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harvey007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 02:20 AM
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Mexican Journalist Beheaded for Using Social Media to Cover Crime
Source: Fox News Latino

Mexico City – The editor-in-chief of the Primera Hora newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in northern Mexico, was beheaded for using social media to report on criminals, prosecutors said.
Maria Elizabeth Macias's decapitated body was found over the weekend, the Tamaulipas state Attorney General's Office said.
The 39-year-old journalist's body was found by police on Saturday in Nuevo Laredo, which lies across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, the AG's office said.




Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/09/26/mexican-journalist-beheaded-for-using-social-media-to-cover-crime/
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 02:40 AM
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1. Second incident of social media leading to people
dying...

Not good.
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cutlassmama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 02:43 AM
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2. It's not just social media. They've been killing journalists over there for
a while now.
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stockholmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 03:22 AM
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3. any USA citizen against drug legalization has this type of blood directly on their hands
On this I will not waiver, I will nor rationalize, nor will I apologize for the blunt truth.

Shame on the drug warriors, they are the personification of evil.

:thumbsdown:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 04:38 AM
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4. Yup. Legalize and kill the criminal profit.
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FrodosPet Donating Member (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 07:18 AM
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7. Lagalize and regulate it
The FDA can then set standards for purity, additives, psychoactive compound concentrations, pestacides, fungacides, etc.

PURE Marijuana is harmless, but some of the crap illegal growers use is awful. It should be legal to grow HEALTHY pot, but growing or selling poisonous or moldy kush should land your ass in jail for a LONG time.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 06:42 AM
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6. exactly. This and so much more. End the drug war now!
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a la izquierda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 06:06 AM
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5. I'm curious as to how this violence...
will figure into the Mexican presidential race next year. The race will be interesting to watch.
K & R
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SoapBox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 12:04 PM
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8. ...this shit is out of control.
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