🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2 Oct 2005 05:29:28 -0700, johnwesley55@lycos.com wrote:

>
>GeekBoy wrote:
>> Well its time to change my stationary from �Fallbrook, the friendly
>> village� to �Fallbrook, just another barrio� where the toilets dont
>> flush, a tortilleria is on every corner and a cockfight is in every yard.
>>
>> Where the crime has risen, gangs now dominate the landscape and graffiti
>> is where you get the local news. Where you can walk the streets and
>> think you were transported to a third world country somewhere in Latin
>> America.
>>
>> Where beer cans litter the landscape and the smell of the recently
>> relieved permeates the cool fall breezes. Where you cant go shopping at
>> the local convenience store in fear of being stabbed and where you lock
>> you doors day and night.
>>
>> Where your kids go to school only to be cheated out of a quality
>> education because their class is delayed for the remedial education of
>> our new residents depriving our children of a better future.
>>
>> Where our newly arrived residents receive low-income housing complete
>> with a health club and computer labs. Where discount calling card
>> posters offering cheap rates to Mexico dominate every storefront window.
>>
>> Where the Matricula Consular Card is accepted at every banking
>> establishment as valid identification and where you dont know if your
>> new neighbor is a child molester or convicted felon.
>>
>> Now you might think that I am being harsh in my letter but all the ideas
>> for my letter were obtained from stories and photos printed in the
>> Village News over the past year.
>>
>> Now if this is your idea of a �friendly village� or �just another
>> barrio� only you can invoke change, but hurry, it might be too late for
>> Fallbrook.
>
>Coming to a neighborhood near you. Enjoy.
>
>John


Mapi?  Is that you?

JM