As governor of Massachusetts, Romney started the controversial Car Ownership Program, giving working welfare recipients free donated cars along with "one year's insurance, inspection, excise tax, title, registration, repairs and a AAA membership."Īntiviral is a new blog devoted to debunking online hoaxes. Ironically, Obama's 2012 Republican opponent Mitt Romney did create such a program back in 2006. Not only does such a bill not exist, even if one did, Congress could hardly have passed it during their current five-week summer recess.įaced with such evidence, those who spread the hoax graciously conceded almost nothing.įake story, but none the less, I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen in the future. If this is true, i officially declare a revolt against the american government.īut as you may have suspected, this story is totally false.
Check out more pics and Grillo's analysis for yourself.Humor less "satire" site Empire News published an article titled "Congress Approves Bill That Will Offer Free Automobiles To Welfare Recipients," supplying elderly Facebook users with their weekly requirement of anti-Obama outrage.Īccording to the story, a new White House-sponsored "Obama Car" program will "offer free motor vehicles to welfare recipients" after being approved by Congress in a "narrow vote." Predictably, conservatives on social mediaĬompletely lost their shit, and by Wednesday the article had been shared over 50,000 times. In truth, the vigilantes' vehicles look tame compared to the "Zeta monsters" on which they were patterned, which are pictured in these photographs by the Mexican military:īut to be honest, I wouldn't screw with the vigilante cattle ranchers' pimped-out pickups, either. Travis Okulski, the senior writer and second name on the masthead for Gawker Media’s car blog Jalopnik, compared the cold snap that has struck the East Coast with the Holocaust. Some of those vigilantes have now been deputized by the beleaguered national government, and Grillo visited their motor pool to get a gander at the armor, sand-filled barriers, and gunner positions these guys have slapped onto their super-duty Fords and Dodges. So we made these monsters of our own, based on the vehicles that the Zetas had built," says Francisco Espinosa, a 26-year-old cattle rancher who fought among the vigilantes. "We were going into heavy gunfire and we needed protection. Others still lurk on dirt roads, with one used to attack a hotel in the border town of Ciudad Mier in April.įarther southwest in Michoacan state, vigilantes fighting the Knights Templar cartel this year followed the lead to build their own trucks for battle. Security forces hit hard against the Zetas and now have more than 40 of these monsters held at an army base in Reynosa, south of Texas. Combating marines, federal police, and other cartels, they created customized trucks known as "monstros," or monsters, that could withstand machine-gun fire and grenades. The first improvised fighting vehicles were made by the notoriously bloodthirsty Zetas cartel, headed by former soldiers who defected to the drug gangs. But the "real-life homemade tanks have much thicker armor and look even more nuts," Grillo says: The results look like props from a Richard Rodriguez/Road Warrior mashup. It didn't exist until well into…Īs drug-war expert and GlobalPost correspondent Ioan Grillo reports, everyone in this armed struggle adapts and improvises when it comes to their vehicles. This is an MRAP, a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle. Your Local Cops Are Probably Out Buying Ex-Iraq Death Trucks Right Now Law and order are dicey propositions in some parts of Mexico, where many cops are in cahoots with the cartels and if anyone's going to stop them, it's as likely a crop farmer as anyone. Hey, not everybody can call up the Pentagon when they want a crime-fightin' MRAP. And to do it, they've DIY'd some insane welded-armor onto their fleet trucks. In much of the country, self-deputized locals have taken the fight to the drug lords. The thing about the violent drug-cartel competition in Mexico is that it's not just cops and criminals.
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