Young Turks: Drug Cartel Torture, Murder To Warn Social Media Users

[CherylK]

Run time: 03:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-00hKoxX_vk   Posted on YouTube: September 16, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 17124   Posted on DU: September 18, 2011 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1836

 
Members of a drug cartel in Mexico hanged mangled bodies from a pedestrian bridge to warn people who disparage the cartels on social media sites.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/in-mexico-social-media-becomes-a-battleground-in-the-drug-war/

[villager]

1. The Cheney cabal must be jealous...

n/t

[southmost]

2. war on drugs = war on people

[AtheistCrusader]

3. "If you make it illegal, you make it valuable".

There you go Cenk. Fixed that for you.

Also, it's 'viscera'.

[Enthusiast]

4. Kicked and recommended!

The war on drugs is clearly a greater evil than the drugs themselves.

The illegal status of the drugs keeps their value artificially high which in turn fuels organized crime -exactly like alcohol prohibition.

[Crowman1979]

5. It won't be long before the hackers come after the drug lords.

[urgk]

6. Now, that will be epic. (n/t)

[Crowman1979]

7. They'll probably release all of the drug lords information to the public.