Bill O'Reilly Interviews Robert Strang re: missing Idaho kids

Show: THE O'REILLY FACTOR May 18, 2005

O'REILLY: ...With us now is Robert Strang, CEO of Investigative Management Group and is former special agent with the drug enforcement agency.



O'REILLY: But if this were a cocaine deal or and a heroin deal, and Colombians were involved, they'd kill those kids, right?

STRANG: You know, it's unfortunate, they would. But I don't think that that's the case here, because they know who was at the house. I think they have a pretty clear idea...

O'REILLY: But that guy has turned himself in, the guy that was at the house, that was identified, he's now turned himself in. He's being interviewed.

STRANG: Right.

O'REILLY: But the violent level of the Mexican druglords, the Colombian druglords is, if you get on our wrong side, we don't only kill you, we kill your whole family, right?

STRANG: That's right. And they do it, you know, slowly. They' do -they'll torture the family. They make a point of this. They don't want people cooperating with the government. They don't want to lose any of their infrastructure or their organization.

And the way that they deal with this, it's not like they can fire somebody or report them to upper management, they actually go out and make a point by killing families of people who betray them, people who don't pay them, people who become informants.

O'REILLY: Yes, we hear about chainsaws and them cutting the limbs up in the bathtub and all, just to send the message as you said, that you better not cross us. Is that common?

STRANG: In the drug world, it's common. You got to remember, there's no criminal justice system for druglords. I mean, this is how they make a living. They have their own code of enforcement, if you will. They go out and they torture people, they kill people. They make sure that they take care of their own. And this is the way that it's been done for decades. It hasn't changed.

By platano on May 19, 2005, 18:41 in Politics & the war.

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