In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence in Mexico, a drug cartel-connected trafficker claims fellow gangsters have kidnapped highway bus passengers and forced them into gladiatorlike fights to groom fresh assassins.
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If what he says is true, gangsters who make commonplace beheadings, hangings and quartering bodies have managed an even crueler twist to their barbarity.Members of the Zetas cartel, he says, have pushed passengers into an ancient Rome-like blood sport with a modern Mexico twist that they call, “Who is going to be the next hit man?”
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The trafficker said those who survive are taken captive and eventually given suicide missions, such as riding into a town controlled by rivals and shooting up the place.
Sure, it might be lurid BS that exists only in the fertile imagination of a guy who’s trying to make a buck. But from what everyone’s heard of the Zetas, is it really that damned implausible?
My only quibble is about the “grooming for suicide mission” thing. Absent the maniacal religious motivation of the muslims, a dude needs a pretty strong reason to go throw his life away like that, and I’m not seeing this story provide one.
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Agreed. Not really seeing a primary motivation for suicide attacks. Unless the family is held hostage.
What I am seeing is Mad Max. As the regular people flow away into the US, there is nothing holding back the sociopaths and psychos — they are making the societal rules.
Look around: Chicago Flash Mobs, gang fights in MaccyDs and other drive thrus… *something* is breaking down.
Gladitorial combat, eh.
Yannow, if I’m gonna die anyway, I think I’d take at least one guard with me.
Just sayin’…
…”My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius…”
The U.S. Marines could use another verse to our hymn. Something like, “From the Halls of Montezuma again, to the shores of doo daaa deee…..”
Star Trek already did it … twice.
Uh, make that thrice.
ColJ (4),
Marines:
From the Halls of Montezuma again, to the shores of Tripoli again.
Army:
Brit Field Marshal: I should’ve thought you’d want to fall back and regroup.
General Patton: Not me, Teddie. I don’t like to pay for the same real estate twice.
Air Force (SAC):
The same place ain’t there twice.
^ MINUTEMAN III: if it’s not there in 30 minutes, yer next one’s free.
DougM,
Ya but, I ain`t shore I like a CEP fer a smart gadget that is steered by cowboyboot spurs…… (code word: Plim Sickens)
Phasers on heavy stun from orbit and sort them out with the Solyent Green truck.
ColJ,
Yeah, but if CEP ≤ radius of destruction of the warhead, ‘sokay, *yeeeehaaaaw* notwithstanding.