I clicked on an ad on Facebook the other day that was asking if the Gulf Oil disaster was Obama's Katrina. Right away I knew it was an anti Obama lure so I clicked to find out what it was about. It was a subscription drive for a right wing (uber) newsletter called Newsmax. The ploy was a phony poll regarding President comparing him and his actions with our last White House Resident (Bush43). The poll asked if Obama was doing a good job, if the media was going easy on him and if the campaign contributions from
Big Oil had influenced his decisions. The published results were overwhelmingly negative. Surprise surprise. This was of course, from an audience predisposed toward defense of the man famous for "You're doing a helluva job, Brownie". but I soldiered on and reached the Newsletter page where and ad for a subscription to something or other would get me a radio. Not just any radio, The Department of Homeland Security said everybody should have an emergency radio and theirs was multiband with a a flashlight and.. Whoopdedo. I gotta have one Janet Said So. Hold on just a minute, Janet Napolitano was governor here in Arizona and that doesn't sound like her. I sounds like an underling left over from the previous administration, if the statement were current at all. Trying to prey on peoples fears to sell magazines seems questionable to me but then I read the blogs or at least the headlines.
Until I came to a Blog by a Mr. James Walsh who equated every Mexican in America with gangsters. Something to do with brown skin I think, How else can you tell who they are? I reply:
BERT Sez: Dear Editor, Newsmax Magazine. I think you are wrong and wrong headed. At the moment, I especially disagree with Mr. James Walsh and his characterization of the Border situation, illegal immigration, the Arizona 'solution' and the "Threat to National Security". From the statement that the border has been unsecured for at least 24 years (more like 24,000) to the "inescapable conclusion" that the border needs to be secured to the anecdote about the pages of the quoran that were reputedly found among dead border crossers, hyperbole, half truths and hysteria define his May 24, 2010 post.
I have lived in Arizona since 1964. I know lots of folks hereabouts, some here longer than I, that were born in Mexico and brought here by parents as infants but to whom the concept of carrying 'papers' is as foreign to them as it is to me. I traveled and worked in Mexico, on a tourist Visa. Oops that makes me an illegal alien in Mexico. I was working on the wrong Visa. ICE estimates there are 11 million 'illegal' aliens,in the US. Half entered the Country legally and overstayed their visas. Half of those came across the Mexican American border. And not all of those were Mexican but included other Central and South American nationalities Honduran, Guatemalan, Panamanian, El Salvadoran, Wait a minute, aren't the El Salvadorans the greatest threat to American peace of mind since 9/11? To believe Mr Walsh, every person crossing the border northward is on his way here just to join the ruthless, despicable MS13. Wake up people, none of the 9/11 Hijackers came across the Mexican Border. Whoever didn't sneak in from Canada flew in direct from Europe or Africa.
From what I know of Mexico and Mexican Culture, if los brincados (the jumpers) were carrying Koran, more likely than anything else they were carrying it for toilet paper. Seventeen dead bodies found in the desert of unknown causes, reportedly, along with some pages from the Q'ooran. A quoran, mmmm in Arabic? in Pashti? in Spanish? I've never heard of that one. I don't care how you want to spell it, Mohammad's scribblings are no more or less valid than the New Testament, the Old Testament, the bhagadad Vida, the TAO or the Confucian writings or The Little Red Book of Mao's sayings. The writings that various faiths base their beliefs on are translations of translations of miscopyied translations, endlessly. And the topic of another Blog post.
I don't believe for a millisecond that Mexican fence jumpers or riverwaders (los mojados) are converts to anti-American terrorism. Those folks are trying to get some of the American Dream that,, until the end of the Cold War, was a worldwide desire. After the Soviet Bloc broke apart and the former slave states tasted Freedom and Capitalism, the pressure to escape and migrate westward diminished. It didn't stop the Bosnian Mob though, or the Russian Mob or the Jamaican Gangs (remember the bloodbaths in New York) from moving here in search of greater profits. Generally, except for prostitution operations, they preyed on their own ethnic brethern (same modus operandi as the Italians) ruthless tactics to punish a few and let the grapevine blow it out of scale and proportion. It is the way Warlords rule in Somalia. It is the same way Genghis Khan ruled the world. Wholesale slaughter of the subjugated is not cost effective. If you kill them all off, who is going to pay taxes? Population elimination means ruling an empty kingdom: no production, no power. One or two examples of unbelievable horror and the problem solves itself
Fortunately or not, it is Not So with Mexico. Mexico, Land of the Meek, A country of personal cowards. Mexicans in Mexico seldom make eye contact with strangers or officials or Cops. They might be robbed or worse have to pay mordida, literally the 'bite' a bribe or even a payoff demanded from an individual for no other reason than the traffic cop wants a coke. Mexican citizens expect oppression and corruption from officials and law enforcement types. Mexican Citizens don't walk with heads held high, they shuffle with face to the floor. Guatemalans and Hondurans, as short as they are, walk facing front. I watch them all walk past my office window every day.
The Mexicans and the Mexican Americans and the American of Latin descent all look the same to me They speak the same languages I do (Spanish and English) and think with good reason when the see the rich US as a place to make their way up the socio-economic ladder, to better their lot and escape the ponderous poverty and the haves that keep the have-nots in their place. the vast majority do not see the US as a place to go because they want to join a street gang. I ask Mr. Walsh:, Have you ever been to Mexico? Do You speak Spanish? Do you know anything of Mexican Culture or History; Aside from Taco and Burrito and Tortilla that is? How then can you condemn an entire population for sharing the dreams of your forefathers?
Or on a slightly different tack, I know from experience MS 13 is a bunch of punk wannabees. They started a recruitment drive in my neighborhood and set up across the street from my house, giving me the 'look' as I watched from my porch. The next night they returned to 'tag' the street in front of the house. I took a can of spray paint and occluded all of it. When they returned a few days later I strapped on my .45 and stood in the front yard with my arms folded. They left and never returned. Mr. Walsh should grow a pair and not hide behimd J. Edgar's apron strings. Fear of children does not become him.
Do you know Mr. Walsh, that MS 13 started in California's penal system, as a reaction to the treatment they received from not the guards so much as the Mexican Mafia. El Salvadorans are second class citizens in Mexico. I believe that your information is dated, sir. The Mexican Mafia and MS13 were once major forces on the streets of many Western cities. MS13 and the MM are now no more vicious than any other ethnic based organized crime syndicate. In my eye they are sissies compared to Al-Quaida with their public beheadings and the Taliban playing polo with victims' heads and stoning women for imagined sins.
Are you old enough, sir, to recall the headlines in or from New York City, screaming news of the Mob violence with the pictures of dead bodies on the streets and falling out of cars? How about the depredations the Whites wrought upon the Blacks in the South in the Twenties, Thirties, Forties, Fifties and Sixties or what those same folk did to the Whites that came south to march in support of civil rights? Church bombings killing children, Young men murdered and buried in a levee, lynchings. Do you remember any of this Mr. Walsh? Or are you proud of the way America has treated Her minority citizens, visitors and immigrants.
READ ON FOR PART TWO
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