Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police

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ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week.

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"We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities. We have detained the director of public security because he is involved with criminals and he knows who killed our commander," said Bruno Placido Valerio, a spokesman for the vigilante group.

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The growing movement of "self-defense" vigilante groups has seen masked townspeople throw up checkpoints in several parts of southern and western Mexico, stopping passing motorists to search for weapons or people whose names are on hand-written lists of "suspects".

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The groups say they are fighting violence, kidnappings and extortions carried out by drug cartels.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It has happened in the US, and continues.

The history of vigilantism in the United States is as old as the country itself. In many ways, the history of the United States began with vigilantism. On December 16, 1773, American colonists, tired of British direct taxation, took part in what came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. As part of the resistance, they threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

During the 1830s, so-called "vigilance committees" formed in the South to protect the institution of SLAVERY against encroachment by abolitionists, who were routinely assaulted, tarred and feathered, and otherwise terrorized by these committees with the ACQUIESCENCE of local law enforcement personnel. After slavery was abolished, southern vigilante groups, such as the KU KLUX KLAN, sought to continue white dominance over freed blacks by using LYNCHING and other forms of intimidation that were prohibited by law. During the second half of the twentieth century, African-American vigilantes wantonly destroyed symbols of white authority and property associated with white society in retaliation for the injuries and indignities caused by racial SEGREGATION and discrimination.

Vigilantism continues to metamorphose. Private watch groups patrol their neighborhoods to guard against criminal activity. Antiabortion extremists commit deadly attacks against family HEALTH CARE clinics and family health care workers, often in the name of religion. Environmental activists inflict economic losses on companies by obstructing lawful business activities that they think will cause harm to the air, water, or land. Every day people use force and violence to exact revenge against someone whom they believe has done them wrong. In each case, vigilantes take it upon themselves to enact justice, rather than enlist police officers, lawyers, judges, and the rest of the established legal machinery to do the job. And, in each case, vigilantes risk starting a cycle of violence and lawlessness in which the victims of vigilantism take the law into their own hands to exact pay-back.

Read more: Vigilantism - Law, Private, Vigilantes, and Justice - JRank Articles http://law.jrank.org/pages/11129/Vigilantism.html#ixzz2OrFFCbf8

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Vigilantism continues to metamorphose. Private watch groups patrol their neighborhoods to guard against criminal activity. Antiabortion extremists commit deadly attacks against family HEALTH CARE clinics and family health care workers, often in the name of religion. Environmental activists inflict economic losses on companies by obstructing lawful business activities that they think will cause harm to the air, water, or land. Every day people use force and violence to exact revenge against someone whom they believe has done them wrong. In each case, vigilantes take it upon themselves to enact justice, rather than enlist police officers, lawyers, judges, and the rest of the established legal machinery to do the job. And, in each case, vigilantes risk starting a cycle of violence and lawlessness in which the victims of vigilantism take the law into their own hands to exact pay-back.

Not one of those examples remotely approaches a vigilante group taking control of a town and placing its police force under arrest.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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Not one of those examples remotely approaches a vigilante group taking control of a town and placing its police force under arrest.

Spend some time in certain Northern California towns around harvest time, and see if you still think that way. The drug cartels don't just operate south of the border.

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Spend some time in certain Northern California towns around harvest time, and see if you still think that way. The drug cartels don't just operate south of the border.

I was addressing your previous post.

If you have new information - and it sounds like you do - go ahead and present it instead of merely alluding to it.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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I was addressing your previous post.

If you have new information - and it sounds like you do - go ahead and present it instead of merely alluding to it.

I prefer just to allude to it. I still have to live in this neighborhood.

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I prefer just to allude to it. I still have to live in this neighborhood.

so there are towns in north california which have been taken over by cartels who have also placed the local police force under arrest.... and you can't talk about it because no one knows.

i see.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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you can't talk about it because no one knows.

Oh, they know.

[JstaRebel 48]

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ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week.

...

"We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities. We have detained the director of public security because he is involved with criminals and he knows who killed our commander," said Bruno Placido Valerio, a spokesman for the vigilante group.

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The growing movement of "self-defense" vigilante groups has seen masked townspeople throw up checkpoints in several parts of southern and western Mexico, stopping passing motorists to search for weapons or people whose names are on hand-written lists of "suspects".

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The groups say they are fighting violence, kidnappings and extortions carried out by drug cartels.

This already has happened in the USA. Ever heard of MOM? Militia of Montana? Jordon Montana, Darby Montana, and Hamilton Montana come to mind.. They were fighting against what they saw as a corrupt local government and the loss of their constitutional rights..

[Danno 1,228]

When I read the headlines, my first thought was..... I hope these guys are in the next wave coming over the border.

We actually do have an incident in which some WW2 led vets took over a town in the South when the voting was being rigged.

They got in the armory and came to where the mayor and sheriffs were at to get the ballot box.

And there was a shoot out... at least in the hollywood version (A movie was made)

Unfortunately I recall the name of the town or the Movie.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

When I read the headlines, my first thought was..... I hope these guys are in the next wave coming over the border.

We actually do have an incident in which some WW2 led vets took over a town in the South when the voting was being rigged.

They got in the armory and came to where the mayor and sheriffs were at to get the ballot box.

And there was a shoot out... at least in the hollywood version (A movie was made)

Unfortunately I recall the name of the town or the Movie.

Athens, TN perhaps? 1946?

[Danno 1,228]

Athens, TN perhaps? 1946?

Bingo!

Edited March 28, 2013 by Danno

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

We just had a triple homicide a few miles away from here last month.

http://sebastopol.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2013/02/news/suspect-arrested-in-forestville-triple-homicide/

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We just had a triple homicide a few miles away from here last month.

http://sebastopol.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2013/02/news/suspect-arrested-in-forestville-triple-homicide/

homicides? how unique and different!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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homicides? how unique and different!

To this area, it is. It's not the Jersey Shore.