El Paso Corp in-house counsel, Pilar Gravitt, did zero homework. Imagine filing a lawsuit against a blogger claiming that her camera poses a safety hazard on THIS property. ExxonMobils properties in my area have always been graveyards. It wasn't until Pilar Gravitt got involved that it escalated to really ugly stuff. I had the benefit of knowing what was going on, and I would write Pilar letters saying, "Hey people are getting kidnapped here. People are getting killed here."I think its because these psycho guys were getting chased out of Mexico. A bunch of them hitched rides on equipment coming from the Roleta Field to the McGill. EP was moving all the trailers back and forth between the Roleta and the McGill every 30 days. Plus, Judge Terrell ruled that Pilar could use the prisoners from the Texas Workforce Commission to build more roads around the checkpoint really didn't help matters.
I have sent many requests to Pilar Gravitt to give an explanation for her course of action for the film project. Probably she was just busy and not paying attention. Unfortunately, that doesn't bring anyone back to life. Pilar Gravitt is the catalyst of the story. I want her to speak for herself. We didn't leave the ranch because of drug cartels, we left because of Pilar Gravitt. I realized, "Oh my God, clueless Pilar decides who lives and dies out here?" I didn't want to live somewhere that Pilar Gravitt called the shots. (literally and figuratively.) I don't see her as an evil person, I just think she is a low level bureaucrat in El Paso Corps lawyer pool. Pilar chose to come onto my stage. I don't have a vendetta against Pilar. My book and movie are autobiographical. I met her once in court, she's a very cute girl. That makes her an even better character. Stylish dresser, too. She has sex appeal. She is a sympathetic character. She is interesting. She makes the story interesting.
I also request an interview with the lovable Judge Terrell:
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Judge Terrell if you dare read the truth I hope it smacks you into HELL...and at least we won't be there with you! Que le vaya bien con El Diablo...
I came out of RGC heading to Alice on 755 a month ago on a Saturday. The locals from RGC told me "get off 755 before dark". That spooked me, but nothinn big. I pass a car outside of RGC about 5 miles, it was doing about 35 mph. I slipped past them and on down the road. About fifteen miles later, that car is gaining on me, and fast. I thought cop? But realized that mabe my senses were just messing with me from what the locals said. I pushed my truck up to 80. Car is still gaining. I look down, nervous now, I`m hitting 90 mph. Car isn`t gaining, but it ain`t backing off either. This goes for about 12-15 miles. Hardly any cars on that forsaken road. I look down and I`m doing 100. That`s all my diesel has got. So now, I`m a wee more nervous, as this car is still their, not losing or gaining ground. I make the final straightaway torwards 281 where I can see cross traffic, the car backs waaay off. I about sh$t myself, half spooked cause what the locals said, and maybe my imagination got te best of me. But I`ll NEVER drive on 755 again. Is that real? Did I just say I won`t drive on a USA road again out of fear of the Mexican Cartels? I now own an AR-15,and an AK-47, sleep with a pistol by me pillow. All cause I live near Brooks county. Washington needs to wake The front door up. Thanks for your blog. p.s. Big Oil helps me put my kid through school. I dont work for the ones you mention, ours has morals and scruples. Just thought I`d mention that. I know your not anti-oil/gas, just Anti-half assing the work and the way your land is treated with no respect. People cannot believe what is going on down here, they are so afraid of "offendinng" the Latino populace, that they`ll watch innocents get brutalized and killed and raped, all in the name of being PC. I say, F that. Thanks for the updates. Check out Borderlandbeat.com, if you haven`t yet
neglectedwar.com Lot`s of good info there on illegals and problems. It` gonna get worse, way worse before it gets better. Just out of curiosity, where do you stand on a Complete Border fence? Not judging , just wondering what the locals think, Thanks. I`ll go by the handle SouTex. I wrote the story about 755. Scared the he$$ out of me. My wife told me to quit going down to the valley, but I have bills to pay and kids to feed , clothe and put through school. Sad thing is, work like that, and can`t even own a new vehicle cause the darn Gov`t is stealing from us and giving it away to their cronies and the lazy.
Rant over. lol
Hi SouTex -
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the government. What makes 755 really creepy is you have 25 mile stretches with no other intersections - it's very easy to have a scout on each end. You can trapped in one of those empty stretches. Then you might get jacked in some part with no cell phone service. I have never had a problem on 755 - but I have heard of some pseudo cop episodes, and earlier this year, one of the gaugers got hijacked because the perps mistook him for a cloned oilfield truck. The road you should NEVER drive at dark is the stretch of 681 between McCook and 1017. They target oilfield guys because there is no cell phone service, the oil guys aren't supposed to have guns on the job, they usually have 4wd and tools. Also, the target trucks they think have drugs or immigrants and there are so many fake oilfield trucks smuggling. They could mistake a legit guy for a doper. It's not organized - just rouge thugs.
I think the fence is just a non-issue. Everyone made a huge deal but it went up and life goes on. In Hidalgo County, the border wall is also an 18 foot concrete levy - we needed that for flooding. The old levys were crumbling and the county didn't have the money to build new ones. Lots of people said, 'Oh, what about the habitat and the birds, etc." That always struck me as funny because my whole area has been cleared for new subdivisions in the past 10 years. No one worries about birds and things -- then it's all about "job creation".
I am coming over to the "open border" idea because there is no way to "seal the border" and people don't understand how much legitimate trade come thru hear. For instance, 50-80% of all produce imports to the USA comes thru Pharr bridge now. I don't know the statistics, but I bet drugs are a tiny fraction of a percent. Efforts to search every vehicle are impractical. It doesn't just effect drug trade, it effects all trade. The border region is poor and the only way to reduce crime is to educate people so they can do something else to survive.
A drug mule is not a drug smuggler or a drug dealer - he's some poor schlep desperate for a few bucks who agrees to carry a drug load. With mandatory sentencing, the US tax payer spends a lot of money locking up drug mules. This does nothing to diminish supply or demand. It just makes money for publicly traded private prison corporations. Seems like a obvious step, send thousands of Border Patrol to the river to search everything coming across. This interferes with legitimate trade, creates a hellish violence for residents of the area and does nothing in the big scheme of things.
It just needs a paint job.
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