Drug cartels across the border just as brutal as ISIS

[Judi Lynn]

Drug cartels across the border just as brutal as ISIS

Horrific violence not isolated to Middle East

By: Ellen Weiss
Posted: 3:17 PM, Oct 23, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. officials have argued that atrocities committed by the militant group ISIS are barbaric and that the group is a threat to the homeland, but it’s worth remembering that the horrific violence perpetrated just across the U.S. border by Mexican drug cartels is equally barbaric and the cartels also pose a threat to Americans.

This week brought another bloody reminder of the cartel’s brutality. Mexican activist Maria Del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, a physician and citizen journalist who had taken a prominent stand against Mexican cartels on social media, died with a bullet in her head. And her killers, in an obvious effort to terrorize others, tweeted her murder.

Yes, as President Barack Obama noted in his Sept. 24 address to the UN General Assembly, ISIS is leaving a trail of rape, beheadings, dead children and mass graves. The numbers are terrifying: More than 5,500 people have been killed in Iraq since June, according to the United Nations.

But here are some numbers – also terrifying – from just across the U.S.-Mexico border: In 2013, Mexican drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people, and Human Rights Watch estimates more than 60,000 people were killed in drug-related violence from 2006 to 2012.

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[Warpy]

1. More brutal because they don't even have trials

They just grab people off the street that some flunky has fingered and torture and kill them for fun. Anybody with a grudge who knows a gangster can settle a grudge with a phony tip.

And you can't always tell the government and police apart from the drug gangs.

We could end this really easily, just admit we lost the drug war because it's unwinnable. Wars against human nature always are. Sell pure stuff in reliable doses and undercut the black market price (easy to do). Defund the gangs and they'll devolve into protection schemes and other scams that piss people off, just like the Mob did after Prohibition was ended.

We know what to do. Washington is just too timid to do it while the banksters are raking in so much laundered drug money.