{"id":43803,"date":"2014-05-13T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43803"},"modified":"2014-05-13T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:30:34","slug":"being-necessary-for-the-security-of-a-free-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43803","title":{"rendered":"“…Being Necessary For The Security Of A Free State…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Citizen militias have been winning parts of Mexico back from the narcotraficantes<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

To do this, they’ve broken what pass for “the rules”; they’ve fought violence with violence; they’ve used weapons that are utterly illegal in Mexico (assault rifles, obtained by the same illegal means that people always use to obtain guns where guns are banned).\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it’s worked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it worked against a backdrop of, at best, government incompetence (they’ve never been able to make a dent in the narcotraficantes <\/em>stranglehold on the area) or complicity (the narcos <\/em>have bought off or co-opted vast swathes of Mexico’s government, including judges, law enforcement and the military).\u00a0<\/p>\n

So now that the government is trying to co-opt the one thing that’s worked against the cartels<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The government will go town by town to organize and recruit the new rural forces.<\/p>\n

“This is a process of giving legal standing to the self-defense forces,” said vigilante leader Estanislao Beltran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… is it surprising that some of the locals aren’t buying it?<\/p>\n

But tension remained on Friday in the coastal part of the state outside the port of Lazaro Cardenas, where other “self-defense” groups plan to continue as they are, defending their territory without registering their arms. Vigilantes against the demobilization have set up roadblocks in the coastal town of Caleta.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want them to come, we don’t recognize them,” vigilante Melquir Sauceda said of the government and the new rural police forces. “Here we can maintain our own security. We don’t need anyone bringing it from outside.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is precisely why the Second Amendment is, and must always be, a right of the people<\/em>; because government at best is modestly capable of doing the right thing, and at worst is as bad as or worse than the problem, when it isn’t itself the problem<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Citizen militias have been winning parts of Mexico back from the narcotraficantes.\u00a0\u00a0 To do this, they’ve broken what pass for “the rules”; they’ve fought violence with violence; they’ve used weapons that are utterly illegal in Mexico (assault rifles, obtained by the same illegal means that people always use to obtain guns where guns are banned).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,131,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43803"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43834,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions\/43834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}