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2011-08-19 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican General could be charged in death of detainee

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Posted by badanov 2011-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

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Posted by de Medici 2011-08-19 08:01|| 2011-08-19 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the Mods STILL doesn't like you.
I think that you're a breath of fresh air, here.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-08-19 11:34|| 2011-08-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 You would.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-19 18:33|| 2011-08-19 18:33|| Front Page Top

#4 de Medici, let me s'plain something to you I just leaned about Mexican jurisprudece.

Did you know, you do not have presumption of innocence, and you do not have the right to a speedy trial?

Did you know that?

Did you know that by time you appear in front of a Mexican judge, you are already in prison and the hearing you attend is to determine the severity of your sentence? That that is the only chance you and/or your lawyer will have to present your statement and exculpatory evidence?

Now you would think that under those conditions, police, military and legal authorities in Mexico would carry a special burden it get it right, but oddly enough they don't.

The young man who died in military custody died because Colonel Arias and the two looies wanted to teach him a lesson and instead allowed him to die in their custody. What happened to the young man who died, whether he was a narco or not was stupid and unnecessary.

The Mexican Army is there to protect a constitutional republic, which on whole in 98 percent of cases it does so magnificently. Its obligation to protect the republic evaporates whenever something as senseless and useless as this death happens. Mexican society isn't worth protecting if the abjectly idiotic thing that allowed Sanchez Santana to die in military
custody is encouraged and cheered on by anyone.

This isn't some liberal/Amnesty International's "oh, that poor man, we must do something" insanity. This is about patriotism and an obligation to protect something if necessary with one's own life.

Colonel Arias had that obligation and shirked his duty, and allowed a man in military custody to die, unnecessarily.

Posted by badanov 2011-08-19 19:14|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-08-19 19:14|| Front Page Top

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