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“New Record Set — 21 executed in 24 hours”

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Nope, not Iraq.  Nope, not Philadelphia.  Nope, not New Orleans…

Mexico.  It sounds like a reign of al-Qaeda-like terror is breaking out south of our border!

A combination of “explosive devices”, 9mm pistols, AK-47’s and AR-15’s have left 21 dead and 10 wounded throughout Mexico in the past 24 hours.

8 in Guerrero
5 in Chihuahua
3 in México State
2 in Sinaloa
1 in Tlaxcala
2 in Tijuana
21 Total

In addition, 3 police stations were attacked with explosive devices, 2 in Guerrero and one in Tecpan de Galeana, leaving 2 police officers wounded.

Some notes of prurient interest:

In Apizaco, Tlaxcala, a fellow waited for his appointment in attorney Joaquín Suárez García’s office, chatting with Suárez García’s secretary. When the counselor arrived, they went into his office where seconds later his client left him slumped over his desk, dead.

Of the 21 executed, 4 were taxi drivers. One of them died in a hail of bullets from several masked men wearing body armor and weilding AK-47’s. A protest over high taxi fares, perhaps? What’s with this, anyway? They’ve been machine gunning taxi drivers all over the country since the first of the year. The authorities haven’t said much, so I’ll have to assume that the drug cartels use local taxis to ferry shipments and money from point A to point B. Then they come back to eliminate the drivers — loose lips sink ships — or as punishment for inventory losses.

But this story wasn’t in the New York Times today.  Nor did Ms. Couric report it last night.  But it sounds very much like the kind of “end of the world” reporting we get from Iraq every day doesn’t it.

And Senator Lucy Graham (D-SC) wonders why conservatives want to seal the border FIRST.

By the way, the Drive-By Media isn’t reporting this news much either…

New Orleans’ 162 murders last year made the city the nation’s murder capital, with a murder rate that was anywhere from one-third again to two-thirds-again higher than the next-highest, in Gary, Ind., and Detroit.

“We have to look at what this does to the city, what it does to the economy, and what will happen if we don’t get it under control,” said Anthony Radosti, vice president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a watchdog group that often critiques the New Orleans Police Department. “These homicides are striking fear into certain communities.

“By year’s end, the population will be increased; the National Guard and the State Police may be gone,” he said Monday. “We have to ask, ‘What is the plan of action for the remainder of the year?’”

Hey…. I’m all for imposing the Pelosi Doctrine for New Orleans, too.   Let’s withdraw our troops from the civil war so we can fight the real terrorists.  Unless the duly re-elected government of Mayor Ray Nagin meets some political benchmarks, of course.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  3. Bruce, honestly, this post might suffer from trying to score too many points at once, in different directions.

    I think you’re saying:
    1) Mexico has big problems with drug gangs.
    2) Which means it’s reasonable for us to ask who is coming across our border.
    3) Our media shows their bias in not reporting it, even though it’s as big (in terms of death toll) as many other stories out there.
    4) Our media is also failing to report on murders in New Orleans.
    5) Why aren’t the Democrats worried about the situation in New Orleans?
    6) Nancy Pelosi sucks.

    I agree. But where I’m going with this: honestly, I had to struggle a little to piece it together. 😉

  4. Anyone find it a little hinky the lengths the Bush Administration went to to immunize a drug smuggler in order to prosecute a couple of border agents? I think it’s commonly accepted that drug lords wield a lot of influence in Mexican politics. ($200 Million recovered in one raid on one apartment not too long ago.) Does it rise to the level of a conspiracy theory to wonder if the drug lords went to their bought-and-paid for Mexican politicians, who in turn went to the Bush administration to demand that border agents be prosecuted for the sake of “good relations?”

  6. The interesting thing to me is that Calderon has the military all over it. These guys are trained to shoot first and ask questions later. I read in the WSJ a week or so ago that some police officers were killed in Acapulco (I think) and their heads were placed on pikes outside the police station. The military found the house of the guy who did it and rolled 4 grenades. Killed everybody.

    TGCpartner, who grew up in Nuevo Laredo told me of how the police/military will kill the entire family of drug lords to prevent anyone from picking up the business. He told me of one drug runner who was bumped off with his family at a party of some sort. Children, grandparents etc.

    A few years ago, during Vicente Fox, we were with some friends at a cantina in Nuevo Laredo. We were sitting at a counter by the window. I kept seeing soldiers walking by or riding in Deuce 1/2s. I asked our friends what they were doing and they said the soldiers were patrolling for drug smugglers. They said that more than likely, if they found one, they’d shoot him on the spot. Naturally, I wanted to be sure we weren’t sitting near anybody else.

  7. 66 civilian deaths per day in Baghdad in May 2007. Very poor comparison, very telling of your mindset. Sad.

    How about 115 civilian deaths per day in the U.S.? And that’s only in motor vehicle crashes. Very telling of your mindset. Blitheringly pathetic.

    As Leon De Winter noted in today’s WSJ

    So Americans manage to deal with the fact that tens of thousands of people will be killed each year on the roadways. But when it comes to the war against Islamic fascism, the nation may soon decide that 3,500 deaths over four years is too much. This for a great nation of 300 million inhabitants.

    …If that is the case, then the United States will have begun to undermine the moral foundations spelled out in its own Declaration of Independence. If America is unable to carry out a war of its own choosing in defense of liberty because the cost of 3,500 lives is unacceptable, then it will soon be unable to maintain its position and power in the world.

    While America is prepared to pay with the lives of 42,000 men, women and children each year because it needs to travel for work and pleasure, the sacrifice of 850 lives a year to defend the principle of universal freedom has thrown America into a state of profound introspection.

    …Since the start of the war in Iraq, 170,000 people have died in car accidents in America. Remember to buckle up.

  9. LOL! Dead people. LOL!!

    See? Liberals love death. They love misery and you can’t get more miserable than that.

    It is interesting, however, that they claim they don’t want to see pictures of the WTC disaster, but they demand pictures of Abu Ghraib “torture”. It’s porn for liberals.