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Why, yes I did. And now I hold many shares of Rid-A-Bug Stock.

Thanks for the stock tip WAPO - hopefully this won’t be seen as an inside trader violation

“Mexican drug gang turns to kidnapping in U.S.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063027/posts

psst, Benton. as i remember the Scriptures, Jesus said to render unto Caesar what was Caesar’s. in other words, you gotta obey the civil law. so please don’t give me that whole WWJD. okay?

After kidnappers in police uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Fernando Marti off a Mexico City street, his businessman father paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, and waited for his son’s safe return.

Instead, the boy and his driver turned up dead, their bodies found in car trunks. Days later, prosecutors alleged that a police detective was a key participant in the kidnapping plot.

The suspicions of police involvement in kidnap-killings have moved a nation where many had grown numb to kidnappings and the drug cartels’ beheadings and midday shootouts. Mass street protests are planned in several cities, and some lawmakers are even changing their minds about opposition to capital punishment.

“They should put their eyes out, so they can’t commit any more crimes,” said Ignacio Noriega, a 26-year-old university student who says he no longer feels safe anywhere. “Prison isn’t a solution anymore. They just form their own gangs inside prison and come out stronger.”

As the government convened a national security meeting Thursday to deal with the problem, police reported that 150 residents of a community just west of Mexico City savagely beat and threatened to kill two alleged thieves before handing them over to state police.

The administration of President Felipe Calderon is considering tough new anti-crime measures such as separate, more secure prisons for kidnappers and a national database of the largely unregistered cell phones frequently used by criminal gangs.

Mexico has one of the world’s highest kidnapping rates, according to the anti-violence group IKV Pax Christi. Kidnappings are up 9.1 percent this year, averaging 65 per month nationwide, according to the Attorney General’s Office, which blames a growing web of drug cartels, cops, former cops and informants who point out potentially lucrative victims.

But most kidnappings go unreported, for fear of the police.

The nonprofit Citizens’ Institute for Crime Studies estimates the real kidnapping rate to be more than 500 per month.

Alejandro Cesar Zamudio, a commander of Mexico City detectives, defended the innocence of the officer implicated in the Marti case, saying the allegations were motivated by rivalries within the department. But Mexico City’s top cop, Public Safety Secretary Manuel Mondragon, acknowledged that “a spiderweb of corruption has penetrated many parts of our department.”

Rich Mexicans have long resigned themselves to hiring private security teams and negotiators to deal with the threat. But now, even middle-class people are at risk, and kidnappers are increasingly killing their captives, even if a ransom is paid.

Just three days before Marti’s decomposed body was found on Aug. 1, a family of six was found dead in their home in western Jalisco state, allegedly targeted by kidnappers aided by corrupt cops.

Four victims, including two children, were shot in the head. A teenage boy’s throat was slashed. His mother was asphyxiated with a plastic bag.

One of the family’s sons had been kidnapped and released after a ransom was paid, but the gang — allegedly aided by a corrupt cop in the state anti-kidnapping squad — demanded they hand over more cash.

The gang killed the family after they realized the police officer was part of the scheme, prosecutors say.

Anger also boiled over last week when residents of the central Mexico town of Tlapanala managed to surround and disarm a gang of seven kidnappers posing as police. They held them for 24 hours, pounding the men to bloody pulps.

Mexico abandoned the death penalty long ago and considers life sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment. Only in 2005 did Mexico agree to extradite suspects facing life sentences in the United States. But this week, the small Green Party proposed reinstating capital punishment for police who participate in kidnappings, or for kidnappers who kill their victims.

Calderon has proposed life imprisonment for the worst kidnapping cases, currently punishable by 50 years.

The Attorney General’s Office says increasingly diversified organized crime cartels “now operate in drug trafficking, kidnapping and money laundering, among other things, with no central control or any one gang dominating any of the criminal activities.

“That is why kidnapping has grown more competitive, with kidnappers using much more violence against each other and against the victims, in a bid to gain territory, markets or dominance,” the report says.

An anti-crime march in 2004 drew more than a quarter-million people and damaged the presidential aspirations of the capital’s mayor at the time, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Another such mass march has been called for Aug. 30.

Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino worries that growing anger could lead to more vigilantism and mob justice.

“It is clear that the public is indignant, is angry, and it has a right to be,” Mourino said. “If we are not able to reach agreements and channel these demands into clear and concrete steps, then yes, people could start taking other types of action that wouldn’t solve the problem or benefit anyone.”

“Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they’ll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

– Barack Obama

I am sympathetic to your cause, but absolutely appalled every time I even think of California and its acquiesence to the illegal invasion. Is it truly that the state has hoisted the white flag to the invasion, or is it more accurately, a continuing shift to the left wing, socialistic Democrat movement in this country?

The vast majority of Americans want the illegals out. Period. No Amnesty, no nothing. Get out and wait to enter legally. Or, better yet, just stay out. We don’t want undereducated criminals for citizens. We have enough of those already. Take the whole family. Go make Mexico a better place to live.

How does America swing so far to extremes?

If a father is deported, Ruiz says, his family members in America are forced either to fend for themselves or follow him to a country where they’ve never even lived.

“So the mother is saying we should return home with the breadwinner of the family to Mexico, and the children are saying, I don’t want to leave, I’m a U.S. citizen, I don’t know that country,” said Ruiz.

SOB! SOB! WOE IS US! WOE IS US. HEAD ‘EM UP AND MOVE ‘EM OUT!

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Maybe the sign at 9500 Liberty St in Manassas would welcome your infomation but they can’t handle the truth and the Post, the Journal Messenger and the Fairfax rag would NEVER run such articles - never. It is better to surrender and appease than expose the truth.

McCain does not know anything about the Economy, where Iraq, Iran, Pakistan or Afghanistan are in relation to each other, how many houses he owns, the different between the Shiites and Sunnis or anything else the man is clueless and so for removed from the lives of normal American citizens that they may as well live in Mexico for all he knows!

What is Amazing is how anyone can be an Senator for so many years and know so little, about so much!

McCain has made an Senate career out of being an POW 40 years ago. Without accomplishing anything of note in all years as an Senator except costing American tax payers Billions in the Keating 5 scandal, and co-sponsoring Amnesty with the Socialist, Drunk and Killer Ed Kennedy for the loyal Mexicans citizens sent by Mexico to Colonize American! To add insult to injury he then thought Americans were stupid enough to believe him when he tried to deceive them by saying it was not Amnesty or he was not rewarding them for invading the US and committing numerous felonies! To show the agree that dementia has ravished McCain he even wanted to reward gang members like MS-13 with citizenship that work with & for the Mexican drug cartel and are some of the most vicious gang members in the world! McCain has shown much more loyally to Mexico and his Invading Criminals than to American and its Citizens that have obeyed the laws, paid the taxes, fought the wars and built this Nation. He constantly appears before the racist hate organization La Raza (The Race) that is dedicated to the reconquest of American Southwest and promises them anything as he begs for their votes!

McCain would rather lose an Nation than an Hispanic vote!

McCain’s Hispanic Outreach person Juan Hernandez was a Cabinet member in Mexico’s Vicente Fox’s government and VP of the racist hate organization La Raza (The Race) & is openly for Reconquest of the American Southwest!.

Some of his comments.

“We have recognized that the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States…We are a united nation.”

Mexican immigrants “are going to keep one foot in Mexico and are not going to assimilate.”

Mexico’s total economic policy is to send their Criminals and Uneducated peons to the US for Tax payers to support as they cost tax payers Billions sucking at the trough of public Welfare & for their free Medical & Schooling, while Killing, Robbing and Raping Americans citizens by the 10,s of thousands, for Businesses to Exploit and Profits from, and Corrupt Politicians to Pander and Cuddle for votes, while ignoring our Constitution against Invasion, the Rule of Law & their Oath of Office!

Apparently McCain agrees with his adviser about the Reconquest of the Southwest and the Colonization of American, or he would support our Constitution against Invasion, the Rule of Law, and Honor his Oath of Office, instead of rewarding the Invading horde with Amnesty!

McCain is too Stupid to be an Senator, too Stupid to be President and too Treasonous to be an American! My Friends.

Sadly, McCain is an ex-hero and now American traitor like Benedict Arnold!