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Sanity -> One Very Bad Bandit (12/29/2008 7:43:08 PM)
This is a hell of a story. I would encourage those of you who read what's posted here to follow the link at the bottom to read the article in it's entirety, as it's very eye-opening. quote: Elusive bandit loves fast horses and faster ladies He is said to love the ladies, fast horses and dissolving enemies in lye. Teodoro Garcia Simental is among the best known but least identifiable villains in Mexico's drug war, blamed for a trail of terror across Baja California. His heavily armed hit men, authorities say, have been leaving the gruesome displays of charred and decapitated bodies across the city, signed with the moniker "Tres Letras," for the three letters in "Teo." And authorities believe he runs a network of hideouts where kidnap victims are held in cages. Yet thousands of police officers, soldiers, state and federal agents can't seem to find him. Billboards showing Tijuana's most wanted kidnappers don't include Garcia's image, even though he is believed to be behind most of the gang war that has claimed more than 400 lives here since late September. "That tells you that you don't want to be the one responsible for putting Teo's picture in public," said one U.S. law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity. "There's no future in it." (Full article here)

MzMia -> RE: One Very Bad Bandit (12/29/2008 8:09:03 PM)
The only thing more chilling than this despicable bandito in Mexico, would be this type of criminal and these crimes crossing the border into America. I have often wondered why more people don't discuss the real possibility of these types of gruesome activities spilling into the USA.

GoodFeathers -> RE: One Very Bad Bandit (12/29/2008 8:53:57 PM)
Unfortunately, the states only offers up the truly psycho; Ed Gains, Jeffrey Dahmer yum. I would this kind of thing doesn't spill over into the US, but it probably will, which is the unfortunate part. The question is not "Will it?" but rather, "How do we stop it from happening?"

popeye1250 -> RE: One Very Bad Bandit (12/29/2008 11:56:48 PM)
Just another in a long list of reasons to close that Mexican border down tight.

Vendaval -> RE: One Very Bad Bandit (12/30/2008 12:10:52 AM)
The violence has already come into the U.S. I have been posting articles about the escalation. "The unsolved disappearances have frustrated American authorities, who say they have no jurisdiction in Mexico but fear the drug cartels -- and even local police on their payroll -- are probably involved. In the Laredo area of Texas, the crimes have even created a growing new market for kidnapping insurance. 'No Mercy' So far, the city of Laredo has managed avoid the spectacular shoot-outs that have so devastated its sister city across the Rio Grande. But the cartels clearly don't respect national boundaries. Just a few weeks ago, in broad daylight, a young man was gunned down in a Laredo parking lot as his pregnant wife looked on. The ambush had all the markings of a cartel hit." http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/International/story?id=1477964 "The border between El Paso (population: 600,000) and Juárez (population: 1.5 million) is the most menacing spot along America's southern underbelly. On one side is the second-safest city of its size in the United States (after Honolulu), with only 15 murders so far in 2008. On the other is a slaughterhouse ruled by drug lords where the death toll this year is more than 1,300 and counting. "I don't think the average American has any idea of what's going on immediately south of our border," says Kevin Kozak, acting special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's office of investigations in El Paso. "It's almost beyond belief." Juárez looks a lot like a failed state, with no government entity capable of imposing order and a profusion of powerful organizations that kill and plunder at will. It's as if the United States faced another lawless Waziristan—except this one happens to be right at the nation's doorstep." http://www.newsweek.com/id/171251

slaveboyforyou -> RE: One Very Bad Bandit (12/30/2008 6:21:44 AM)
FR I notice in the comments section of the article that people were calling for drug legalization. I'm not disputing that drug legalization maybe a good idea, but I don't know how that would stop this. The gang under this douchebag seems to make most of it's living from kidnapping for ransom and extortion. When we re-legalized alcohol, the mob didn't go away. They just took up other pursuits.

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