For essentially the last decade, drug cartels have ruled Mexico.  They have the run of the place, able to spread a potent mixture of marijuana, cocaine, and terrifying violence with little opposition from the government.  Parts of Mexico are a literal war zone, with large scale gun battles, explosions, and bodies lining streets, hanging from bridges and churches, and rotting in mass graves.  Law and order has ceased to exist.  The few cops that stick around are wholly in the pocket of the cartels, and the governmental spec-ops forces and elite police units merely add to the bloodshed with very few tangible results.  It has become clear that the Mexican Government is unable to protect its citizens.

And so the good, law-abiding people of Mexico have taken the law into their own hands.  Farmers and doctors, mechanics and shopkeepers, all have traded in their plow, stethoscope, wrench, and pen, and picked up shotguns, rifles, and yes, the sworn enemy of American liberals, the AR15 assault rifle.  The people of Mexico have decided to take their country back, through whatever means necessary.  And they will not pursue peaceful negotiation.  They have seen their friends and family slaughtered in the streets.  Violence will be met with violence.

The situation in Mexico is about to get a whole lot bloodier.  Many are condemning these citizen militias.  Leave law enforcement to the government, they say. The government will take care of you, they say.  The government has your best interests at heart, they say.  Those on the left, everywhere, naturally believe that government is the solution to everyone’s problems.  But government has failed.  Oh, God, has it failed.  The Mexican government is half corrupt and the other half is incapable.  The people have sat in harms way for years now, waiting for the government to protect them, to stop the reign of terror that has taken over their lives.  But they have been let down.

And so they have taken matters into their own hands.  Are they wrong?  Is it not their place?  Do the people not have a right to stand up for themselves?  Many criticize the vigilantes actions, from many different angles, and on both sides of the political spectrum.  But they are forgetting what a country really is, what freedom really is.  A country is the people, and the country belongs to the people.  And the people have the inherent right to stand up and fight for their own liberty, for their own country, if the government that is supposed to be working for them is not doing the job.  Mexico belongs to the Mexican people, not the corrupt Mexican government, and certainly not the cartels, and I for one applaud them for standing up and fighting for it.