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Thread ID: 97774	2009-02-27 04:52:00	Not Your Local News, But.................	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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751808	2009-02-27 04:52:00	I guess that most anyone in NZ thinks the US is a cowboy-state, run by gangs of outlaws with machine guns and RPGs and drug dealers, etc. Mexico is really where the action is for murders and kidnappings and the police and army are all rife with corruption. I offer a partial C/P from the LA-Times, as I subscribe to it: Mexican town fed up with violence turns to army. Mexico drug violence Email Picture (www.latimes.com) by: Alfredo Valadez / La Jornada Villanueva residents block a highway to protest escalating drug violence in and around their town. (www.latimes.com) In the state of Zacatecas, residents of Villanueva demanded that the military take over. The soldiers came, but drug war violence got worse. Reported by: Tracy Wilkinson Date: February 26, 2009 Reporting from Villanueva, Mexico -- The people of Villanueva said they'd had enough. Men in cowboy hats, women with hand-scrawled signs, children on bikes -- they gathered outside town and blocked the main interstate highway. "If you can't do it, quit!" they told their police force. They demanded that the army take over. * Mexican gangs move north (www.latimes.com) * Full coverage of Mexico's drug war (www.latimes.com) * Mexico drug wars spill across the border (www.latimes.com) * Sinaloa cartel investigation by the numbers (www.latimes.com) The army rolled into this town in Zacatecas state last month and ordered the police to stand down and surrender their weapons. They did. Things then only got worse. A few days later, Police Chief Romulo Madrid, a former military man said to be eager to cooperate with the army, was shot and killed outside his house at 10:30 on a bright morning. The mayor's chauffeur, a first cousin, was arrested in the shooting. Five days later, gunmen working for a drug gang ambushed an army patrol. One soldier and four assailants were killed. Among the attackers captured was a police officer. Sources close to the military point to evidence that elements of the police force set up the army patrol. For Mexicans to call on the armed forces, whose human rights record has been dubious at best, testifies to the firm conviction that the state and its civilian authorities, including the police, no longer protect them from the gang warfare of narcotics traffickers. Shootings, kidnappings, extortion and threats have shattered the relative peace of Zacatecas, a central mountainous state that sends a greater proportion of its people as migrants to the United States than almost any other. The unrest has disrupted immigration patterns, brought the local economy to its knees, destroyed small-town life and now threatens the upcoming planting season in an area that relies heavily on agriculture. "They are impotent," Lorenzo Marquez, a merchant, said of the authorities. From the market stall where he sells cheese, sausage and jalapeno peppers, he has watched too many incidents of thugs hauling people away at gunpoint in broad daylight. "And we the people are even more impotent." FULL STORY AND LINK TO LA-TIMES (www.latimes.com) Just thought you'd like to know.	SurferJoe46 (51)
751809	2009-02-27 09:08:00	And this event was reported in NZ on TV last night. Everyone in the USA lives in Texas and six guns never need to be reloaded. Go west young man. Much like Captain Cargill who advised, " Go west young man." and all the young men did. That is why the name was changed by the ladies of the town as they vowed to have it in for Cargill. Current name is Invercargill. Who knows what or should I say (fot) will happen.	Sweep (90)
751810	2009-02-27 09:22:00	And I think that the USA built a fence but this does not keep out illegal immigrants. en.wikipedia.org Then of course in the past there was a Berlin Wall which has since been removed this dividing West and East. The wall in Berlin did not keep people out of one side or another. Some people risked being shot at while trying to cross the border.	Sweep (90)
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