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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 08:25 AM


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"There's no shame in surrendering this battle to save the lives of your people."

Hey Dennis, this guy must be French!


Ouí. C'est évident. :lol:
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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 06:12 PM


There's a difference between surrendering a battle and turning your own people over to foreign invaders for extermination.



\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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[*] posted on 3-6-2010 at 07:07 AM


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There's a difference between surrendering a battle and turning your own people over to foreign invaders for extermination.


Depends on how you look at it. In this case, they may be one and the same since drugs exterminate as effectivly as gas and bullets.
I don't understand how you can come to terms with this illicit industry. Just because these people arn't in the streets shooting each other doesn't make their existance tolerable. They're still dealing in death and destruction.

Another thing....the death in the streets was mainly confined to scum on scum. What could be better? Why would anybody want to stop that?
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[*] posted on 3-6-2010 at 09:17 AM
MURDERS: DOWN IN TJ, UP IN LP?


I'm surprised there's been no mention of recent killings and assaults involving gunplay that have occurred in La Paz this past week.

The death of a young lawyer and wounding of two others in a bar on the Malecon in La Paz a couple of nights ago is simultaneously shocking and mysterious to us, as is the rumor that two men were killed in a gun battle near the Panteon a week or so ago.

I use the word 'shocking' because until very recently the most serious crime in La Paz that we were aware of was a bank robbery that happened about 25 years ago.

Now, since El Teo's arrest, there are reports of extreme violence in La Paz that are completely out of character with this wonderful city's history and reputation. One hopes that recent events are an anomaly and not a harbinger of worse to come.
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[*] posted on 3-6-2010 at 10:13 AM


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Originally posted by bajajazz
I'm surprised there's been no mention of recent killings and assaults involving gunplay that have occurred in La Paz this past week.



I'm not sure where to begin, but there's a line to consider between cartel violence, which I see as everybody's business due to the international implications, and city crime which is everywhere. It would be myopic to deny that La Paz hasn't always had it's share.
We are getting a lot of reports of what I consider to be city crime out of Tijuana, Ensenada and all other place in the vicinity and it makes me wonder how much of this is attributed to the cartels given the increased amount of activity they've been involved with recently. I'm beginning to believe that people assume all of it is cartel related when that isn't the case. Dense populations will have crime.

Anyway, I'm not by any means defending cartels and their activities. I'm only saying they arn't the cause of it all.

Yep....tha's all I'm sayin'.
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