Thread: South Padre Island / Precinct One Corruption & Border Wa

Wow, this is a perfect description of Cameron County for the past decade: Magistrates violating state law with gambling facilities and or dealing illegal drugs and or protecting the use of illegal immigrants as a labor force--only the poor have to follow state law; hypocrasy is the greatest luxury, and the gate keepers in Cameron County are the fat cats who are Dukes in their own feudal society; order is kept by the sheriffs of Nottingham and the Court Counstables with their mercenary deputies; how much lower can America sink with the cartel collaboraters and this culture of criminality being the mens Rea of the leaders, with the poorest of the Texan poor being squeezed tighter than ever, creating a circle and cycle of this criminal culture.

Mexican drug cartels rig elections to take over U.S. cities
Posted on Tuesday, June 27 @ 12:48:06 EDTÂ*
Topic:Â*Illegal Immigrant Gangs Terrorists

Gang expert backs Tancredo charges: Entire Cities Under Control of Mexican Gangs

WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Tancredo's charge that Mexican drug cartels are buying up legitimate businesses in U.S. cities to launder money and using some of the proceeds to win local mayoral and city council seats for politicians who can shape the policies and personnel decisions of their police forces, has been backed up by a veteran gang investigator.Â*

Topics: Felix drug cartel, Fuentes cartel, illegal immigration, gangs, law enforcement, drugs, money, politics, Mexican, city campaigns, local corruption, MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha, MS 13

June 27, 2006
By Joseph FarahÂ*
World Net Daily

Richard Valdemar, a retired sergeant with the L.A. County sheriff's department and a longtime member of a federal task force investigating gang activity, went beyond the charges made by Tancredo, the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus who has led the fight to secure America's southern border.Â*

In fact, he cited first-hand experience in investigating attempts to take over seven cities in Los Angeles County – Southgate, Lynwood, Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Hawaiian Gardens and Huntington Park.Â*

He also told WND in an exclusive interview that he has since become aware of similar efforts by Mexican drug cartels throughout the Southwest – in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.Â*

The stunning disclosures substantiate claims made by Tancredo in his new book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security," in which he exposes what he has learned from meetings with law enforcement authorities regarding a concerted effort by the Mexican mafia and drug cartels to extend its corruptive influence in urban areas dominated by illegal alien populations.Â*

Tancredo says some of these small cities have become hostile and dangerous places for legitimate law enforcement officials. Valdemar agrees, saying the sophisticated technique being employed in the U.S. was "invented in Mexico."Â*

Valdemar, the grandson of legal Mexican immigrants and now a consultant to law enforcement agencies across the country on gang activity, explains how the operations work.Â*

"In the typical scenario, a wealthy Mexican immigrant opens a business in a small town," he says. "It could be a very nice Mexican restaurant. He's well-dressed, speaks English, seemingly a real gentleman. He gets involved in the community. His business welcomes police officers with discounts. He makes friends with city officials and other businessmen. No one has any idea where his money comes from – the Mexican drug cartels."Â*

Valdemar says the agent of the cartels often sets up other businesses – including the sale of cheap used tires and used autos. These businesses are used almost exclusively as fronts for laundering money.Â*


Then he begins targeting political power in the town. When election time rolls around, Valdemar says, he sponsors – directly or indirectly – a number of candidates for the city council with the express purpose of winning a majority of seats for his handpicked operatives. Some of the candidates are simply in place to level baseless accusations against incumbents, while others keep above the fray, positioning themselves for victory.Â*

As soon as they take power, the new majority fires the city attorney and names a replacement. Often the second city official to go is the city manager. Both of these moves are designed to cover up the illicit activities that will follow.Â*

City contracts for trash collection and other services are given to friendly businesses – also in league with the cartel. Regulations on auto-repair businesses and alcohol sales are lifted – again, making it easier for cartel-tied businesses to operate more freely. Gambling ordinances are changed to permit casinos and bingo parlors. Loan sharking, prostitution and increased drug business follow – all of which increase revenues for the cartels and power for their agents in the city.Â*

Valdemar says very few prosecutions are successful because of the wealth and political ties of those involved. The situation in the Southwest is grave, he says, and the problem is spreading nationwide.Â*

"We lost California," the Arizona resident says. "That's why I don't live there any more."Â*

Tancredo, who blew the whistle on the growing power of the Mexican drug cartels and Mexican mafia in his book, "In Mortal Danger," explains who is behind the plot.Â*

"The Tijuana-based Felix drug cartel and the Juarez-based Fuentes cartel began buying legitimate business in small towns in Los Angeles County in the early 1990s," he writes. "They purchased restaurants, used-car lots, auto-body shops and other small businesses. One of their purposes was to use these businesses for money-laundering operations. Once established in their community, these cartel-financed business owners ran for city council and other local offices. Over time, they were able to buy votes and influence in an effort to take over the management of the town. They wanted to create a comfort zone from which they could operate without interference from local law enforcement."Â*

Tancredo, now a powerful force within Congress for opposing amnesty plans for illegal aliens and for promoting tougher border security measures, points in his book to the L.A. County city of Bell Gardens – where corrupt elected officials under the influence of drug lords actually tried to shut down the police department.Â*

"City officials who would not cooperate with the Mexican-born city manager were forced out of office," he writes. "Eventually, the L.A. County attorney's office moved in, and the city manager was prosecuted on charges of corruption. Unfortunately, Bell Gardens was only the tip of the iceberg. Other Los Angeles suburbs – including Huntington Park, Lynwood and Southgate – became targets for the cartels."Â*

Tancredo, too, cites similar efforts under way to undermine law and order by Mexican criminal gangs in Texas, Arizona and elsewhere.Â*

"The corruption spreading from south of the border is not confined to Southern California," he writes. "In Cameron County, Texas, the former sheriff and several other officials were recently convicted of receiving drug-smuggling bribes. In Douglas, Arizona – where the international border runs down the middle of the town and divides it from its sister city of Agua Prieta, Mexico – the mayor's brother was discovered to have a tunnel from one of his rental properties going into Mexico."Â*

Tancredo reports he has had confidential briefings with top officials in big-city law enforcement who say there are entire cities under the virtual control of Mexican criminal street gangs and their associated businesses, in some cases, making it dangerous for county, state and national law enforcement officers to venture in and rendering any interdepartmental cooperation impossible.Â*

This under-reported aspect of the immigration and border problem is just one of the reasons Tancredo believes the U.S., as a nation, is "in mortal danger" as the debate over solutions rages on in Washington.Â*

Throughout "In Mortal Danger," Tancredo, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the border security issue in the nation's capital, tells the whole story of the threats facing the nation, the solutions within its grasp and his own personal quest to awaken the political establishment to the seething discontentment gripping America as a result of illegal immigration.Â*

Tancredo warns that the country is on a course to the dustbin of history. Like the great and mighty empires of the past, he writes, superpowers that once stretched from horizon to horizon, America is heading down the road to ruin.Â*

English historian Edward Gibbon, in penning his classic "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (ironically published in the year America's Founding Fathers declared independence from Great Britain), theorized that Rome fell because it rotted from within. It succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue, its citizens became lazy and soft, hiring barbarian mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to defend it themselves.Â*

Tancredo says America is following in the tragic footsteps of Rome.Â*

Living up to his reputation for candor, Tancredo explains how the economic success and historical military prowess of the United States has transformed a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong into an overindulgent, self-deprecating, immoral cesspool of depravity.Â*

His recipe for turning things around?Â*

Without strong, moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting borders, language and culture, the nation that once was "the land of the free and home of the brave" and the "one last best hope of mankind" will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past, he writes.Â*

Tancredo, born and raised in Colorado, represents Colorado's 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his election to Congress in 1998, Tancredo worked as a schoolteacher, was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives in 1976, was appointed by President Reagan as the secretary of education's regional representative in 1981, and served as president of the Independence Institute. He serves on the International Relations Committee, the Resources Committee and the Budget Committee, and is the chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. Tancredo and his wife, Jackie, reside in Littleton, Colo.Â*

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At this point in my legal case against The Town of South Padre Island, is in Federal court, partially because former SPI Police Officer Richard G Hernandez was transferred to the infamous Cameron County Precinct One, (in my opinion because of coke operations he bragged to me about witnessing and SPIPD protecting) and Hernandez now works within the local judiciary;

Remember Maldonado and Ochoa--and even how Cameron County Deputy Chief Gus Reyna Jr threatened to arrest anyone spreading info about the Maldonado case--remember Precinct One Constable Maldonado giving letting his cousin his service revolver when they were intoxicated, Maldonado's cousin then fired the 40 caliber glock multiple times in city limits; Reyna threatened to arrest anyone spreading information about the, even defending Maldonado's character;

The same Gus Reyna Jr, who after Cameron County women inmates reported to the jail chaplain about: being denied sanitary napkins, receiving food containing bugs & human hair, beds to sleep in, lack of medical treatment, including claims by one woman she miscarried twins in her second trimester due to lack of medical care, lengthy waiting periods before trials--When the chaplain was banned by the sheriff from the jail after expressing concern, Renya had this to say:

. . .personal involvement and advocacy for inmates is not within the acceptable
Limits of spiritual guidance and counseling and may forment unnecessary and counterproductive unrest among the jail population;


Judge Carlos Cascos is reviewing this civil rights case at the Cameron County women's jail;

Cascos is also the judge who "hired" SPI Police Officer Richard G Hernandez, after Town of SPI forced him to leave after SPI busnessman and wife reported Hernandez supplying her with "better than medical grade" illegal drugs, for free as long as she continued to have sex with Hernandez;

Free illegal drugs from the neighbor dealer living in the condo below him--adjacent to the SPI Police Station and immediately across the street from the SPI mayor's house;

Cameron County's Precinct One is infamous for Maldona's predacessor, Constable Saul Ochoa, being convicted in Federal court and incarcerated for drug distribution;

The Mexican and American governments are investigating claims a Cameron County Deputy Constable violently assaulted her;

Former South Padre Island Police Officer and former Recruit Trainer, and current Cameron County Precinct One Deputy Constable Richard G Hernandez sent an email to wife from a SPI Police Department computer bragging about violently assaulting two handcuffed suspects, in two separate incidents, on the same night, to the point of needing a new uniform because of blood stains;

Hernandez admitted to being verbally reprimanded by his superior officer--he was not written up for this when the email was reported;

According to now retired SPI PD Chief Rodriguez, Richard G. Hernandez was given a written dishonorable reprimand for his involvement with SPI businessman wife in an extramarital affair;

Cameron County Precinct One Deputy Constable Richard G. Hernandez bragged to SPI businessman and his wife about being ordered to stand down and not intercept suspected drug couriers travelling in a Suburban SUV;

This SUV having been reported to the South Padre Island Police Department as the recipient of a zodiac drug landing operation, on the beach, at Isla Blanca County Park, on the southern most tip of South Padre Island, as reported by witness and current Texas State Representative Tara Rios; she reported this to the Town of South Padre Island Board of Aldermen;

Former SPI PD Officer Richard G. Hernandez bragged he had great latitude on South Padre Island to avoid being held accountable for his actions because of corruption he has witnessed;

Including a situation in which he claimed to have arrested a Town of South Padre Island Government Official for drunk driving and he was pressured by his superiors to drop the charges;

Hernandez also claimed to feel secure in his position at the Town of South Padre Island Police Department because of numerous extramarital affairs he was aware of taking place at the police department, including the assistant chief; and even an alledged affair between the chief and a Town of South Padre Island's daughter;

In December of 2009, a SUV Suburban fled South Padre Island across the causeway and crashed into a laundromat in Port Isabel; no arrests were made, however, 1,200 pounds of marijuana were recovered from the scene;

A local South Padre Island business owned by a prominent SPI businessman had a neon sign advertising "paraphenelia" visible from Padre Blvd, and sold glass pipes acknowledged by the Federal Government to be used as illegal drug paraphernalia for the incineration and inhalation of crack cocaine and methamephetamines; evidence of a lenient attitude toward criminal activity by SPI Code Enforcement;

It is known citizens of South Padre Island complained to former SPI Chief of Police Rodriguez about slot machine establishments operating illegally by serving food and drinks without permits, and were paying out cash prizes; Rodriguez did nothing--until a local television news crew conducted an undercover investigation and televised a documentary suggesting SPI PD being involved with protecting organized criminal activity; Rodriguez took early retirement two months later;

It is former South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce Member opinion it is simply not possible to obtain an impartial and fair legal decision on a local level in Cameron County--where Chief Deputy Sheriff Gus Reyna Jr has the power to threaten to arrest critics of the Cameron County Criminal Justice System, even inspite of the fact the Town of South Padre

http://www.spislandbreeze.com/articles/ ... -city.html

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president is urging approval of a plan to replace local police departments with state forces so the government can better fight unrelenting drug violence that has claimed nearly 23,000 lives.

Part of the goal is to root out corruption by replacing generally low-paid, poorly educated local police, who are seen as more susceptible to bribery and intimidation by the powerful cartels.

It also aims to streamline operations and improve communication between police, President Felipe Calderon told a public safety commission Thursday before it approved the plan at the end of a three-hour session.

"We want a safe Mexico in which there is no room for the fear, violence and impunity that we suffer today," Calderon said.

Pending a cost analysis, Calderon intends to present it to Congress when it resumes session in September.

Mexico's Public Safety secretary first floated the idea last year, but it received a lukewarm response because some officials worried that it would be hard to police many of Mexico's 2,439 municipalities if local departments were eliminated. Only 12 of Mexico's 31 states even have their own police forces.

Some of the officials who voiced those concerns have since stepped down or been voted out of office. It's still unclear how it will fare in Congress.

So far, the military and federal police have led the war against drug cartels launched shortly after Calderon took office in December 2006.

Yet some states have already moved to consolidate municipal forces into regional departments — such as Morelos, which has seen dozens of killings as gangs battle for control of a cartel once led by Arturo Beltran Leyva.

The government is also proposing to create a national crime database that would include information on kidnappings, stolen cars and prisoners. A separate database would contain photos of all police officers, their fingerprints and other identifying details.

A recent high-profile campaign to fight extortion and kidnapping by compiling a registry of cell phone users around the country ended up going awry, however, after the users' personal data turned up for sale on two websites.

Prosecutors are investigating, Interior Department spokesman Luis Estrada said Thursday.

The mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's deadliest city with 2,601 drug-related killings reported last year, backed Calderon's proposal and said municipal police are often easy prey in small, close-knit towns.

"The more (a police officer) knows, the more he becomes known," Jose Reyes Ferriz said. "All this makes him more vulnerable to criminals."

Nuevo Leon Mayor Rodrigo Medina urged the government to create more jobs and education opportunities if it wants to see a drop in crime.

"There is no public safety model that will resolve the situation we face right now," he said, a day after two federal police officers were killed and one wounded in the nearby town of Garcia.

Three alleged members of the Zetas cartel have been charged in the attack, said Luis Cardenas Palomino, regional security chief of the federal police.

Nuevo Leon state prosecutors said the officers had stopped a car for a search when gunmen in several SUVs pulled up and opened fire.

Hours later, police found the bodies of a local traffic officer and a trainee inside a car in the nearby town of Santiago.

Feds: Slaying suspect was drug boss
Steven Kreytak

A Manor man charged with killing two people in a May 31 shooting at a strip club in northeastern Travis County has been the target of a major cocaine trafficking investigation since February, according to federal court documents.

Jorge Gutierrez, 28, was suspected of leading a group that smuggled multiple kilogram-loads of cocaine — originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco — from Austin to northern Virginia in recent years, according to a federal affidavit filed by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in federal court Tuesday.

Federal agents and Austin police had been listening to Gutierrez's cell phone calls through a federal wiretap. Five days before the killings at the Pink Monkey Cabaret, officials had passed information gleaned in those calls to Virginia State Police, who seized 7 kilograms of cocaine that was being smuggled to Virginia in a spare tire, the affidavit said. Two people suspected of working for Gutierrez were arrested in that traffic stop.

Gutierrez had flown to Virginia hoping to meet the delivery and sell the drugs but returned to Austin when the shipment never arrived, the affidavit said.

Officials have not alleged that the shootings were related to drug deals. Gutierrez is charged with capital murder in the deaths of stepbrothers Jose Hernandez, 24, and Arturo Rodriguez Jr., 26, at the club, which is at 9705 Reservoir Court, near U.S. 290 and Giles Lane.

An arrest affidavit says that surveillance video from the club showed Gutierrez involved in a fistfight with the stepbrothers. The affidavit said Gutierrez was seen going to a pickup, retrieving a gun and returning to shoot the men.

Witnesses said the gunman fled with others in a Ford F-250 pickup, which deputies later pulled over, the affidavit said. Witnesses identified Gutierrez as the shooter, it said.

The sister of Hernandez and Rodriguez told police that a female customer at the club had accused one of the brothers of stealing her iPhone, which led to the fight and shooting.

Gutierrez's attorney, Thomas Fagerberg, said Gutierrez is facing a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

"It is too early to form any opinions as to what happened in either case, and to do so would be pure speculation at this point," he said.

Gutierrez remains in the Travis County Jail pending trial on the capital murder charge.
http://m.statesman.com/statesman/pm_219 ... d=w29zyu1Q

When I first went to South Padre Island, one of my first experiences was taking a taxi cab to Brownsville from the Island. When we arrived to our destination, the taxi driver popped open the trunk, and offered us one pound bricks of pot for one hundred dollars each--he explained pot was quasilegal in Cameron County.

Later, I learned what that really meant: The laws apply to some, but not all. . .

. . .in Cameron County.

Selective enforcement of the laws is NOT illegal.

You may ask yourselves how this is relative to illegal immigration--and I will tell you: The same gatekeepers who let in the illegal immigrants are the same ones letting in the drugs--and operating illegal gambling businesses.

You cannot divorce these issues from each other--unless you are not really a true patriot concerned about the effects these subjects have on our Great Nation: No terrorism organization has done to us what the cartels have.

My posts at times may have been difficult to understand connections between different posts, but life in the Valley is complex.

And your crime in Witchita is often directly effected by what has been allowed to transpire in the Valley.

(Not racism--rumors, hearsay, & speculation a small group of foreingers can come to America and buy everything in our community--with two foreign born brothers owning a controling market share of an industry on South Pasre Island from Girls Gone Wild to M TV they have their fingers in the pie.)


A few days ago the Brownsville Herald reported a "group" was busted on South Padre Island as part of drug smuggling ring to NY, NY--wonder if it was some of the Middle Eastern guys who moved from NYC who own almost all of the t-shirt souvenir shops?

They have the head shops--one of which had the big neon sign announcing they sell "Paraphenelia" so everyone driving up and down Padre Blvd would know where to get their glass crack pipes.

It makes a citizen wonder how many of the workers--they are not Americans--are even here legally.

I noticed strange signs in a foreign language hanging up discretely around several different stores on the island, so I asked one of the workers what the signs said in English.

He sheepishly replied they said half price on all merchandise in the store for citizens from his native middle eastern country--of which there are a very disproportionate number living on the island--rumored to be part of some NYC connection importing rugs from Mexico.

It is my recommendation for ALIPAC patriots to take their next vacation to South Padre Island--fun in the sun and field research--and truly understand who is letting the illegals in and how they are flooding our country with illiterite and often criminal foreigners, who share no love or allegiance to our nation.

Only here will you see real estate agencies open on Sundays waiting for that next suitcase full of CASH--rumored how the cartels purchase property on the island and often on Sundays.

From Brownsville to Fremont, Nebraska, follow the money trail of corporate demand of cheap labor, drug smuggling, and a culture of criminality: Follow the trail.

South Texas: Cameron County Judge Carlos
Cascos: Border wall more like a fence

The Brownsville Herald ^ | February 8, 2009 | Laura B. Martinez
Posted on February 10, 2009 3:14:06 PM CST by SwinneySwitch

BROWNSVILLE - After getting his first glimpse of what the border fence will look like in Cameron County, County Judge Carlos Cascos said it was bad, but not as bad as he feared.

"I was expecting a lot worse," Cascos said Saturday.

"Everybody has been calling it a border wall. Well, it doesn't look like a wall; it looks like a fence."

Bollard fences and picket fences will be used in some areas. A "floating fence" is planned for other areas, according to information supplied to the county last week by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Bollards are like the concrete pillars seen in front of retail stores, such as a Wal-Mart. However, in this case, they aren't as short or that far apart.

The drawings show the pillars spaced about 2 to 3 inches apart and rising to heights that could range from 10 feet to 17 or 18 feet, Cascos said.

The picket fences are metal instead of wood and are also tall, he said.

Cascos described floating fences as temporary, or removable fences.

"It's not like floating in the water. I think it's a temporary fence," he said.

Although county officials have long known about plans for the border fence, they had no idea what it was going to look like, Cascos said.

He assumed it would be similar to the "China wall," or would "look more like a prisoner of war camp" type of fence, he said.

But he added, "It's still bad. A fence is a fence and I don't support the concept of any kind of fence or barrier."

Fencing in Cameron County will be constructed at Nemo Road and Weaver's Mountain near Harlingen, West and East Los Indios, La Paloma, Ho chi Minh-Estero near Harlingen, the Riverbend Resort Water Tower and the Brownsville Public Utilities Board fence line.

Also included is the extension of Palm Boulevard to the Fort Brown golf course, the Fort Brown golf course to the Veterans International Bridge port of entry and Veterans International Bridge to Sea Shell Inn.

Last month, dump trucks could be seen traveling to and from the river levee near Riverbend Resort, where 1.6 miles of the fencing is being constructed.

Although the county opposes the fence, there is little hope that anyone will be able to stop construction, Cascos said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling said that as of Friday, the fence was still being worked on and that the DHS had not received any word from Congress to halt construction.

Meanwhile, DHS has offered a compromise to the City of Brownsville that would erect a removable border fence on city property in the downtown area.

For more than a year the city has been in negotiations with the DHS to allow the city to remove a portion of the fence, once construction begins on the proposed East Loop and River Levee city projects, officials said.

Brownsville city commissioners are set to vote on whether to accept the proposal for a removable fence at a meeting Thursday.

"We are the only the community all along the entire border that will have the opportunity to actually remove this fence that is mandated by Congress. I think that is huge," City Commissioner Anthony Troiani.

What the heck is this post about for goodness sake?

Originally Posted by GR

What the heck is this post about for goodness sake?

Have you read the Western "Shane?"

Sometimes it would be nice to see the bad guys go down.

Did you wonder how so many illegal immigrants made it all the way North to Fremont, Nebraska, causing enough concern for the citizen residents to the point they had to pass their own anti-illegal immigration law?

How did they get through the border in such large numbers?

My opinion is Cameron County, Texas, is a major hemmorrage in the border, not because of a lack in a physical barrior, such as a "border wall or fence," but because of local government corruption.

Until the citizens up North realize this human error factor, the problems everywhere in the US caused by illegal immigration, including cartel infiltration and control over parts of our communities, will NEVER get better.

I am glad you asked so once again I can reiterate, "A border wall will NOT protect legal citizens from the politicians who have sold us out to the criminal cartels who flood our country with illegal immigrants and illegal drugs." This is a very organized endeavor by criminals and collaborators.

1. I believe Cameron County is the vortex of our illegal immigration problem because of it's proximatey to the Gulf of Mexico and central location to the US--and in my opinion--because South Padre Island and Cameron County are a safe haven for criminals.


2. I believe the security of our nation cannot be trusted to local government officials in Cameron County.

3. It is more important to militarize our border with Mexico, for national security, than to waste our resourses in Iraq or Afganistan.

4. An end to the prohibition of marijuana would be the single most critical blow to the criminal cartels number one cash crop resource.

5. The legal citizens of the US need to enact strict laws, whether on a local or state level, against companies or citizens who hire or rent to illegal immigrants.

6. There is no place for racism in this debate. It is American cartel collaborators who are at the helm of responsibility for our illegal immigration problem.

These are my opinions and if you read the threads on my posts and or visit South Padre Island and Cameron County you can form your own opinions--God Bless America and Our 1st Ammrndment--because I would NOT have this Right of Freedom of Speech anywhere but here in the United States of America.