Posted on 06/09/2005 6:00:30 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I lived at Chimney Rock and Gulfton...I understand what you're talking about...my point is this is not lawless Mexico.
These people end up being arrested for one thing or another, incarcerated or deported depending on citizenship...the law doesn't look the other way as it does in Nuavo Laredo. Yes, we all want to say "off the top of our head"..."nothing is being done" but that is a myth.
If they deported all of the illegals in that area it would be empty.
Nothing of consequence is being done.
To say otherwise is either ignorance or dishonesty.
I used to work in that area. We all carried our guns in our hand entering and leaving the office. It was nothing out of the ordinary to see crime scene tape around a dead guy in the mornings.
Really a dead guy in Houston, you don't say? How often do you remember? Again, I think it's only bad because the news tend to sensationlize things.
I am not saying an "illegal" immigrant shouldn't be deported....but I was I lived in the area when the INS would show up with buses and load up all the illegals. Things are done...granted always more can be done. The problem is a revolving door.
Yes...I too had a CHL, it is not uncommon to have them in Texas. Many areas are dangerous, or perceived dangerous, but not necessarily do to immigration.
You see...I am being honest.
The ONLY dead people that I have seen in Houston were in that area. In the 3 years I worked there I saw about a dozen murder crime scenes. Keep in mind that the murders were in the morning hours not at night and were on one side of Bellarie or the other. I would not have seen any on the side or back streets.
If you don't see that as a problem then you must live in a rough neighborhood.
INS buses? What the hell is the INS? I haven't seen any evidence of INS in Houston in 25 or 30 years.
We are both talking about Houston, Texas right?
I did not use the word DIVERSE....not would I ever.
I don't care if a race baitor calls me a bigot.
That's all you got.
That's harsh. At least in Tijuana, they let the guys serve a while before they pop 'em.
BTTT...
Culture isn't race. Most of us here value our culture over any other out there. So what?
You have to be a pharmacist to sell those in Kansas now.
Right. But how long will it take the Administration to come down against the "good honest people?" After all, this Administration has a record, a bad record, in Arizona for acts much less, well, decisive.
OK boys let's try this one in the key of C...
As I walked out in
the streets of Lar***BANG!
I agree that if things were not so bad the authorities would come down on the good honest people, mainly because they are easy targets and law enforcement sometimes tends to be lazy. But in a situation where police chiefs are being brazenly gunned down and the federal authorities are totally inept I think that vigilantism may be the only solution. I'm basing my comments on a situation as bad as described in the article coming here, with no hope in site of course. At one time the U.S mail was robbed so often that people were losing hope. The U.S. Marines were called in and the problem was solved. If a similar problem existed that could not be solved by a similar solution I think we would need to take action. And the authorities would be unable to stop us.
If you think that is wrong, just think back just 15 years ago. Would you suspect that 7,000 automatic weapons would be issued to employees of the EPA? Would you suspect that, after a horrendous, murderous terrorist attack by Muslims, our President would repeatedly call Islam a religion of peace? Would you suspect that any President could impose this kind of airport TSA crap on the public and be reelected? Would you suspect that any President could be reelected with Mr. Bush's position on illegal immigrants, especially after the terrorist attacks? Most of those are Mr. Bush's policies--I won't list more than the EPA thing for Mr. Clinton, since that would take all day.
Law-abiding citizens are the easy plums on the low branches that are picked, once self-defense is declared to be the crime of vigilantism. It's difficult to stop the assassins. It's easy to blame and prosecute those who try to stop them. So, which target will be in the government's sights (sorry for the terribly mixed metaphors and the cynicism)?
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