Putting The Blame Where It Belongs

Since I've been so busy at work, I've fallen behind on the blog, but I didn't want to let pass unremarked the recent casino fire in Monterrey, Mexico. I'm glad President Calderon aimed some of the blame at the United States. The U.S. is very culpable in the huge arms trade that has made Mexico practically ungovernable in places.

There is a natural coincidence of interests between the Second Amendment fanatics in the United States, and the Mexican drug cartels. It's all very nice to assert a right to bear arms, but it's foolish to assert this right without limitations when foreign-base interests are involved. The NRA and Los Zetas are in the same bed. It's only a matter of time before the cartels attempt to dominate the United States the same way they've come to dominate Mexico. The NRA will be the traitors leading this assault, and U.S. armed forces (Border Patrol, Army, Air Force, Navy) will be their first targets:

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning Friday following the arson of a casino by presumed drug traffickers that killed 52, calling those responsible "true terrorists."

Armed assailants burst into the casino Thursday afternoon, swearing and shouting for customers and employees to get out. But many of the terrified victims fled farther inside the building, where they died trapped amid the flames and thick smoke that soon billowed out of the building.

Calderon described the incident as the worst attack on innocent civilians in recent memory. "We are not talking about an accident," he said in a televised nationwide address. "We are talking about true terrorists who have gone beyond all limits."

...Attorney General Leon Adrian de la Garza said a drug cartel was apparently responsible for the attack, though he didn't name which one. Cartels often extort casinos and other businesses, threatening to attack them or burn them to the ground if they refuse to pay.

It was the second time in three months that the Casino Royale was targeted. Gunmen struck it and three other casinos on May 25, spraying the building with bullets, but no was reported injured in that attack.

...Monterrey has seen bloody turf battles between the Zetas and Gulf cartels in recent months. Once Mexico's symbol of development and prosperity, the city is seeing this year's drug-related murders on a pace to double last year's and triple those of the year before.