The most recent Mexican Beheadings & Mutilations: image from indiatv.com
The Violent Drug Gang War, that has seen an increasing body count, has been a situation in Mexico for years. In 2011 the incidents of beheading and mutilation began to appear, with victims ranging from journalist to alleged “rival drug cartel” members, yet there was little to no reporting on the growing number of incidents. It has, in some reports, spilled over the U.S. border(MSNBC) The latest is a mass murder of 48 individuals, found in a pool of blood on the road to one of the larger border cities being reported widely in U.S. newspapers:
Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest massacre in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels. (San Francisco Chronicle)
How does beheading figure into Mexican Culture? It appears in only ancient instances – the main example being the Aztecs “ball games”, where the loser was summarily beheaded. Other than that there is little mention of the act of beheading as common in the Mexican Culture – rather, ripping out of the heart, was popular in the Mayan Culture, but of which have little bearing, other than commercial tourism on today’s Mexico.
Surprisingly there are few other modern cultures which actively use decapitation in practice, either terror and/or as a style of execution. One mostly finds instances in the Middle East, for example Saudi Arabia uses beheading as a means of execution(CBS News). An interesting report of modern-day beheading and culture by by Ronald Jones, a Carlisle Paper by the U.S. Army War College, is both historically accurate and well written (U here in PDF). In the report, the topics cover ancient civilizations and the methodology of execution by beheading, however, it then covers modern day executions as well as the use of the methodology in terror organizations, specifically in the Middle East. Also of note: the use of hanging multiple bodies from bridges do not appear outside of current history, except for two incidents, the Iraq war, and theorist use of the method, and the Mexican “drug war”. Although mass hangings did take place on what is now U.S. soil, it was the British Government whose “war on pirates” resulted in the hangings in pre-revolutionary Newport RI.
Which begs the question: Where did the “drug cartels” discover the art of beheading? Was it through their ancient cultures – if so, there would be more hearts ripped out of bodies than heads lying on the streets. One might speculate with the open border between the U.S. and Mexico, funds needed by terrorist organizations in the Middle East and the easy access to Mexico from those nations in the Middle East and Africa that use beheadings in terrorism , coupled with the huge amount of capital that can be gained from running drugs for cash and weapons (see Fast and Furious), if there isn’t another influence at work.
1 comment:
I have been watching the real news for years and reading between the lines and discerning truth from crap when possible.
Then this new threat"ISIS" came into being, I immediately thought of the MS-13 culture and the barbaric way they would treat their victims as a warning to others that might try and go against their way of thinking. "Convert or die" a very simple way of doing things. And a lot of innocent people lose their lives for nothing other than existing. Their crime was to be different.
But the real problem exists in the powers that be and their
infective way of handling a crisis. NOW! we also have a wave
of illegal immanent children flooding the and country tying up our borders with a mass of human juvenile refugees,trying to escape a world of unspeakable violence and general living conditions. But our very government that is supposed to be protecting it's people and guarding our borders ,... Is letting children literally walk in from across the border in the
tens of thousands with out any response to the leaders of the countries responsible??? WTF!! And then our leaders take a month long vacation!?
The American people are being abandoned. If these children can cross our borders at will then so can MS 13 and ISIS and any other terrorist organization looking to bring down the American way of life.
I believe the American way of life as we now know it is
going to be changed in a very drastic and consequential way and a lot of people will not survive the changes about to come. This will all come about from the lackadaisical way the people in this country perceive the world and their ignorance of all the hate that other countries have for America and it's people. Not to mention the false feeling of security the general population of this country has about our government and it's ability to keep us safe. The American people have fallen back into a pre 911 way of thinking, That everything is fine and the government will take care of us if danger should arise. All I can say is,
If you don't own a gun ...Then go buy one and learn how to use it..
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