Our Latin Conundrum

Washington Post ^ | January 2, 2006 | Jackson Diehl

[spectre]

I enjoyed Red Dawn. But they won't have to parachute in...they're already here.

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[caisson71]

If Mexico goes communist? They would just be another Kalifornia.

[Casloy]

AM I the only one thats getting sick and tired of dealing with the aftermath of these countries that cannot govern themselves?

Nope, we should shut down our borders and let them get a taste of socialism. I think they need a heavy dose of misery before they can figure out that a small government and a free market are their only hope.

[dmz]

When whathisname was shot down and joined the kids in the mountains, he told of the nukes used on the population centers, IIRC.

[moehoward]

"If Mexico goes communist our border problem is solved. Communist countries bordering free countries build walls to keep their subjects in.

Of course, Mexico wouldn't do it because they need the billions that illegal aliens send back to their home country.

I've always maintained the US was worried Mexico would go Communist. It's one of the primary reasons we have never closed off the border. As long as the would revolutionaries were allowed to leave they would not stay to fight.

One thing is for sure. If Mexico was a Communist state. There would be no debate about a Israel type wall.

[Billthedrill]

What really happens? Mexico gets poorer. They've already nationalized the petroleum industry, so what's left to steal?

[Flavius]

touche

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

The Chinese will be the masterminds behind the 2009 version of Red Dawn. With troops from Mexico and the huge marxist bloc of Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia and the other smaller countries. Bolivia just signed up. More will follow, like an avalanche.

[Casloy]

Then we'll have no excuse to no built the tallest wall on the planet along that border and to put armed guards all along it.

That may be our only hope. If we think there are immigration problems now, wait till socialism brings on even more massive unemployment. It's going to a nightmare.

[hedgetrimmer]

If Mexico goes communist our border problem is solved. Communist countries bordering free countries build walls to keep their subjects in.

This won't happen. Since Mexico gains more from remittances their citizens send back from the US than they make from their tourism industry, they are not going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. They will however probably invite the US Banking industry representatives, and other businesses working in Mexico, to join the communist party there, in order to do business with them.

Communists are embracing the "free traders" these days, doncha know. "Free traders" are enabling them to gather power, and it is enriching the party leaders with wealth they never imagined.

How soon will America fall after that? When our business leaders join the communist parties of various countries, as they have been invited to do in China, how long can America stand as a free nation?

[Wombat101]

It does, but the concept of Confucianism predates Marx by quite a few centuries, and is, in effect, the same thing. Even before Confucious, the concept that the individual was merely the plaything of the Emperor was a common belief.

Confucious: We all have a place in society; remember yours in the name of peace and harmony.

Emperor/Communism: We all have a place in society; remember yours or we'll kill you.

Collectivim is nothing new to China, we Westerners just pretend we invented it.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

2010

[xcamel]

We better take the baja away from then then.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

How would we know?

It would look the same.

[Fee]

It almost happened. If Reagan did not put up a fight in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the geographically challenged Democrats would have let the Soviets gain a foothold in Latin America and a proxy army to carry out their strategic aims.

[Lazamataz]

What Happens If Mexico Goes Communist?

The Democrat Party finds a home.

[hedgetrimmer]

Communism feeds on poor people

It also feeds on "free trade".

President Jiang Zemin said that if the Communist Party were to survive, it would have to recruit capitalists.

The 'capitalists' are the "free traders" selling out our economy to communist nations around the globe.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"They will still need to sell their oil at world market prices."

Since when has a Communist government understood economics?

The Communist nations largest exports are Kalashnikovs and Communism.

If we get a Marxist government in Mexico we will be in a hot war within a year.

We may be in a hot war with them soon anyway.

Michael Frazier

[moehoward]

"Over the decades the hammer and cicle was much in evidence during the ruling "Revolutionary Party's" large rallies."

Growing up in LA in the 70's, we used to head south of the border all the time. The further south we went, the more hammer and cicle we saw. Painted on EVERYTHING that did not move.

[attiladhun2]

Ever since the Enrique Camarena affair, I have had no faith in Mexico whatever. It has a government both corrupt and anti-American. It was nice that for a while Mexico moved toward the West, but the heart of that nation is in the curious mixture of facism and socialism that was PRI, the party that governed Mexico for more than 60 years. PRI is a party that is anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, and anti-American. When PRI was running the country, the Mexican army trained a lot of its military officers in the former USSR. The government under PRI always maintained close ties with Communist countries. Whole generations of Mexicans were indoctrinated in socialist ideology and hatred for the United States.