I FIND THIS TROUBLING . . . DISTURBING . . . PUZZLING . . .

by Terry 22 Replies latest social current

  • StarTrekAngel
    StarTrekAngel

    I live on the Texas-Mexico border. There are checkpoints on every road headed north. Anywhere from 25 to 50 miles from the border. The agents are mostly hispanic because that is all there is in the area. The area of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas is 98% hispanic. Many people only speak spanish. Not to say I have anything against it, I am hispanic myself.

    The reason this seems odd is not because this has anything to do with what the police can or can not do to you. The truth is that these inmigration checkpoints are technically inconstitutional. That is the one thing the guy on the video is fighting about. Had this been an argument with state trooper instead of an inmigration officer, he would have not gotten away with it.

    Sad to say, but if the guy driving was a hispanic, he would not have gotten away with it either. It is also true that we hispanics get more discrimination from those of our same etnicity.

    Funny story, since we are at it. Because many in the RGV are no legal residents (I would say 50% of those who attend KH in the area), they are no able to travel north to Houston or places like that. This summer we had a string of both, international and regular conventions going on in Houston and other cities. Many from my area were not able to attend. Had they attempted to do so, they would have been deported (every car gets checked). Despite having recently built a 5 million dollar assembly hall in the area, no assemblies were brought to the area. The assembly hall sat empty the entire summer. The "undocumented" brothers had no assembly, despite being such a significant year for JWs

    What happened? Did the F&D slave forgot about thousands of fellow slaves? or were they not financially significant?

  • StarTrekAngel
    StarTrekAngel

    Believe me when I say there is plenty of surveilanace around here. until no so long ago we had drones flying over our yards. They now resorted to flying a tethered blimp that they brought back from Afghanistan. I can see it from my office, 18 miles away. From my house is more like a mile away. Can't walk out to the yard naked anymore.

    I have a plenty of border stories to tell but if you watch Border Wars, it would probably be much more exciting. When you hear McAllen TX or La Joya, then thats my hood.

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    Delightful tale, StarTrekAngel. Thank you for putting this story in to context. Empty assembly halls makes my heart glad.

  • StarTrekAngel
    StarTrekAngel

    Thanks jgnat. I guess I forgot to mention that the hall was built no more than 2 years ago. It was a tremendous event for JWs in the area. Many many thousands saw it a blessing from Jehovah because they would now be able to attend the 3 day assemblies. Many very needy brothers went as far as buying new suits for this special days. Not sure what happened this year. I asked several of these brothers in our cong on to wether they were able to attend an assembly to an alternate location and they responded with very sad faces.

  • Terry
    Terry

    I had a weird dream last night with JW policemen, of all things!

    They were stopping and pulling drivers over, asking them if they knew Jehovah!!

    They stopped me and were immediately suspicious, of course.

    "Are you an Apostate?" The JW officer kept demanding.

    Pure nightmare.

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    American citizens are accustomed to just giving up their rights.

    Get pulled over by law enforcement and asked to open their vehicle's truck, they comply when they should demand a warrant.

    It will never get better until there are 1000 Ferguson MO cases.

    Doc

  • Apognophos
    Apognophos

    Terry, you dreamt that you were living in Watchtowistan!

    DoC: Lol, really? Why shouldn't I open my vehicle up for a cop if he asks me to? I fail to understand this "let's be a-holes to law enforcement" attitude.

  • label licker
    label licker

    Even when you tell them the truth, they don't seem to want to believe you. We were crossing over into the States and told them we were getting gas and stopping for a coffee and then coming back over into Ontario. They made us get out of our vehicle and sit in a room with four other scary looking guys for three and a half hours in a tiny room. Then, we were allowed to leave.

    Thanks Terry for this video. A real eye opener for sure.

  • Balaamsass2
    Balaamsass2

    Great video. Personally I would think twice before trying this in Texas, New Mexico or Arizona. Five miles down the lonely road you get get pulled over and get a free "tune-up" by the local constabulary. Your high tec video camera might get crushed, something illegal planted in your car. Brave souls posting these videos.

  • Vanderhoven7
    Vanderhoven7

    The video should help American citizens to sleep better knowing their constitutional rights are safeguarded.

    No doubt the border agents ran the licence plates of the drivers in the video and knew exactly who they were dealing with.

    I wonder how it would go over if they did a similar video or two exercising their constitutional rights by refusing to provide information when attempting to board planes in the US.

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