Thread: MARK IN MEXICO - an interesting read.

There's a weblog I read occasionally for a new perspective on things. I don't always agree with him but I always find something that I had never thought of. He's an American teaching English in Mexico and he knows more about Mexico than I ever will. I have never been there, I have no desire to, and I know very little about Mexican history.

In a very long post Mark details the corruption of the Mexican government, he also suggests a radical plan on how the US could fix it.

Here are a few quotes from Mark.

Why is Mexico such a mess? It's the culture. Don't scoff. I live here, remember? Mexicans do not understand the very basics of Rule of Law. They don't understand them and I don't believe they ever will. The single missing ingredient here is accountability. You can steal just about whatever you want to steal here, and if you share the spoils with the political powers that be as well as local, state and federal law enforcement, you can get along quite nicely.

Do Mexicans realize and understand the situation in which they find themselves? No. Can or will they fix it? No. So what keeps the country from exploding into anarchy and/or another "revolution" (read Civil War)? Two things; First, no weapons. Only the police, the army and the criminals have enough weaponry to fight anything other than a short-lived, doomed to failure insurrection. Firearms of any caliber greater than .22 or 20 gauge shot are illegal in the hands of private owners in Mexico. The Zapatista Liberation Army (ELZN), operating in Chiapas under the command of the masked comedian Commandante Marcos, is really a joke only allowed to survive through the good auspices of the federal government.

Second, there is a gigantic safety valve which is protected, encouraged, supported and maintained by the Mexican government. Guess where that is? Yep, it is the northern border through which some 10,000 Mexicans flee per day along with some 600 to 1500 others from likewise failed banana and narco republics further to the south.

I recoil from his "MEXICAN REFUGEE ASSIMILATION PLAN," to conquer and save Mexico but it's an interesting read.


http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/2005/0 ... exico.html

Wow--great link. Thanks, Watchpup! I live at ground zero here in Texas and have been to Mexico many times and I can vouch for every word of this. I work with a Mexican whom I'll call Pedro and his whole worldview is fascinating to hear. I could sit here and post ten thousand Pedro stories--but for the sake of time I'll just tell a couple. The way he looks at law is so alien--he's good-natured as hell, works really hard, but he sees the law as being something you bypass in a good-natured kind of way. He told me once that he and his dad had a relative who died, and when they saw the will, they didn't like it so they just went into Photoshop and changed it. Pedro just rambled off this story as if it were the most normal thing in the world to do. Another time Pedro and were discussing what pets we would like to have, and Pedro informed me he was getting a monkey. I told him monkeys were illegal here and you couldn't get one even if you wanted one--and he laughed. He said he knew a lady who sells them and the only reason he was "allowed" to see them was because he was a friend of the family. It suddenly dawned on me that this woman was an animal smuggler--and Pedro thought nothing of it. It's normal in Mexico!

Pedro, when he still lived in Mexico a few years ago, was walking down the street with his mother when someone started shooting up the street with a machine gun! They had to fall to the ground to avoid being killed.That's when they decided to come here. Over the past few months Pedro has told me about getting in gang fights with knives, chains, ect and at one point he had to have a police escort just to get from the gang infested part of town he was in to back home.

The wierd thing is, Pedro kind of shakes his head about "Mexicans" as if he sees them as seperate from Americanized Mexicans--and he often points out the difference in "mentalities."

BobC, I can relate to what you're saying because some illegals I knew were sort of the same. There were times that I liked them and saw the positive side of them just in the people sense. But I would watch them prancng around the school like they owned the place, and I would think, this is so wierd. If I were in a country illegally, I don't think I'd be as confident about what I was doing everyday. I can't explain exactly what I'm TRYING to say, but maybe you know what I mean.

Anyway, after I would think about the good things about them, a sudden rush of REALITY would come over me, and I'd realize how bad this was for our country, how dangerous, how unjust towards American citizens, the impact on our country's future...and I would come to my senses and realize how dangerous and irresponsible it is to put my head in the sand.

In the final analysis, it's WRONG. It's BAD for the future of our country, and it's a pathetic scenario as far as the impact on the children of legal American citizens. Absoutely pathetic, and to me George Bush is robbing our children of the very future soldiers have died for in order for them to have. On top of everything it is a form of theft and robbery. The biggest victims of this crime are the children and young adults who are legal American citizens. This is why adults who are legal American citizens, and legal immigrants to America are up in arms over what is going on.

I would watch them prancng around the school like they owned the place, and I would think, this is so wierd. If I were in a country illegally, I don't think I'd be as confident about what I was doing everyday. I can't explain exactly what I'm TRYING to say, but maybe you know what I mean.

I know exactly what you mean! They seem to have no shame at all.

A friend of mine is a real clown. And his practical joke, if you will, proves your above statement.

When he's in Wal-Mart and it seems the shopping "family" is illegal (they're muttering in Spanish), he likes to walk by and say rather loudly "LA MIGRA!"

Not once has this provoked any reaction and he can't understand it. He's promised to tell me when it does.

They go on as if nothing happened. You'd at least think they might look up or appear startled but nope!

I'd be constantly looking over my shoulder if I were somewhere illegally. Of course, they have nothing to fear because our IMMIGRATION LAWS AREN'T ENFORCED!

That's unreal, and yes, I've seen that too. Oblivion. Oblivious to the laws of our country which exist to protect us.

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

That's unreal, and yes, I've seen that too. Oblivion. Oblivious to the laws of our country which exist to protect us.

... and aided and abetted by our traitorious government that refuses to enforce existing laws