🚀 go-pugleaf

Tracey Levin wrote:

> Erik carved into stone:
>
> > : I recall a certain tenured UT professor saying vaguely similiar things like that
> > : on national television and it earned him a large protest rally featuring Jesse
> > : Jackson, complaints filed with the associated office for such things, threats of
> > : lawsuits, and threats from certain nlegislators to terminate his emplyment.
>
> Erik, that professor was not terminated, but he helped to point to problems caused
> byAffirmative Action and liberal university administrators.
> It seems as though you would not mind if the US became occupied by mexicans from
> Mexico.
> Consider the following:
>
> HUEJUTLA, Mexico (AP) -- Hundreds of residents of this central Mexican city banded
>                            together Thursday and lynched two men accused of trying to
> kidnap four girls from an
>                            elementary school.
>
>                            Jose Santos Vazquez and Salvador Valdez allegedly tried to
> force the girls -- ages 9 to 11
>                            -- into their pickup truck Wednesday in front of a school
> in Huejutla, 120 miles north of
>                            Mexico City.
>
>                            Early Thursday, more than 1,000 townspeople -- many drunk
> and some carrying guns --
>                            stormed the jail and dragged the bloodied men into the
> central square. They hanged one of
>                            the men from a kiosk and beat the other man to death on the
> ground.
>
>                            Police were unable to stop the crowd because of its size.
>
>                            The townspeople also set the courthouse on fire and burned
> five patrol cars as well as the
>                            accused men's pickup truck.

  Wild vigelantism obviously is not a good thing.  But the occasional high profile
incident like this will sure as Hell make the next two guys driving by your daughters
elementary school think twice.  If you posted this as an example of why Mexicans are bad
people, it backfired.  Sound like good folks to me.

This reminds me of an unrelated story.  Back in the old days (during the age of sail I
believe, recalling from a highly enjoyable Naval history class I took 4 yrs ago), US
sailors were treated poorly at a port village of some 3rd world nation.  The
Admiral/Captain was incensed by this, so we shelled the village.  They got the wrong
village!!  Nonetheless, US sailors were treated very well thereafter.  (not sure what the
point of bringing that up is, just found it interesting).