[Regulator]

I made no statement you hyped up buffoon

That's cute, I luv it when people get upset.

I know it was a question. A statement can be a question. My comment is that the question itself is utterly naive.

But you're not alone. I post to anyone that makes that kind of statement, question, whatever with the same comment: people in the U.S. have no idea - no idea - how stunningly vicious, corrupt, murderous, atavistic and alien the culture and "government" is in Mexico.

It is beyond foreign. And pictures on tv or in the media - what few there are - cannot begin to communicate that.

Millions of people flee that country every year, thousands every day. They will kick, scream, fight, run, do anything to keep from having to go back.

What kind of place would make human beings act that way?

The answer is Mexico...and much of Latin America.

We cannot incorporate them in some altruistic mission to try and change them. The only real way to change Mexico would be to commit genocide against the ruling population and then lobotomize the remaining people in such a way that they never remember how it was.

It's a zoo that should be walled in and then maybe you can sell tickets to the "how not to do a nation" show.

It is also a collapsing nation. The Mexodus and the surging narco-violence is the end game of a system so full of contradictions and failures that it is only the existence of the U.S. and our propping up of their grotesque nightmare of a country that the whole thing didn't go Zimbabwe 4 decades ago.

The greatest crime against humanity in history would be for the U.S. to incorporate this sinister disaster area.

That people in our government - who most certainly know the truth - who are acquiescing to such an outcome are some of the greatest traitors of all time that they would let that happen.

[GulfBreeze]

Alrighty then. I accept your apology.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“The greatest crime against humanity in history would be for the U.S. to incorporate this sinister disaster area.

That people in our government - who most certainly know the truth - who are acquiescing to such an outcome are some of the greatest traitors of all time that they would let that happen.”

Amen to that!!

[GulfBreeze]

BTW,

How do you come to have a better knowledge of al the intimate details of Mexico’s corruption than me?

Would you mind giving me a breakdown of the differences in our experiences and or research?

[CherylBower]

I agree they are traitors. I also know that Mexico would never become a state or legal protectorate (we do that and pay them for the privilege). I don’t think the Mexican people have any idea how truly corrupt their government is, either. I don’t think the situation is completely hopeless (although close). Pie-in-the-sky visions at least give us a starting point on where we would like to be. You can’t have progress unless you know where you are going. I don’t believe this will be solved, ever. Sometimes I think we need a John Galt, a Franco d’Anconia, we need to scrap it all and start over. Stop letting it (all the Mexican, NAU, issues, name it) bother us and help it along to its ultimate destruction, then rebuild.

[raybbr]

That people in our government - who most certainly know the truth - who are acquiescing to such an outcome are some of the greatest traitors of all time that they would let that happen.

Well, Georgie boy, says mexico is a democracy to be celebrated.

Along with a "new America".

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster