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Weddings have been canceled. Lobster joints a few steps from the Pacific were almost empty on the usually busy New Year’s weekend. Americans have long tolerated shakedowns by police who boost salaries by pulling over motorists for alleged traffic violations, and tourists know parts of Baja are a hotbed of drug-related violence. But a handful of attacks since summer by masked, armed bandits — some of whom used flashing lights to appear like police — marks a new extreme that has spooked even longtime visitors.
Lori Hoffman, a San Diego-area emergency room nurse, said she was sexually assaulted Oct. 23 by two masked men in front of her boyfriend, San Diego Surfing Academy owner Pat Weber, who was forced to kneel at gunpoint for 45 minutes. They were at a campground with about 30 tents, some 200 miles south of the border. Weber, who has taught dozens of students in Mexico over the last 10 years, plans to surf in Costa Rica or New Zealand. “No more Mexico,” said Hoffman, who reported the attack to Mexican police. No arrests have been made. News of harrowing assaults on American tourists has begun to overshadow that appeal in the northern part of the peninsula, home to drug gangs and the seedy border city of Tijuana. In late November, as they returned from the Baja 1000 off-road race, a San Diego-area family was pulled over on the toll road by a car with flashing lights. Heavily armed men held the family hostage for two hours. They eventually released them but stole the family’s truck.
This is the same kind of crap that is happening where I live in the Caribbean. These areas depend exclusively on tourism and the government makes a limp-wristed effort to stop it and in many cases, because of nepotism, corruption, and reverse racism, seem to encourage it. I will not be visiting Mexico any time soon, as much as I would really love to. When the tourist dollars stop flowing, then and only then will the so-called “authorities” wake up.
…but really, guys, the term ‘reverse racism’ has a specific meaning, it’s just been misapplied so often that no one remembers.
Reverse racism is simply turning the tables, the perps and victims swapping roles. Affirmative action is the most common example.
Some people want to address racial discrimination by leveling the playing field and making judgments on a colorblind basis. Others feel that since whites benefitted from discriminating against blacks, the only way to get redress is by tit-for-tat, with whites being discriminated against to the benefit of blacks.
But that is a bullshit solution, not least for the reason that the whites currently being discriminated against are not the same ones who were the beneficiaries of anti-black discrimination in the past – and the black beneficiaries are not the people who were discriminated against in that same past.
It is childish and totally unjust to punish innocent people because they belong to the same race as other people who did wrong in the past. Blacks say it’s unjust to blame all blacks for the actions of a few. Yet some of them, and some whites too, think that it’s somehow different when innocent whites are discriminated against because of things they didn’t do, but just because they have the same skin color.
That’s reverse racism. It’s irrational, hypocritical and totally wrong.
The same thing happened in Florida a few years ago when they passed a “Concealed Carry” law … the bad guys started carjacking tourists in rental cars because they knew tourists wouldn’t be carrying guns. The car-rental companies had to remove the little “Enterprise” and “Hertz” stickers to make the cars anonymous. Since it’s totally illegal for tourists to be armed, they’re “safe” targets for the banditos. Ditto for Puerto Rico, BTW, since there is no way to carry your legal personal-protection firearm to the island …
Actually, people steal because they have to. It’s not optional. You see little kids selling things on the street instead of at school. children go work at the fields insted of going to school get and an education and a career. It is so sad. They day children go to school and they grow up and get careers all the crime and violence will stop. The day robbers stop steling all be be alright. We will be evn better than america. Trust me. I know.
all of you people have suggested to go someplace else or are trying to say why u think it happens. the real reason is becaause they have to.
let me give you an example:
you are poor. there is nothing to eat. you haven’t eaten in 5 days. If you don’t come with money in your hands to your house your mom is going to kick you out. there are no jobs available. would you steal?
you would 99.99% say yes. Never thought of it like that huh?
you’re totally rite hwo in post 29
RoCk On!!!
Mexico ruls my ass
I love mexican beaches
WoooHooo!!!!
Siam is not hot which means Randy is Ok which means Mexico rulees!!!
Especially Acapulco.
I love clear beahes.
Who cares if the beaches are clear i love them
which means i’m still going
DIRTY MEXICAN BEACHES
After hours of internet research, I found a Mexican environmental web site with the coliform counts of a few Mexican beaches. Puerto Vallarta – over 5,000. Acapulco – over 1 million. What government in the world would allow horses to dump on tourist beaches? Only in Mexico! World Health Organization says 200 is the maximum count for healthy swimming. Ambleside Beach, West Vancouver, BC, Canada – 20.
I’m staying put in Wisconsin and hope to God I never have to fly on a commercial plane the rest of my life. As Elton John said, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, going back to my farm”, Finally decided my future lies, beyond the yellow brick roooooooooooaaaaaadd.
don
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