This past week American and Mexican law enforcement agencies and military, working in concert, launched an operation to arrest a notorious drug cartel leader in Mexico. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), the bodyguards of this drug cartel leader, referred to as El Mencho, decided to shoot it out, and he was killed.  Infuriated at this open challenge to their impunity and power, the cartel members started fires, blocked traffic, and threatened continued violence in order to reassert their authority over the law abiding—one would have imagined this was Minneapolis instead of Mexico. However, both of these episodes—in two different cities in two different countries—are much the same in terms of how often those who violate the law use revenge and terror when those troublesome enough to insist those pesky laws be obeyed need to be taught a lesson about shutting their Read more