Buenos Aires: Should be on the Danger List

Buenos Aires: Should be on the Danger List


I’ve received some negative email on my article concerning the robber’s of Buenos Aires, one in particular, the writer feels I was too hard on the robbers, and his city, and his country, by notifying the people his city is dangerous. Then he goes on to say, I should learn how to speak Spanish if I’m going to visit a Spanish speaking country, evidently, this is the only article he has read of mine, since I have written 1200 for one Internet site alone, and 2800-articles, stories and poems for an uncountable number of internet sites that have picked them up. Of which 10% of them are in Spanish, and seven of my 35-books are in Spanish. But the main point here is, when we make excuses for a robber, feeling sorry for him, and his country men, and not for robbed there is something wrong here (he says every country has robbers, implies I should be so dumb as to walk into such a fate; actually the embassy in Buenos Aires said this: “We all got robbed here one time or another, so don’t feel too bad,” I could give you his name, but it would serve no purpose); so I should keep an open mind for the country that allows these robbers to go unchallenged, and cops that are corrupt, you are doing an injustice, but again I must keep an open mind, and say nothing because every city the man says, is like this.
New York City was the worse city to live in at one time for crime, until it was cleaned up, and I did an article on it recently, and proclaimed it to be the safest big city in the world (I’ve been there four times), much safer may I say than Buenos Aries, by far.
I have traveled the globe, and surely much more than my writer friend, and been robbed in several countries, and have wrote about them also, again I must say, he has only read one article of mine. He goes on to say I am angry. He is right, I am angry, and writing about something you can do little about is a way to get out you anger, notify others so they do not get thinking it is safe in Buenos Aires, as so many had told me, and I of course put down my guard, walked down a city block, got robbed by three young thugs, my fault of course, because it is a big city. But I have not distorted the facts. Plus, when a city or country or any area becomes too dangerous to travel in, it becomes news, matter of fact, the US Government posts them (perhaps my writer friend should notify the US Government to stop that also), and your travel agency has access to these danger spots, Buenos Aires should be on the Danger List, especially when so many in Buenos Aires are trying to tell the tourist how safe it is, come to Buenos Aires, and get robbed, and cheated in the Café’, yes, that is another story; anger is not the word, perhaps tired and annoyed might be better, and when you come out of a theater, you are almost mugged by twenty-five bums trying to get all your loose change, and not a policeman around, perhaps they is waiting down the street for his cut. Or when you go into a pizza place at night, and you got a half dozen characters looking in the window waiting for you to come out. Actually I was pretty kind in my article, there is much more. But needless to say, just make sure you are not alone if you are going there, and have a few broad shoulder men to keep you company. Also avoid, “Restaurant 36” in Buenos Aires, they will cheat you out of your money, and give you surplus meat for your dinner. Sleep well in Buenos Aires.

Invaders of America

Invaders of America

We got a problem, and when I say we, I do not necessarily mean Government, because the Government is half the problem. Let me explain, without trying to create anarchy, which is not good for any state or country. I am talking about a militia problem here (private Armies). We do not seem to have the government support, which is suppose to go according to our constitution, which is to ‘Safe guard the boards’ this is a violation of our Constitution, and the Government of America is at fault, and should be liable to the people who elected them, to go according to the Constitution, not to passive our neighbors. It is the job of the Federal Government, unless directed by them and given to the State, or it is the right, and obligation of the state to guard our boarders if the Federal Government falls short, or the third option is, for the public to take arms and safeguard our boarders. This is not anarchy, this is Constitutional. But it can turn into anarchy.
I see CNN, and FOX TV, and magazines and Newspapers all screaming, Anarchy look at the groups of people taking the law into their own hands, when in essence they have not yet, when I see simply people watching invaders coming over our boarders, and those we have already allowed in staying longer than agreed to. Thus, I see criminal activity, and the US Government, doing very little about it, but pacifying non-citizens, and having the legal citizens, subsidize them. These so called groups, anarchy groups I do not have a problem with, I am sure they will go away if the US Government and its elected officials do their elected jobs, and go according to the law of the land, the Constitution. I am a Vietnam Veteran, will 11-years in the Army; I did my duty, and did it well, while a lot of deadbeats smoked pot and sat back and watched America plunge in every which way, and say ‘I’d rather be dead than red’. It is wrong to give the status of a citizen for a hand shake. To make the Mexican President smile. We need friends, but we need safety first.
I live in Peru part of the year, and Chile and Ecuador, Peru’s neighbors, have take land from Peru, and Peru has done nothing about it in the past and present—why? Because they can’t, they’ve allowed these countries to invade Peru, and thus, now suffer the consequence. The fat cats take home the money, and leave the boarders open for the taking, sad to say, and I love Peru, but that is a fact. If the robbers of Peru spent the money they steal on military for Peru’s well fare, Peru would have their lands back.
Anyhow, Mexico is the worse of the lot. They tell us to not build walls, so they can invade; these are criminals once they advance on to US Soil, and they all are criminals if they are not here legally once their visas are up; they demand their rights without accepting responsibly. In Peru, I obey the rules, as I do when I go to Mexico, I do not cry for rights that I have not earned, or legally acquired. And now we are putting our guards in jail for shooting criminals, what is going on here. Prevention is the cornerstone to safety, not after the fact. Perhaps a terrorist is among these invaders, and if we got hit with a nuclear devise, because of this, than what. We got our airports safe, but that is about all. The news media seem to enjoy making the American Citizen the bad guy, when we should be thanking these so called, private armies whomever they are for doing the job, our government is paid to do but is reluctant to do. Mr. Bush, whom I voted for, start doing what is right, you know what that is, stop the invaders before everything falls apart. We can live without them.

Iraq’s Death Row for: Samar Saed Abudullan: CNN and Amnesty International Interfere

Iraq’s Death Row for: Samar Saed Abudullan: CNN and Amnesty International Interfere


BAGHDAD, Iraq CNN has decided to published Samar Saed Abudullan’s death row case (along with others), not sure why, but it looks like Amnesty International has also got involved. Before I get too much in this ‘pure opinion,’ article of mine, I am writing; let me tell you how I feel in a flash flooded way. I belonged to Amnesty International once, and I always found out when they got involved, they never told the public, or me the whole story, just wanted support from me, and everybody else. So I’ve learned not to trust their data all that much, nor their intent. And for CNN, I like their news, although in this case I think they are not only slanted, but gullible, if not naive to take this as serious as they have.
The woman in question, Samar, is innocent, so she says, and in her case, who would not say the same. She of course blames her husband, who cannot voice his opinion because he has run off, as I would do have done if I was him, most likely. And do they torture in Iraq? Most likely, but where do they not? China, Russia and the good old USA, all torture, so who can really know. Anyhow, the question might be, why did she stay with a man that carried out killings? Why did she not report him? She blames the judge for doing his job, if you kill someone, you should not be free to kill again, and run back to the husband you protected during those so called innocent days your husband killed at will, and you never notified the police about. If you are living with a killer, you are just as he is, not innocent. They say Iraq has the 4th highest execution rate, not sure which one is the first, but I’m all for it if it stops my neighbor from coming over and doing me in. Amnesty says ‘…such claims are not uncommon in Iraq,’ nor are such killings, with the assistance of a spouse. They add, “(in Iraq there are) …flawed trials and coerced confessions.’ That is an obvious statement, and then they imply ‘(these death sentences) …failed to meet international fair trial standards.’ Here we go again, whose standards? The west, the east or America’s or Europe’s, and if it is the UN’s standards, nobody really pays attention to them, now do they. So a standard in one country may suite the country, where in essence, it does not in another, or the UN’s standard. As of today, the world is not completely polarized, that is if you are not a coke or MacDonald’s hamburger.
CNN and Amnesty International seem to not like the idea of Capitol Punishment (which is a personal opinion of theirs, and mine) which was reinstated into Iraq in 2004 legally, just like in America, when it was originally abolished in 2003—but they make a moral issue of this, when it is not, it is a self-governing issue of that country. And since then 270-people have been sentenced to death, so their data banks say. How many people did the 270-criminals kill? Perhaps 2270, or 10,000, who knows, they don’t give those statistics, as I expected. I also understand two of the women have their children with them, on death row (which is really a plea for mercy), this is good, so they can say goodbye when the time comes, and perhaps they can teach them, killing is not a good thing.
I am not putting in all the data here either, just like CNN and Amnesty International, and the folks on death row, whom I’m sure have a one sided story. And thus, people can say about me: he only looks at one side, and perhaps they are right, but the side I look at is more practical than theirs. They are looking at a side that enables the criminal to continue, if released, to go home to kill again, and regroup with their husbands, the ones they blamed for everything.
Written 5-9-2007