Sep 232010
…they rise above the level of “subjects.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130079477
This week an angry mob of citizens pursued and allegedly killed two suspected kidnappers, storming a military base to get at the alleged culprits believed to have nabbed a teenage girl.
With police incapable of stopping the violent crime epidemic in Mexico amid the brutal drug war, it seems some locals in the town of Ascension have had enough.
Good for them! I seem to remember something vaguely similar:
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But there’s nothing wrong in Mexico and no reason to worry about the borders!
Good for them? Really? Plus ten for taking matters into your own hands, and all that, but minus a few million for calling it “mob justice”, which is an oxymoron with frightening implications for civilized society.