Vigilante groups forming in mexico to fight the drug cartels.

[powderman]

Read full story at link, it's worth the read. POWDERMAN. 
 
And in the drug-plagued northern state of Sinaloa, the mayor of Concordia, Jose Elijio Medina, responded to a massacre, which forced everyone in a remote hamlet to flee, by calling for the Mexican army to revive the Rural Self Defense Corps, units of armed farmers it once helped train and supervise. While the army did not respond to requests to say how many of the units remain, local media have reported the army has been trying to wind down the few remaining units.
 
Since 1995, about 80 villages in Guerrero state have organized legal "community police" forces in which poorly armed villagers detain and prosecute people.
With their own jails, "courts" — actually village assemblies that can hand down verdicts — and punishments that can include forced labor for the town or re-education talks, the community police are recognized by state law, though rights activist Hernandez said there is still friction when community rules intersect with the formal legal system.
He pointed to one incident in 2012 where a judge and a detective in the Guerrero town of San Luis Acatlan arrested a community police leader for exceeding his authority. Villagers responded by arresting the judge, the detective and an assistant.
 
Members of the vigilante squads in Guerrero say what they want from the government is some kind of salary, not modern weapons. What counts, they say, are their ties to the community and resistance to corruption.
"When the people are united, it doesn't matter if it's a .22, a 16-gauge shotgun or 20-gauge. It's that when we are united, not even bullets from an AK-47 can defeat us," said the self-defense commander in Las Mesas. "They can't kill us all."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/21/vigilante-squads-spring-up-in-mexico-in-fight-against-cartels/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Ie828EIo

[BUGEYE]

well the mexican government hasn't helped any.    most officials are probably in the pocket of the drug dealers.
I wish the locals success..

It suddenly dawned on me, the folks here who smoke dope are helping the mexican cartels commit murder and other atrocities.  way to go guys.

[lakota]

If these vigilanties get too frisky Obama will send in troops to aid the Cartels and order drone strikes on the Vigilante groups.

[powderman]

Not hard to see who hussein and reid backed in fast n furious. I wish the vigilantes luck. POWDERMAN. 

[nw_hunter]

well the mexican government hasn't helped any.    most officials are probably in the pocket of the drug dealers.
I wish the locals success..

It suddenly dawned on me, the folks here who smoke dope are helping the mexican cartels commit murder and other atrocities.  way to go guys.

LOL! You just don't give up do ya? You will do and say anything to BLOW UP a thread.

[Victor3]

 All I can say is "good luck with that."


 Remember Pablo Escobar, the Medellin Cartel drug lord in Columbia? Much of the infrastructure of his cartel was wiped out by the vigilante group "Los Pepes (People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar)." Unfortunately (and with the help of the DEA and Columbian government), there was a lot of "collateral damage." Los Pepes would often locate one of Escobar's lawyers or friends in a public place and kill them, but there were many innocents caught in the crossfire or bomb blasts. Los Pepes wasn't all that 'surgical' in its work and unlike these Mexican groups, its members were fairly well organized, trained and equipped.


 Competing cartels were happy to supply intelligence to Los Pepes, the DEA and the Columbian government, who eventually killed Escobar, but in the end the other cartels immediately filled the vacuum left by his organization's demise.


 I'm all for people protecting themselves and their property but Mexico is such a clusterfudge right now that I don't see much that will make it better any time soon.

[Anna]

It's good to see that they are trying to take back their country. Many of them here want to go back
home to what they call a simpler life. They don't care for the winters up here either, even here in
Roswell its to cold for them. Many of the ones I know have passports and are doing things by the
rules. It is slowly becomeing not so much of an economic situation with them as it is an attempt to
get away from the violence and corruption. Education is another factor , as bad as it is here its a far
cry from what it is there.                                                                                                           

Their major complaint is that all the things that caused them to leave their country in the first place are following them here with different names and faces but its all the same thing .
One thing we should take note of here is that they say it wasn't nearly as bad down there until the government banned the possession of firearms by its private citizens.     

 

[BUGEYE]

well the mexican government hasn't helped any.    most officials are probably in the pocket of the drug dealers.
I wish the locals success..

It suddenly dawned on me, the folks here who smoke dope are helping the mexican cartels commit murder and other atrocities.  way to go guys.

LOL! You just don't give up do ya? You will do and say anything to BLOW UP a thread.

In all my fussing about dope, I hadn't made that connection until this thread. I said "It suddenly dawned on me."
my post did not go off topic, so why did you go off topic??  there's nothing in your post about the vigilantes.   Personal maybe??