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Also, I wanted you to know I was aware of this. They used it as part of the plot on "Profiler", a show I used to watch with my mom, a few years back, and I looked it up online and was shocked to find out all this information. I've been following it ever since. It's not only Mexican women who care.
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Thank you. Its really encouraging to know that people out there care. I even had the courage to email OSC about it asking him to help by writing something so that less people ignore these things. As a Christian I was appalled that some of these women are killed for devil worshipping rituals. BTW, i'm working on the english version as we speak.
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I've uploaded the english version to the server, I'll start working on the tecky stuff like inlines and css tomorrow. English VersionPosts: 3389 | Registered: Apr 2004
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Its coming along. I was working on the php for the spanish version, I still need a little bit of time because I wasn't working on it during Thx giving break. I had too much things to do...
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we had a presintation and film presented on campass about the murders. I was not able to go, but a lot of my friends did. THere is a patition on line, although i dont know how much good it will do...
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wow. I didn't see this thread until today, but I just wanted to say that it struck a chord with me. My social studies class has been studying genocides and mass killings around the world and this looks like more of the same thing.
quote: How many more women must be killed before some one will solve something?
That is the question isn't it? Based on the example of history, enough that it qualifies as genocide, and then more. From what I've read so far there has not been a single real prosicution for anyone who has committed genocide... it's sad, but apparently the world doesn't really care.
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It is very sad that there are so many genocides, and such a hands-off attitude toward them. For example, there are still people who say the Holocaust never happened. Turkey still refuses to admit that the Armenian genocide ever happened. Genocides going on today are routinely not reported in the US even when people have repeatedly tried to bring attention to them. (Check out Human Rights Watch if you don't know what I mean.)
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Permit me to point out that genocide wasn't even considered a crime in strictest legal terms until after WW2.
So if humanity is a little slow to bring laws into play that have only been in place for a generation and aren't invoked often enough to commonly accepted, the standard is a little shakey.
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I see that no one has floated out the theory, quite common around here on the border between Mexico and the US, that the deaths are partly the work of an American serial killer and perhaps copy cats.
BTW, Mexico is like most other struggling countries: full of beauty, wonderful people, lots of squalor, crime, and evil bastards, most of them in the upper strata of the government. Most of the country's economic woes stem from mismanagement and fraud at every level, but specifically from rateros like LĆ³pez-Portillo and Salinas de Gotari.
The endemic public practice of suborning police officers, not paying property taxes, squatting, "colgando" (connecting a cable to power lines to siphon electricity) and other practices of the people of Mexico only compound the problem, as they, as we say in Spanish "no tienen cara de quejarse" (have no moral authority to complain... i.e., they are complicit in the corruption).
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