Ok, not a brief history, I live in southern Minnesota in a town where I was born in and have lived my whole life in. We have always had a large illegal Mexican population in our sanctuary city, but in recent years it has gotten to the point where one in three people are illegal.
My house is in a neighborhood where 25 years ago it was a quiet, neatly kept homes, lawn and street full of elderly white retired folks where you were safe to leave your doors unlocked at night.
Now it is a loud, run-down, dirty, and dangerous neighborhood full of illegals and resembles a Mexican ghetto! With the exception of my house and property which now resembles a clean and neatly kept home, but also a fenced-in fortress!
The fence I put in three years ago after illegal neighbors kept coming onto my property to use my clothesline while I was gone, and damaged my bird-feeders that I hung on, and around the clothesline.
Anyways, a six foot chain-link fence with locked gates now surrounds my property, as well as reinforced doors and windows on my house and garage, 16 video surveillance cameras/recorders outside and around my property and 12 inside the house, a panic room/armoury, and of course a home security/alarm system from Broadview Security. All of which I have invested many thousands of dollars on over the years. No way I would still be living here without all this!
Ok! About my flag!
Every morning I raise my American flag on the 30ft. pole in my front yard, and lower it at dusk.
I have done this everyday since 9-11. With few exceptions, weather, blizzards, sick days, ect.
All the illegals over the years never gave me a problem about it except for some of them staring at me and the occasional dirty look.
The new illegal neighbors that moved in right across the street from me this year are a rowdier group.
They come and go at all hours of the day and night, at least twelve people living in a three bedroom house. Many of them sit on couches on their front lawn, drinking beer and playing loud music from dawn until dusk.
In the morning some are always out front when I go out to raise my flag, as I do they hoot and holler, catcall and whistle. Which I ignored for a long time, but it grew to really annoy me as it seemed disrespectful to a patriotic moment. So starting a couple months ago I carried out my boombox with a CD of our national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner" and played it as I raised the flag in order to drowned out the whooping and catcalls from across the street. This only riled them up even more and drew more attention to me so I stopped. But it did not end there, none of the men ever did anything and still have not, but starting a few weeks ago they sent over a juvenile, maybe 16 or 17 years old across to harass me, knowing he would likely not get in trouble, and not much I can do as he stays on the public sidewalk and never even touches my fence. He does speak good English, either an anchor baby or he was brought here at a young age. I can’t say much good about this kid, as he was raised to be a fierce racist, I cannot even begin to list the racial slurs he has said to me!
After all the "You don’t belong here man!’ and "Go back to Europe" crap, I told the kid to knock it off from now on or I would call the cops on him.
And the very next day holes are shot through my flag from a pellet gun. Nothing on my security videos of course, it was shot at from off my property. A few days later I heard more pellet shots and called the police, my flag was undamaged this time and the cops just drove around and left! Lots of help they are!
The final straw! The same little jerk shot my flag again last Sunday with a paintball gun and totally ruined it! Again I called the police and nothing was done an no one had seen it happen!
I literally feel like I am at war with foreign invaders trying to take down my flag and drive me out of my own neighborhood!
So, any good suggestions? And don’t be an A-hole and tell me to stop raising my flag or move!
@ Game over,
No this is not made-up!
It is frustratingly real!
3 cameras ARE aimed at the front yard and front sidewalk and I do have video of the kid walking up and down the sidewalk, but as I said it is a PUBLIC sidewalk and the audio from the recording cameras are too far away to pick up any of the harassment.
@Tom,
@American Justice,
Thank you for you concern for my well-being.
But as I said, I do not want to move!
This is my home.
My family lives in this town, everyone I care about lives here!
I’ll put barbed-wire on my fence and electrify it, and buy a tank before I move!
If I have to borrow from my retirement funds to buy more security, I’ll do it!
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