Victims, by Choice!

21 Oct 09

Victims, by Choice:

This from a friend, retired Naval Officer, and one of our Instructors:

"Last weekend, I had a long and solemn conversation with the parents of my seventeen-year-old daughter's closest friend. They ritually retire for two weeks to their time-share apartment near Cancun, Mexico every spring, and had extended an invitation for my daughter to join them this time.

I reviewed current State Department, as well as Stratfor, advice with regard to foreign travel, specifically in Mexico. News is not good!

Mexico's economy relies expectantly on tourist dollars, and therefore Mexico's government heavily influences local media to downplay dangers to tourists. However, the depressing truth is that vicious drug-gangs operate freely everywhere in Mexico and are successfully challenging the 'legitimate' government for control in large areas. Widespread, endemic corruption within police and local governments adds to risks for foreigners. In addition to illegal drugs, kidnaping is a growth industry, as is white-slavery!

Friends at the State Department inform me that, in view of the foregoing, none would ever go to any part of Mexico right now, for any reason, nor would they allow family members to do so, not even a short sojourn in a border-town!

I relayed the foregoing to my daughter's friend's parents. They essentially laughed it off, insisting that danger I described is exaggerated.

We've known them for a long time. They are pleasant people, but they are willfully, indeed belligerently, naive, and apparently have no more concern for my daughter's life than they do for their own! They are likeable, but I cannot respect them. Indeed, I don't respect any VBC.

Some day, likely sooner than later, they will be savagely murdered. They' ll die in amazement, as hapless victims. The last thought to go through their callow minds will be how "unfair" it is. However, it will be the direct result of choices they willingly made, naively, selfishly, and vaingloriously. In short, they'll get what they deserve. I just don't want any of my family near them when it happens.

I unceremoniously informed them that my daughter would not be joining them in Mexico, nor anywhere else.

I regret having to be so blunt, but we live in undiplomatic times.

Friends I can replace. I have only one daughter!"

Comment: Never apologize for taking a direct role in looking after your own best interests and those of your family.

"Prepared" is present tense. "Victim" is past tense. "Justice," is also present tense. Justice can never be reconstructed. It does not exist in past tense. Never has!

World history is taking a frightening and sinister turn. It's not only worse than we imagine. It's worse than we can imagine!

/John