now this is hardball....Mexican Candidate and His Family Killed

MEXICO CITY — Armed men murdered a state legislative candidate, his wife and their two children in their home Saturday in the southeastern state of Tabasco, in what authorities described as a probable hit by drug traffickers upset by recent arrests of their members.

The quadruple homicide took place in Villahermosa, the state capital, just one day after Jose Francisco Fuentes Esperon, 43, a former university dean, had kicked off his campaign. His body was discovered after he failed to show up for an event for candidates and his friends went to his home to look for him.

Mr. Fuentes Esperon was shot in the neck, local news media reported, while his wife, Lilian Arguelles Beltran, was shot in the head. His two sons, ages 8 and 10, were asphyxiated.

“There are no words to express these events,” said Rafael Gonzalez Lastra, the state attorney general, according to The Associated Press. “We are deeply moved and at the same time indignant.”

President Felipe Calderon called Governor Andres Granier Saturday to pledge the federal government’s assistance in finding the killers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/americas/07mexico.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print

says something

on the nation's character as our illegal, unjust and immoral wars, the torture, etc.

remind me again what, exactly, we have to be proud of?

moves like this will finally push people over the top and force a response.

You can get away with a lot through fear and intimidation, but you run the risk of pushing people to far and making them feel like they have nothing left to lose, then you are in trouble.

With any luck we'll start seeing drug dealers dragged through the streets by their delicate bits, and left hanging from lampposts.