MS-13

At first glance this would seem to be a local problem and not of general interest to a world-wide blog except the gang in question is turning into a multi-national corporation!

Toronto police say they have foiled a murder conspiracy and broken up a violent Central American gang trying to establish itself in the city.

On Wednesday police arrested 17 people who they say are suspected members of Mara Salvatrucha-13 — also know as MS-13 — a gang with roots in El Salvador that operates throughout Central America, southern Mexico and the U.S.

The suspected gang members arrested Wednesday have been implicated by police in the sale of illegal drugs and guns, taken part in violent robberies and break and enters, and suspected in a number of contract killings.

Along with seizing guns and between five and six kilos of cocaine during their raids on 22 residences on Wednesday, police also say they uncovered a conspiracy to murder someone connected to the justice system.

They refused to be more specific.

Toronto Police chief Bill Blair said the conspiracy fits with past behaviour on the part of the gang.

"They have demonstrated in many other jurisdictions a willingness to use violence to intimidate participants in the criminal justice system — witnesses, police officers, corrections officers, judges, lawyers, Crown attorneys," said Blair.

"They will use violence in order to shield themselves from criminal prosecution."

Fortunately MS-13 does not have a strong presence here in Canada and is being eradicated like the rabid disease that it is.

The members are easy to identify compared to the home grown "gangstas" and will be pruned from the landscape before they can entrench themselves into society they way they have in the U.S. and Central and South America.

There they control entire sections of cities and run the local prisons from the inside!

Here is an excerpt of some of the comments made to Perspective about this group;

-The MS-13 criminal organization is considered by many law enforcement agencies as being the most dangerous and violent gangs in existence. To read that they are attempting to establish themselves in Canada is a frightening prospect.

If successful, the drug and gang related violence we have experienced so far in our cities, and in particular Toronto, will pale in comparison to what MS-13 will inflict. This group will be the definition of terrorism in our cities.

-A question that must be answered! How did they establish a criminal presence in Toronto and how did their members immigrate to Canada? It appears the Immigration Department has lot of explaining to do.

A 100% effort must be maintained by our Law Enforcement agencies, our Security services, and Federal and Provincial governments to eradicate this menace and keep them out of Canada.

-I have a suggestion. Get the first plane you can get your hands on, fuel it up before a refugee claim can be made, and ship these boys out of Canada ASAP.

Put them in parachutes, and drop them off as near to their homeland as possible.

OR, as is our habit, we can cater to them every which way for several years to the tune of several million taxpayers dollars, while they continue to abuse and insult the honest citizens of this overly generous country.

-I have an idea! Let's disarm the law-abiding gun owners and close down their practice ranges like Mayor David Miller wants to do.

Mr. Mayor, do you have anything to say about MS-13- the most violent and ruthless gang in the world - setting up shop in Toronto?

Or are you too buzy chasing down law abiding citizens?

Not a peep, not a word huh? You're silence speaks volumes on your "true" intentions.

-You guys need to calm down. You can rest assured that Mayor Miller will take care of this matter. Once he has disarmed all the legal gun owners and closed their gun ranges, MS-13 will have no way to get weapons, nor will they have anywhere to practive with them if they did. Rather than confront them or speak out against them, he will starve them out.

They will soon return to Central America, dispirited and broken, crushed by the David Miller anti-gun machince.

Please, be at ease.

(This is where I have to inject a personal note; I don't agree with letting normal citizens have the right to own handguns since the ONLY thing they are used for is to kill PEOPLE. If you want to be a member of a gun club and target shoot, maybe you should get another hobby!!!!)

-I know of responsible and professional people who have applied for tourist visa's from Central America to visit Canada without any intention of staying here because they have economical, professional ties in their countries... and have been denied!!

So, I dont understand how these gangsters are allowed to come to Canada.

Criminals of the magnitude of the Salvatruchas, and others, are a very delicate issue, and cannot be treated lightly. This deserves a very serious investigation from IMMIGRATION, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND THE GOVERNMENT before it is too late!

-MS 13 is NOT like any other "gang" in any way, shape or form. They're evil and will stop at absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing to show exactly how evil they are.
Example..a 16 year old boy had his hands copped off with a machette.

Example..an 11 year old boy was beaten to a pulp by a group of MS 13 new recruits for 13 minutes.

Example..a pregnant 17 year old girl was murdered because she was going to blow the whistle. Example..a bullet was left outside of a police officers door with his initials engraved in it.

Shall I go on??

-We need to let our Police and Customs officers use terrorism statutes already on the books to go after organizations like this that will literally leave our streets covered in the blood of innocent citizens.

-This gang makes the Hell's Angles look like angles. They kill for fun, they are extremely well organized, well financed and are spreading like wildfire all across the western world.

-MS13 is made up mostly of people of Central Amercian heritage, but started in Los Angeles, California among the young people fleeing the Central Amercian wars in the '80s.

Because of this background, many of the original members have military training and access to weapons your average street gang does not.

MS13 has created havoc across the Americas.

No surprise they are in Canada.

The question isn't how to send them "back" (many were probably born here), but how to intervene in the lives of these young people so that MS13 cannot take root.

Believe me, you don't want it in Toronto.

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available at the web site www.God-101.com

Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://Allans-Perspective.blogspot.com

Land of the Free?

The United States of America, home of the brave and land of the free!

Ahhh, I don't know about the brave part but it sure as hell ain't the "land of the free!"

At this writing there are about 2 1/4 million people in prisons and jails across the United states which means about one in every 150 people. This, my friends, is by far the highest rate of incarceration IN THE WORLD!

On top of that a record 7 million people -- one in every 35 U.S. adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, a Justice Department report released yesterday shows.

From 1995 to 2003, inmates incarcerated in federal prisons for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth.

(Who says the war on drugs is working! Maybe these assholes should try lessening the sentences, drug treatment programs and de-criminalization of minor drug charges. Plus a "war on hard drugs" where is counts....... places like Afghanistan and Columbia!)

The statistics are from the annual report by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

These figures prove beyond a doubt that law enforcement theory in the US places an un-characteristically high and un-usually rigorous degree of importance on punishment.

I am going to give two examples of the problems with the American penal system that I ran across just this morning.

A Missouri man faces hefty prison term for stealing 52-cent doughnut. It's a hefty price for a pastry, the man accused of stealing a 52-cent doughnut could face up to 30 years in jail.

Authorities said Scott Masters, 41, slipped the doughnut into his sweat shirt without paying, then allegedly pushed away a clerk who tried to stop him as he fled the store.

The push is being treated as a minor assault, which transforms a misdemeanour shoplifting charge to a strong-armed robbery with a potential prison term of five to 15 years. But, because Masters has a criminal history, prosecutors say they could seek 30 years.

"Strong-arm robbery? Over a doughnut? That's impossible," Masters told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail.

He admitted that he took the pastry but denying touching the employee. "There's no way I would've pushed a woman over a doughnut."

Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said state law treats the shoplifting and assault as forcibly stealing property. The amount of force and value of the property doesn't matter in the States.

"It's not the doughnut," Baker said. "It's the assault."

Masters said he didn't even get to enjoy his ill-gotten gains: He threw the doughnut away as he fled.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have a look at people that really should be in jail.

Federal agents have arrested more than 1,300 suspected gang members in the past three months, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency official said.

During the three-month, nationwide crackdown, immigration and customs agents worked with law enforcement counterparts in 20 cities in what one official described as a "summer surge."

The sweep was part of the agency's Operation Community Shield anti-gang initiative, which started in 2005, and has resulted in arrests of more than 7,000 alleged members and their associates from more than 600 gangs, the agency said. Those taken into custody are either prosecuted in federal courts or deported.

One of the gangs targeted has been MS-13, which is believed to be the fastest growing group in the United States as well as one of the most violent, the agency said.

The FBI estimates MS-13 has about 10,000 members in the country, along with tens of thousands in Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, where the gang originated in the late 1980s.

What it all boils down to , bunky, is that when the U.S. has proportionately more people (and the wrong people) in jail than all the totalitarian states like China, Cuba, Middle East Countries, North Korea, Vietnam and former East-Block countries then we know there is something seriously wrong with the justice system.

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com