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| Five Mexican Federales, Cop Die in Attack in Juarez |
| 2010-04-24 |
| Moderator note: as you can see, Rantburg is upgrading stories about the organized gang / drug activity along the Mexican-US border to WoT status, operations (blue, 1) or background (red, 2) as indicated. This reflects our belief that indeed this activity is a terror threat to the US -- and to Mexico. The Bablefish translation leaves much to be desired. Rewriting the story: The Secretariat of the Governor strongly condemned an attack today which killed seven people. Armed men boarded four vehicles killing five Federales, one police and a 17 year old civilian. The Secretariat vowed to bring those responsible to justice and sent condolences to the families of those who were executed. The Federal Government vowed to use all means at its disposal to punish those responsible. The Federal Government will continue to participate in the program "We Are All Juarez, Rebuilding the City" and will redouble efforts to restore safety in Juarez. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #11 Being armed can help prevent a lot of crime. I went to a funeral of a 42 year friend in Knoxville who was shot and killed in the parking lot of a local hospital by a crazy ba$tard. He had two guns: both illegal and a history of mental illness. He was not taking his meds. He thought a doctor at the hospital had implanted him with a microchip at the direction of the CIA back in 2001 during an emergency appendectomy. She never had a chance. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-24 18:58 |
| #10 There is nothing worse than a cold steel barrel of a gun up against your head while the rest of a gang is having their way with your family or friends. It is amazing what you can prevent when they know you are packing your own heat. |
| Posted by: Shoting Unelet2578 2010-04-24 17:29 |
| #9 What AP says is true, and it WILL save your bacon. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-04-24 17:07 |
#8 lex---you cannot depend on the govt to take care of you. When seconds count, the police will be there in minutes.
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| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-04-24 16:54 |
| #7 A columnist in the El Paso Times wrote this today: we havenÂ’t seen the worst yet. After FridayÂ’s attack, the only thing that we can expect is an intensifying of violence and consequently the loss of many, many more lives. The question is until when. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-04-24 16:50 |
| #6 Also get some training and become proficient with your firearm. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-24 12:34 |
| #5 buy a gun like the rest of us and protect your property, family, and friends. The political class will do nothing but protect themselves |
| Posted by: bman 2010-04-24 12:12 |
| #4 Organized crime is now the biggest industry in the world, and has gone far to criminalize large portions of the state in Russia, Ukraine, the former USSR's 'stans and now Mexico (you could also make the case that the Iranian state is criminalized). We have a failing and criminalized state on our doorstep. Even before it was failing, that state exported its failures northward, devastating our schools, hospitals, social services and state budgets in order to harvest up to 10% of its GDP in hard currency repatriations each year. And now that failing state is exporting civil war. Why is our political class ignoring this? I'm not a gun owner and I'm not going to take up arms, but clearly our political class refuses to address the crisis in any serious or credible manner. What can law-abiding citizenry do about this debacle? |
| Posted by: lex 2010-04-24 11:51 |
| #3 And Barry is getting really, really bunched up about Arizona exercising its State's right to try to control the problem on the U.S. side via legislation and enforcement. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-24 09:48 |
| #2 It's probably time again to remind people of two relevant sources on this: the Army War College paper that shows why gangs act like insurgencies and Moises Naim's book Ilicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-04-24 09:10 |
| #1 The old state supported terrorism of the late 20th Century has been superseded by the Cartels, be they south of the border or in the hinterlands of the Hindu Kush. We see the handwriting in blood of their works, but their faces are shrouded by the failure of old media. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-04-24 08:07 |