Mexican kidnapping spills over border to San Diego

Kidnappings No Longer Just a Mexico Problem

This is part II.

I linked to Part I and commented on it(as did some of you) here .

"And you see a lot of cartel members moving to the north side of the border. They're living in the U.S. because they're fearful of operating in Tijuana where they used to because they're afraid they're going to get kidnapped. Now the kidnappers have followed them."

Anyone Can Be a Target
What is most troubling to law enforcement is that kidnappings used to happen only to people within the drug trade, as payback for deals gone wrong, but that has changed since the AFO lost its monopoly.

"That's where we've seen a change in the last couple of years," said San Diego FBI chief Keith Slotter. "Some of the splinter groups decided they don't need to play by the old AFO rules. In their minds kidnapping purely for profit is simply a money-making operation for them."

Oy. Did anybody NOT figure that this was only a matter of time? And a logical consequence of trying to rid Mexico of a culture of corruption with American 'War on Drugs' money, which only took down the AFO ? The last link is to a (2000) PBS Frontline show that reported on that gang like at least 20 years after I heard of them, and I have done my best to steer clear of drugs and druggies. Not easy to do when you don't make much money.

Unrelated interesting tidbits, the PR watch's Weekly Radio Spin rips on the corporate clowns dominating the World Water Forum .

And why President Obama is right about trying to get us to focus beyond the AIG bounuses .