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Title: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on January 20, 2009, 01:06:56 PM
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/01/20/vigilantes-appear-to-be-fighting-back-in-mexico-drug-war/

A little vigilante justice will get a lot more done than the War on Drugs, I think.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on January 20, 2009, 01:20:43 PM
My comment is awaiting moderation. :angel:

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God bless the vigilantes.

When criminals run unchecked and the local law enforcement is impotent along with the federal agencies, all that is left is the People to put together a decent society again. “Tree of Liberty” and all that.

I hope they water that tree plenty. Mexico needs it.

See if they allow that to be posted following the article.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: AJ Dual on January 20, 2009, 01:26:15 PM
I guess the main problem is how to know if this isn't just another gang operating under the guise of being vigilantes..
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on January 20, 2009, 01:28:18 PM
Good point.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: Bogie on January 20, 2009, 01:29:27 PM
It'd be real interesting to get a few old crusty prairie dog shooters down there...
 
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: Firethorn on January 20, 2009, 02:09:07 PM
See if they allow that to be posted following the article.

It's up.  Of course, post #1 is even more inflammatory(if you could call it that).

I've always said that effective police work is the best way to prevent vigilantism from popping up.  People tend to not take the law into their own hands when they think the police are doing a decent job.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: HankB on January 20, 2009, 02:11:42 PM
If it really is vigiliates (in the traditional sense) operating down there . . . the Mexican Federales will probably expend more effort tracking them down and putting a halt to their activities than they have clamping down on violent narcogangs.

NO police organization can tolerate someone being seen as doing their job better than they are.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: AJ Dual on January 20, 2009, 02:14:00 PM
If it really is vigiliates (in the traditional sense) operating down there . . . the Mexican Federales will probably expend more effort tracking them down and putting a halt to their activities than they have clamping down on violent narcogangs.

NO police organization can tolerate someone being seen as doing their job better than they are.

Plus any Federales or local police on the take from the local gangs have a vested interest in not seeing thier second incomes dry up.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on January 20, 2009, 02:20:41 PM
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Plus any Federales or local police on the take from the local gangs have a vested interest in not seeing thier second incomes dry up.

Ding ding.  Winner.  And that's why the War on Drugs in America will also never end.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: AJ Dual on January 20, 2009, 02:27:03 PM
Ding ding.  Winner.  And that's why the War on Drugs in America will also never end.

It's not really any different here in the states either, except that it's institutionalized, and comes in the form of tax money and seizure property instead of graft.
Title: Re: Vigilantes fighting back in Mexico Drug War
Post by: MicroBalrog on January 20, 2009, 10:57:25 PM
It has to be said that I prefer proper law and order to vigilantism, for obvious reasons. However, law and order in Mexico clearly doesn't work.