Arizona beheading raises fears of drug violence

[theGinsue]

"Don't worry. They're good people. They're only coming here for a better life. You've got nothing to worry about"

Yeah, I don't care if it was one of their own (another drug dealer) they beheaded, how soon before they get brave enough to behead someone who isn't associated with drugs because that person represents a threat to their business?

I still say SECURE THE BORDERS.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39914899

Arizona beheading raises fears of drug violence
CHANDLER, Ariz. — The gruesome case of a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment has police investigating whether the killing is potentially the most extreme example of Mexican drug cartel violence spilling over the border.
Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy's body was found Oct. 10 in a Chandler apartment — his severed head a couple feet away. One man suspected in the killing has been arrested, and a manhunt is under way for three others.

Detectives are focused on whether the men belong to a Mexican drug cartel, and they suspect that Cota-Monroy's killing was punishment for stealing drugs. The brutal nature of the killing could be designed to send a message to others within the cartel.

"If it does turn out to be a drug cartel out of Mexico, typically that's a message being sent," said Chandler police Detective David Ramer. "This person was chosen to be executed. It sends a message to other people: If you cross us, this is what happens."

Decapitations are a regular part of the drug war in Mexico as cartels fight over territory. Headless bodies have been hanged from bridges by their feet, severed heads have been sent to victims' family members and government officials, and bags of up to 12 heads have been dropped off in high-profile locations.

More than 28,000 people have been killed in Mexico in drug-related violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers to battle the cartels in their strongholds.
If the suspects in the Arizona case belong to a cartel, the crime could be the only known beheading in the U.S. carried out by a drug cartel, said Tony Payan, a political science professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who has done extensive research about border violence.

[hurley842002]

People had BETTER vote American, that's all I have to say. The current fu%ks in Office obviously don't have our best interests in mind (not old news by any means), or they would have done something LOOOONG ago. How long before the American people actually have to get into gun battles near the border to defend themselves?

[mx'r]

maybe we should file a lawsuit against mexico and central america. that should do the trick

[hurley842002]

maybe we should file a lawsuit against mexico and central america. that should do the trick

LMAO, we could. It's called handle your people, or we are dropping the hammer. But never from the current admin.

[sniper7]

They should just pass a law allowing open shootings of anyone crossing the border or than designated checkpoints. I know plenty of people who would volunteer their time and ammo to sit watch.

[Irving]

I don't see how putting a fence up would change anything. You could build a fence around LA and the entire country would still have gang problems.

[Irving]

They should just pass a law allowing open shootings of anyone crossing the border or than designated checkpoints. I know plenty of people who would volunteer their time and ammo to sit watch.

Why bother? Apparently the local police know where all the action is, and will tell you not to be there, because they won't be there. If the police aren't patrolling certain areas, it'd be pretty easy to just go there alone and have a gunfight and get away with it right?

[mx'r]

Or we could try giving them a "timeout". That seems to be working well in our society.

[Elhuero]

give war a chance

[rockhound]

they will be shooing cops in the street

did you see the police office in mexico that was throttled with 1000 rounds of ammo and 6 hand grenades over the weekend.

but they are such civilized people.

i say send them up to washington so that maybe they can get the hint.