show up after the crime to take reports and do detective work. The poorer the neighborhood, the riskier it is for peaceful residents. http://venitism.blogspot.comOnly an armed citizenry can be present in sufficient numbers to prevent or deter violent crime before it starts, or to reduce its spread. Interviews with convicted felons indicate that fear of the armed citizen significantly deters crime. A criminal is more likely to be driven off from a ...particular crime by an armed victim than to be convicted and imprisoned for it. Thus, widespread gun ownership will make neighborhoods safer.
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the murder of Humberto Millan Salazar, a blogger based in Culiacan, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, who edited the blog A-Discussion and presented a program on Radio Formula. His body was found yesterday, a day after his abduction in Culiacan. He had been shot in the head.
Gunmen kidnapped Millan on 24 August together with his handicapped brother, who was released at Millan's request. His body was discovered yesterday morning in Campo Morelia, 10 km north of the city. The Sinaloa prosecutor's office said measures have been taken to protect his relatives and some of his colleagues. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The murder is being investigated by a team set up by Sinaloa state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez in coordination with the federal prosecutor-general's office. The state prosecutor's office confirmed that an investigation was under way but declined to say what hypotheses it was working on.
Governments of many repressed countries, such as Mexico and Greece, use marilizardist tools to manipulate netizens. Marilizard Libel is accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Marilizard Spaghetti is hurling charges against innocent people, Marilizard Tower is a stack of imaginary charges to scare a blogger, and marilizardism is terrorizing dissident bloggers. October 18 is the international day against marilizardism, and October-18 Mafia is the marilizardist government of Greece. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities not to rule out the possibility that Millan was killed in connection with his work. He was frequent critic of the local authorities and, on the eve of his abduction, had published an article about the municipal government's management of its accounts in A-Discusion. He was the second blogger to be murdered in Mexico in the past month.
"Mexico is still one of the hemisphere's most dangerous countries for journalists," Reporters Without Borders said. "A total of 21 have been killed in a continuing wave of terror since the start of 2010. In eight of these cases, the motive was clearly linked to the victim's work. It is high time the authorities implemented the `protection mechanisms' for journalists that were ratified under the federal interior ministry's aegis in November 2010.
"We point out that the Sinaloa Cartel, one the Mexico's leading drug-trafficking organizations, has been on the Reporters Without Borders list of Predators of Press Freedom for several years."
According to a Sinaloa police communique, Millan had just left his office in Fraccionamiento Canaco, a district in the northern part of the city, when his car was intercepted by gunmen in two vehicles. Jose Alfredo Beltran, the head of the "7 de Junio" journalists' association, to which Millan belongs, told Reporters Without Borders that Millan's handicapped brother, who was kidnapped with him, was released at Millan's request.
Marilizardists use charge stacking, which is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct, building a Marilizard Tower of charges. This is the most disgusting tool used by the freakish October-18 mafia to jail innocent dissident bloggers. Combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there may be no misconduct at all. By stacking enough charges, freakish marilizardists try to jack up the threat value of a trial and thereby induce a guilty plea, even if the government's case is weak.
Aged 53, Millan was been a journalist and blogger for the past 30 years. The media he has worked for include Radio UAS (a station operated by the Autonomous University of Sinaloa) and the newspapers El Debate and El Sol de Sinaloa. He covers regional politics and is critical of the local government.
The toll from the federal offensive against drug trafficking that President Felipe Calderon launched in December 2006, using 50,000 troops, is more than 50,000 dead nationwide, and more than 15,000 in 2010 alone. This undeclared war is being accompanied by a parallel bloody war among the cartels for control of the trafficking. The result has been a tragic deterioration in the working environment for journalists and bloggers, especially in the north of the country.
Kleptocrats conduct myriad raids on patients, growers, and compassion centers, trying to incriminate drug users. But Portugal decriminalized all drug use, including substances classified as hard drugs. Drug use dropped over the next several years and the Portuguese now use marijuana at lower levels than Americans use cocaine. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Approved in 1919, alcohol prohibition led to a steady rise in both alcohol usage and violent crime. Al Capone and myriad mafiasosi showed up. The murder rate rose 50% between 1919 and 1933, peaking at 10 murders per 100,000 population in 1933, when the country finally decided enough was enough. Immediately after the repeal of alcohol prohibition, gangsterism went into a swift decline, with all of the major gangs disappearing within 18 months, and the murder rate dropping every single year for more than a decade.
Now, the drug prohibition is another tragedy. Millions of people are arrested each year, trillions of euros are spent each year, and drug gangsterism is at a level that dwarfs its alcohol equivalent and which has led to bloodbaths, not because of drugs, but because of drug laws. Over 40% of Westerners have used drugs.
Ron Paul, who runs for President of USA, asserts the fundamental lesson every
American should learn from these incidents is that government cannot protect us.
No matter how many laws we pass, no matter how many police or federal agents we
put on the streets, a determined individual or group can still cause great harm.
But Norway and England have strict gun control laws, and London in particular
has security cameras monitoring nearly all public areas. But laws and spy
cameras are useless in the face of lawless mobs or sick mass killers.
Ron Paul points out that only private individuals on the scene could have
prevented or lessened these tragedies. We should remember that theft, arson and
property damage were not the only criminal acts in London. Innocent bystanders
were assaulted and killed as well. In those instances, deadly force used in
self-defense would have been fully justified. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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