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Bingo, thats the spots. I doubt I even have to mention National City.... or the revolving door that is San Ysidro.
I learned a lot about the underbelly of those areas because sailors often date foreigners, I no longer condone that practice (tolls paid!).
I witnessed illegal back room wire transfers to other nations in foreign owned businesses.
I attended churches that were covers for chain migration visa scams, my girl had used one, imagine my shock when I found her wedding documents in 'our' house. As a veteran who considers himself loyal to his oaths, this presented a very real moral dilemma for me. Sure I was in love, vagina has that effect on sailors, but sometimes you have to face that you may in fact be 'sleeping with the enemy' and I surely was.
Dont worry, as soon as the deployments stopped and I came home, the situation coalesced into its natural ending, and I was nearly destroyed but escaped intact to more amenable regions.
I'll tell you what she told me one day, with no training or participation in conspiracy forums, of her own will, and in bragging form, she informed me of the following with a straight face:
"Everyone in my country knows Americans are stupid, you have everything but you dont defend it, we can take it from you and you wont stop anyone and government will take care of us but not you. Americans are stupid, everyone in my country knows this and we will take from you, no one cares"
I guess you could say, I chose at that moment, to care.
We kid ourselves sometimes into thinking the lives of men from the past, is where the revolutions happened, we often forget that for those ancient men of action, it was just another Wednesday. We are someones ancestors too, and that responsibility belongs to us, as well as our formers.
I sure won't judge you. I've been stupid too. Thinking I could bring a Russian "lady" over here, support her and her son and provide them with a decent place to stay and they would be ohhh so grateful.
11 months later we separated and I filed for annulment. Actually, I messed that up badly at first because I told her a couple weeks before that this would need to happen as I was tired of her provocations, constantly trying to set me up to fight and argue with made up stuff she instigated, even to the point of one day beating me with a fiberglass rod. I kept my cool, took the blows and finally got the rod away from her. Of course it hurt like a bitch as you can imagine and I was just stunned and in a bit of shock. WTFH? I just stood there catching my breath, not even angry, just shocked and asked her, "Why did you do that?". I had just been in our room, walking in and she charged in the other door and went off on me. No argument, nothing going on, just casually walks in and starts beating me like a psycho.
She looked at me, smirked and said lightly, "Oh, just for fun" and walked out.
Another time she casually picked up a hand made trumpet I had painstakingly fashioned from a large gourd I had grown. Hmmm, come to think of it I still have it. She picked it up and slammed it over my head, breaking it. I held my temper and took it away to the garage where I spent a couple hours with super glue and radiator repair putty repairing it. Today you can't even tell it was broken.
Turns out my private investigator discovered it was all part of a plan to get me to beat her and leave marks. A clumsy plan that didn't work so in the end she faked it by gouging her neck while I was away on a construction project for the week. Unfortunately she failed to notice the time stamps on the photos which the judge caught on to and declared the photos to be fraudulent.
My PI revealed that soon after arriving here in USA my wife hooked up with a Russian organization that was teaching women how to get their man to beat them up and then applied for battered spouse. Have the rules for immigration as a spouse waived and then get a permanent green card. The judge heard all that and granted an annulment based on fraud.
Then, even though I reported all this to ICE with documentation of all the fraud going on they let it slide until she got caught a couple times setting up a prostitution service and luring in young Russian girls. I even found a video online she was using to advertise the services and actually used her teen aged son in the video with a couple of young girls massaging him.
I'm not sure if they ever got deported but last records they have online is of her son being picked up for public drunkenness and she seems to be as far as I can tell back in Russia.
Also just for general information, I loved working on Navy ships at NASSCO. If they ever stop this mask bullshit I'll go back but no way am I walking around a shipyard with a cloth mask on my face. That's just stupid.
damn man, this never happens to me, your story is the same and even worse, previously beyond my comprehension and perspective. I wont say its good to know someone else saw it, but I'm secretly pleased that its known by others. hehe sounds like we were neighbors at work, I rode the powerful pachyderm of the pacific until we scrapped it( in SD after) San Diego area is so damn foul once you starting looking at it, its pretty to look at and can be fun and you cant beat the weather but damn, the collateral damage is gut wrenching.
San Diego has some of the worst old houses, crappy neighborhoods with crappy landscaping, huge plumbing problems, crime, gangs, tent cities down town, etc, so I kind of have to agree with you.
Oh, and I forgot to mention last year I was parked at a church just watching over it kind of like volunteer security and I noticed in my mirror a woman, a huge fat black woman step off the curb and peel down her slacks, bend over and shit right in the gutter. This was on the side of a four lane avenue loaded with traffic in the middle of the day. To her credit she did get some napkins out of her huge purse to pick it up and put it in a trash can. Nice. I actually did a double take since my mind didn't believe what my eyes were seeing. That ass must have been three feet wide.
My detective told me that I got off lucky. My Russian wife just put half a bottle of herbal sedative in my food one Saturday as she wanted to put me to sleep so she could bring a customer over to the condo. Nice huh? I was sick all weekend but when I went back to work and told my coworkers about her odd behavior that weekend they got suspicious and started quizzing me. My eyes opened and even though I didn't have proof, I was very suspicious. I started taking mental notes of her behavior and putting it together in my mind.
My detective told me how one guy was conned into leaving his pistol at the house because his Russian wife claimed she was afraid when he went out of town for work. Next time he came home she shot him when he came up to the door. Key in hand. She claimed she thought he was breaking in. No arrest. The family hired him for a time but then gave up saying, it wouldn't bring their son back, would only extend the misery and let her rot in hell. They know what she did.
The detective told me how he interviewed the instructors at the massage training center and got to know who was behind the organization selling advice on how to get a man to beat up his spouse and do the legal work to get their status changed to battered spouse. The judge said we couldn't bring the evidence into court so my attorney left him the file with a flash drive containing voicemail from one of the wife's customers.
I simply had all her calls transferred to my cell phone and then recorded the voicemail as a file and transferred it to my laptop and then onto a flash drive.
The judge was very careful to not say anything directly about what he knew in the courtroom but mentioned the woman was leading a disreputable lifestyle. That's when I knew he had read the files and listened to the flash drive. He knew what I knew.
I asked two of her friends who knew what was going on to testify on my behalf. They refused. So I subpoenaed them and they swore if I forced them on the stand they would lie on her behalf. So, I made them sit out in the hall for the entire final hearing and refused to put them on the stand. I was keeping them on ice so at least the soon to be not wife could not use them. Then, I had a brief recess before final arguments and went out to tell them they could go home. They were so glad to be free they thanked me and rushed off. LOL. No way there would be time for them to come back and speak before it was over. Her attorney had all his arguments trashed as I rebutted every allegation with facts and documents, proving the lies and fraud and he went back to their table and THREW his notes down in disgust. He realized then he had been played. Sweet Russian lady... ya, sure buddy, now you know what it's like to be played by a sweet talker I thought to myself. I knew that feeling well. My attorney got up, laid out our case in summary and the gavel came down. Annulment based on fraud. The non wife looked shocked. Like someone had just tossed cold water on her face. All that scheming, lying, paying money for evil advice, all trashed. All her dreams destroyed. She can't get a green card and that marriage fraud will hang over her head like a black cloud if she tries again. She'd have to get someone even more stupid than myself and then get past INS rules who would see the flag on her file. Doomed her.
So yes, like many guys who are road warriors, traveling frequently and getting lonely, I got sucked into thinking people are nice like me. Nope. I learned to be super careful of people and especially sweet talking women.
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