Originally Posted By: TheKillingJoke
Originally Posted By: americafyeah
i'm not defending the zetas, but there are countless threads on here that show admiration for mobsters like roy demeo when in reality mexico has hundreds of roy demeos working for the cartels.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28824519/ns/world_news-americas/t/mexico-man-admits-dissolving-bodies/

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/20...rosecutors-say/

i don't understand how someone like demeo who killed and disposed of bodies is any different or better than what the cartels are doing, only on a much larger scale.


In my opinion the brutality that goes on has nothing to do with being 'Mexican'. Given the same circumstances any country could become another Mexico. Colombia, Sicily, Yugoslavia or the Soviet states were once just as bad. It just wasn't documented as extensively.
Even when you go back to the period of the American Civil War there was gruesome stuff going on in the scalp-hunting business of the White Southerners, Native Americans and African Americans, which in it's purest form was also some sort of organized crime.


the u.s. has had the same murder rate that mexico has now, after the civil war during the reconstruction period when southerners lost faith in the government and there were rogue ex-confederate factions like the quantrill posse massacring hundreds of innocent people. what's happening in mexico isn't particularly unique,it's just an example of what happens when the government loses control. wherever there's a breakdown in government violence flourishes. the same drug cartels in mexico are in the u.s. today but they aren't committing the same types of violent crimes in the states because they fear the government here. instead,they are low-key in the u.s. and try not to draw attention to law enforcement. they know theyll get the death penalty or locked in a supermax federal prison for life,and cant bribe the officials or breakout of prison like in mexico.