SNOWBIRD LAMENTS BROWNSVILLE'S DECLINE

When you are old enough, my children, I want you to leave this horrid place. There are many wonderful cities where civilization flourishes within picturesque surroundings.

Brownsville is a town without heroes.

The children have no role models. The religious schools have forsaken their Christian values to become instruments of the devil. Education is languishing. Medical care is a joke. All my doctors tell me to go to Houston rather than risk my life with the sawbones here. The English is a white-trash dialect spoken with a Tex-Mex accent. Nobody would ever accuse our pochos of speaking Castilian.

The majority of the people are poor and ignorant. The majority of the rich are just plain ignorant. The newspaper is the establishment's propaganda machine. The politicians and priests use the masses to consolidate their power and proceed to sodomize the innocents.

The landscape is an arid wasteland. Poisons suffuse the soil, contaminate the water and pollute the air. Disfigured babies aren't a coincidence. When I came here 20 years ago to flee the freezing north during the winter, I thought I had discovered a tropical paradise. Today it is a living hell.

Go, my children, before this place kills you because kill, it will.