With 19 Bodies Hanging From Bridges, Mexico Has No Place To Talk

By Tom Knighton

Earlier this week, I wrote about how Mexico was considering filing a lawsuit against the United States for failing to protect Mexican citizens gunned down during the El Paso shooting. The idea seemed laughable enough. After all, if the U.S. doesn’t have a duty to protect American citizens from horrible crimes, why would it have such a duty to protect foreign nationals, at least some of whom didn’t comply with American laws in order to get here?

Another point that was laughable was for Mexico to talk about violence in the U.S. when they can’t keep their own house in order.

A prime example of that comes to us from an AP report published on Thursday.

Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19.

The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war, when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms