Funny, didn’t GWB denounce “vigilante” Minutemen?
He preferred handing tax money to foreign nationals.
“Shadowy vigilante groups are threatening Mexico’s drug gangs”
Happened in Columbia, why not Mexico?
The government of Mexico has ceased to function. 1,600 murders by the ruling criminal gangs in one city alone.
The vigilantes are excercising a fundamental human right, the right to self-survival.
It is the reason we have a Second Amendment. The ban on “assault weapons” is a violation of that right.
Murder, abductions, corrupt police, soldiers and politicians - what do you expect?
someone has to do it... maybe they should import some Mexicans from the USA to do the job they won’t do.
The government is worse than paralyzed. They’ve impotent.
The central problem in Mexico (and in Columbia in the past) was that the cartels had completely infiltrated the government and law enforcement. They did this through bribery, extortion and terror.
What the government does in response to finding someone on the take is go through all the nice, legal and nice enforcement: arrest, trial, etc.
What a government needs to do in this case is make people who turn towards the cartels fear the government more than the cartels.
The first requirement for the government here is to eliminate their opposition to the death penalty.
“They’ve become impotent” is what that should have read.
I was just saying today that vigilantiism is exactly what is needed. In a smalll town near Juarez just recently the police disappeared and they have found the head of the chief of police. The authorities aren’t paralyzed and powerless, they are dead.
Vigilantes ping!
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Remember that the Second Amendment is there because governments can fail in their job and governments can overreach their bounds. mexico seems capable of both at once.
This is nothing new in Latin America or in Mexico’s history.
When corrupt governments lose control, the wealthy oligarchs pay for private body guards to protect themselves and their property first, then turn to private armies to try to exterminate the lawbreakers.
‘Bout darn time.
Best of luck to ‘em. They’re facing a vicious foe with absolutely no conscience or restraint. They need to prepared to respond in kind.