16 Mexican cops arrested; guess they won't be enforcing highway safety

Not that Mexican police officers spend much time enforcing truck safety. They're too busy worrying about getting kidnapped, murdered or beheaded -- or doing it themselves.

Here's what happened earlier this week:

...16 municipal police officers in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, have been detained by federal authorities.

The ongoing investigation has uncovered evidence that the police officers allegedly provided protection to a local cell of Los Zetas and covered up the mass homicides and disposal of bodies by members of this cell.

As many as 300 people were murdered after drug cartels set up false checkpoints on the road in San Fernando, halted buses and grabbed passengers and murdered them. Women and girls were raped. Bus drivers say simillar abductions happened in four other areas, but they're too afraid to file police reports. That's because the police are involved in the killings.

It matters because the U.S. Department of Transportation wants to open the border to Mexican trucks. DOT assures us that only safe Mexican drivers will be allowed to use all of our roads. How will we know they're safe? Why, we'll depend on information supplied by the Mexican police!

What could possibly go wrong?

We have 29 days to tell DOT why this is the stupidest frigging idea we've heard of. Don't procrastinate. Go to this website right now and give the federal government what for about this dumbass proposal.  If you need any more reasons, go here.