What Fires You Up?

3/04/2006

 

Border Agent Haul - Mural
Originally uploaded by cobalt123.

Border Agent Haul - Mural

About 30 years ago I would have associated this section of a mural with a border agent capture of a hippie carrying drugs. But now in Arizona, my first thought was far different. We have a huge border war going on at the border with Mexico, and there are border agents, "Minutemen Project" vigilantes who "help" patrol borders against illegals, and then there are humanitarian "angels" who leave water and food at remote places for illegals who face death just in the crossing.

My view of this mural section is that the border patrol and "Minute Men" hassle the humanitarian volunteers now. I heard a radio program this week where a "Minute Man" proudly told of all the ways they deter humanitarian aid workers, including throwing out canfulls of nails, spikes and tacks in the hope that the "angels" will get flat tires during their food and rescue deliveries. See the "No More Deaths" campaign site for these modern "hippies" and "leftists" slammed by white supremacists, hate groups, and highlighted in conservative media.

Links:
Friends of Border Patrol
Minutemen Project
"No More Deaths" humanitarian aid workers

BJ 3/04/2006 07:28:00 AM

3/03/2006

 

Magic Donkey and Secret Sauce Algorithm
Originally uploaded by cobalt123.

A set of 96 images found by Scout for my photos in Explore on March 2. The title comes from comments flickr staff heather made in the flickr help forum here. If these photos are not interesting, don't blame me - there's a donkey and sauce involved.

Thanks to fd, who created and hosts Scout! His online application can make a poster for you, with a nice dark gray background and a large titleblock with your flickr ID. This set I created using his application to secure the images with the dates and Explore rankings above each. Then I pieced them together using Photoshop and added the caption.

BJ 3/03/2006 02:50:00 AM