A chilling message from the cartels

DailyMail ^ | 05/23/2014 | Meghan Keneally

[BuckeyeTexan]

A chilling message from the cartels: Billboards with hanging mannequins warning cops to choose 'silver over lead' appear in Texas

• Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them
• One reads 'silver or lead' in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels' bribes or die
• Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north

Two frightening incidents of vandalism in El Paso near the Mexican border in Texas have been interpreted as warnings from drug cartels. In both instances, a mannequin wearing a suit and tie was tied to a billboard with a noose and messages were scrawled over the placards. Local station KHOU reports that one of the signs reads 'Plata o Plombo' which translates to 'silver or lead', a threat used commonly against police officers effectively warning that if they do not accept the cartel's bribes then they will be shot.

[BuckeyeTexan]

TX ping

[fwdude]

I’d leave it up there and just put a sombrero on its head.

[celmak]

You have got to be kidding me! This is a declaration of war against us!

[celmak]

Good call!

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...”vamoose or noose”. Don’t mess with Texas.

[JRandomFreeper]

Time to play Cowboys and Druglords. We're gonna need artillery.

/johnny

[BuckeyeTexan]

Governor Perry better be doing something about this. This is nothing short of a hostile invasion. It’s time to declare a state of emergency and send the Texas National Guard to El Paso.

I hope he sees this as a defining moment in his career, because it is. There is no room for politics here.

[JRandomFreeper]

Under the Texas Constitution, there's not a lot the Governor can do (about anything, ever).

/johnny

[deport]

For what it's worth..........

[BuckeyeTexan]

Time to play Cowboys and Druglords.

Indeed, it is.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You’re right. The TX Governor is the weakest in the country.

[ErnBatavia]

When I drive I-10, I don’t even stop for gas around El Paso.

[headstamp 2]

Oh for it to be the 1950’s again. These murdering bastards would be hunted down like the dogs that they are.

[Gene Eric]

Reported by the United Kingdom. Is the US media covering this?

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Are we sure that it was Pancho Villa and Santa Ana, or a couple of college kids pranking . . .

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Can’t, the post office and T.S.A. bought it all up.

[BuckeyeTexan]

ARTICLE 4. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Sec. 7. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MILITARY FORCES; CALLING FORTH MILITIA.
He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into actual service of the United States. He shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions.

By my definition, this counts as repelling an invasion. It's a threat of deadly force against Texas Law Enforcement. It cannot be allowed to go unanswered - and by unanswered I mean the absence of a full-out assault.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I am boiling angry right now.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Only Drudge.