In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice

Washington Pest ^ | 12-9-10 | Nick Miroff and William Booth

[dynachrome]

IN ASCENCION, MEXICO -- In this dusty farm town, an hour south of the U.S. border, more than 40 people were abducted - one a week - in the first nine months of the year.

Then, on Sept. 21, the kidnappings stopped.

That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo's seafood restaurant and tried to abduct the 17-year-old cashier. A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.

[dynachrome]

A ray of hope in Mexico.

[freedomfiter2]

A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.

I love a happy ending.

[DrGunsforHands]

I fear for the lives of these people. The cartels don’t like it when people stand up for themselves. Hopefully, these people will be prepared when it happens.

[JRandomFreeper]

--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

That formula seems to still work.

/johnny

[Huebolt]

Wait, wait, wait! Where in the hell were the LAWYERS?

/sarc

[dynachrome]

You are probably correct. Low level entry thugs try to make their bones. The residents have dissed the narco-gangs. the residents will be punished. The federales will do nothing. I hope I am wrong.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I hope the song they rally around is “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by that 1980s, big hair band Twisted Sister.

[JRandomFreeper]

Then pray that God support them. The Brits didn't like it when we stood up for ourselves, and they had the best military in the world at the time.

And I'll bet that the guns the bad guys had didn't get turned in to the 'authorities'.

Cartels are less than 1% of the population. How long can they last? If the people are firm in their resolve?

Maintain the context and scope.

A tiny handful are terrorizing a nation of people that actually create stuff.

Only a fearful mental attitude shields the cartels.

/johnny

[spintreebob]

“don’t like it when people stand up for themselves”

Mexico has no 2d Amendment. Law abiding citizens are unarmed. Only law breakers have guns.

Any questions?

[JRandomFreeper]

So, you've bought into the fear meme as well?

/johnny

[spintreebob]

“don’t like it when people stand up for themselves”

Mexico has no 2d Amendment. Law abiding citizens are unarmed. Only law breakers have guns.

Any questions?

[piytar]

The federales and “government” in Mexico will come down far harder on the vigilantes than the criminals who pay a lot of them. After all, the vigilantes are infringing on their monopoly of force for the “public good.” No joke.

[hinckley buzzard]

In the absence of any central government, what else would you do? I'd be carrying a weapon protecting my town and family as needed and my neighbors would be also.

Whacking turncoats and bad guys from outside would not be a problem.

When you have a personal stake, you cannot be bought. Maybe scared off, but with the support of neighbors and friends even that becomes very difficult.

[2111USMC]

They're not completely unarmed. From the article:

Mexican gun control laws limit citizens to owning smaller-caliber weapons and a handful of bullets for home defense, but group members said they were not going to leave themselves vulnerable and outgunned.

[DrGunsforHands]

The only problem, is that it usually takes something like the massacre of an entire town for the rest of the people to decide to do something about that 1%.

[dynachrome]

I fear. I don’t let it paralyze me.

[JRandomFreeper]

More fear meme.

Add the bad guys and the federales together, and they are still less than 1% of the population.

And now, someone (besides federales and bad guys) have free AK-47s and ammo.

Seems like there should be some hope and prayer for a larger acquistion of firearms and ammo in the near future.

/johnny

[Dallas59]

Just wait till they bring it up here...for different reasons..

[JRandomFreeper]

Obviously whatever happened was enough for the people to say: "Stop. We kill you!"

I applaud it, and hope it continues, and pray that God give them the power to win.

/johnny

[mrsmel]

Too bad the upright citizens can’t gave weapns, instead of only the criminals in Mexico-that includes against the quasi-law enforcment working for the bad guys who will create a narc-oligarchy if they’re not stopped, It will be hard, if the good citizens could get armed last night with weapons which could remotely hold up to the firepower the bad guys carry. Not to mention e chances of dealing with an uncorrupted law enforcment or judicial system. If something doesn’t change drastically, there will be full-fledged narco-anarchy in Mexico, and spreading here to thumb their noses at what we know is a joke of border security.

(Hope this doesn’t sound like gibberish, I’m typing in the freezing weather outside)