Friday, January 17, 2014

Some things Mexico better get through its head:

First, if you cannot or will not protect these people, they'll start doing the job themselves(as is their right).  Whether the politicians or bureaucrats like it or not.

Second,
Farmers locked arms with vigilantes to block the dusty two-lane road leading here. The soldiers demanded to be let in; people begged them to leave. Tempers flared, and rocks were thrown. The soldiers fired into the air, and then, residents said, into a crowd. At least two people were killed on Tuesday, officials and residents said.

“He was just a farmer, and now he died for a cause,” one resident, Luis Sánchez, said of Mario Torres, 48, a lime picker who was not part of the vigilante group but was among the two buried on Wednesday as mourners cried out against the government and the soldiers.
Do you actually think shooting these people will make them HAPPY to see you?  Will make them MORE likely to do what you want?  How effing stupid are you?

Third, they're protecting themselves, their neighbors, their homes, from rapists and torturers and murderers and slavers; you think the're going to scare easy at this point?

In one of these towns the vigilantes are led by a community doctor, pushed toward his activism after seeing young girls brought to him after being kidnapped and raped by cartel members. He took a dim view of the Army’s efforts, telling Fusion’s reporter, “They don’t come here to dismantle criminal organizations. Their only mission is to protect federal roads.”
When more and more people see the government and army as just another cartel, you've got possibly more trouble than you'd dreamed of.  And telling the peasants to shut up and behave ain't gonna cut it.

And yeah, I'd bet there are people in our .gov looking at this and sweating.




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