Posted on 08/04/2006 4:39:09 PM PDT by sergey1973
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) -- Mexico ramped up security at its international airport, power plants and oil refineries on Friday, as leftists challenging a tight presidential election result threatened to intensify crippling protests.
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Soros and Hillary are still taking notes.
Ola from Mexico. This is a GOOD roller coaster ride. Pornography sales are down on Eje Central, Prostitition trade has moved, the kyped and hijacked trucks, 18 wheelers with all their products being resold in flea markets, now has no where to dump their hot goods. Pirated CD's and software copies of illicit is down, shucks, I think they are doing the City a Favor. Most pick pockets are busy keeping water bailed out of their tents! I think this is great! We should SUPPORT this and hope they stay. GIVE them what they want, and guaranteed sure they'll be shutting down highways and banks. VOICE of the PEOPLE< forget law.
Very Apocalyptically funny -:))))
I get the feeling Obragore has played his hand a little
early, the people might have been sympathetic to his cause
but not if the grief lasts too long.
He should have waited to call out his minions, now his supporters are just an "obstruction" that makes life harder
on every one...
"While the leftist has rallied hundreds of thousands of people to back his cause, many in the capital are sick of the chaos."
Thanks, Glad to see his name spelled correctly.
Interesting how Liberals everywhere love to cripple their own countries.
This is an intentional and time-honored leftist strategy. The theory is that people will get miserable enough, start blaming the government, and overthrow it - and follow the left, even though the left is of course the cause of the problems (strikes, shutdowns, kidnappings, etc.). Just to show how bizarre human nature is, the strategy actually works.
This was how the left took over Bolivia. It took them a couple of years of creating social instability and misery. This included the above, as well as killing neighborhood leaders in poor areas who were attempting to run literacy or self-help projects and in general assuring that no one in the country could do anything, even travel safely on the city buses, until the left got its way.
Then it will come here through the poor, illegal alien masses that we refuse to deport.
No, this has nothing to do with immigration, legal or otherwise, and perhaps it would be best not to try to insert that issue here.
Leftists in this country haven't really been capable of trying the technique - except for black radicals destroying their own neighborhoods - because we have a long-settled system. Many Latin American countries and "developing nations" in general are in the process of moving from dysfunctional, state-controlled economies to more flexible ones, and the left sees this time of change as a perfect moment to get in and convince people that they are without hope - until the left rides in and presents itself as the savior.
I believe the technique was actually developed by Gramsci, a European. It does require a somewhat more fragile society than most European ones, however, so that's the reason it has only worked in developing economies so far. The question is whether Mexico's society is fragile enough for it to work. Personally, I don't think so, and I think the Mexicans who are getting annoyed at this are getting annoyed with Obragore and his party, and not with the actual government of Mexico or even with its system (which has liberalized considerably in recent years, although results are, of course, slow).
I sure hope you're right. If not, it will be chaos.
Hola. I was in Mexico for eight weeks this summer. Frankly th epeople are fortunate that the PRD guy didn't win.
I agree 100% I think the Daily Kos and the DUmmies are already planning the protests after the 08 prez elections if they lose, I wouldn't doubt some American Lib strategists are involved with Obrador
Center for American Progress > Soros > Hillary
Thanks for that information. Sounds right ... and very sad.
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