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Just What the Mexican Drug War Needs: More Vigilante Militias

By Robert Beckhusen04.26.1311:39 AM

Mexico’s drug war isn’t just a conflict between the government and heavily-armed cartels. There’s a third faction: vigilantes who have proliferated across nearly half of Mexico’s states and dozens of municipalities, and who operate in the space between the law and the lawless. Now the vigilantes are getting legalized.

As the article points out, the proposal includes the Mexican army training the vigilantes. It also seems they might be legitimized in 13 of Mexico's 31 states. Will that happen here in the US when governors turn to “vigilante” groups to help control what the Feds aren't?

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[tjvh]

Thank God Holder and Obama armed them properly.