Mexican Journalists Flee Drug War, Seek Asylum

All of my fifth grade boys were clustered around a classmate. When I asked the boys what they were doing, they dispersed ... save for one child who had something cradled under his jacket. It turned out that he had a Vietnam era hand grenade that his father had purchased at a garage sale.

I confiscated the grenade and took it to the assistant administrator who was also a Vietnam vet.

"Is this real?" I asked as I gave him the grenade.

"HOLY S**T!" shouted the administrator. "I don't see any seams."

He called the police. The police took the grenade to their firing range, pulled the pin, and tossed the grenade. It exploded.

The police subsequently came to school and talked to my student. They wanted to know WHERE the garage sale had been.

It turned out that the person who had conducted the garage sale had sold off an automatic rifle, several fragmentation hand grenades, and a smoke grenade.

Can you imagine what might have happened if my 5th grader had pulled the pin on his grenade thinking that it was inert?

Maybe they really are being bought up piece meal and shipped out.

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Maybe they really are being bought up piece meal and shipped out.

Brought "up"? Or did you mean to say brought "in"? Surely you didn't mean to say brought up from south of the border and shipped out right back to south of the border?

As murder numbers skyrocket in Juárez, another crime there is becoming even more common: carjackings.

Chihuahua state records show that carjackings peaked in August at 341, more than the city's 333 murders in the same month. Since 2008, 5,643 people have reported carjackings in Juárez compared with 86 in El Paso in the same period.

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An official with the Chihuahua state attorney general's office who works in the vehicle-theft unit said carjackings happen at any time of the day anywhere in the city. The official asked not to be named because of security concerns.
The victims are 60 percent women and can be of any age. The carjackers are equally diverse, sometimes even families with children.

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The official said the surges in carjackings and homicides are no coincidence. He said many of the cars are used for kidnappings and to carry out attacks.

In addition, some carjackings result in homicides, especially when the victim resists. "We tell the people to act with integrity if they are carjacked, to think about their lives first," he said.

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The investigator said these armed robberies are not necessarily tied to drug-cartel violence, although some stolen vehicles are later found at crime scenes or used by alleged drug traffickers and kidnappers.

"Unfortunately, with all the violence, many people are taking advantage and committing these types of crimes," he said.

For instance, police recently arrested a family who was carjacking people who were selling their vehicles. Family members would look for ads in the newspaper, go see the car, test it and then pull out a gun and drive away.[/url]

Because of the virtually complete breakdown of law and order in Ciudad Juárez caused by the drug war, there has been an increase in crimes not directly related to the drug war itself by people taking advantage of the anarchy like in the example of the carjacking family. There are stories about women being abducted in the streets in broad daylight, raped and dumped on other streets in other parts of the city.

And those ******* guns are incresingly killing innocent bystanders.

WHO FINANCED THE BULLET THAT KILLED HER?
WHO SOLD THE WEAPON?
WHERE?!!!!!

WHO FINANCED THE BULLET THAT KILLED HER?