re: #298 Judith

Reading earlier threads and rather than just put my response in a dead thread I thought I would post it here.

I spent the winter in a campground in southern Arizona and something has to be done. The border is war zone/killing zone. We had constant warnings about how we should not go into national parks, be wary about picking up strangers, and so forth. I read regularly in local papers about deaths of would be illegal immigrants and the horrors of the crimes of the people smugglers and the drug dealers, and the danger for the ordinary Americans living at that border. Mines are NOT the answer. It IS crazy to talk about mines. Still, as long as people not living on the border stand back and smugly tsk tsk at the people living on the edge of a war zone, dismissing their concerns by calling them racists, and bigots and ignoring what they are saying, the crazies will have fertile ground to flourish in.

Get that security barrier up, unless of course you want to invade Mexico and clean it up, Mr. Obama!

Just watched “No Country for Old men” again and the whole theme of the drug war of making its way to those sleepy, isolated border communities really hit me.

I know some folks living near Douglas, AZ, who have started experiencing much the same thing.