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To: Slagle who wrote (66044)	7/7/2005 5:00:57 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The US theory is that the rights are inherent to human beings, not granted by the government. I would follow your advice and not challenge the Mexican government or their belief system. Unless there was something I wanted, like Texas ;-) and I had superior firepower. The Mexican government being a kleptocracy, I don't expect them to expect anyone's rights. You get a little bit of the Code Napolean in Louisiana....most people are too busy partying to notice.

To: Slagle who wrote (66044)	7/7/2005 6:18:08 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

My trip through mexico last year cured me of ever going back to that country too. We were at some mega mall in gaudalajara - beautiful architecture with a waterfall in the middle of the mall - nicer than most malls here in the states - we go sit in some restaurant and this senorita comes up and I ask whats on special - thinking I am going to get a great meal for 5 dollars - well 30 bucks later and 2 trips to the bathroom for the blowouts I tell my friend I can get this kind of meal at taco bell in the states for 3 bucks. Their attitude was terrible - on one of the buses there were these amish looking farmers that were from holland - coming over to buy some equipment - we get stopped at some military checkpoint, the guards come on, start drilling one of these white farmers who are dressed in overalls and rough him up a little, they come over to me and my friend and the farmers son and pass us by - then in the back of the bus they take 3 mexicans out of the bus - we see them lead em off and hear 3 gunshots as we pull away. My very rich friends that go there say you don't go there without knowing some rich local people to take care of you and show you around - that is just a suicide death wish otherwise - hehe. Now my friend on the trip with me, he was in Alto a few years, pretty rough prison in ga for felons - he said mexico was rough. He knew some cats from angola prison - supposedly worse than alto - and they said angola not as bad as average mexican jail. We knew a guy from the ukraine that came up in the orphanges over there and lived the streets and prisons there when he got a little older - pretty rough and tough guy - he went to mexico once chasing a senorita he met in the states - within 2 days he was in jail down there - 3 months later I guess they saw no one was gonna give him money to get out and set him free - he said mexico prisons much worse than ukranian prisons. He decided south ga was a much better place to live if you wanted a long life than going back to ukraine or mexico.