Uncle via Fausta’s Blog points out a rather grim story about Mexican drug cartels targeting bloggers who post articles relating to drug cartel violence in Mexico:
Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: Two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.
A woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.
Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.
“This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet,” one sign said. “You better (expletive) pay attention. I’m about to get you.”
The gruesome scene sent a chilling message at a time when online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico. In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media. Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.
This is yet another example of why the right to keep and bear arms is so important. Although you may believe something you posted online is trivial and of no consequence it very well may offend or anger the wrong type of person. In this case posts denouncing drug cartel activities lead to brutal murders but you could replace the drug cartels with any group or individual who uses violence to achieve their goals. There only needs to be one psycho to take a statement you made in the wrong way and target you personally either for harassment or physical attack.
Everybody should have a plan and means of defending themselves because you never know when, where, or why somebody may attack you or somebody you care about.