Hysteria Industry Meltdown; Commies Go Ballistic Part II

In yesterday's posting, Hysteria Industry Meltdown, Commies Go Ballistic Part I, we scraped something off of the bottom of the InterNet and put it out in the light of the day.

In a not-unrelated move, President Barack Obama's administration imposed severe sanctions on Mexican gangs and their supporters.

Many, perhaps most, Americans who have never lived close to Mexico have an entirely unrealistic view of Mexicans.

To make something extremely clear, when I write "Mexicans", I am writing of citizens and nationals of the nation of Mexico.

Mexico, as a nation, is deeply corrupt, and there is no better evidence of that than the present war for control of Northern Mexico, especially the borderlands. The upper levels of the Mexican government are generally less corrupt than the lower levels, but all too frequently, by the time you get down to the level of municipalities and counties, the corruption is legendary and of epic proportions. Though it is indeed the stuff of legends, these legends are quite real.

Fans of a certain genre of fiction may recall a segment of a famous novel by one Mario Puzo in which the Godfather advises one of his sons to go into college and study the law. "A good lawyer can steal more money than a truckload of wise guys, and he can do it legally", advises Il Padrone, and his consigliere concurs.

This may be a fictionalization, but even the famous Federal Bureau of Investigation concurs. They do have their own units specializing in Organized Crime, but until quite recently, the majority of their investigations have focused on white-collar crime.

Recently, however, a greater sense of urgency has been emerging throughout the law-enforcement community nationwide. It seems that the real organized-crime problem isn't the entrenched but really quite small remnant of "the Mob". The real problems are such groups as the Mexican Mafia, a longstanding and notorious prison-based gang, which is composed mostly of Mexican-Americans. Yet this group has longstanding and deep ties with criminal organizations which are based in, and mostly operate from, Mexico.

In recent years, many believe, the so-called Mexican Mafia, originally a US prison gang, has effectively become the "in-country muscle" for the real Mexican Mafia, which are more commonly referred to as "Mexican Drug Cartels".

And if these transnational organized crime syndicates have an "action arm", they also have a "legal department", and as with any organization of this size, scale, and scope, they also have "political action committees".

Last night's postings originated with some of those.

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More to come?

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