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1 posted on 11/23/2007 9:37:58 AM PST by AuntB
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To: AuntB

Time to start vacationing in Baghdad. It seems to be safer than most parts of Mexico.


2 posted on 11/23/2007 9:39:27 AM PST by TexGuy
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To: AuntB

This is going to continue - and become much much worse. Americans have no business in Mexico.....except perhaps for the Marines ;’}


4 posted on 11/23/2007 9:54:24 AM PST by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: AuntB

I quit going to Mexico years ago. Too much risk and the odds aren’t worth risking yourself or loved ones.


5 posted on 11/23/2007 9:55:09 AM PST by umgud (the profound is only so to those that it is)
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To: AuntB
They urged victims to report such crimes immediately, but some victims have been afraid of file reports because they don't trust Mexican law enforcement officers.

These are smart people. They realize that the assailants probably were the police. No sense being victimized twice. Cut your losses, don't go back there.

6 posted on 11/23/2007 9:55:58 AM PST by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
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To: AuntB

We were robbed at gunpoint on the beach at San Blas nearly 35 years ago - by the cops - with soldiers backing up the robbers from a few yards away, holding Thompson submachine guns. Haven’t been back.


7 posted on 11/23/2007 9:58:49 AM PST by dainbramaged (molon labe)
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To: AuntB
They urged victims to report such crimes immediately, but some victims have been afraid of file reports because they don't trust Mexican law enforcement officers.

I have an engineer friend who has a heart of gold. He refurbished about 15 computers and made arrangements with a church in Baja California to donate the computers for a computer lab for the underprivileged. He and a friend loaded the computers in his friend's van and headed south.

They got as far as the border. At the custom's check, they told the Mex. govt. agents what they were going to do. The Mexican authorities confiscated the computers and the friend's van, kept them a couple of hours then let them go, without computers or van.

I would not be too surprised if the Mexican police and criminals in these robery cases are one and the same.

8 posted on 11/23/2007 10:00:35 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: AuntB

he was lucky!


9 posted on 11/23/2007 10:03:29 AM PST by Eternal_Bear
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I traveled through Mexico in 1976 on our way to El Salvador. All I heard from locals in the towns was to be careful of banditos. They warned NOT to stop for anyone in the country side. Many road side robberies and murders .

It sounds like nothing has changed.


12 posted on 11/23/2007 10:13:16 AM PST by hophead ("Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
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These attacks seem to be the equivalent of a Mexican hissy fit...we’re not going to put up with illegal immigrants...well then this is what we’ll have to deal with South of the Border.


13 posted on 11/23/2007 10:16:52 AM PST by mo
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To: AuntB
When conservatives report occurrences such as these, they are dismissed (by liberals) as "mere anecdotal incidents".

When liberals want to use "anecdotal incidents" they make them into Hollywood movies.("Redacted")

14 posted on 11/23/2007 10:22:49 AM PST by Clink
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To: AuntB
I'm thinking of getting one of these for my next visit to "Our friendly neighbor to the South"...


16 posted on 11/23/2007 10:44:18 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: AuntB

1. BUILD THE FREAKIN’ WALL!

2. Stop ALL tourist travel to Mexico.

3. Withhold payment of foreign aid dollars or oil purchase payments to compensate victims.


17 posted on 11/23/2007 10:51:49 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
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To: AuntB

I used to drive that road all the time when I was younger, in my Camaro, God I was soooo stupid.


22 posted on 11/23/2007 11:50:53 AM PST by cmsgop (Hillary's Milkshake is better than Your's, She could teach you, but you would rather go blind.......)
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To: AuntB

Only idiots go to visit a country that is at war with us.


24 posted on 11/23/2007 12:31:45 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I am a proud anti-invasion racist!)
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To: AuntB

Something is seriously wrong with comfortable Americans who freely choose to travel to Mexico to watch an “off road auto race”, especially when it will involve driving back over the border in the wee hours of the morning.


25 posted on 11/23/2007 12:42:30 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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bttt


26 posted on 11/23/2007 12:45:28 PM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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"Mexican police took them immediately to the border."

Wish the American authorities/police would do the same when they come across illegals here.

27 posted on 11/23/2007 12:46:59 PM PST by StormEye
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