I see a screenplay blooming. Dealing with a favorite theme: time travel. You now think you’ll steal this zeitgeisty gem from me, but you cannot because in the future, I have already finished it, and am mailing it to myself yesterday in a walnut sealed in Presidential earwax and pressurized to resist even election-year terror alerts.

OUR TALE BEGINS with a man who desperately seeks an answer to his deepest, heart-sprung questions, headed up by the quintessential and Googlicious How Do I Get Rid of the Mexicans? You see, our protagonist feels his very nation is under dire attack by the filthy mongrel hordes from the South, those who bark that most Arrogant and Sickening of Languages—Español, those who dare to settle into his beautiful nation, hellbent on storming the kitchens and fields and meatpacking plants and canning plants and steel factories or to otherwise seek to implement that most foul of Mexican behaviors: the trading of work for pay.  Read more 

The comments on this post are what make it most interesting, but in general it’s the kind of post that many of us have written, or read, or understood, many times in the past. It’s late and I need to go to bed, but I just have to share this one thought, one that always comes to mind when silly people who don’t understand how the drug trade works are talking.

Simply: who owns planes, big rig trucks, and large boats, in this country? Whatever your answer, if you’re reality-based, it’s not “cholos from the barrio” and “thugs in the hood.” No matter what propaganda you may believe about the overarching all-powerful nature of “gangs,” the simple truth is that without some kind of government help, there would be no illicit/illegal drug trade in this country. The Barrio isn’t filled with people who own planes that fly back and forth from Columbia; the military is. And the military leadership is mostly white. Same when it comes to fleets of boats and trucks- yes, there are black people who work on/with them, but not so many who own fleets of them, certainly not when compared to white people. White people in the Republican party, to be exact.

If you don’t like illicit drug use, or people who are addicted when you think they shouldn’t be, please don’t blame us (gay, brown, or poor people). We may be ’street level’ dealers and peddlers, but without rich, MIC/prison industrial complex types, there would be no illicit drugs in the United States. This is a matter of common sense, and I’d like to see more people accept this as they speak of these issues.

Seven years more and it’s all gone. IIRC, Mexico really relies on the money it makes from oil exportation, and their already fragile hold on a stable society will be greatly upset when this money goes away. Obviously, as their close neighbors, we can expect to feel the effects as well.
I’m very ignorant of Mexican politics, but this seems to me to be a rather big deal. I wonder if their leaders will prepare for it better than ours have.

If it wasn’t so filty, despicable, illegal and subversive of everything the Constitution is supposed to defend us against, you’d have to applaud the slick way the US and Mexican governments are collaborating in spying on each other’s citizens. Pesky civil libertarians demanding you at least get a bought-and-appointed judge to okay warrants to surveil people? Ship your spying equipment to MEXICO, that Switzerland of the Americas, reknown for good government, honesty, and devotion to civil liberties. They say they want this gear, and those powers, to combat “drug gangs.” Oooh, drugs. Bad. There’s no right or liberty we can’t throw away fast enough if the cause is the druuuug. Our beloved tyrants government wants these powers and this equipment to combat “terrorists.” See previous rule re: drugs. And of course once they have not just the ability but the legal right to spy on your every waking (and sleeping) action and communication, they’ll only use these powers for Good. Right? History proves this.

As an added bonus the whole program has to be done with (1) secrecy in both countries (hmm, don’t governments usually like to boast and brag loudly about Good Things they are doing for their people?) (2) via a Mexican company that’s a state-controlled monopoly (Telmex) and a US one that nobody’s ever heard of  Read more 

There has been a deafening silence over the situation in Oaxaca. The real question is how close are we? Maybe that fence ain’t such a bad idea.  Read more