Posted on 10/02/2003 11:24:36 AM PDT by HiJinx
This letter to the editor was written by a co-worker, a software engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous. To locals, though, she is anything but. She comes from a long line of hunters and conservationists – the real kind! She has an abiding love of a land that she considers God’s gift to us. She lives here in the shadow of the Huachuca Mountains by choice, as she says in her letter.
The letter is an amalgamation of thoughts that have been percolating up from the depths of her soul over the last few months. She confided in me that she no longer leaves her house to get in her car without looking all around…she is never sure who or what is waiting for her there.
You will see that there is no link to the letter; it was not posted in the Sierra Vista Herald’s on-line version. I consider that a bit of a travesty, and with my friend’s permission, am providing her letter to a larger viewing audience. To wit:
To the editor:
On this eve of Sept. 11, I wonder how many terrorists have come across the border between the United States and Mexico today. Normally, September brings a dramatic slowdown in the invasion that has been constant since January, but not this year. This is when we can relax for a few months, relieved that the fire season is over, and our homes still are here. We can breathe a sigh of relief that most of the aliens are already in the United States, and we can enjoy the peace and quiet that drew us to this canyon almost 20 years ago.
But the invasion has not slowed down based on my observation, which also is the opinion of the Border Patrol personnel I have spoken with. Why should it slow down when there is a promise of amnesty by our own elected officials? Those who have earned their citizenship should be outraged too, as I am. Because of big business greed and political aspirations, our government has allowed this problem to be virtually ignored. Our government is aiding and abetting known criminals, many felons. And as they cross our border they say, “Stupid Americans.”
Our Border Patrol has been tasked to do an impossible job – like asking a boxer to go into the ring with his hands tied behind his back. How can one agent guard 12 or 15 washes that cross the border at one time? Impossible.
Our public lands have been trampled and trashed beyond recovery in my lifetime. Our forests and grasslands have been burned far beyond what is acceptable by trespassers, criminals, and invaders. And it will only get worse after many years of drought and a poor monsoon. Maybe this year we will face fall and winter fires. “Stupid Americans.”
Hikers and backpackers beware. You might be confronted by habituated bears in the high country of the Huachuca Mountains, who want what is in your pack more than anything growing in the wild. Or if you are really lucky, you might encounter a group of 50 or even 80 illegal aliens or drug smugglers, who could care less that you are an American citizen on your own soil. Or even worse than that, you might encounter terrorists who hate Americans and who want to harm or kill you. If the terrorists haven’t figured out how to get into this country undetected, it won’t be long before they do – the Huachucas, the San Pedro, Cochise County, Arizona. “Let’s go kill those evil Americans, stupid Americans.”
I wonder why my godson, who is fighting terrorism abroad, isn’t right here in Cochise County guarding these very vulnerable borders of ours – open borders. Many people who live in Cochise County, especially those in the city of Sierra Vista, are oblivious to what the rest of us are dealing with on a daily and a nightly basis. Helicopters hovering over your house in the middle of the night, watchdogs barking wildly as the invaders march across your driveway and mangle your fences, dumping their dirty clothes, backpacks, water bottles, excrement, and toilet paper in your yard or in your favorite hiking places. Border Patrol vehicles in your driveway when you step out of your garage, apprehended coyotes claiming they are in your driveway to visit with you because you are their friends; coyotes nearly running you off the road so they can escape and deliver their human cargo; 30 aliens trying to get into your car because they think you are a coyote; or aliens pounding on your doors to get water or use the telephone.
What has happened to our rights? Mine have been violated practically every day for nearly five years now.
What about your endangered, threatened, and protected species? U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Arizona Game and Fish, and our “beloved” environmentalists, why do you not protest?
What about our destroyed public lands? U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Park Service, and BLM, why do you not protest?
What about our tax dollars being used to care for and promote these criminals instead of caring for our poor and elderly U.S. citizens? What about it, taxpayers? Why do you not protest?
What has happened here? I am confused and frustrated. Why haven’t we as Americans stopped this travesty? We are at war, yet we are turning the other cheek day after day, and reelecting politicians who want to give criminals and perhaps terrorists amnesty for breaking our laws? Why do we have laws we are going to reward people for breaking? What stupid Americans we are. Pull your heads out of the sand and think about what is really happening here – our borders are open – why do we not protest?
Under the RICO statutes, it is illegal for criminal activity to be moved across state lines. So why did the federal government conspire to and succeed in moving the UDA problem out of El Paso and San Diego into the remote southern parts of Arizona? Perhaps it all boils down to votes. A lot less people, hence a lot less votes. Why are my rights to live in peace in a rural environment less important than a San Diego or an El Paso urbanite? It is not right, nor is it just, nor is it legal. If we do not protest, there will be nothing left to protect.
LOL !!
Thanks for posting this HiJinx. Can we stop paying taxes til the government listens to the will of the people? (American People that is...)
You don't know how close you are to a solution. Trust me, if 10 million working people stopped paying their taxes, and claimed exempt etc etc, that would get their attention rather fast.
Bet the rent, it's going to take something like this or the fedgov will continue to literally destroy this country.
Right now, we are paying the government to sit back and allow this country to be flooded with millions of people. There is no larger issue or crisis....
I don't know how we'd get it into other newspapers...
My co-worker really doesn't want to use her name outside the local area...too much chance of her being lumped in with the high-profile anti-illegal-immigration groups here in the county, and too much chance of retaliation.
She doesn't need that. On the other hand, she is more than willing to have her letter re-printed anywhere someone wants to post it. Sooo...run with it!
HJ
Better yet, guess where she received her graduate training in microbiology.
As a foreign student in Boston. Then back to brew things up for the motherland.
This would be funny if I had not just read a blue ribbon fedral commission report trying to identify ways that the US could improve their image in the middle east. You guessed it.
Near the top of the list of reccommendations was to admit more foreign students from the middlle east into our domestic universities
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