There is a Heightened Military Presence in Rosarito
When we drove into town yesterday, we were stopped at the military check point just north of the toll booth and questioned about where we were going
and where we had come from.
What I found unusual is that the soldier wanted me to roll down my window on the passenger side. I happily complied and opened up my hands across my
body so he could easily inspect me.
BTW, they didn't care about the Great Dane in the back seat.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
No one has ever met that woman, I have heard rumors that people have actually met her but no one has come forward. This woman Marjorie Ann Grisack,
aka Maggie, aka Marjorie Ann Drake, supposedly lives in San Antonio del Mar, and I spoke to the executive committee there and no one has heard of her.
There are some people out there that for whatever reason, want to smear Baja's name, i.e. failed relationships with Latinas, etc. There are two
people that fit the profile of writing incessantly about crime in Baja and enjoy flaunting their expertise at translating Spanish news articles into
English, and some have claimed that Maggie, since no one has met her, and this other person, who runs a Crime focused Baja site, are the same person.
Why don't we read the police blotter of San Diego and claim: "Oh my San Diego is going down the tubes."
Gypsy you must be exuding an abnormal amount of pheromones lately. You are driving the local men wild!!
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Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
When we drove into town yesterday, we were stopped at the military check point just north of the toll booth and questioned about where we were going
and where we had come from.
What I found unusual is that the soldier wanted me to roll down my window on the passenger side. I happily complied and opened up my hands across my
body so he could easily inspect me.
BTW, they didn't care about the Great Dane in the back seat.
Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
No one has ever met that woman, I have heard rumors that people have actually met her but no one has come forward. This woman Marjorie Ann Grisack,
aka Maggie, aka Marjorie Ann Drake, supposedly lives in San Antonio del Mar, and I spoke to the executive committee there and no one has heard of her.
There are some people out there that for whatever reason, want to smear Baja's name, i.e. failed relationships with Latinas, etc. There are two
people that fit the profile of writing incessantly about crime in Baja and enjoy flaunting their expertise at translating Spanish news articles into
English, and some have claimed that Maggie, since no one has met her, and this other person, who runs a Crime focused Baja site, are the same person.
Why don't we read the police blotter of San Diego and claim: "Oh my San Diego is going down the tubes."
Ridiculous. Maggie is real with a real history here in Punta Banda prior to moving to SADM.
She has no alter-ego on any hate site and performs a public service for the Español impaired by translating the news to English.
She has been a reliable source [as reliable as her source, which is more often than not, ZETA, a highly respected Tijuana weekly] of daily events
presented by the local news agencies and doesn't bang her own drum.
She has her moments, both good and bad, but they don't mingle with her mission to inform the uninformed.
Appreciate her for that if you have any use for news of current events.
You never met her Dennis, and no one else has. You also praised Fulano for his informative crime articles as well. You can't prove she is real
either. You point me to ONE person in Punta Banda who can lead me directly to Maggie, and I'll gladly take you up on it.
You are going to take Craig Wutsch's endorsement of Maggie Drake when he is a close ally and member of the other site? You have got to be joking! I
need more proof than a post on TalkBaja! Besides, he is not proving that she is a real person at all. He is endorsing her because he is over
preocupied with crime in Baja and likes to read her articles. Yes the articles are taken from Zeta Magazine, which has to be one of the most violent
magazines out there, and translated. But unless you can give me more than Woooosh's casual referral to her in another forum, that proves absolutely
nothing.
I don't endorse anyone I have not met, so get off that soapbox
I usually don't joke much about people being killed
Go out and get all the proof you want.....and I don't have to prove anything to you
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Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
You are going to take Craig Wutsch's endorsement of Maggie Drake when he is a close ally and member of the other site? You have got to be joking! I
need more proof than a post on TalkBaja!
Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
You never met her Dennis, and no one else has. You also praised Fulano for his informative crime articles as well. You can't prove she is real
either. You point me to ONE person in Punta Banda who can lead me directly to Maggie, and I'll gladly take you up on it.
[Edited on 2-2-2014 by EnsenadaDr]
I never met God either, but I have a feeling he/she/it may exist.
Fulano is an effective gatherer of information as well. He has shown these skills through his many aliases here on the board in the past.
Take your fact-finding mission to the Pablofs in La Joya. They know her [as a past tenant] as well as anybody.
What does all of this matter anyway? Can't you go through just one effing day without trying to develop this BS intrigue?
Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Yes the articles are taken from Zeta Magazine, which has to be one of the most violent magazines out there, and translated.
You are the master of riling things up on the Board Dennis,I am just trying to follow in the footsteps of the Great Nomad Himself!! (though I will
never equal him I am sure. You must be feeling better!!
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Originally posted by DENNIS
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Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
You never met her Dennis, and no one else has. You also praised Fulano for his informative crime articles as well. You can't prove she is real
either. You point me to ONE person in Punta Banda who can lead me directly to Maggie, and I'll gladly take you up on it.
[Edited on 2-2-2014 by EnsenadaDr]
I never met God either, but I have a feeling he/she/it may exist.
Fulano is an effective gatherer of information as well. He has shown these skills through his many aliases here on the board in the past.
Take your fact-finding mission to the Pablofs in La Joya. They know her [as a past tenant] as well as anybody.
What does all of this matter anyway? Can't you go through just one effing day without trying to develop this BS intrigue?
Here is JoeJustJoe's take on Maggie, and the dangers of Rosarito beach.
I not only have doubts that Maggie is who she claims she is, but I even doubt if she is a real woman! I also doubt she is married to a Border Patrol
agent named Mike, and the dog muffin is very suspect. I believe muffin is really a cat.
I have spent many hours looking into the background of Maggie, and trying to find anybody that has actually met her, and for being in Baja for so many
years, it's very strange that not one person has ever come forward and said they have actually met Maggie in person. Although Maggie sure drops a
lot of names, of people who she knows in Baja, and she seems to know a lot about these people. However, it could also be that she is somebody else,
and that's the only reason why she seems to know about all about these other ex-pats in Baja. The closest we get to people knowing Maggie comes from
a post from Woooosh, who claims Maggie is real, because he knows an ex-pat that uses the same veterinarian of both himself and Maggie, and that
ex-pat knows Maggie. Sorry, that's not good enough for me, and it just come be the case of Maggie dropping names of a person she knows as another
person or even as a man.
With that said, her stories on her" drugwarchronicles Baja blog" are fairly accurate and she translates real stories from Zeta, and other Baja
newspapers, magazines, and blogs. The only thing about this, is Maggie only picks the negative news stories about Baja, and so you can get very
distorted picture of Baja, because she paints a picture of a war zone in Baja, and most of us know that this is just not true.
Regarding the increasing dangers of Rosarito beach, it does seem crime and the homicide death troll has increased this year, but you have to be very
careful when reading statistics from people like Maggie, because they will play with the numbers and make Mexico or Baja seem a lot more dangerous
than it really is.
Here is a good example that I see all the time, say for example in 2012 a city in Mexico had a homicide death rate of one person, and in 2013 that
homicide death rate increased to two people. Nuts like Maggie will post a headline that homicides increased 100 percent in such and such city!!!!!
When in reality the homicide rate is actually still very low. Of course there are more homicides in Rosarito than just one or two, but really the
numbers are still very low, something like 17 in 2012, and something like 30 in 2013, and so of course you have Maggie making claims about a 90
percent increase homicides in Rosarito, and she does this to scare the readers.
I do know one ex-pat American who left Rosarito because he felt it was getting too dangerous for him, and things didn't seem to work out for him in
Rosarito. The thing about Mexico, it's not for everybody.
Yes Joe, and some of these dangers of Gringos in Mexico are self-provoked. If and when Maggie decides to meet any of the Nomads, I will defer to her
and apologize. But for someone so brash and critical, she is very timid about anyone meeting her in person.
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The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
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