So I have a little personal project I've been working on. I like to pick causes that I can do something about personally.
The situation in Mexico has reached a level of moral bankruptcy beyond comprehension. I understand war, and if a soldier gets captured by the other side then he will likely pay with his life. I can't grieve for them, they are adults and knew what they were getting themselves into. I don't condone the torture/mutilation... what happened to straightforward execution? Shot to the head and you're done.
What bothers me are the "collateral" civilian deaths. A few months ago the Zetas uploaded a video where they decapitate several family members of a rival cartel leader... including his elderly mother. Hard to wrap your head around. This happens on all sides, I won't pretend like there is any cartel that is innocent in this.
Anyways, a few days ago a popular blog that covers the drug war in mexico published photos of an infamous assassin (sicario.) Basically "outting" him. Now that his face is in the public eye he is a target, he will most likely be killed by his rivals. Tough shit, he's a bad guy, bloodthirsty as hell. What was shitty is that they published photos of him with his small son, maybe 6 years old.
If rival cartel members get a hold of that little boy they would likely give him a horrible, painful death; tape it and upload it for the world to see. It's not his fault his dad is a monster.
So I've been petitioning the site to cover the boy's face, took a lot of hell raising across the web but got it done. (yay) Unfortunately the pics were syndicated/stolen from the original blog and published on several other sites before the first site edited them. So, feeling kind of bummed about it but not giving up... so far the boy's face has been covered on 3 more sites.
I don't know why I'm posting this here... maybe looking for advice on how to bury this shit. Feel like it's a race against time, maybe I already lost. Anyways here is the link to the original post, some of the pics are really graphic so keep that in mind: Cherry
By the way y'all can flame, looking forward to it.
The situation in Mexico has reached a level of moral bankruptcy beyond comprehension. I understand war, and if a soldier gets captured by the other side then he will likely pay with his life. I can't grieve for them, they are adults and knew what they were getting themselves into. I don't condone the torture/mutilation... what happened to straightforward execution? Shot to the head and you're done.
What bothers me are the "collateral" civilian deaths. A few months ago the Zetas uploaded a video where they decapitate several family members of a rival cartel leader... including his elderly mother. Hard to wrap your head around. This happens on all sides, I won't pretend like there is any cartel that is innocent in this.
Anyways, a few days ago a popular blog that covers the drug war in mexico published photos of an infamous assassin (sicario.) Basically "outting" him. Now that his face is in the public eye he is a target, he will most likely be killed by his rivals. Tough shit, he's a bad guy, bloodthirsty as hell. What was shitty is that they published photos of him with his small son, maybe 6 years old.
If rival cartel members get a hold of that little boy they would likely give him a horrible, painful death; tape it and upload it for the world to see. It's not his fault his dad is a monster.
So I've been petitioning the site to cover the boy's face, took a lot of hell raising across the web but got it done. (yay) Unfortunately the pics were syndicated/stolen from the original blog and published on several other sites before the first site edited them. So, feeling kind of bummed about it but not giving up... so far the boy's face has been covered on 3 more sites.
I don't know why I'm posting this here... maybe looking for advice on how to bury this shit. Feel like it's a race against time, maybe I already lost. Anyways here is the link to the original post, some of the pics are really graphic so keep that in mind: Cherry
By the way y'all can flame, looking forward to it.
