To live or die in Mexico: Murders and kidnappings prompt calls to bring back the death penalty

The Global Post ^ | February 20, 2009 | Marion Lloyd

[2ndDivisionVet]

CLOSE THE BORDER!!!

[G Larry]

“Murders and kidnappings prompt calls to bring back the death penalty”

With an armed citizenry, you don't have to wait!

[txnativegop]

Summary execution at the hands of the federales. will definitely screw up the tourist trade. not that I care about mexico at all

[joydocsusie]

The border should have been closed years ago.

Why should we give stimulus money to illegal aliens????

Shut the border to illegal aliens NOW

A country without borders is not a nation. anonymous

[Just Lori]

Most Mexicans don't report kidnappings for fear of endangering the victims' lives or for fear that the police may be involved.

I can't imagine being AFRAID of our police. If you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys, what are you supposed to do???

[AIC]

Mexico is also bound by the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, which bars countries who have abolished the death penalty from later reinstating it. This is the kind of crap Clinton signed, however, it's against the Constitution of the U.S. to make that kind of treaty because of States Rights. Something like this where you get into something, it doesn't work out, and you can't get out, then you have problems.

[RayChuang88]

De-criminalize cannabis on our side of the border and most of those gangs in Mexico would be out of business in very short order.

[bert]

.......as he served steaming tacos from a basket on his bicycle. ......

I guess I never saw a bicycle basket taco heater capable of producing steam

[tet68]

the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, which bars countries who have abolished the death penalty from later reinstating it.

Isn't that convenient.

[B Knotts]

I was just talking about this the other day with some friends. While far from ideal, I noted that it will probably take a step like this to keep Mexico from collapsing.

[B Knotts]

They could always withdraw from the treaty, so that, in and of itself, is not really an obstacle. Whether it is the wisest decision is arguable, but they’re going to have to do something dramatic, and soon, or the United States Marines are going to be mopping up in a couple of years.

[Moonman62]

Stop smoking cannabis on our side of the border and most of those gangs in Mexico would be out of business in very short order.

[Soothesayer]

Another option is to work the scum to death in labor camps and have them build useful things for free. That way you can also build up Mexico’s legitimate economy and give an incentive to prevent people from leaving the country.

[Soothesayer]

The Democrat voter base would all be in for de-criminalizing cannabis. Why is it that the politicians aren’t doing this? It’s possible that democrat tyrants somehow benefit from the violence and instability generated by drug wars.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The Green Party, a minority party in Congress, has gone further, advocating capital punishment in all homicide cases. "Because we worry about your life, we're going to end the life of murderers," declare the party's billboards, which are plastered across the capital.

I guess their Green Party is a little wiser than ours. ;)

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

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[AuntB]

While they’re at it, they need to give the people of Mexico the 2nd amendment! Let they stay there and fix their own country, they don’t want to be here anyway.

[Niuhuru]

Maybe summary executions will become a spectator sport. It might give Mexico a unique reason for going South.

As for the warring gangs, well, you know those Montegues and Capulets.

[txnativegop]

It even make the animal rights wackos happy. The Rodeos might be gotten rid of.

[RipSawyer]

I can’t imagine being AFRAID of our police.
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Imagine it! Soon you will have much reason to fear the police.