A Gringo in Rural Mexico: The times call for a brief, new Conservative Credo

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

The times call for a brief, new Conservative Credo

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CONSERVATIVE CREED

for Times of Peril

This is written in the year of our Lord, 2013 in response to the ever deteriorating social, political, and economic situation presently besetting the United States of America. It is one person's call into the darkness. It is not meant to be a marching order, or a call to arms, or anything beyond a declaration of a very few basic points that the responsible can use as an encouragement to their motivation in Defense of Liberty. It is useless, during these days, to try to convince those parasitic elements of our culture that they should turn from their ways and enjoy the risks of failure and the exhilaration of the simple successes that come from moving and acting without undue constraint imposed by an increasingly rapacious, arbitrary, and totalitarian central government. We must simply re-double our own efforts and by so doing, perhaps inspire others who have given up hope of National Redemption, so that they might join the Good Fight and re-establish what was once the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

THIS WE BELIEVE:

I. This credo is meant for all free-standing men and women. There is no differentiation based on anything that has to do with age or race or ethnicity. All are called, if willing, if they are old enough to think critically. There is no age requirement, and there are no dues. Those who wish can join this agreement freely and without cost.

II. There is no religious denomination, nor is there any religion, endorsed one over the other in this Creed. The words that follow, however, are guided by the Samaritan Rule, the Golden Rule, and the Beatitudes as delivered on a hillside during an earlier, equally troubled time. Any believer in any notion of divinity, cosmic guiding intelligence, or angelic combat with satanic forces will feel comfortable using these precepts, and the agnostic is welcomed among us.

III. We believe in the higher condition that is represented by self-sufficiency, that is not supported by the intervention of public assistance of any kind. We believe that all charity should and must be privately administered, so as to avoid the establishment of immense, self-perpetuating bureaucracies that are dependent upon the dependent for their survival. Therefore, we shall endorse, support, and volunteer with the Salvation Army and like groups and work towards the gradual and steady elimination of public assistance until it no longer contaminates the culture.

IV. We believe that if investment is needed in the development or maintenance of industry that it should be done by the private sector. We eschew the notion that the central government can or should attempt to stimulate what they feel to be the proper path of industrial and/or commercial activity. It is more sensible to leave businesses and corporations untaxed and thereby more capable to invest in innovation and/or refinement of existing procedures so as to produce more wealth, wages, progress, stability, and lucrative worthwhile employment. We withhold our support from corporations that volunteer to join the dole meted out by the central government.

V. We believe, in keeping with the quest for self-reliance, that all who choose to defend themselves against violent criminal intent instead of relying on public agencies to protect them have the right and even obligation to be their own first line of defense. Therefore the possession and use of a firearm(s) for self-defense, for general protection of self and/or other possible victims of wantonness and depravity, for hunting, for hanging on the wall for decoration, or any morally correct or inoffensive purpose is a Sacred Right, not to be abridged by any government, especially the central government.

VI. We hold that it is self-evident that socialist, racist elements conspired during the first half of the 20th Century (and before), to carve out the American Negro Race and to do all possible to direct them into a New Slavery of government dependence. We can point to the peculiar union and association with agents of the Communist Party USA, Margaret Sanger's progressives, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Ku Klux Klan during the period of 1915 through the early 1930s ( http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/KKK-and-WCTU-Partners-in-Prohibition.html ).

We further hold that anyone with a basic understanding of sociology knows that multigenerational birthing of babies who have no known father, present on a continuing basis, will produce soulless monsters. It is also true that the taking of a religious people, whose anthems are an integral part of the American Fabric, and prohibiting those anthems and any other Christian or Judaic hymns, psalms, and anthems from the public or scholastic theatre of human endeavour, has produced cultural disaster. The removal of all spiritual guidance from the public school system is to be fought and rolled back until once again young people will know that there is something larger to worship and contemplate than tennis shoes and gadgetry.
We shall continue to endorse the ongoing movement to eliminate public schools, through the establishment of private and/or traditionalist faith-based schools. Therefore we pledge to take active measures during the remaining days of our lives, to limit without abortion, the number of unfathered babies, and to direct, to the extent possible, all men and women to the stability imposed by self-sufficiency, marriage, and the presence of a positive masculine player within the family stead.

VII. We observe the obvious when we see that no nation can long endure while its central government is spending three dollars for every two taken in through taxation by armed force. We therefore believe that further central government spending should be curtailed to such a point that no more than eighty percent (80%) be applied to present operational outlays of that central government, and the the remaining twenty percent (20%) be used to liquidate the debts owed to holders of instruments of the national debt of the United Sates of America. We should commit to establishing, as priority spending, the renamed War Department and its military outlays and those various programs to support veterans of military service. All other expenditures should be reduced by twelve percent (12%). There must be no deficit spending.

VIII. We are commited to the proposition that we should not raise our collective hand against individuals involved with homosexuality. We do, however, also commit to the defense and furthering of the family unit as the foundation for American social structure. We stand opposed to the notion that people who are involved in homosexual behaviour somehow have a special or different path in terms of civil rights. There is no manner by which homosexuals can marry, in the truest sense of the word, although there are lawyers who can draw up contractual agreements concerning special relationships between adult, contractually empowered, citizens.

We hold it as self evident that the depraved torture of a cat is the same as the depraved torture of a dog. It is obvious under English Common Law that the unjustifiable killing or abuse of a normal person is a crime as might be prescribed by such law. The unjustifiable killing or abuse of a homosexual is the same crime, there is no difference, and therefore there is no justification for establishing such a crime as a "hate crime" or any special category of crime. Therefore we shall work to disestablish laws that have been passed to placate interest groups and that tend to elevate their grievances to a level that exceeds the intent of The Common Law.

IX. We vigourously reject the notion that we must participate in broad nationwide plans for correct organisation and development. Project 21, the Kyoto Treaty, the United Nations Agreement on Firearms, and similar initiatives are all violations of the national integrity and sovereignty of the United States of America. Americans must be aware that Treaties, properly executed and approved by a two-thirds (2/3rds) vote in the Senate of the Congrefs of the United States of America take precendence over and supercede any Constitutional argument or position which contradicts the purpose or intent of said treaty. There fore it is critically important to oppose and defeat such initiatives and treaties.
In keeping with this commitment to defend the unique individual nature of America among the other nations of this particular planetary Creation by Providence, we shall also resist until final victory any notion that would permit foreign judicial precedent or finding to be indirectly or directly cited as a justification for a decision made by any court that is organised under the authourity of the central government of the United States of America. We further urge that the several Sovereign States also deign and require the same conditions apply to the decisions of their local and State courts, civil and criminal.

X. We finally commit to the disassembly of the bureaucratic organisation of the central government's bureaucracy. We will study and find an end to such intrusion that might include, but certainly not be limited to the following entities that we sincerely believe are anti-Constitutional and therefore in continual violation of our Rights, our execution of our Sacred Responsibilities, and our Fundamental Liberties.

Social Security (to be privatised), Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability, Medicare (to be privatised), Federal Emergency Management Agency, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives division of the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, much of the Department of State, the Deparment of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the Department of Labour, Department of Veterans' Affairs, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, much of the Department of the Interior, much of the Department of Agriculture, along with numerous commission, agencies, and offices without Constitutional Portfolio. (All Veterans to be assigned to continuing interest sections of their respective Battle Group...United States Army, United States Air Force, United States Navy and Marines, United States Coast Guard. People take care of their own better.)

This is a very basic, pacific, Manifesto of Normalcy. It is a path to fiscal sanity. It shows a new road to fraternity and unity among Americans, and it eliminates the satanic seduction of socialism and collectivism. For the next week, El Gringo Viejo will go over this "credo" for various fluffings and abbreviation where possible. Anyone is free to print it, as all OROGs are part owners in fact of this particular Voice in the Wilderness that actually is heard by a surprising number of folks. I retire for a moment from the field of battle to strip away my bloodied armour and to rest my mount.

El Gringo Viejo

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Click to visit our little Adobe Hideaway…

This is our rustic, but very comfortable place, out in the rural area to the northwest of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas…the State's Capital. From a bustling city of 400,000, we placed our domicile a bit more than 20 miles into the scenes of mountains, citrus groves, spring-fed creeks and rivers with crystal clear waters, and an abundance of bird species that make veteran birders shake their heads in wonder.

We are all but adjacent to the venerable Hacienda de Santa Engracia (about 500 yards away), which dates to the 1720s and has ancient structures still in use, very elegant, and mystical in many ways. It has operated as a guest hotel since the 1970s.

Our little place rests on three and a fraction acres, fronting on the Rio Corona, which is lined with over-1,000 year old cypress trees. The nearby Sierra del Cautivo…a major segment of the overall Sierra Madre Oriental that dominate most of eastern Mexico, lies to the west by about three miles. guards the many springs that maintain the almost perpetual flow from those heights (up to 12,000 fasl) while our place is situated right at 1,000 feet above sea level.

Give us a call, come by and visit…it is truly a different venture in the most positive sense. We can be reached by our email - privatouring@gmail.com - which is our preferred method of communicating.

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What is an OROG?

Once a person lands on our page, that individual becomes a member of the Order of Readers of the Old Gringo, (OROG). There are no dues or assessments to pay, no meetings, no requirements. We are not associated with the KKK, the WCTU, the French Masons, or the Global Warming Glacier

Protection Committee.

We do have a distant connection with the Knights of the Golden Circle and hold the maps to the internment sites of 34 tonnes of Confederate Gold, and 1,000 tonnes of Mexican Imperial Silver (bar and coinage) derived from the collapse of the Reign of Maximillian von Hapsburg, Emperor of Mexico (1863 - 1867). I think we can remember where we put it.

All kidding aside, we are acerbic, but we do not bite. We do believe in our antiquated philosophy, but we try to not impose our quirks and beliefs so far as to be disrespectful.

El Gringo Viejo

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Wise Words

Communism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, fetch and carry, at the whistle of the Great Man in the White House, no matter who he is.

I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done. But, if such was not to be, then you may all go to Hell, and I shall go to Texas!

David Crockett

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And on and on it goes. The more the Government gives away, the more it takes, and the less Americans do for themselves, until finally, like Europe, there is nobody left to do anything, and there is nobody left to pay for, the nothing that is not done.

And, yes, Virginia, there truly is a Santa Clause, and he and Mrs. Clause and their helpers care greatly for the good children of the Planet. So long as there is happiness, kindness, charity, generosity, and the Spirit of Fellowship, Santa Clause will be there, representing those noble things, and he will always move in a spiritual way so as to provoke humankind to goodness.

El Gringo Viejo

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“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Booker Tallaferro Washington

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It is impossible to make a poor man rich by making a rich man poor.

Abraham Lincoln

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El Gringo Viejo: a fair description

Life for El Gringo Viejo began on the Texas-Mexico frontier, near McAllen, Texas literally on a real, live farm. The farmer, as one might imagine, was his father, who had moved with his parents from Gwinner, Sargent County, North Dakota in 1915 - 1916 period, down to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. (And yes, Virginia, that is the way Sargent County is spelled.)

His parents farmed in an area close to the new community named after its founder, called Ed Couch, in Hidalgo County of Texas. My grandfather is buried in the Weslaco Municipal Cemetery about 10 feet away from his friend, Ed Couch.

After studies, and a stint in the 1st Cavalry, 12th Regiment (mounted), Headquarters Squadron of the United States Army...riding warhorses back and forth along the Rio Grande from the late 1920s and early 1930s. He did not speak much about his service, but we determined that he apparently made rank of 1st Lieutenant.

El Gringo Viejo's Father established his farming and citrus grove-care operation just north of McAllen, Texas. Mother was a housewife and a professional woman....a learned, eloquent, well-read woman.

They were educated people, my father winding up as a Superintendent of a major school/facility of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in Austin, Texas after a twenty year career in education at the secondary level. He had degrees in History, Psychology, and Education Administration.

El Gringo Viejo is the last of three children, all males. Number one was Milton Birchard, Jr. who was born in 1936 and died in a vehicular incident in 1988. He was narcoleptic. He held a doctorate in geography from Louisiana State University and was head of the Department there for a good while.

Number two is Norman Francis, who was born during the WWII situation in 1942 and became an important Republican political engineer and fundraiser. He served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas during the late 1960s and early 1970s and as Senator John G. Tower's immediate Executive Assistant. The Senator is the Godfather of Norman's first son.

Norman died at age 77 in Austin, Texas and I was one of four eulogists who was chosen to speak at his en memoriam at the Austin Club in downtown most Austin…within sight of the State Capitol.

It was a personal duty and very rewarding

in every way.

My arrival was in 1947, and I was destined to confound my parents and all those around me. Educated entirely in public schools in McAllen, skipping the third grade, and stumbling out of my high school in the upper 90% of a class of 606. I

attended and graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now named Texas State University, unfortunately), being one of the few conservatives to graduate out of the School of Sociology, although my treatment at the hands of my tormentor-professors was not so unpleasant in those days. Emphasis of studies were social demography, and Latin American Affairs with a concentration on Mexico's history and current political evolution, with a minors in History, Geography, and Political Science.

El Gringo Viejo is one of the old, unreconstructed high-church Episcopalians. Politically, he is very fundamentally conservative. He prefers Baseball to football, and considers that baseball with a designated hitter for the pitcher should be called "poofy-ball". Favourite major league team of all times? The Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. It will never be the same again.
El Gringo Viejo's father was born to a Hudson Valley-type girl and a man who had lost two older brothers who served in the Pennsylvania 96th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the War Between the States.

The surnamed line (Newton) originated from East Anglia, not far from a place called Washington in northeastern England. They came into Boston Harbour, Massachusetts in 1642 (the 1st voyage of the Mayflower had overbooked), and settled there and in Maine as well as spreading out to Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, over the generations for the first 220 years.
Another batch of folks, mainly Anglo, settled in the middle Hudson Valley. There was another group of Celto-Teutonics types from Saxony and Prussia, establishing and settling along the Hudson River from around what is Catskill County northward to Duchess and Rennselaer Counties around a place named Red Hook. The main group came in during the early 1650s.

My mother's people were another English line of long-term Southern and Tennessee people, from the Eastern part of that State, who originally came in during the 1660s through Virginia and North Carolina, and finally into Eastern Tennessee, settling in and around a county to be named Franklin, and helping to establish the city of Winchester. Almost all of these people originated from southwestern England, near the frontier with Wales.

Only recently did we verify that she had many people involved in the service of the Confederacy. One died in northern Mississippi, another Captain Asa Grant, 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, was severely wounded and succumbed to his wounds finally in 1869, and another hung around in an Ohio POW camp (Camp Chase) for about 13 months, while three others were either wounded or died in action, including David Limbaugh, Lieutenant, 42 Tennessee Infantry. Another five made it through relatively unscathed.

Almost all were, oddly enough, related to the great-grand uncles and gggg-grandfathers down to gg-grandfathers of Rush Limbaugh. The gggg-grandfather came into the Colonies in the early 1740s from a Prussia and Saxony background, and served in both civilian and military capacities to the Continental government and Army. He was the XO of a Militia Battalion of 3,000 Pennsylvania effectives. They honed their military readiness under the supervision of Gen. von Steuben and someone named Washington at some place called Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

A grandson of his, Isaac, settled in Tennessee after the War for Independence against King George III. So Rush and I share grandfathers, four generations deep on the American Continent.

It should be stated here that were I to be called to declare, my allegiance would still be with the Southern Cause, although I bear no rancor against those who feel the same about their instinct to maintain the Union. Oddly enough, both my mother (a Southerner) and my father (a true Yankee by blood) believed that we would have remained closer if we had separated, and each side gone the ways of their own yearning, but amicably.

The last of the English (El Gringo Viejo's) line came during the time between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. They left County Wicklow, where they had been involved, apparently, in that peculiar Anglo - Scots/Irish practice of making whiskey by the use of peat for fuel. They were also involved in the business of production and processing of various types of grains as well as the production of whiskey, gin, and beer. By their surnames one would know that, while coming out of Ireland, they were actually English, one with the surname of Christian and the wife, Webster. They had, in fact, married in Christ's Church Cathedral, Anglican, in downtown Dublin in 1796. They landed in New York, set up shop in the City among previously arrived relatives, and then in Albany. We have some record that this Christian who married the Webster had actually lived in the colonies, but travelled several times back and forth between the Spirits businesses in England and Ireland and the New World. They wound up as the generations progressed in and around Minneapolis (St. Anthony) & Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Racine, Wisconsin. My particular line went from New York to Alabama, then North Carolina, and then Wisconsin to join up with the rest of the extended family, finally in Minnesota, before the War Between the States.

The Time Line of entry of all lines of my children's blood ancestry on their mother's side in the New World begins in 1578, when Spaniards of mixed Hebraic and Iberian peoples, and others of ancestry from Portugal, Galicia, and southern Spain entered into what was to become Monclova and Saltillo, Coahuila. They are brought under the auspices of the Explorer, Conquistador, and Colonizer Jose Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, with elements settling in Lampazos and Cerralvo (Nuevo Leon), in Palofox (Texas), and Revilla (Tamaulipas) on the Rio Bravo.
Also, the Count of the Sierra Gorda, Col. Jose de Escandon brought another group of mainly Spanish, Portuguese, and Azoreans in the early 175os, settling along the Rio Bravo (Grande), and then on the north (Texas) side, spreading up to what is now Yorktown, Texas (near and southeast of San Antonio de Bexar, more or less) before and during the Texas Republican period.

My children and theirs are qualified to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of Liberty, The Sons of the Grand Army of the Union, The Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Daughters of the Confederacy. By my side they are 16th generation English Colonial - American and 6th generation Texian. By my wife's side, my children are 23rd generation northernmost New Spain, Texian, and American. Isolating Texas alone, my grandchildren are 15th generation Texian.

LIKE?

Cats, and then dogs.

Fishing, even a bit of bird watching, now and then.

Really good music..antique, old, 1950s and early 1960s rock and roll, classical - Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, both Strauses, and many others, African tribal sounds en chorus, Mexican bolero...mariachis when they play out-of-doors, some country and quite a bit of the old western (Sons of the Pioneers, the Texas Ploughboys, Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads, for instance.), even some of my own piano works, bagpipes, Enya, marimba, Caribe.

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess always seemed to me to have been, and remains, a true masterpiece of Americana.

Well maintained Firearms, smooth running small equipment, old autos that respond to repair and upkeep and keep going. Used to have BMWs and so forth, but being old helps tone things down a bit.

Antiques, and antiquities...Meso-American archeology...and religious history. Formal religious services among the Orthodox..as in Anglican, Roman, Orthodox and Conservative Jewish services and celebrations. Hard to find, now.

Overnight radio, rightwing talk radio until it becomes overly tedious and repetitive.

Weather and climate.

And strangely during the past few years,cooking. Not just barbequeing...but actually dishing up gourmet-type stuff...and gardening to a purpose.

We grow a lot of our own spices for our little bed and breakfast and we specialise in flowerng plants, bushes, and trees that attract bees and literally hundreds of species of common to extremely rare birds to our place.

Lifelong Republican, honourably discharged - United States Army (conscripted).

Now drifted into the position of favouring the amicable withdrawal of Texas from the American Union. My grandchildren are 15th generation Coahuila/Texas by my wife and 8th generation Texas by me and my will is to have them answer for the debt of Texas and not for the debts incurred by the National Socialists who have taken possession of the central government in Washington, D.C.

DISLIKES?
Any kind of socialism...bolshevik, national, marxist, social democratic, Trotskyite, progressive, ....and any kind of socialist.

The Ku Klux Klan and such types who figure that they have to hate somebody because of how he/she was born. They are just role players, resucitated by the Communist Party USA in the 1920s, whose members are fueled by a well deserved sense of inferiority.

And almost all social activism.

Almost all labour union officers and almost all labour unions. (There are some exceptions.)

Public assistance of any kind. All welfare and/or charity should and must be privately handled in order to avoid the trap wherein we have fallen, that being the multigenerational slide into the abyss of forlorn hopelessness that is government slavery and dependence. That slide is cheerfully supported by politicians who love to buy votes with other peoples' money.

Lotteries operated by governments.

Litter, filth, graffiti, gangs, and waiting in line for people using food stamps whil'st they argue with the cashier about how they "need" this or that to be covered...when they have three carts with 450 USD of snacks and things we cannot afford because we are in an 'upper income" category.

Church reformers who want to change my church instead of them going to another church and just leaving me alone.

Medications for boys who are over-active, and medications in general.

Lite beer, lite Coca Cola, fat-free, lo-cal, artificial sugars and sweeteners, anything marked "healthy" on food packages, sugar-free, margarine, and driving 23 miles to buy gasoline over there because it is 2 cents per gallon cheaper.

Any government programme designed to help anybody; 94% of the time the programme winds up morphing into some kind of monster. Then liberals and do-gooders will propose another programme, twice as costly, to cure the ills caused by the first cure-all.

Officiousness, and the term "non-profit", as if there is some kind of moral superiority in the failure to produce wealth.

Physical abuse of an animal, an extraterrestrial, a child, slave, woman, or anything like a tractor or power tool, firearm, sewing machine, or an auto, etc.
Loud and/or sharp noises, especially when such noises have no particular purpose.

Wasting anything, from paper towels to Clorox to cake and cookie batter...anything. And....waiting in a line.