On the Right I have noted some dudgeon about steaming, smelly hot-takes dumped by various media concerning the LeBaron massacre. Drive-by media indeed. But although most our media's takes have been misdirected and stupid, the Right outlets' Pouncing and Seizing on these takes are no improvement. They're just feeding the troll.
Fortunately not all our media have been this irresponsible. One standout here (h/t Taqiyyologist) is my own dear Houston Chronicle. (Who knew?)
The LeBarons are infamous. They feature in at least one chapter in Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. They're a splinter group from post-LDS "fundamentalism" that, themselves, went on to compose new Scriptures. And they got into fratricide. I myself had first suspected the latest massacre to be, likewise, fratricidal; but I didn't post that theory here.
I was right to hold my fire: the Mexican authorities don't suspect fratricide, so the LeBaron Way is ruled out as a motive. And although some (better) LeBarons have gotten into Mexican politics, and died for their activism, it doesn't seem to be a crooked cop or army-division that did this, either. Some criminal gang did this hit.
So: cartel? maybe, but maybe not drugs. There are child- and sex-trafficking problems unfolding between Utah and Arizona; officials are implicated, and LDS bishops. Among the LeBarons, the (nonLDS) cult NXIVM has been implicated. As the Catholics have taught us, when you let in one pack of perverts, the other perverts see their opening and eventually it's full paedo. It doesn't matter what the authorities want; the lower decks are infested, and need purge.
Back to the media: another angle I could see being taken is a story on Sonora - and its descent to anarchy, being one of the farthest-flung states in Mexico. Bantjes' As If Jesus Walked On Earth might be a place to start. Here's a review.
So this is why I delayed on this story: we haven't sufficient facts. But hopefully we can sketch out paths toward the facts.
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