Medium.com on the El Chapo revolt

I reported my views on the El Chapo revolt that happened a couple months ago and am just now reading Medium.com's take on it.  By the way, in case you haven't figured it out yet, Medium.com is a reference to the magazine's centrist liberal lean.  In other words, not crazy liberalism; not leftism.  I actually like about 60% of what I have read there which is pretty high given that I only like about 80% of what I read in the so called conservative press outlets.  My point of saying this is that I don't think centrist libs are all crazy/all harmful.  Not even close.  It's the violent minority left that is punching above its weight and demanding to be called by special, ridiculous pronouns, etc.

In any case, Medium's account provides more of the details behind the armed response to the kidnapping of El Chapo's son and I think they are instructive.  But wait, El Chapo is the criminal so his son wasn't "kidnapped" but rather "apprehended and detained".  Yeah well whatever.  You say tomato if you like but I know for a fact that big government is the most corrupt, most amoral, most murderous criminal cartel on the planet.  I know big government makes money from drug running, gun running, influence pedaling, creating wars under false pretenses that kill millions under color of national security.  I know that big government guns its own citizens down and then covers it up on a regular basis anytime they can get away with it.  I know big government plants evidence and knowingly falsely imprisons people as a matter of convenience. 

An unbiased intelligent person who ignores the propaganda will realize that big governments are no better than criminal cartels; they just have better/more active public relations programs.  At least with the cartel it's pretty clear how to avoid trouble with them: just avoid them.  Stay away from them.  Don't take drugs.  If you do that they will mostly 99.9% of the time) leave you alone.  Stay out of their business and they ignore you.  Drug cartels do not think they own you.  They just make it clear that you do not own them.  It's not that simple with big government which actually thinks it owns people.  It monitors their behavior and fines people for violations.  It taxes people without any say on how the $$ gets spent.  It debases the currency which is a tax on every user; a taxation without representation for sure.  Big government negatively affects me faaaaaar more than any drug cartel.  If I had to choose one over the other, I'd probably go with the cartel that minds its own fucking business until you fuck with it.

In Mexico, the government completely underestimated the counterforce that was lurking just below the surface.  The drug cartels didn't suddenly just build their capacity to fight; they had machine gun trucks ready to go in stored locations.  They had sophisticated military style engagement plans and they clearly had adopted the tactic of asymmetrical warfare. 

They openly drove in trucks with mounted machine guns, blockaded streets flashing their Kalashnikovs and burned trucks unleashing plumes of smoke like it was a scene in Syria. They took control of the strategic points in the metro area, shut down the airport, roads, and government buildings and exchanged fire with security forces for hours, leaving at least eight people dead.— Ioan Grillo, Time Magazine

There were videos and transcripts of cartel members radioing the government forces and demanding them to give up El Chapo’s son or their families would be murdered. And there were reports that members of the military had their family members taken hostage. Eventually, the government forces decided to release Ovidio in order to avoid more bloodshed.

The article concludes that the government gave up their kidnap victim in order to save lives.  But it doesn't state the truth which is that government doesn't give a shit about anyone but itself.  Anything that happened that day was out of fear of losing the lives of government people.  The lives of the drug cartel and the lives of the people in the city never factored into the equation.  So it looks like the drug cartel learned from old Chris Dorner.  He broadened the war to include the families and loved ones of those who were doing the shooting.  It was the credible threat that families and loved ones would die that put one man, Chris Dorner, in the position of making the entire LAPD live in fear and loathing for weeks of time before they finally tracked him down in an all out manhunt.  But he was only one guy.  If he were 50 or 100 or 1000 then government would be hamstrung.

At the end of the day, the government got handed its ass in a public way and, having accomplished its mission, the drug cartel forces again retreated to obscurity.  After the global debt Ponzi collapses we will see things like this unfold in cities across the USA.  People whose family is picked up and put in camps for protesting, etc. will have only one way out: vigilante attacks by the people's militia.

Everything seems pretty OK in most of the USA today but it's time to start considering which side you will fall on once the shit hits the fan because it will be black and white, not grey.  As GW Bush said in an address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."