What The Heck Is A “Displaced Foreign Traveler?”

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What The Heck Is A “Displaced Foreign Traveler?”

Written By : William Teach

When it comes to illegals, Liberals are just getting truly silly. Redding.com picks up the story of one Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez, recounting how he made it all the way to mountains of Trinity County, California, perhaps after spending some time at the zoo and doing all sorts of touristy things, found himself at a marijuana camp, and then…

At least, that’s the impression a reader might get from a U.S. Forest Service news release, sent out to the media Tuesday morning, about a marijuana raid earlier this month. It describes Almonte-Hernandez as a “displaced foreign traveler from Michoacán, Mexico.”

Strangely, though, this poor displaced traveler — far from welcoming his rescue by the Forest Service, Trinity County Sheriff’s Department and Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement — instead reportedly tried to flee and hide as those agency’s officers arrived at the marijuana “garden,” which contained more than 7,000 plants.

Will this one enter the vernacular of the anti-law left? Time will tell. Of course, they keep telling us that all these illegals, er, displaced foreign travelers, are such good people. Yeah. Right.

Mina

No no you got it wrong! They are only doing jobs that Americans won't do!
Could it be because its still illegal to grow pot of Federal land?
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

OK, in his defence, the 'gardeners' on many of those cannabis grows are not there entirely voluntarily. The usual game is to grab someone's wife or kids down in Mexico and tell the guy he'll get them back if he carries out this little 'job' for them. He's essentially an indentured servant with serious personal penalties facing him should he not cooperate. Only after he delivers the final product, does he a)get paid, b)get his wife or kid back, or c)is allowed to disappear into the American heartland with his family.

When reading about these grow operations in the National Forests in NorCal, it's helpful to keep in mind that for less than a $10k investment in labour and materials, the cartel hopes to pull as much as $1MM in end revenues out of 4-5 months work. All without having to fret about bringing contraband across an international border.

From what I learned from people back in CA who grew their own 'med pot', 7,000 mature plants, depending on strain, care and growing conditions could easily yield 2½ tonnes of cannabis. Most prosecutions for growers are based on the formula of a pound a plant for outdoor crops. Obviously, that's not always the case, but with 7,000 plants, even ½ pound a plant is 1½ tonnes of product.

The fellow I learned this from grew one cannabis plant a year – the year he showed it to me, he harvested nearly 7 pounds from that one plant. It was 17-18 feet high and more than 6 feet in diameter at its widest point. The main stalk was 4-5 inches in diameter and the whole thing was comparable to a large Christmas tree. I was in cancer treatment at the time and he was trying to convince me I should get a med pot card and use my gardening experience to grow my own.

I chose not to, but I learned a lot about the pot growing culture from him.
Christopher_Taylor

Dang, sounds like a tourist, not an illegal.

by the way, apparently the feds found a huge pot farm in a Utah national forest; owned by a Mexican drug lord

http://patterico.com/2010/07/19/officials-raid-…

Kind of related.
TheDickNixon

Dude sounds like a fucking illegal alien.
Proud Infidel

Next card to be played by the MSM: “Heee's a viiiictiiim of society!”.
UFKA_Smithwick

Wow. I guess 'undocumented worker' was too offensive.
Karma Hoser

He was growing marijuana, and he's a “Displace Foreign Traveler”, does the “Mary Jane” make him an “unlicensed herbologist” as well?
Trevor

MARIJUANA?!?!? OH NOES!
Marijuana never hurt any brain cells. Seriously.
http://www.lycaeum.org/paranoia/marijuana/facts…

Point being… If you're going to use an example of how “illegal immigrants are horrible people”, don't talk about marijuana.

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