Info guy is racist and needs to get a grip on reality.
The reason Americans didn't march in protest is because they expect
Mexican authorities to do just as they did. In the USA, we expect our
police to be honest, hardworking, helpful, and so on. In Mexico,
authorities are expected by everyone, including the average Mexican
citizen, to be dishonest, easily bribed, cruel, lazy, and sloppy in
their efforts.
Despite the rigorous background checks prior to hiring, American
police officers do occasionally become thugs (that sometimes even
.). It's rare, just as this Mexican story is rare, but it does
happen. When one considers the primative recruitment program the
Mexican government must use to find personnel for its pathetically
paid police force, it's amazing that we don't hear more often about
such stories.
I don't know about the Tijuana police force, but I can report about
local authorities along the highway leading from Guaymas. Once,
several friends and I were forced to pull over and later follow the
officers to a remote station and jail. We had too many margaritas and
had a failed headlight on a night drive home. We were three guys and
a gal, and we were concerned when the blond haird gal was separated
from the rest of us. The jail was simple painted cinderblack and bars
just as one sees in an old western movie, but I don't recall unhealthy
conditions at all. When dawn came we were released, and we learned
that the girl had been treated OK.
Info guy is ignorant of reality and racist. The Mexican citizens are
disgusted with their seeminly hoplessly corrupt government too.
infoguy123@aol.com (InfoGuy123) wrote in message news:<20031130151532.27776.00001294@mb-m06.aol.com>...
> Don't forget: as the Idiot-in-Chief likes to say, "Family values don't stop at
> the border."
>
>
> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/perkins/20031128-9999_mz1e28perki
> n.html
>
> Joseph Perkins
> THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
>
> November 28, 2003
>
> The young couple and their 9-year-old son were detained by police on the
> evening of Oct. 7 after having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border earlier that day.
>
> Two officers walked the husband and the son to an ATM, relieving the husband of
> the cash they forced him to withdraw. Meanwhile, two other officers escorted
> the wife to a police station.
>
> She was ordered to take off her clothes â" the better to strip search her.
> Then one officer allegedly .d her as the other kept watch.
>
> Had this crime occurred in San Diego, had the young couple and their son been
> Mexican nationals, it would have touched off a firestorm. There would have been
> demands for justice by a rightfully angry Mexican community. There would have
> been marches and demonstrations organized by activist groups like MEChA.
>
> There would have been declarations by politicians â" like California state
> Senate President Pro Tempore John Burton, who suggested last week that anyone
> opposing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants is "racist" â" that the
> police are hateful toward brown-skinned people.
>
> But there have been no demands for justice in this case. No marches or
> demonstrations in support of the victims. No blanket condemnations of the cops
> by politicians.
>
> That's because the crime took place in Tijuana. And the victims were Americans.
>
> So the husband and the wife, a 32-year-old with an Iowa driver's license, are
> left to the tender mercies of the Mexican judicial system.
>
> After filing a criminal complaint with the Baja California Attorney General's
> Office, four Tijuana municipal police officers were charged with crimes against
> the American turistas.
>
> The most serious charges, including ., extortion and abuse of authority,
> were made against officer Héctor Manuel Arias Campos. He's a supervisor on the
> Tijuana police force working in a unit assigned to assist tourists.
>
> Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse.
>
> Baja California's top state law enforcement official promises to throw the book
> at Arias Campos and his three subordinates if they are found guilty.
>
> "In this case," said Attorney General Antonio MartÃnez Luna, "the punishment
> has to be more severe. Police officers are the first ones who should obey the
> law."
>
> But Mexican officials have been anything but severe with Tijuana police
> officers who prey upon the border city's 26 million yearly visitors.
>
> Earlier this year, in fact, the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana beseeched city
> officials to follow up on complaints from American tourists who said they had
> been shaken down by the border city's crooked cops.
>
> Tijuana's internal affairs unit responded by recommending punishment for 16
> officers involved in eight different incidents. And a six-member commission â"
> including two Tijuana City Council members, two city government employees and
> two private citizens â" acted upon the recommendations, suspending the 16
> officers 30 days without pay.
>
> That, apparently, is the going punishment south of the border for shaking down
> Yankee turistas.
>
> Indeed, the leniency with which San Diego's Mexican neighbor deals with its
> corrupt cops explains why, as a spokeswoman for MartÃnez Luna's office
> acknowledged, "Police extortion is common among tourists."
>
> Let us consider again if the situation were reversed, if Mexican nationals were
> shaken down by cops in San Diego or Nogales, Ariz., or Columbus, N.M., or El
> Paso, Texas.
>
> You can bet your last peso those police officers would not get off with a mere
> 30 unpaid days away from the force. They'd be fired. They'd be thrown in jail.
> They'd be vilified as racist, xenophobic cops on the evening news, on the front
> page of the morning paper.
>
> Yet there hasn't been even the slightest suggestion in any quarter that the
> Tijuana police officers who allegedly .d an American women, who shook down
> her husband were either racist or xenophobic.
>
> That's because, under the liberal orthodoxy, only white folks can be racist.
> Only Americans can be xenophobic.
>
> Well there's at least one young American couple that knows better. They've
> learned firsthand, from the Tijuana police, just how hostile some brown folks
> can be against non-browns, how contemptuous some Mexicans can be toward
> Americans.
>
> "If ye love wealth better than liberty ... servitude better than ... freedom,
> go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms ... May your
> chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
> - Samuel Adams |
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