Posted on 03/26/2010 11:21:06 PM PDT by Cindy
Note: Photo included.
SNIPPET: "MEXICO CITY – The deputy police chief in the northern Mexican border city of Nogales was killed along with his bodyguard, Sonora state police said Friday.
Adalberto Padilla and bodyguard Ivan Sepulveda were shot Thursday night while traveling in a police vehicle. The assailants were described as men inside an SUV who opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles, the weapon of choice for Mexico’s drug cartels.
A 16-year-old bystander was wounded during the attack in the city just across the border from Nogales, Arizona."
SNIPPET: "In other drug-related violence, a local police chief and his brother were found decapitated in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, bordering Texas.
The Agualeguas municipal chief and his brother were discovered after state police received a telephone call early Friday about a patrol vehicle abandoned near a village more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon’s capital, state Attorney General Alejandro Garza y Garza said.
The killers used the victims’ blood to paint the patrol vehicle with the initials “CDG,” signifying Cartel del Golfo, or Gulf cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug outfits."
(Excerpt) Read more at laht.com ...
Scroll down the FR key word “Tucson” and you can get a feel of the area by looking at the articles index-summary.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tucson/index?tab=articles
The cartels have already moved into other things:
Los Zetas: Evolution of a Criminal Organization
11 Mar 2009
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They operate a range of illicit businesses from the regular extortion of street vendors to charging other groups for passage through their territory, to gun and drug smuggling, human smuggling, kidnapping for ransom, money laundering and the operation of a vast network of illegal businesses."
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http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?id=97554&lng=en
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The point is that the cartels are already making money from these enterprises. How much profit potential could be left? The fact is, the money is overwhelmingly from the illegal drug trade and nothing would come close to replacing it.
Beheading is a basic dehumanization, it’s not reserved for Islam, just cherished there.
These guys were making a business statement, not a religious one.
[Three decapitated bodies, all repeatedly shot, were found in the trunk of a car in Culiacan, Sinaloa; one was identified as an ex-commander of the “Centaur Group” of the state police.. One of the bodies also had both its legs amputated at the knees, while the other two had only their left leg amputated, also at the knee. In the trunk of the car there was also a rattlesnake with its head chopped off and two defiant and threatening signs against the Beltran-Leyva drug group. There also were 509 - five hundred nine - shell casings in the trunk.]
http://www.lagunajournal.com/violent_beheadings_kidnappings_f.htm
Some people need to start calling a spade a spade. These aren’t the Mexican drug cartels perpetrating this violence, it’s the corrupt criminal Mexican government.
[I understand all of that, but I still do not under stand the significance of beheadings.]
If you ever saw it you wouldn’t ever forget it.
Your mistake is failing to recognize that the very measures you favor are a major source of the evils you deplore. Of course the problem is demand, but it is not only demand, it is demand that must operate through repressed and illegal channels. Illegality creates obscene profits that finance the murderous tactics of the drug lords; illegality leads to the corruption of law enforcement officials; illegality monopolizes the efforts of honest law forces so that they are starved for resources to fight the simpler crimes of robbery, theft and assault.
Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
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http://www.fff.org/freedom/0490e.asp
Well, to be fair, I don't think that even the liberals would blame guns for a beheading.
What Mexico needs now is "meatsaw" control.
Regards,
[Are you saying that beheading have no significance?]
There’s nothing cryptic about it. Savagery speaks for itself.
Who knows?
Oh yeah, elitists sounding off about legalizing drugs, like they really have experienced living with drug addicts, or seen the horrors inflicted on children and other family members. And of course they have such a great batting average on predicting crap like that, don’t they? Remember the billions spent on the War on Poverty?
“Drugs are a tragedy for addicts...criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society,..”
Just like everything they pontificate, the reality is a whole hell’uva lot worse than the lecture - particularly when they’re damn wrong.
“The assailants were described as men inside an SUV who opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles, the weapon of choice for Mexico’s drug cartels.”
But, but, but hillary keeps saying that we need to get a handle on all of the guns being smuggled into mexico from the U.S.
She must be referring to those deadly “Airsoft” weapons of mass destruction that the buffoons in the ATF seized in seattle the other day.
Awwwright, knock it off, psycho, we get it.
JD Hayworth for Senate....Because McCain will give the cartels amnesty
The best comment I heard in regarding the de-criminalizing of drugs was from someone years ago....
“...if legalizing drugs would cure all the problems associated with it....then the end of Prohibition would have cured alcoholism and its associated problems...which it did not”
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