No, its not misleading. These dudes do NOT fuck around.
I live in Pueblo, Colorado. To be exact, I live in the East Side in whats known as a barrio/ghetto/hood. If you google Fearnowville Colorado you'll see my home. I also have a LOT of experience in hospitality and F&B and have had regular personal contact with a wide variety of immigrants. My homie Santos is an illegal from Neuvo Leon. Marianna grew up in Sonora. When I was 18 I went to prison for drug charges and made real friendships with mexican and american criminals of all stripes. I learned about ejidos, jesus malverde, mis animales, and I am intelligent. Now don't get me wrong, I'm clean and totally legit. I got kids and I don't roll with gangsters. I am respected by my peers and I earned that respect. So that's where I'm coming from. Now I gotta say you don't know much more about being a criminal than I do about Haskell. People DO disappear, and it happens a LOT. Here and there both. Here in my small southwestern town of 100,000 I can think of multiple black baggings.... once in the parking lot of a walmart, even. I know there's stats about Mexico DF that look good, but you believe the Mexican feds?
Personal anecdote: my wifes grandpa was a man named Jan Bonte. He was born in .dk, his dad was killed by nazis and he was placed in a camp. He immigrated after the war, first to .nl where he met and married his wife, and then to the US. They had a family in Colorado and after a late-life divorce he moved to Kino in the Sonoran desert for winters and came back to Colorado for summers. Because he routinely crossed the border he was ordered to mule something, and he declined. After a month of no contact we received news he died. We went to clean his remains from his house, which was gruesome after spending October in the sonoran heat after being chopped up by an axe.
Day 1 a duece n half came up with a gaggle of Mexican troops. Green uniforms, M-16s, idk if they were cops or 'cops' or what, but they gave us 3 days to gtfo.
Day 2, we picked up his ashes and had a small ceremony. He had local friends, who told us what happened and who did it.
Day 3, we were on the road
I put so many personal details because seriously: dox it if you'd like. You'll see Jan isn't counted among the victims of the drug war but it doesn't matter. The important thing is "this is how it is" and to hope it never happens to me or mine. Aqui hubo una mano negra
I don't have a point at all, I just feel I see/know an entirely different world from the average HN poster. You see alarmists clutching pearls and spreading tales - part of a bigger trend to spread fear and exagerate dangers. I see people I know and love suffer....and hope that black hand doesn't visit me.
So much truth to this. Hang out with enough Mexican immigrants in the US and you realize the danger there is real for civilians in MX and not much of an exaggeration. Members of my wife's family have been drugged and robbed. Last month a friend told me her nephew was kidnapped and they were gathering ransom money for his release stateside (he is safe now). Not that these were cartel related, but the situation in Mexico is much worse and real than say, the scare stories about "bad" neighborhoods in NYC.
Exactly, this does nothing. Let's not forget the US is operating on the same level as China. The US spies on China as much China spies on us. We spy on our own citizens as much as China does. The only real difference is that the US doesn't actively censor internet but I expect that to change.
My education was in math, and in general I find being wrong helps me get to the truth a lot quicker than not moving forward until it's 100%. None of us knows the truth yet, but slowly we're knocking out things that aren't.
Our laws are very friendly to the small homegrower, much like our laws on brewing. Nothing legally stops me and you from trading strains and seeds without telling anyone or registering anything. You can give freely if you dont charge, grow 6 plants per adult (3 budding), and all needed equipment is legal too. We've already had our first hemp crop, which was grown for as many seeds as possible, and many more acres are planned for next year. None of those strains are tracked either
Could they, legally, do anything but deny? Shareholders could sue, customers could sue, I could probably sue... seems like a strongly worded legally air-tight denial is their only practical option. Plus it might be illegal to divulge classified info
Linking is there to avoid repeating the arguments written in much more detail in the linked post. Is it better when everything is written twice instead in one post? Linking also helps concentrating the relevant arguments to the relevant thread. It's not to "myself" it's to the relevant node in the discussion tree which contains a lot of arguments.
If there's anything written where you've found some error you can present your arguments. Attacking persons aren't arguments.
This is the time when politicians pay back their masters, before the next election gears up. This gives time between pissing people off and then having to convince them to vote for more of the same.
Gives a good reason to remove term limits; keeps folks from proposing silly things like this, knowing that they won't be held accountable by the electorate as they can't run after their term is up.
Of course that takes an informed electorate, which...well that's another topic entirely.
