RV Tourism in Mexico
Every season there are posters who think that this year RV tourism is increasing. As much as we would all like to think it is recovering the truth is it sucks! Today, El Imparcial has an article on th...
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briansue wrote:he made an honest mistake in taking the wrong road.
This was a very interesting story. Few checked the facts. One news organization notorious for not checking facts and spreading misinformation got involved and no one saw the truth. These facts can be checked but are not easy to find because Mama put out so much misinfo that the facts got covered up. Here are some facts that are proven and available.
This marine's passport swipes showed he had been to Mexico and crossed at the same place quite a few times.
The morning of the day he was arrested he parked his truck at the US side of the border crossing and walked across the border - passport swipe plus video surveillance.
He checked in to a hotel and reserved a room to meet his girlfriend who lives in Tijuana - photocopy of hotel receipt with his signature on it.
He went back across the border and got his truck - pulled out of parking lot and attempted to cross - when pulled for inspection he tried to run to escape - video surveillance.
In his truck in the driver's area within reach of the driver were 3 fully loaded weapons - assault rifle - shotgun - pistol - and hundreds of rounds of ammo.
He lied to the police over and over again.
He was held because he was a criminal and he broke the laws of the country. He lied. Lawyer lied. Mama lied. You can Google to get the facts. They are out there buried behind Mama's lies. There are military prison in the US full of US military personnel who committed crimes. Being a former marine does not exempt this guy from obeying the law - no matter what country he is in.
I think the scariest thing of this whole situation was when this man was returned to the USA he was allowed to go free. NO Jail, I don't think he even had a psych eval. This guy is walking around in public as we speak. A guy who had assault weapons with multiple mags on the seat beside him. I know the US has different gun laws than other countries (not up on this kind of thing as I am not a citizen) but I would be surprised if that is legal in the US in any state. Lets assume he did make a mistake and turned to into the border crossing (highly doubtful as he crossed regularly including earlier that day). If he had been pulled over on the US side would he not have been committing a crime, and if so is it considered a serious crime. I can't imagine being a cop and seeing that kind of hardware in easy reach of the driver. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong and loaded assault weapons with multiple mags is within the law in the USA. I would be curious. I know if he had crossed the Canadian border with that kind of fire power at hand he would still be in Jail, car and everything else confiscated forever. I have no problem with foreign gun laws as it is simply none of my business. I just didn't realize that they were that lenient in the US. Don't think I'll ever give anyone a nasty look when they cut me off at starbucks again when we are in the USA. :)
