will politicians want to bring in for their retirement programs? A lot.

Legalization may stop the cops from drug raids, but it will cause more problems elsewhere.

[philetus]

It is like the authorities who pushed and called for that insanity, want American citizens to die.”

You mean:

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Los Angeles City Attorney Rockard J. Delgadillo
Councilman Reyes
Councilman Tony Cardenas
Councilman Richard Alarcón
Councilman José Huizar

[momincombatboots]

Gear up and make every shot count. What else can you do? No witnesses, no evidence, it didn’t happen.

[AuntB]

Yes, true. I live there. The drug cartels are armed and there have been plenty of shoot outs. ‘rural’ is part of the reason they’re here. Not enough law enforcement to stop them. Medford is taken over, I had to leave there because of it. Also take a look at the barrio that used to be rural, quiet, Canby, Oregon. So what if we’re ‘armed’...you can’t even ask one of ‘em if they’re in the country legally.

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-home-towncoming-your-way.html

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for posting. BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!

[wildbill]

They make an offer that no police officer can refuse without thinking about it. It’s called “plomo o plata?” and means “lead or silver” with the lead coming out of a gun.

And these narcotrafficantes mean it.

[kellynla]

As I've been saying here for years, sooner or later we are going to have to secure BOTH borders with troops and start “taking out the trash.” Between the muzzie terrorists, illegals and drug traffickers; we have no choice. Where is IKE when we really need him!

[TruthConquers]

It’s more than that.

Add Rudy tooty to that list as well!! I’m sure there is more for every city that has it. I think it is at least 40 major cities have Special Order Forty on the books.