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To: rabscuttle385; org.whodat; All

” Same things happens daily on Interstate 81, in Washington county Virgina.

Also happens on U.S. 29 in Madison and Greene Counties in Virginia. “

It’s happening all over this nation.

Following is the perspective of a Mexican citizen/journalist about his own ‘culture’, translated for us by NAFBPO.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2374377/posts?page=4#4

Milenio (Mexico City) 10/29/09

“The importance of obedience”

Full transl. of op/col. by Roman Revueltas, whose previous column appeared in the M3 Report of 10/28/09.

People throw out garbage. That means, we have to change the people. Imagine a country of very civilized people: people who don’t park their car in the middle of a cross street; people who take their turn in line; people who respect; people who do as they say; people who obey. Well, that country, of people who know how to behave, would be much more livable than another, for instance, where people do whatever they feel like doing without any consideration toward their fellow man.

Last week I was walking down the street and a fellow who was walking ahead of me stopped, picked up a plastic bottle dumped on the sidewalk and went into a store to put it in a waste bin. I waited for him to come out and congratulated him. I later thought that this is the way that all of us Mexicans ought to be. I ask you, then, to imagine a territory populated by orderly and reliable persons: almost paradise.

People usually follow rules for fear of punishment. This explains the colossal growth of criminality in Mexico due to the scandalous lack of punishment for the criminals: if you murder and nothing happens to you, well then, you kill again and you go on kidnapping. But, it’s not a matter of bringing up the death penalty scarecrow; it’s an issue of applying the laws, and nothing more. The great question is why is it that millions of citizens exist here who want to commit all sorts of infractions: throwing out garbage is a small transgression; ignoring a traffic light is a minor crime; assassinating a kidnapped child is a monstrosity perpetrated by a beast . Nevertheless, the common denominator of disobedience is present in all cases.

The more highly evolved individuals do not abstain from committing a crime for fear of jail but due to a clear conscience of what is right and what is wrong. Their personality has been structured based on moral values. That is precisely where our failure is as a society: Mexico is a jungle dominated by disobedient, quick tempered and irresponsible individuals, Calderon cannot change this. We change it ourselves.

http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8664651


8 posted on 10/31/2009 8:30:03 AM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: AuntB

Agreed, did you check out the link I gave you??


9 posted on 10/31/2009 8:31:46 AM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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