thank god for you who created this tribe! what a miracle to find there are at least 100 likeminded individuals on the planet.

i broke out of the altered states of amerika in march of 2003.

in november of 2002 i was detained at the airport in houston for "fitting the profile" as someone who "could be potentially suspicious" just because my name is juan and i am mexican. i have blond hair and blue eyes and had lived in san diego all my life. somehow this was all it took to make security feel "unsafe". after about two hours, they let me go, but i missed my flight and the kicker was that i learned due to all the post 911 legislation, not only was nobody responsible to refund or re-issue my ticket, but that i had actually waived all of my rights when i bought the ticket originally under these wonderful new laws.

i was about to buy my dream house in san diego which overlooked the ocean but there were these freedom fighter jets that kept taking off from the air force base and ruining my beautiful ocean view. in short my american dream was looking more and more like an orwellian nightmare.

fortunately, i had mdma in my right hand and mushrooms in my left hand which i washed down with a heineken to help me think clearly. cnn was confusing me. cheney said we might have a 100 year war, but bush came on right behind him and said not to worry because they had cut taxes and since we would all have more money to buy more things, nobody should worry or even question anything really...we should just all go on about our lives.

i decided to go to cancun, mexico just to get into a different headspace. originally i planned a two week vacation, but that turned into two months, which turned into two years....i have been in mexico over 4 years now and i love it.

this is a great country to escape to.

peace--
juan