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Baitball Blogger

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14. On the contrary, enjoyed your flippant remark.

Reply to Swede (Reply #12)

Sun May 13, 2012, 12:56 PM

May 2012

Big vampire and zombie fan here.

This is the quote that made me think the article could have been written better:

"in what appeared to be part of a string of brutal drug gang killings,"

People would dismiss those deaths too readily if the impression was that one gang was killing the other.

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Thirty-seven dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway [View all] Amerigo Vespucci May 2012 OP

it seems barely a day goes by without a story like this coming out of Mexico cali May 2012 #1

Less than 200 miles to the Texas border. Ilsa May 2012 #2

put the narcos out of business. legalize the drugs. spanone May 2012 #3

We have a free trade deal with Mexico which allow their truckers... Poll_Blind May 2012 #4

These stories are amazing. Any other time in history an emergency would be declared and the culprits Lint Head May 2012 #5

Ermm.. ananda May 2012 #6

It's up to them now. When it happens here it will be up to us. I don't think mass murder Lint Head May 2012 #13

How are we sure that all these murders are drug related? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #7

Who else dismembers 37 bodies and dumps them on a highway? Swede May 2012 #8

Cute. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #11

Oh,sorry for being a smart aleck. Swede May 2012 #12

On the contrary, enjoyed your flippant remark. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #14

They become criminals by virtue of having been murdered. Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #16

See how they're getting disappeared? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #18

Mexico does not seem able to handle this problem. JDPriestly May 2012 #9

Government is as corrupt and liable as the gangs... Cave_Johnson May 2012 #10

The Mexican government has deployed tens of thousands of troops... Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #15

Horrible Aerows May 2012 #17