re: #8 Kilroy
Way out of bounds linking this to Tea Parties.
No one has made that link yet. It could be local anti-Federal sentiment in the region, which is as old as the USA itself. It could also be drug gangs protecting their turf. We just don’t know yet. But what we do know is that the storm whipped up by Beck, Bachmann, and the Tea Parties makes this sort of thing more likely.