Check out this from Mexico, and we thought all the gun murders in Dublin were bad...

Palmerstown_guy

Have any of you checked this from BBC today?

Dublin city may have been branded as having the worst gun murders in Europe, but this place has the highest gangland gun murders in the world...just some perspective!

(disturbing images)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8362459.stm

My name is URL

Yeah, but at least the weather's good

Placid_Casual

A Latin American city has a worse murder rate than Dublin? Who'd have thunk it?

Mc Love

That video gave me chills!

over 2000 deaths this year.. jesus christ that's crazy..

wudangclan

...that's the continued effect of giving psychotic criminals lordship of a multi-billion dollar industry.

Lirange

My name is URL wrote: »

Yeah, but at least the weather's good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZD6tRvimM

There was also a spate of kidnappings and rapes of woman factory workers which went largely unreported in the press. They made a film about it starring Jennifer Lopez but it went straight to video and nobody saw it.

Lirange

There was a Minnie Driver film about Juarez a few years back as well.

Photi

Read 2666 by Roberto Bolano. It's set in his fictionalised version of Ciudad Juarez, called Santa Teresa in the book, and a major recurring theme of it is the hundreds of murders of young women in and around the city since the nineties. It's horrifying.

FouxDaFaFa

[quote=[Deleted User];63038908]There was also a spate of kidnappings and rapes of woman factory workers which went largely unreported in the press.[/quote]

Found out about these murders and kidnappings of women a few weeks ago, found it very disturbing and it's still going on.
The drug cartel murders seem to be well reported but since a big Amnesty campaign a few years ago involving Jennifer Lopez the murders of women seem to be slipping under the radar.

john-joe

Swine Flu , Now murders! what good has come out of mexico :mad:....


Oh yeah.... This;

http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/41/43/salma-hayek-cleavage-3.0.0.0x0.400x532.jpeg


Meow! :D

Reindeer

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Found out about these murders and kidnappings of women a few weeks ago, found it very disturbing and it's still going on.
The drug cartel murders seem to be well reported but since a big Amnesty campaign a few years ago involving Jennifer Lopez the murders of women seem to be slipping under the radar.

There is no slipping under the radar. It is a well-known problem in The States. Euro news just isn't reporting it.

I spent a few days in Juarez not too long ago. The nicer areas are OK, just avoid being out at night.

Bandit12

Thing is most people just don't give a **** once they have access to coke,gear,hash whatever. They know deep down the human effects of the drug wars but once if does'nt cross into their neighbourhoods then so what.

Palmerstown_guy

"Thing is most people just don't give a **** once they have access to coke,gear,hash whatever. They know deep down the human effects of the drug wars but once if does'nt cross into their neighbourhoods then so what."

Well that maybe true for some uneducated folk, not saying you are... but that sorry attitude has to change and change fast.

Blazer

Who cares about Mexico...Dublin's a shíthole anyway....nothing but murdering scum and junkies living there..:p

Palmerstown_guy

Are you happy now after saying that?

Captain Havoc

So the woman has just watched her husband get shot and the reporter decides to interview her, what a cock!

Biggins

Shocking. Coldly shooting a 7 year old child in the head!!!
Don't tell me such scum don't deserve the electric chair!

Blazer

Biggins wrote: »

Shocking. Coldly shooting a 7 year old child in the head!!!
Don't tell me such scum don't deserve the electric chair!

If only...of course we'd have all those liberal muppets telling us these people are human too etc.. to me these peopel are vermin and deserve to be treated likewise,.

star.chaser

wow, that place even makes the north of ireland during the troubles look like disneyland.

Overheal

Palmerstown_guy wrote: »

Are you happy now after saying that?

Of course. Anything to deny Ireland has a problem.

spitfireIRL

is this really a surprise to ye?? this has been going on in mexico for years.

Prof.Badass

Bandit12 wrote: »

Thing is most people just don't give a **** once they have access to coke,gear,hash whatever. They know deep down the human effects of the drug wars but once if does'nt cross into their neighbourhoods then so what.

The worst is those cunts who don't give a **** once they get voted in next time around. They know deep down the human effects of the drug wars but if it gets them voted in, so what?

0% of the moral blame lies with the drug user. It's not drugs that are causing these problems, it's their illegality. Do governments think they're playing a game of chicken or something? Hold out for long enough and let the death-toll pile up and eventually the population will be guilted into doing what they want?

In such a moral standoff it is the government who should set the example. They're far more organised and are actually paid to take action on things. If the government refuse to act morally, what makes you think the population will?

The drug war has been lost. Deal with it and stop ****ing up innocent people's lives.

prendy

vinylmesh wrote: »

The worst is those cunts who don't give a **** once they get voted in next time around. They know deep down the human effects of the drug wars but if it gets them voted in, so what?

0% of the moral blame lies with the drug user. It's not drugs that are causing these problems, it's their illegality. Do governments think they're playing a game of chicken or something? Hold out for long enough and let the death-toll pile up and eventually the population will be guilted into doing what they want?

In such a moral standoff it is the government who should set the example. They're far more organised and are actually paid to take action on things. If the government refuse to act morally, what makes you think the population will?

The drug war has been lost. Deal with it and stop ****ing up innocent people's lives.

i keep looking for the sarcasm but cant find it? Seriously?

wudangclan

vinylmesh wrote: »

The worst is those cunts who don't give a **** once they get voted in next time around. They know deep down the human effects of the drug wars but if it gets them voted in, so what?

0% of the moral blame lies with the drug user. It's not drugs that are causing these problems, it's their illegality. Do governments think they're playing a game of chicken or something? Hold out for long enough and let the death-toll pile up and eventually the population will be guilted into doing what they want?

In such a moral standoff it is the government who should set the example. They're far more organised and are actually paid to take action on things. If the government refuse to act morally, what makes you think the population will?

The drug war has been lost. Deal with it and stop ****ing up innocent people's lives.

+100

Pace2008

prendy wrote: »

i keep looking for the sarcasm but cant find it? Seriously?

The onus should be on the government to find pragmatic solutions to pressing societal problems. It's obvious that people are going to keep using drugs, so the powers that be have to accept this fact and employ harm minimisation measures other than 'Just Say No.'

cojomo2

jerseyeire wrote: »

So the woman has just watched her husband get shot and the reporter decides to interview her, what a cock!

was just thinking the exact same thing..

Takeshi_Kovacs

Here is a picture segment Boston big picture did on UN drug report... a lot of bewildering and ghastly photos are mainly from this part of Mexico, showing effects of drugwar and gangland conflicts.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/2009_un_world_drug_report.html

vinylbomb

prendy wrote: »

i keep looking for the sarcasm but cant find it? Seriously?

I think the point that the previous post is getting at is that using laws to attempt to curb human impulses don't work in the long term.
Some people will always wish to alter their mindset or "reality" temporarily as a release (and I say this without meaning it to be derogatory at all).

If you look at the prohibition of alcohol as a case study it failed miserably.
As such the argument for legalizing drugs to some degree makes sense.

megadodge

wudangclan wrote: »

...that's the continued effect of giving psychotic criminals lordship of a multi-billion dollar industry.

You're obviously referring to bankers ??