Posted on 09/14/2011 3:04:18 PM PDT by Dallas59
(CNN) -- Two bodies dangling from a pedestrian bridge in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, created an image as gruesome as any in the four years of the country's offensive against the drug cartels.
A man and a woman, both in their early 20s, were left hanging like cuts of meat. The woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. She was then hung from the bridge by her feet and hands, topless. The bloodied man was suspended next to her by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply you can see the bone.
Two posters left near the bodies declared that the pair -- a young man and woman -- were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.
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Thanks for the ping SwinneySwitch.
I appreciate it.
There doesn’t really seem to be a helluva lotta difference between the Cartels and the Caliphate.
Our country has gone mad. Our Homeland Security pats down 2 year olds in airports, meanwhile disemboweled bodies swing on our border. It may be evil on the part of the Cartels, but it’s sheer lunacy on the part of our government.
It also a good point to make with those who say that “violence just begets more violence”. Mexico has no DP, yet that doesn’t stop these monsters from committing heinous crimes.
Hmmm. An interesting solution to the problem of Fakebook.
By now mexico’s middle class must have lost all respect for their own government. It can’t protect them, it can’t do anythng.
You wonder how long the Mex. gov’t is going to last. They are collecting their poaychecks and their bribe money. But without at least some respect from citizens, things are going to blow.
I have long thought that the only solution here is mercenaries. a mercenary army, some military organization from outside Mexico. No one in Mexico, no police or military, are trustworthy.
Mercenaries to come in and take on the drug lords is the only answer. the drug gangs are cowards and I doubt if they could fight very well.
Well we know they're well armed with the 50 calibur sniper rifles, the AK47's and the AR15's and now we learn, the gernades that our government gave them. For all we know, they may have given them shoulder fired missles too.
Gonna be time to liberate Mexico pretty soon.
No mention of gun shot to the head. They many not have been "corpses" when they were abused.
I agree completely. I think the zenith of our country was between 1958 and 1964. Before then, we helped people who helped themselves, mostly. After that, we began to let strangers prey on our nation’s bounty and good will.
The Mexican drug gangs may seem powerful now, but I’m waiting for the same sort of public backlash that occurred in Colombia to arise in Mexico. Sooner or later, citizens of Mexico will realize that the government is either unable or unwilling to provide the solution to their drug gang problem and they will their own vigilante measures outside the law. Then it will be the drug gangsters who will be kidnapped, tortured to death, and left bloody and beheaded in the street.
It is just a matter of time. Just like profligate spending of our American government, the Mexican drug gang situation is unsustainable. There WILL be a backlash.
Wow. That’s beyond savage. That was done to them because they posted on a website? Wow.
I was reading a book this summer about the Presbyterian medical missionary Nelson Bell (his daughter Ruth married Billy Graham). Nelson and Virginia Bell were missionaries to China in the 1920’s through 1940’s. They had to return to the U.S. due to the Communist takeover. China at that time was completely barbaric, overrun by rival warlords and chaotic conditions. This type of atrocity happened often in addition to other cruel everyday occurences (leaving babies to die along the rivers, evil superstitions and other atrocities). I know what you mean, for those of us who had a “Leave it to Beaver” life, it is hard to connect that this type of evil godless barbarism is now so close to home. It has been in the rest of the non-Christian world all along though, we’ve just been very protected from it here in the U.S. for a very long time. Psalm 46
Facebook is bad for your health bump.
In some ways, having a comfortable youth and early adulthood is not a good thing. One of my favorite books, Gone with the Wind, makes this point over and over again. Scarlett O’Hara can never get over her indulgent childhood and the horrible world she inherits as a young woman.
I admire Ruth Graham endlessly. You know the story of the bestselling mystery writer (her name escapes me!) whose mother left her on the doorstep of the Graham home in the 1950s? Ruth was having a luncheon, discovered the toddler on her front porch, took her in and continued with the lunch. She eventually raised the girl to adulthood. The writer is VERY famous but her name escapes me. She’s written the bio of Ruth Graham. What a woman!
I realize America wasn’t a perfect world back then - we had horrible, embarrassing, disgraceful Jim Crow. But for a little, middle-class white girl in the late 1950s? Heavenly.
my wife being from Mexico, and having the stupid pacifist streak that they do, I tell her when the people rise up and arm themselves, it will make a difference - bloody but long.
What I really hope, like you, is for some of our best ex-SpecialOps and other men of war would go down and really clean up. Make ‘Clear and Present Danger’ look mild.
Exactly what I’ve been saying for the past year! I totally respect how the Colombians asked us for help and fought back.
The Mexicans are too stupidly arrogant and resentful of El Gringo Norte still.
No, actually, God said He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish—but He does hate the sin.
I hope to hell it's not a "stroke of the pen" kinda deal.
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