Cagefighter:
DGP just showed everyone he has never, ever, been to Mexico. Well maybe Cancun.
Well, Cagefighter, you're wrong here, and twice. First, I have never been to Cancún. My aunt loved the place, however.
First of all there in no Interstate Highway system in Mexico like you have here so add about 2 hours for every 4 hours of driving here in
the U.S
1. Well, for some reason, the Wikipedia lists Mexican Federal Highways (please copy and paste, if you're interested):
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mexican_Federal_Highway_1
2. The Mexican Government has a website for something that doesn't exist: "Caminos y Puentes Federales de México" (Federal Roads and Bridges)
http://www.capufe.gob.mx/portal/site/wwwCapufe
3. They even have regulations to drive on interstate highways:
http://www.aniq.org.mx/setiq/reglamentos/tt-rtcf.pdf
4. The Wall Street Journal reported about a claim made by a Mexican trade association representing "more than 4,500 trucking companies". They filed a claim against the United States over violations of the CAFTA. It's interesting that they have "4,500 trucking companies" but NO interstate highway. Damn, don't we all know that trucking companies drive short distances?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124390544386374905.html
Mexican Truckers File $6 Billion Claim Against U.S. in Nafta Spat
5. There is a full website just for maps of Mexico, which, among other things, show the roads Cagefighter never saw:
http://www.mapasmexico.net/
6. Mapquest has, oh my, maps of Mexico:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?country=MX
Interestingly, in Cagefighter's opinion, "It's not a matter of jumping on the interstate and rolling down the road.".
How would you get to Huatulco by road, then? For those who didn't read my previous post, Huatulco is the place of Mexico where "I have never been", according to Cagefighter, I have this link:
(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Huatulco)
Despite the improvements in infrastructure, Bahias de Huatulco is not as easy to get to as other resorts like Cancun. The drive south from Acapulco on Federal Highway 200 has over 300 speed bumps (Topes). Driving from Oaxaca city, the state capital is not any easier because Federal Highway 135 is also full of speed bumps. Federal Highway 190 has fewer but it's a much longer road with many curves due to the mountainous terrain.[1]
Bahias de Huatulco has an airport, the Bahías de Huatulco International Airport, which is served nationally by Mexicana, Interjet, and Magnicharters, from other Mexican airports. Internationally, American Airlines and United Airlines fly here from the U.S., Canada and Europe.[1]
But, WAIT! Didn't Cagefighter say there are NO interstate highways in Mexico? How the hell did they build the airport in Huatulco? How do they supply it with fuel? Where do hotels get their supplies from?
This gentleman (http://www.tomzap.com/driving1.html) claims you can drive from Laredo (oh, civilization at long last) to Huatulco. How did he do that?
Enough said. As to guns, yes, I don't know how you get those permits. I have never owned a gun, anywhere, even less in Mexico. And I was wrong about how you get the permits. That is true. It is not enough for Cagefighter to claim that "I have never been to Mexico", however.
Since I speak the language of the dirty old brown Mexican bastards, I could use the internet and check their "Federal Firearm and Explosives Act" (http://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf/102.pdf). Since I also speak English, the language of, well, not so many white men these days, I was also able to check the Wikipedia (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Mexico).
According to this article, "Gun politics in Mexico have resulted in some of the strictest gun laws in the world. It is in many ways similar to the United Kingdom, except with much more severe prison terms for even the smallest gun law violations. On the other hand, possession of non-military-caliber small arms by citizens is largely a non-issue. Gun politics are thus not the major issue in Mexico that they are in the neighboring United States, since few Mexican citizens have any gun law difficulties."
Apparently the little brown bastards have BETTER firearm laws than the United States. And they claim that the Americans do little or nothing to prevent firearms from entering their country. Anyone ever heard of the "Operation Fast and Furious". The Christian Science Monitor did:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0309/Mexico-lawmakers-livid-over-US-Operation-Fast-and-Furious
Mexico lawmakers livid over US 'Operation Fast and Furious'
Mexican lawmakers have condemned the US 'Operation Fast and Furious,' which purportedly allows gun smuggling in order to track weapons to Mexican drug lords.
Mexico has long complained that drug gangs are terrorizing cities with high-powered weapons smuggled from the United States. But Mexican lawmakers are now up in arms over the recent revelation that the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) purposefully allows some of these weapons to be smuggled south of the border so it can track them as part of "Operation Fast and Furious."
So, Americans are OK with people being shot as long as they are brown little bastards. And I'm not exaggerating. All the crying started when ONE "REAL AMERICAN", Brian Terry, was killed in American territory. Then a second, "not so real" American got killed in Mexico, and, well, Americans complained. This "not so real" American had a name: Jaime Zapata. Probably of Mexican, sorry, "little brown bastard" origin.
And, why is this important with regard to Botzwana? Well, he claimed that he couldn't get a permit because he would need to drive "three days" to get to Mexico City and obtain a permit. Cagefighter supported that. Well, I assume they were riding the slowest turtle they found.
Let's summarize. Cagefighter says I have never been to Mexico because I didn't know about the gun laws, first, and because I claimed it was easy to drive. He gave us specific reasons why driving was difficult in Mexico. Yep, I didn't know much about the gun laws. He didn't know about ROADS. Who sounds like the guy who's never been to Mexico? Cagefighter, what do you say?
Driving distances, anyone?
http://www.ontheroadin.com/travelinnformation/routes_and_driving_distances_thr.htm
I claimed that Botzwana could have received his permit somewhere else, other than Mexico City. According to the Act whose link I'm providing, the agency in charge of giving gun permits is the SEDENA, the equivalent of the Department of Defense. Do you expect them to have offices outside Mexico City?
With a web search on the SEDENA website (www.sedena.gob.mx), you find that they have offices
In Chihuahua:
Niños Heroes
33800 Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
01 627 525 3111
In Nuevo León
7/a. Zona Militar.
CARRETERA A NUEVO LAREDO, ENTRONQUE A SALINAS VICTORIA KM 19.5, ESCOBEDO, N.L. C.P. 66050. (FRENTE AL AEROPUERTO DEL
NORTE).
In Coahuila:
6/a. Zona Militar.
CALLE PEDRO ARANDA CON ESQ. COLEGIO MILITAR No. 313, COL. BELLAVISTA, SALTILLO, COAH.
Telefono:
01 (844) 410 04 88.
In Colima:
20/a. Zona Militar.
AV. PEDRO A. GALVÁN S/N, COL. CENTRO COLIMA, COL. C.P. 28000.
Telefono:
01 (312) 313 42 30.
In Chiapas:
31/a. Zona Militar.
CARRETERA PANAMERICANA KM. 95.
No. 195 TRAMO S. C. L. C., COMITÁN, RANCHO NUEVO, MUNICIPIO SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIS.
Telefono:
01 (967) 631 80 10.
EXT. 33.
(I'm copying only one of the three locations)
In Campeche:
33/a. Zona Militar.
AV. JUAN ESCUTIA S/N COL. BUENA VISTA, CAMPECHE, CAMP. C.P. 24039.
Telefonos:
01 (981) 816 52 28.
01 (981) 816 45 44.
I think this is enough. I'm adding the phone number in case Botzwana wants to call them.
Cagefighter also said:
FYI, Mexican prison's love gringo prisoners. They don't eat or survive with out getting regular payments from the family back in the U.S.
I don't know. I have never been in prison. Have you, or any of your relatives? Many gringos are in prison in Mexico because they were caught trying to smuggle cocaine back to the United States.
It's interesting that, according to this link (http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/june/mexican_prison/index.html)
There are sharp differences between American and Mexican jails. In many ways, Mexican jails are much worse. According to a recent report by Human Rights Watch, prisons in Mexico's penal system are massively overcrowded and falling apart. The guards and prison officials are, for the most part, poorly trained and vastly underpaid. Corruption is rampant and the system has a serious lack of funds.
But unlike American prisons, prisoners in Mexico are often given an extraordinary amount of freedom within the walls. Children come to visit their fathers, wives and girlfriends can sometimes stay overnight for conjugal visits, and prisoner-run taco stands and concessions are common. In some ways, the inside of a Mexican jail is similar to a small village -- "helping reduce tensions in the prison and easing transition to the outside," according to the Human Rights Watch report.
Interesting, eh? Human Rights Watch saying this? But wait. There's more:
Every year, a handful of American citizens have the bad judgment, or bad fortune, to land in Mexican prisons. An international agreement allows American citizens to transfer to a U.S. federal prison to serve out their sentence.
But for the months or years they're behind bars in Mexico, waiting for a transfer, they find prison life to be a world away from prisons north of the border. And some Americans choose to serve their time in Mexico, rather than the United States.
Yes, Americans beat Mexicans for the purpose of taking half the Mexican territory. That is not a small victory. But no one disputes that the territory was MEXICAN, and certainly Cagefighter won't do it. Otherwise, who did his ancestors beat at the Alamo? "We beat those brown bastard asses and stole half their country! Ha! Aren't we great?"
What makes me LMAOL, however, is this fact. According to Cagefighter, this is a good response to a post where one white man -blessed as he may be- complains about someone trying to break in and, oh my God, steal.
Is stealing wrong? Is it something to make you proud?
I assume Cagefighter is white and got angry over my saying that ONE WHITE MAN was not enough to scare an unspecified number of browns. OH. Cagefighter, would you fight, say, three little brown bastards? Six fists -and six legs- against two? Say, two small bastards coming to you on the front, and the other one, well, literally kicking your butt?
Now, back to Botzwana.
I am married to a Mexican woman and SHE says I am racist. LOL
Still those little bastards are going to have a surprise coming to them if they return. We bought machetes.
Botzwana, YOUR WIFE IS RIGHT. You call other Mexicans, like your own wife, "little bastards".
I take it that Botzwana means "bastard" as an insult, just as you call someone "mother....", without really knowing whether the person actually does what the insult implies. Botzwana, let me ask you a question. If you have children, of if you will have them, what will they be? And if they turn out to be brown -like I assume your wife is-, how will you cope?
By the way, you're a Jehovah's witness. How do you call your million and so brothers and sisters in that country? "Little Mexican Bastard Brothers and Sisters?"
By the way, later you wrote:
My wife is a beautiful mexican woman. The guy that tried to rob us is a mexican bastard.
So apparently I owe him an apology for implying he's a racist. But no, I owe him nothing. If he has a "beautiful Mexican woman" at home (a sister, I suppose), why does he call the men who allegedly tried to break in "Mexican bastards", instead of "bastards", without nationality? Why does he specifically have to call them "Mexican", first (as if that were not to be expected, supposing he actually lived in Mexico)? What's the big deal about being "the only white man" in town?
Botzwana asks whether he's a liar because he claims his restaurant was closed at 10:00 a.m. on a Sunday. Well, let's see. According to himself, the owners were fast asleep. The employees, if there are any, were not there. Not even, MIND YOU, a little brown Mexican bastard watchperson. This, in a dangerous country. I assume this is because there is no security in lands such as, well White America.
Restaurants are places open to the public so people can EAT, sometimes very early. Many customers arrive when they are not at work. Why would I suppose that a Sunday is a good day for people to go out and eat, say, at "Botzwana's Mamacita Cooking Paradise"?
Botzwana claims someone was trying to break in. Well, that is exactly "the bone of contention". He claims his restaurant was closed on a Sunday at 10:00 a.m. The owners, he says, were asleep. He also claims that he has to drive "three days" to get to Mexico City, apparently the only place where he could get a permit. And he also claims that whoever it was that allegedly tried to break in, was scared to death - in a country as violent as Mexico - because ONE man was there. So, if you were to break in, would you not carry weapons? Would you just break the window and not do the whole thing you're there fore? COME ON! Wait: ONE WHITE MAN scared away, by his mere presence, an unspecified number of browns. I say, whatever my skin color, if I have, say a gun, and you have nothing, I don't care what your skin color is.
This is not to say that non-whites can't be, indeed, "bastards". I'm just not buying into Botzwana's story. And this is relevant because, well, Botzwana is telling lies that are easy to spot for anyone with a little knowledge of the country. What else is he lying about on this forum?
Broken Promises is right, by the way. She knows because she's a friend.