July 18, 2007
“La Reconquista”, Indeed
The very idea of Mexico reclaiming the U.S. southwest is one of the dumbest I’ve ever heard –
La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to “reconquer” America’s Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, “Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!” and waved Mexico’s flag.
– nothing to do with the possibility or lack thereof of its eventual success, but what could be expected if these ambitions ever did come to fruition.
To figure that out, we need look no farther than Mexico’s history and the track records of their political leadership from the beginning until now.
If these idiots had their way, our southwest would only join the rest of Mexico, inheriting, eventually, its profound corruption and widespread poverty.
Then the usual suspects would resume sneaking in across the altered borders, and the same old immigration debate would once again be recycled, seeking any solution that doesn’t involve enforcing the law.
On another note…
In the event that any readers decide they would like their own geographic change of pace, Brenda has emailed me a novel way to go.
http://hardastarboard.mu.nu/wp-trackback.php?p=710
July 18th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Why should they annex it ? After all the way they have moved in illegally and basically taken over now offers them full priveldges as US citizens without payting the cost of being a citizen nor the headaches of trying to run their own country.
All free of charge courtesy of little or no enforcement of US laws and politicians who pander to Mexico and illegals. So why annex.
On another note, an answer to the hole problem would be to annex Mexico as the 51st state. Then eliminate the corrupt government and institute a state government elected by the people . The resources like oil would be accessable and would actually cut down on foreign dependency since we already recieve 18% of our foreign oil, ( our largest oil importer by the way), from Mexico.
Turn the tide on the Mexicans, and pick up some benefits to boot. I know it’s not that simple and won’t happen but it’s a thought!
July 18th, 2007 at 9:05 am
If the Mexicans succeeded with their “Reconquista” and managed to remove all the Anglos (and Asians and African-Americans), what we would have would be a stinking desert inhabited by a few Indians living in mud huts.
Funny how there are people who think this would be an improvement.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Ken –
Annexing Mexico as our 51st state would be the best thing that ever happened to them, though it wouldn’t bide well for the average American, as M-19 gangs and cheap laborers, before Mexico could be reorganized, could simply jump on the Greyhound and travel unhindered to any U.S. destination as citizens.
As far as our politicians who pander to illegal immigrants and their advocates are concerned, the only logical reaction could be, “What the hell are they thinking!?”
Uncle Pavian –
…what we would have would be a stinking desert inhabited by a few Indians living in mud huts.
Exactly, and no matter how much territory we ceded to them, this would remain a constant.
Those folks simply don’t have a clue as to how to govern a country, and the governments they have never care even an iota about anything but acquiring and growing personal fortunes at the expense of the people. The squalor, poverty and disease of the common citizen mean nothing to them.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
For some reason I am thinking of Milton’s Paradise Lost and “Tis better to rule in Hell then to serve in Heaven.” They would rather be hungry under the Mexican flag then affluent under the American.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Shoprat –
I attribute fatalism, if that’s the right term, to the entire mix (and it’s not only Mexico, here, it’s a large part of Latin America)–
Revolutions are scattered all over the histories of these countries, yet as soon as one leader takes over from the one he’s deposed, it’s business as usual — only the wealthiest families are counted and the middle class goes on… while the millions of dirt poor remain dirt poor. There are neither decent (if any) jobs to be had, let alone opportunities.
I have been in barrios in a few different countries south of our border (squalor in almost nightmarish degrees), and what you see in those neighborhoods makes the worst of our worst slums appear almost pleasant by comparison, and their governments simply couldn’t care less — their poor are nothing to them.
Over the course of time, as generations have come and gone, these poverty stricken people have come to accept, for the most part, that what they have (or don’t have) is their indelible inheritance.
So while better educated people from countries to the east and west of our borders come here looking for opportunities to prosper, the vast majority of the folks from Mexico, South and Central America seem to come here just to “make a living”.
The rock bottom wages they work for are a step (hell, an entire staircase!) up for them, also given the fact that the majority have no problem living on a communal basis in grossly overcrowded, eyesore houses or pack a handful of people into a cheap, single occupancy apartment or transient hotel room and therefore enjoy “housing” for next to nothing.
So while they bring a part of their barrio environment with them, it doesn’t bother them in the slightest that it is negatively disrupting the U.S. communities they invade.
All they care about is making their coolie-wages, and screw everybody else, especially Americans. There may be some kind of case for them, based upon a plea of ignorance.
Moving on to the Reconquista “activists” and realizing that a significant percentage of our recent latino immigrant population is illiterate not only in English but in Spanish as well, it is quite clear that this dubious movement is actually being managed by people who have grown up and been educated in the U.S.
These are men and women who have no excuse (unless a large enough number of them are Chicano high school kids who have never been to Mexico and haven’t a clue, since our PC education system wouldn’t dare offend them by telling them the truth about their Mexican “heritage”), knowing what happens to any political subdivision unlucky enough to fall under the auspices of the Mexican government, past or present.
Although most of them (with the exception of whatever support they receive from Mexico City) are probably U.S. citizens, what they represent is tantamount to promoting an invasion of the U.S., executed not militarily but by saturation of our population, both legally and illegally.
They would rather be hungry under the Mexican flag then affluent under the American.
Bingo!– although the promoters of the concept, who are obviously educated and have promising futures in either society, probably as lawyers, politicians, journalists and career academics, while the usual suspects and duped supporters of the Reconquista, the poor, would never get the opportunity be anything but poor, so they might as well be surrounded by Mexico, which, unlike the U.S., they understand.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:50 am
“La Reconquista!” Ha! Over my dead body!
Not the most intelligent comment I’ve ever made, but it’s the way I feel.
July 19th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Gayle –
And you’re en Tejas, right on the front lines. Might I suggest a few miniguns and some RPGs, just a bit of readiness so it is over the Reconquistadors’ dead bodies, instead.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Well, thanks for bringing me up to date. Was still thinking of ‘reconquista’ in terms of Moors, El Cid and Ferdinand & Isabella. The precedent is alarming: if this sort of thing takes off, the French (spit!) might rethink the Louisana Purchase…
July 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
BB –
Great! Just what we need, an invasion force waving white flags at us while throwing cheese grenades.
I recently ran into this history based article on the Reconquista.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I dunno about annexing Mexico. We had the opportunity to do exactly that when the U.S. Army landed at Vera Cruz in 1848, marched through mountainous terrain to their capital, occupied it, then left. We were able to do this because the Mexican elites were more terrified of the prospect of their own people having weapons to fight a guerrilla war against the invaders (that’d be us) than they were of the invaders themselves. The question of annexation in this country turned on what on earth would we do with all those Mexicans? If they became an American state, they would have to stop exporting their social problems.
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
Uncle Pavian –
LOL!
…more terrified of the prospect of their own people having weapons to fight a guerrilla war against the invaders (that’d be us) than they were of the invaders themselves.
If there was a Mexican equivalent of the Second Amendment, their country would be able to do a reality TV series called Revolutionary of the Week.