Minutemen on the Border

[PJgunner]

sa one whjo lived within 52 miles of the Mexican Border, let me give you an idea of what it is like down here. We buy our groceries at the local Walmart because they are the least expensive across the board. Almost makes me wish I hadn't retired. At least when I was working, I could afford the prices as Safeway et al.
On Valentines day this year, I snuck down to Wally World to get some flowers for my wife. Only one bundle had any roses in it. I picked it up and this Mexican woman grabbed them from my hand and told me they were hers. When I protested, I was looking at fighting ten angry Mexicans all wanting a piece of me. And I even wasn't the one in the wrong.
My wife and I like to go to a small lake near the border called Pena Blanca and fish. Well, the fishing ain't all that good and are so contaminated with mercury from old mining operations that we just do catch and release. The road to the lake is at times within a mile of the border. More than once we've had "coyotes" point guns at us as we were going to or from the lake. We don't go anymore unless I am heavily armed, which means a 1911 45 on my hip, my AR-15 and plenty of spare magazines and my wife has her 9mm and M-1 carbine with plenty of ammo.
Probably the best thing would be to find another lake to go to.
About four months ago, a bowhuinter camped out about 50 miles east of Tucson was found shot to death, apparently while he slept. Probably a passing drug smuggler saw his camp and killed him. The scary thing is I draw my deer tag this year in the same area where he was killed. Tags are hard to draw here, but my wife wants me to not go, and I'm inclined to listen to her.
I don't think Bush and the Republicans want to do a damn thing about the illegal immigrants. After all, probably Bush's rich buddies are trhe ones hiring them and Bush certianly would not want to take their cheap labor away. Neither would the Republicans in the Congress. After all, we do have the best government big business can buy.
As to Vincente Fox? Hell, he wrote a comic book giving instructions on how to get into the U.S. without getting caught.
If you are an Anglo in either Tucson or Phoenix, guess what, you are the minority.
If I could afford to sell out and get the hell out of here, I'd be moving so fast you'd see a vapor trail.
Before anyone feels that I might be anti-Hispanic, my wife is Hispanic and Apache Indian and I consider her my most prized soul mate. Most of my neighbors are Hispanic, but they're here legally and most are citizens.
has anyone noticed, BTW, that the media just about never says ILLEGAL ALIENS anymore, but calls them UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS? What's with that? Maybe it's because calling the illegal says they are criminals and that would not be politically correct. We wouldn't want to hurt those criminals feelings, after all they're so deprived in their home country. Who cares?

Paul B.