
About 6:00am, 7 Febreo 2007, concentration camp " Capuchino" Malaga...
Detention center of immigrantes
The fat cop yelled "California" beatin' on
the steel and bullet proof door with a big ulgy stick
the beginning of a seires of events that deserve more words than I posess...I'll try.
...A plane to Madrid awaits
The State of España, is explusing this immigrant
It's a bleak feeling
to have a whole country aginst ya "style666"...
The cops were nice enough on that first leg
only called this american " Guantanamo " once,
and " Asesino " ( murderer ) twice...
...In Madrid it's a different scene of total
security of Bars, cameras and guns,
alota " Guantanamo " ,
alot.
They come and we, that's two Bolivians
and I, are again secured and bound and
put in a van to the waiting planes.
We are delivered to back doors
as it's an ulgy scene taking place...Deportations.
ulgy word, DEPORTATION.
...I am delivered to a plane bound for New York.
I'm from Seattle...
The young State cop looked in the envelope
turned it upside down and shook out all the air,
"empty...? "
" There should have been a passport in there, no ? Juan ? ", I said.
The cop showed me to my seat, growling.
The animal in me started to look for a way out.
I looked the part after 32 days in a concentration camp
awaiting this very moment...
...I had a whole life built, been here 8 years and 243 days
of paintings and cats and beds, books and all the words
of a life... The girl is there, and she is destroyed.
Destroyed by her own people. Thats really fucked up, man.
A pretty immoral act, for a brother with a little
administrative problem...or no?
Bueno.
I'm going to America.
Having accepted this ugly immoral act as reality,
the next problem surfaces... WHOM,
will be waiting at the airport for this
freshly deported immigrant
with a denied request for political asylum
in one hand, and an order of expulsion in the other ?
Yep. Scary moment.
I living a very scary moment, in seat 33a.
.... I see the young cop speaking with the pilot of the " Death
flight ", as I have deemed it. The pilot is shaking his head "NO"
and looking at the fuzzy, animal lookin' me...in seat 33a...
...I'm thinkin' "... time to take the cyanide pill, there .007, old boy...
...and as the cop comes walking towards me and
the woman beside me breathes an audible sigh of relief
a "... Come with me ", growls from the deflated young cop.
Passing the pilot, his arms folded acrossed his big
American chest, he winks at me, giving me a little
hidden thumbs up...
On the ground, they have to get my backpack
off the plane I've a roll of 50 paintings, survivors, in my arms...
30 minutes of screaming baggage workers
and I'm smoking, beside the " No Smoking " sign,
chattin' with the now calm and amazed young cop...
.
" So, Juan, whats the problem ? Yer not mad or anything, eh? you look mad "
" You have'nt seen your passport have you ? " he asked, with irony.
" Not really my job, Juan... or no? "
" No... give me a smoke...", said the young cop, thoughly confused.
I was returned to Malaga, in chains and silence.
Returned to the concentration camp
and recive a warm welcome from the fat cop,
whom smiled a sly smile asking this blessed immigrant,
" So, whatta are you doing back here, eh ? , he winked...
The cop stole my passport before I was taken to the airport at Malaga.
He stole it becouse I was almost as spanish as he, having had a loud and
and patriotic argument with him this morning about 7:00 am,
when this freakshow all began....He had reacted strangely to the political
asylum document... " We're throwing out one of our own..." he'd said at
the end...He knew that I needed time. My lawyers are exceptional ones
and I was not your typical immigrant...So, in stealing that passport, he knew
there would be no way to expulse me. Can't fly with out a passport... and it
would be a miricle getting a new one in the short time the State had
left to move against this poor, but famous, again.... he knew this.
He's an angel, or Spanish John Wayne or Zorro,
comming at the last possible second to save the day....
a hero amoungst many, in this long scary tale...
I'm free now, married the girl and all seems forgotten...by the State, that is
I remain indignant. Not mad, but indignant...
Immoral and scary tactics...for a brother with a little administrative saddness.
And let's not even get into how much money was spent in this febil attempt to
rid themselves of this poor, but famous artist....Immoral, and scary shit, so it was...
...and that was the scariest moment of my life.... And yours ? I'd like to hear it...
Be well todo mundo,
J.Level
(JLevel77@yahoo.com)