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Letters to Leocadio the Gaucho Lion: #1
Dear Leocadio:
We all know that Argentina is an incredibly beautiful country complete with a lovely culture. Like the United States of America, we are a nation founded by immigrants with our laws. Unlike the United States of America, our country is notorious for stadium disasters resulting from our many soccer rivalries. The Superclásico is just one of those rivalries. In fact, American firefighters, especially those serving as professors in Oklahoma State University's School of Fire Protection and Safety, often reference incidents from the Superclásico as examples of what happens when maximum occupancy codes are not enforced.
The World Health Organization often references many incidents across Argentina involving unruly soccer crowds as examples of health hazards, from airborne disease transmission from confined spaces to oxygen deprivation from crowd crushes. Now the entire world references our country's past soccer crowd incidents as examples of why the world must enforce maximum occupancy laws, limit ticket sales, enforce queuing, as well as several measures for crowd control in large events. Thus event planning is more intensive these days, especially in stadiums.
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. The state government has been providing more financial incentives to lure American citizens and legal immigrants into the state. I'm married to an American, who like myself, have Italian heritage. We've been having children here, so they will never have to grow up even hearing about Argentina's notorious soccer crowds, nor have to put up with such crowds from our soccer rivalry with Brazil. We want our children to grow up happy and safe, so they can have their own futures here.
I'm sorry, but our children are much better off growing up in America than in Argentina, especially under your American counterpart. There's just simply way more to do here than back in Argentina, and everything Argentina has, America has more of. So far, I'm pregnant with my fifth child, and family life here is way better than I will ever experience back in Argentina.
How do you feel about the fact that the world references Argentina's stadium soccer crowd incidents and disasters, especially the Puerta 12 Tragedy, as examples for stuff, such as maximum occupancy laws, to serve as lessons to the world on crowd management on a constant basis? Me, I feel sad that the world has to use Argentina as a lesson like this, but at the same time, it's the only way to prevent these incidents from happening anywhere, including Argentina, again.
Catalina Giordano, age 26 (human being)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
PS: My former home was Buenos Aires, so you know the nightmare I have to put up with when the Superclásico happens.
Leocadio's response:
Dear Catalina:
Even though I'm sad to see so many depart Argentina, the Forsythians especially (not counting those still with us because of the ones who are G-52s), it doesn't surprise me that the Superclásico is one such reason everybody's leaving us forever. In the times I have visited the United States, however, I told any group of Argentine immigrants whom I just happen to run into that while I was sad to see them go, at the same time I want everybody, and I do mean, everybody, to live the best life that they can live. If the best life you can live is a life in the United States, then by all means, go for it.
I have mixed feelings about the world using our riots, in particular Puerta 12, as examples for lessons on crowd control. It brings back bad memories to me because I (wrongly) campaigned quite heavily for the government to forever put an end to the Superclásico. Instead, the rioting only ended when CNG decided it would kill exactly 7 million people, and for us, that's almost 16% of the whole population! (The nation of Turkey also suffered issues when it lost 1.5 million people over its Intercontiental Derby, a rivalry that also has ended in severe rioting. Why isn't INTERPOL arresting these people?) All these things do is encourage CNG to keep on eradicating humanity until there's no one left. Then it will kill all the furries it deems evil, until it gets what it wants: a world exactly like the planet Kriegland. (How was anybody on that planet happy?)
On the other hand, the world needs to learn from the mistakes so that they don't repeat them. The United States of America has much stricter punishments for rioting over sporting events than any other nation. That's why you never see them riot over soccer. Soccer isn't their forte, anyways; it's baseball and gridiron football, and to some extent, basketball. But for other nations, soccer is all they have.
In short, I feel the same way you do, and I have those same nightmares over the Superclásico. I hope that helps. Thank you for writing to me, and may you experience nothing but peace, joy, and happiness as you pursue your life in the States. You can also be thankful that my American counterpart is your President; even if he doesn't know it, he really is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this world. He's just trying to get through these terms of his without snapping, because if he loses his temper one more time, he dies, and the tiger serving as VP becomes President. Yet, look at the incredible progress he and his administration have shown in just a short time.
Respectfully yours,
Leocadio Villanueva, a.k.a. Leocadio the Gaucho Lion
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Letters to Leocadio the Gaucho Lion: #1
Dear Leocadio:
We all know that Argentina is an incredibly beautiful country complete with a lovely culture. Like the United States of America, we are a nation founded by immigrants with our laws. Unlike the United States of America, our country is notorious for stadium disasters resulting from our many soccer rivalries. The Superclásico is just one of those rivalries. In fact, American firefighters, especially those serving as professors in Oklahoma State University's School of Fire Protection and Safety, often reference incidents from the Superclásico as examples of what happens when maximum occupancy codes are not enforced.
The World Health Organization often references many incidents across Argentina involving unruly soccer crowds as examples of health hazards, from airborne disease transmission from confined spaces to oxygen deprivation from crowd crushes. Now the entire world references our country's past soccer crowd incidents as examples of why the world must enforce maximum occupancy laws, limit ticket sales, enforce queuing, as well as several measures for crowd control in large events. Thus event planning is more intensive these days, especially in stadiums.
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America. The state government has been providing more financial incentives to lure American citizens and legal immigrants into the state. I'm married to an American, who like myself, have Italian heritage. We've been having children here, so they will never have to grow up even hearing about Argentina's notorious soccer crowds, nor have to put up with such crowds from our soccer rivalry with Brazil. We want our children to grow up happy and safe, so they can have their own futures here.
I'm sorry, but our children are much better off growing up in America than in Argentina, especially under your American counterpart. There's just simply way more to do here than back in Argentina, and everything Argentina has, America has more of. So far, I'm pregnant with my fifth child, and family life here is way better than I will ever experience back in Argentina.
How do you feel about the fact that the world references Argentina's stadium soccer crowd incidents and disasters, especially the Puerta 12 Tragedy, as examples for stuff, such as maximum occupancy laws, to serve as lessons to the world on crowd management on a constant basis? Me, I feel sad that the world has to use Argentina as a lesson like this, but at the same time, it's the only way to prevent these incidents from happening anywhere, including Argentina, again.
Catalina Giordano, age 26 (human being)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
PS: My former home was Buenos Aires, so you know the nightmare I have to put up with when the Superclásico happens.
Leocadio's response:
Dear Catalina:
Even though I'm sad to see so many depart Argentina, the Forsythians especially (not counting those still with us because of the ones who are G-52s), it doesn't surprise me that the Superclásico is one such reason everybody's leaving us forever. In the times I have visited the United States, however, I told any group of Argentine immigrants whom I just happen to run into that while I was sad to see them go, at the same time I want everybody, and I do mean, everybody, to live the best life that they can live. If the best life you can live is a life in the United States, then by all means, go for it.
I have mixed feelings about the world using our riots, in particular Puerta 12, as examples for lessons on crowd control. It brings back bad memories to me because I (wrongly) campaigned quite heavily for the government to forever put an end to the Superclásico. Instead, the rioting only ended when CNG decided it would kill exactly 7 million people, and for us, that's almost 16% of the whole population! (The nation of Turkey also suffered issues when it lost 1.5 million people over its Intercontiental Derby, a rivalry that also has ended in severe rioting. Why isn't INTERPOL arresting these people?) All these things do is encourage CNG to keep on eradicating humanity until there's no one left. Then it will kill all the furries it deems evil, until it gets what it wants: a world exactly like the planet Kriegland. (How was anybody on that planet happy?)
On the other hand, the world needs to learn from the mistakes so that they don't repeat them. The United States of America has much stricter punishments for rioting over sporting events than any other nation. That's why you never see them riot over soccer. Soccer isn't their forte, anyways; it's baseball and gridiron football, and to some extent, basketball. But for other nations, soccer is all they have.
In short, I feel the same way you do, and I have those same nightmares over the Superclásico. I hope that helps. Thank you for writing to me, and may you experience nothing but peace, joy, and happiness as you pursue your life in the States. You can also be thankful that my American counterpart is your President; even if he doesn't know it, he really is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this world. He's just trying to get through these terms of his without snapping, because if he loses his temper one more time, he dies, and the tiger serving as VP becomes President. Yet, look at the incredible progress he and his administration have shown in just a short time.
Respectfully yours,
Leocadio Villanueva, a.k.a. Leocadio the Gaucho Lion
Letters to Leocadio the Gaucho Lion: #1
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Chuong: INTERPOL can only do so much, especially is the majority of their role involves standardizing basic police functions and systems for the world. You're talking about 7 million rabid violent hooligans and Buenos Aires only barely has a handful of cops to control them. After all, the Argentine military has been involved several times to stop the hooliganism even though it's extremely embarrassing that they have to use soldiers to stop the hooligans.
Zax: Not only that, but at the time, it is easier to smuggle contraband into the stadiums in Argentina. Knives, alcohol, cigars, drugs, etc. Big soccer banners and smoking do not mix. That's why in America, smoking is banned in stadiums along with enormous banners. Some of our stadiums even enforce a transparent bag rule, meaning backpacks and purses must be transparent.
Diamond Knight: I can't blame my people for wanting to move to America. We still have too much we need to work on back in Argentina. We need those American style fire codes and maximum occupancy laws for our country, but too many of our politicians won't care because they put stadium profits over the safety of our people. Things may be better, but many countries still tell their people that if they visit Argentina, they must avoid our stadiums and soccer matches. America still does this under Leo and I can't blame him because it is what it is.
Zax: Not only that, but at the time, it is easier to smuggle contraband into the stadiums in Argentina. Knives, alcohol, cigars, drugs, etc. Big soccer banners and smoking do not mix. That's why in America, smoking is banned in stadiums along with enormous banners. Some of our stadiums even enforce a transparent bag rule, meaning backpacks and purses must be transparent.
Diamond Knight: I can't blame my people for wanting to move to America. We still have too much we need to work on back in Argentina. We need those American style fire codes and maximum occupancy laws for our country, but too many of our politicians won't care because they put stadium profits over the safety of our people. Things may be better, but many countries still tell their people that if they visit Argentina, they must avoid our stadiums and soccer matches. America still does this under Leo and I can't blame him because it is what it is.
Leocadio: Good point.
Leo: I think all the nations of the world can learn from us.
Leo: I think all the nations of the world can learn from us.
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