Is the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping a case of third world crime on "American" soil?

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, february 14, 2026 at 11:59:00 a.m. est

Is the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping a case of third world crime on "American" soil?

Is this an ms-13 network of mex criminals? Kidnappings in mexico are said to be very common and successful. The problem is, taking an 84-year-old lady with heart problems, probably scared her and stressed her out into her demise, plus they assaulted her, causing her to bleed (maybe on blood thinners).

The mex are playing "Pass the Guthrie," but I think they're (cops) getting closer. The kidnapper(s) may be in mexico by now, though.

--GRA


N.S.: Kidnappings are apparently a huge thing throughout the third world, GRA.

They revved up in Trinidad during the late 1990s. Then it was rich vics, but pretty soon the kidnappers ran out of rich vics, and started snatching vics whom we would consider merely upper-middle-class, and then middle-class.

When I visited there for the first time, in 1999, Basdeo Panday, the founder of the Indian United National Congress (UNC) party, was PM.

(Although we never met, there was only one degree of separation between Bas Panday and yours truly. My late mother and father-in-law were both neighbors of his family, growing up in South Trinidad. At Ma's funeral, Bas' kid brother, Subas, told me that his brother was out of the country, at the time of her death, or he would have attended. I thought he was just being nice, but years later, when I told The Boss, she insisted that Subash was not blowing smoke. That was the way Trinis (at least the Indians) were.

Subas gave the first eulogy, extemporaneously, at both my beloved brother-in-law's (Meno's) and Pa's respective funerals. I then delivered my own eulogies, at the request of different sisters-in-law.

At the end of our first visit, Bas Panday did something radical. He hanged nine criminals, one per day. The men were Indian drug kingpin, Dole Chadee, and eight of his henchmen.

And crime went down, for a time. However, a year or two later, Panday lost re-election to Patrick Manning of the black People's National Movement (PNM) party. Crime exploded, especially kidnappings.

Actually, it's not clear that Manning won the election. One of my Trini brothers-in-law, Kimchan, maintained that PNM thugs went into UNC neighborhoods, and warned people through megaphones against going to vote.

While American "experts" have for generations asserted that the death penalty has no effect on crime, I'm not sure I believe them. In any event, as Thomas Sowell once wrote, I have never seen an executed killer kill again.

One difference between Trinidad and the U.S. is that while White Americans have permitted themselves to be intimidated by black supremacists out of complaining about crime, Indians have been undaunted in their complaints, regardless of official electoral results. For 25-odd years, Indian-owned supermarkets have had paper shopping bags produced, complaining about crime.

Crime has also exploded in Trinidad, but I'll have to leave that for another time.