...After my reply - #34 - to an existing thread, fellow contributor 'Sleepy Gomez' added a comment, which I endorse mostly, and another member added his thoughts. I found NO tab offering me opportunity to reply to either of our friends' remarks...
I accept that my thoughts may not be PC, on occasion, but does this site arbitrarily lop off "unwanted" comment? Where I live, there is a real threat against my, and my own's, life and freedom. Is that to be blocked off, to be of no concern?
As for PC, each of us has an understanding of what that means. I'd regret to learn that certain opinions, despite their being grounded on undisputable fact, are 'edited out' as "not what we want our members to hear and consider."
To Sleepy, if this survives the Inquisitor, we agree that only the drug traffickers carry AK-47s. We differ a bit about it being the fault of US(America) kids addicted to illegal drugs -an addiction that sets legality totality aside - due to the urged efforts of the traffickers, to influence them to try ever-stronger, ever more addictive drugs! IMHO - that has at least equal fault as the demand generated as a result. Unless I'm mistaken, we are of the same mind, here. We merely shift blame differently...
I often wonder what actions the Mexican Government would take against any such abuse of the national boundaries, launched from the USA, against los Estados Unidos de Mexico (the United States of Mexico.) What? Shot on sight? Kept for years without trial -as a US(A) citizen was, when the pickup truck he borrowed was found to have a shotgun in the clip behind the seats. Neither the truck nor the shotgun were ever recovered to the US(A). The US(A) citizen who was "caught," spent more than 18 months in a Mexican rathole, more politely called a prison. No lawyers. No trial. No verdict.
He WAS lucky, that they didn't shoot him dead, on sight.
Local ranchers have been in court for several years for confronting armed strangers on land they own, or legitimately lease, from the Federal Government. Livestock killed for an expedient meal for illegals, water plumbing broken (It is a desert, here! This has a bigger meaning.) Fences destroyed. Never mind - some churches will put water bottles out for the victims of "coyotes." (People who charge thousands of dollars(US) to escort illegals into desert land they couldn't survive in mild weather, then abandon them with the instructions that Phoenix is only a few hundred miles "that-a-way..." ) We suffer finding hundreds of dead "illegals" abandoned by these "coyotes" every month. BUT we are the heartless exploiters, right?
If I entered Mexico without proper documentation - and/or proper bribes to the "Officials" - I doubt my family would ever hear of my tragic death. We, on the other hand, MUST provide all the benefits enjoyed by native US(A) citizens, unpaid, unearned, fraudulent... or be condemned as Racists.
A rant, yes. But, I've been here since 1980, and have seen too much to be tossed aside as "bigoted, racist, hater." The record exists. Check it, if you dare, OR if you are open to FACT instead of agenda-based hatreds...
T'ain't easy to be a compassionate human being, particularly when some politicians consider unacceptable any threat to the number of illegal votes that keep them in office... Claims that there is "no proof" illegals vote in great numbers? A simple way to prevent a real investigation into who votes, once or 20 times, for the incumbents... In Tucson, the Federal Representative votes for "la Raza" instead of for the US Constitution, and encourages other States to boycott his own constituents...!
Well, I did spend 20+ years defending their freedom to think and express their opinions. Was that only so that they could prohibit me the same freedom?
All this aside, even Larry C and I both agree that CL is a delight, when we can get the rare opportunity to enjoy it. THAT is a bond that should not be broken, again, IMHO.
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