Tonight, after reading about the Mexican drug gang Los Zetas being trained at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, I was trying to research and find out exactly what sorts of training they may have received.
One article described the training as follows:
Many of the Zeta paramilitary personnel were trained at Fort Bragg and at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas. The former Mexican military Zeta personnel were trained in kidnapping, ambushing, car jacking, surveillance, and psychological warfare operations by the United States and Israel.
This video from the early 1980s talks about the CIA torture schools and I found the 3:00 mark particularly interesting since it talked about how people would just be pulled right off the street and tortured.
YouTube - ‪CIA Torture Programs‬‏
I don't think the Smiley Face Killings are in any way connected with Mexican drug cartels or anything in Latin America, but the training the US government provides to the cartels and political groups is quite disturbing to say the least.
The theory I have is that it's possibly United States government personnel involved in the abductions and deaths of these young men. I think the motive could be a result of the outrage of the people of the USA, Europe and elsewhere after embarrassing US government torture scandals such as the one at Abu Ghraib prison. I believe the US government could be experimenting with new and innovative ways to torture young men so prisoners in the future can be tortured and killed without any evidence of torture and murder. I think young, healthy, physically and intellectually sound men are being selected since they're comparable to the types of prisoners we would be taking in a war against (insert potential enemy here). After all, most enemy soldiers are young, fit males. Even the kidnappings themselves would be of training value.
I wish the mother of a Smiley Face Killer victim who said her son had been driven around and tortured for hours would go into more detail about what type of torture she thinks her son may have received.
Before anyone says the US government would never do such a thing to American citizens, please read up about the Tuskegee Experiment which went on for decades and didn't even end until 1972 when it was leaked.
Tuskegee syphilis experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is just one example out of many and the victims even included American babies. You don't have to look hard to read about our servicemen who were subjected to chemical warfare experiments and so on.
I believe the kidnappings are just too professionally done to be some club of amateurs.