"And they all moved over toward me on the group W bench."
— Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant
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Just south of La Tuna is the Rio Grande and Juarez, Mexico.
There were men from Juarez in the jail and also from El Paso. There was also a group of young black men from Washington, D.C.
I refused to work one time in protest against money sent by the U.S. to the military in El Salvador. That was interesting. And later I learned that Fr. Larry Rosebaugh had spent a much, much longer time in that hole area of the prison. I am honored to have even spent one day walking in the footsteps of Rosebaugh.
They had a baseball team at La Tuna, but I got released before I got a chance to play.
There are many people on this tour who are telling me they are concerned about the United States government not relinquishing power non-violently through the upcoming elections.
They say that martial law will be put into effect. They think that Bush will attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons.
They say the reason is that these people have spent all this time building up power and will not just give it up in November. I hear much talk about the Bilderberg group and the corruption of the Clintons and the Bushes.
I have no reason to disbelieve what I am hearing. I don't have any inside information though.
The desert is cool.
Wiiide open spaces. Makes me want to take a long walk to see what's out there. Maybe find God, or maybe Fred and Barney, sitting behind a big rock, smoking, hiding from Wilma and Betty.
I'm listening to a lot of music on my iPod. My daughter, Emily, was kind enough to let me take hers along.
Wouldn't you love to be able to play the lead-in guitar lick to 'L.A. Freeway"? How about "Rocky Mountain High"?
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