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More Official Border Craziness

Submitted February 2, 2005 - 12:02 pm by Al Giordano
There's something about a U.S. State Department "travel advisory" that makes everybody crazy.

Now comes the First Lady of the Mexican border state of Baja California (and its metropolis, Tijuana) to join in the orgy of insanity regarding the boogeymonster of "drugs" heaped on her own country.

According to today's daily La Jornada, María Elena Blackaller de Elorduy, the governor's wife, has called for sterilizing women who are caught using illicit drugs.

Mrs. Blackaller de Elorduy is the wife of Governor Eugenio Elorduy Walther, a member of President Vicente Fox's National Action Party (the PAN, in its Spanish initials) and career politician since 1968.

Fortunately, her nutty (and cruel) proposal - she even said that a law should be passed forcing the sterilizations - doesn't seem to have legs. Her own state's ombudsman (the official title of the head of the state human rights defense office), Ismael Chacón Guereña, blasted the proposal and came out strongly against it:

"It as an unfortunate declaration that provoked reactions at a national scale... It can't be a formal bill of law because it would also have to apply to people who have other kinds of illnesses."

But it's another example of how loco these "travel advisories" make some people, especially the powerful.

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