MemeMachineGo!

Another horror show :

Ciudad Juarez is known as ‘the city of the dead girls’. In 10 years almost 400 women have been murdered in this city on the border between Mexico and El Paso, Texas, and the killings continue. Now a courageous Mexican-American journalist is alleging a group of six businessmen is behind the slaughter. Described as ‘untouchables’, their wealth puts them above the law. Their motive is said to be blood sport.

[…] Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime. But more than a third of the women were raped before death. Most victims are tortured and mutilated. Sometimes the killer leaves a signature; a breast or a nipple is sliced off. The bodies are then dumped in wasteland. The average age of the victims is 16; all were poor. Their deaths, says Amnesty International, ‘have no political cost to the authorities’.

Now I don’t know if the pepetrators are the rich men this journalist has fingered. But it wouldn’t be terribly shocking if it were true.

The biggest reason I’m calling attention to it is that it’s not shocking. It’s not an aberration. It’s predictable. It’s what we can expect when the powerful are unchecked and unaccountable.

And, with certainty of sounding melodramatic, if we don’t stop black box voting , it’s the sort of thing we can expect in the U.S. The only question will become when.

(Via Die Puny Humans )