Cartel For Thought

Mexican cartels are taking over small towns near the border of the US and Mexico. But something is bothering me about this issue. Supposedly last spring 70 cartel members took over a town, Villa Ahumada, and all the police quit last spring in this town. They are taking specific targeted towns along the border to create strategically placed travel points. That seem really specific for trafficking drugs across the border, and its supposed to be all weed and coca that this is all about. but most bud here in the U.S. is grown in the U.S. But that's not the issue I'm having with this.

Ive heard a lot of theories about how martial law will be implemented and in most cases the "conspirators" say that as we get nearer to this, the U.S. government would use local gangs or gangs in general as a front in the beginning stages of a "martial law" type of status. I really didn't see how this could be possible, but i think I'm starting to see how this might be.

Cartels at this point have the government almost on its knees and according to congress Mexico is becoming a bigger threat to the United States than Iran. Mexico is at the edge of martial law, and this is all from Mexican drug cartels? I thought to myself if the U.S; intended on martial law as an inevitability, they could fund cartels and give them orders, in return for a transaction they believe is valuable without thinking of further down the road consequences. If our country wanted to take control of key positions across the Mexican border, and tell the cartels THEY will be in control of these small towns, they could at a later point take them back from the cartels and use them as a secondary border control after martial law would be implemented in the U.S. In a way it would grant them power to stop people in Mexico AFTER people begin to flea south of the border to avoid capture. What this would allow them is a space to search within outside of the U.S. to find hiding Americans within 80 to 100 miles of the border, where the police and military will be pushed out of by gangs and cartels.
These types of tactics are talked about in tsun tsu's the art of war. the government convinces the cartels they will have the power by giving them power, and you say they already had it, giving them alot of space to work and lots of "we will let this one slide" ideals. Once you have successfully hired your enemy, you use your enemy, than take your enemy/friend as your prisoner, or if they are as influential as they seem, make them your prisoner/employee. Seeing as how they are already so desensitized to blood and death and murder, what better a ruthless prison guard? or the "Lieutenant Stewy" captured from the cartel, getting his name "stewy" from stewing over 3000 people in vats of acid. Would there be a better employee of death? hmmm....

-Pinky