A Sham and a Shame - "Un Monde Juste Pour Nous" Joins with Soros, Mitterrand, and probably the Democrat Party of the United States of America… Vol II

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          There is not the least doubt that the matter presenting itself along the border, here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of  Texas (a cultural zone composed of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy Counties with a combined population of approximately 1,500,000 individuals) is caused by outside influences.  It is situated at the very southern tip-end of the Republic of Texas.   It was an area of intense and extensive agriculture for many years, from the change of Century in the early 1900s up until around 1980 when industry and commerce took over, and rich agricultural land became the launching pad for foundations, upon which were built the engines of industry and commerce.

      There were waves of "migration" over the years, not counting the aboriginals, who were few, and usually not immigrating or emigrating people, but rather hunter-gatherers or marauders from the Northland who came to punish the Spanish colonists of the late 1500s through the mid to latter 1700s.  This punishment consisted of sacking possessions such as horses, mules, etc. and the carrying off of children, especially females, and useful hardware such as muskets and later, rifles.  The main Indian groups who did these things were primarily Kiowa, Kickapoo, Comanche, and two or three different divisions of Apaches.  The Apache sometimes allied with the other tribes, and sometimes they were hostile towards them, much like the Comanches.

     The resident Karankawa were known to be cannibals, but much of that lore could well have been nothing more than their proclivity to eat raw things…be they vegetative, reptilian, mammalian, or whatever.   
     Other Indians advised the Spanish that these Indians, originally encountered by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his little party of shipwreck survivors, were cannibals and "come crudos" (coh - MAI  CREW - dohs) or "raw-eaters".

(UL) - Nunez Cabeza de Vaca on the beach after the sinking
 of the Galeon (UR) reasonable copy of portrait of the
adventurer (BL) His trek for five years from the Texas Gulf
Coast to Mexico City (BR)  The schooner that took Alvar
to Cuba, where he took a sea-worthy craft back to Spain.

Alvar and his mates did not ever suggest such a characteristic, and they were the first White men to encounter the Karankawa.
    Your humble writer yields to the notion that the Karankawa males were over six feet tall.  It is not my understanding nor my eldest brother's who was quite an expert in those matters.  But, it is true that they were very tall and imposing compared to the Spaniards and especially to the other Indian groups.

     The OROG might be, and perhaps should be, scratching his/her head while wondering, "What in the Devil does any of this have to do with anything?  Here we are in a Battle for the death or life of an amazing American Culture, and El Gringo Viejo is blubbering about some Spaniard who decided to go swimming and then take an Around the Continent Walking Tour.  Everyone knows Spaniards are stoic and crazy anyway, so what's the news?  What does the XVIth Century have to do with these things facing us right now!? We're well into the XXIst Century".

     The reason all of this "useless" information is being foisted upon the poor reader is to certify to  to a degree that your writer is a somewhat learned person, a child and brother of two men who were dedicated historians, very capable archeologists, geographers, students of the Spanish occupation of the New World, etc.  They were also students of Spanish history as it melded in to Mexican History…a vastly different, yet similar construct.   And I studied greatly at their knees, and also with my own efforts.   My degree from Southwest Texas State University was in Sociology with Emphasis on Latin America, especially Mexico.  Over half of my hours were in Spanish language, Mexican Indigenous groupings, Mexican History during the Spanish Colonial Period, Mexican History and Economics since Independence, Analysis of the Revolution of 1910 and the Cristeros War of the 1920s.  Also included were studies of modern Mexico, including the oligarchical period of dominance of Mexico by the Partido de la Revolucion Institutional, which essentially ruled Mexico from 1920 through to the year 2000.   I was born in 1947, graduated in 1969 from University, and essentially lived through most of my life with the PRI in charge of governance.

   I was born into a rural environment with parents who were quite used to a "Mexican Presence" because such labouring people were the labour currency of the day.  I was exposed to and dealt with people of Mexican, Spanish, and Latin American background of all social levels…bums, professional people, white collar, blue collar, millionaire "landed people", and all other sorts.  My eldest brother was known as "Chico" because that is what the Mexican workers in our grove-care business called him…it meant Little or Younger Boy…and he was called "El Chico" because he bore the same name as his (and my) father.   The Anglos at school learned of this nickname, and employed it until it essentially became his name on campus.   Still, to this day, there are people we encounter who ask about "Chico".  My brother and father were totally fluent in Spanish at all levels… and I have been accused of having that same ability.
  
      At these times discussion and analysis morphs now from the period of upheaval, following the Fall of Maximilian von Hapsburg, Second Emperor of Mexico 1863 - 1867 and the mess caused by Benito Juarez Garcia and then the Porfiriato (1876 - 1911), the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1917 - 400,000 killed), the Cristeros War (1922 - 1929 - 220,000 killed)… sending perhaps as many as 500,000 refugees from the early 1920s through the early 1930s into the UnitedStates, and more especially, the Republic of Texas.

      Demagoguery against the religious, the Roman Catholic, the missionary Protestants and the conservative political figures continued into 1930s.   There  were scores of failed, central planning, leftist "reforms", that would eventually sink Mexico into massive fiscal collapse during the 1970s and  early 1980s.   The effects of that overspending, counting on newly found oil reserves to "balance the budget", was finally brought under some control…20 to 30 years later, after much gnashing of teeth and sweating of blood.
     Mexico began to right itself by entering into the international accord with Canada and the United States, and by returning to the old notion of pay-as-you-go taxing and spending.   Failures and setbacks and disorder (cartels and gangs) have plagued the first years of the 21st Century.  The response by four Presidential Administrations has been effective but far from totally successful.  From my point of view, however, we are in much better position than, say, six or seven years ago.

     While all this is going on, other dynamics enter onto the scene of human activity.   One is the original Amnesty that was put into place during the Reagan Administration.   This Trojan Horse was foisted upon the American public and was mounted upon two falsities.  To wit:

    (1)   The Amnesty for especially Mexican citizens living illegally in the United States ushered in about 2,000,000 people overnight as new  citizens…(let us say over an 18 month period)…and as those people converted to American citizenship on a fast-track basis, there began an immediate globbing-on of the link-chain immigration into the United States.   Parents and grandparents, cousins, nephews / nieces, "unknown children", common-law wives, divorced wives and husbands, it was an amazing bounty, according to the Democrats in California and Texas.
      For a while the Democrats smirked and giggled about how they had put one over on "The Gipper (Ronald Wilson Reagan)" and they began the effort to sign up hundreds of thousands (supposedly) new Democrats who would go on the dole and vote Democrat like good proles.  It would be something similar to what the Mexicans had been accustomed to in Mexico's election process over the years.  And:
   (2)  The Democrats would expand and maintain their hegemony of power in the Republic of Texas, blunting the gains that had been made during the previous 20 years by the GOP.   That did not work out so well.

     BUT!!  During the period from 1990 through 2005 a very strange thing happened.   Two dynamics hit the sociological ignition switch.  One was the fact that the poor, oppressed people who came in under the Amnesty…and the chain-link people were really not all that interested in voting and citizenship and all that stuff.  A significant minority were only interested in obtaining a Lone Star Card (food stamps), Aid to Families With Dependent Children, Affordable Housing subsidies (Section 8 and public housing), preferential treatment and allowances in public schools, etc.  Such benefits were prohibited, of course, but what's a billion here and a billion there when the government prints lots  of dollars whenever they're "needed".
      The Democrats had some success in signing up several hundred thousand for voters' registration cards…but they had more difficulty in actually getting those people to the polls.   In South Texas, overall voter turnout in City / School elections might be 5% of all eligibles, in by-elections such as these moments, perhaps 25 - 30%, and Presidential elections, perhaps 40%.

     The ethnic composition of the County of Hidalgo changed from 75% Angloid and 25% Latinate in 1960 (169,000 population) to 92% Latinate and 08% non-Latin in 2010 [nearing / right at] 1,000,000 souls).  Oddly enough…Republican percentage share of the vote has increased from a time when there was barely any Republican vote save for Presidential races and almost none in State and local races.
    Of course, the welfare percentage in 1960 was well under 10% receiving any form of "public assistance".  Now, in Hidalgo County, somewhere between 45% and 55% are on partial, but more especially, total public assistance.

     Then another thing began to percolate.   Lots of the "colonial Latins" (the ones who were here before the Gringos came, and were associated with Spanish colonisation) gradually began voting for this or that Republican, and realised that their arm did not fall off.   Then the citizen (by birth or naturalised) who were white collar or blue collar in the labour force began to lurk around the edges of Republican rallies and barbecues.  Many of those Latins were distressed about having to wait behind people in the grocery line who were buying things people with good jobs and wages could not afford.  Many of them came from a strain, previously very common, who would starve to death before taking "hand-outs" or welfare payments. 

     Then, just milling around, one can imagine their surprise when they saw Primo Fidencio over there knawing on a rib while talking to a batch of Anglos…and a couple of Latins…and they were wearing signs, stickers, and other campaign junk all over their clothes…all Republican.   Gee Whiz, the Angloids were associating with Cousin Fidencio just like he was one of them.   The citizen, previously a passive Democrat, joins and listens to beliefs and attitudes that…Gee Whiz…are almost exactly like his.  At this point, right-wing crazy Latinoids are about as common as right-wing crazy Angloids (such as I) in the Republica Tejana.  

     Then we must consider the inevitable dispersion of the Latin demographic element in Texas…mostly Spanish / Mexican of background…and they are now found in increasingly diluted census tracts, by a percentage  that is much less than the old "Barrio" but which is dispersed by intermarriage and passage into neighbourhoods and communities that are hospitable.
   Now, "The Barrio" is Texas in its totality…people with German, Czech, Polish, Anglo, Black African, Irish, Russian, Swedish, etc. etc. who came to Texas back in the 1840s -  1870s.  Twenty five or more ethnicities compose Texas population historically. Satellite communities, generally conservative, around the heavily Democrat Dallas, always outvote the "big-brother" (Dallas).   We even  have our own Indian reservations.  And their vote is up for grabs in these times.

    During the past 20 years the Latin group has steadily moved to the right…voting Republican…piling up Honourable Discharges…piling up Congressional Medals of Honour and generally fitting into a kind of Lawrence Welk - Pedro Infante - Christian-based understanding of what Texas and America should be.
     The First Lady of the Republic of Texas is actually a real, live born-in-Mexico type person. She is a stunningly attractive and intelligent woman of high academic accomplishment who has managed to discipline our cranky, mean old President (Governor) of the Republic of Texas.   She has stood in front of, behind, and beside her husband, who suffered a paralysis of his legs when a huge tree limb fell on his lower back while he was jogging.  And she has helped him maintain and further develop his dignity and intelligence from that time until now.  He had been a noted jurist before…and now he (and she) are the President and First Lady of the Republic of Texas and very admired.

     There are all these people;  Mexicans,  and other nationalities, who have come in under legal conditions…a difficult row to hoe…and helped make Texas what might well be the premier political subdivision of the New World.   Back in the 1930s,  we had "undocumented" people come up, but they came to work, temporarily, and then go back to their homes.  Others came under the "Bracero Programme" (bracero  [brah - SEHR - oh] -  one who uses his hands and arms to fulfil his work duties.  The word for "arm" in Spanish is brazo).   The Bracero Programme was designed to employ Mexican workers for certain terms to work directly and indirectly in agricultural pursuits.   It was in force from the mid to late 1930s through the mid 1960s.
     I accompanied my mother and/or my father over to Reynosa (McAllen's sister city on the 'other side' of the Rio Grande) when they would send significant sums of money by wire, through Telegrafos y Telefonos Mexicanos, to all nature of strangely named places, especially in Guanajuato and Michoacan…and San Luis Potosi State and Jalisco State.  It was a wonderland.  I thought to myself, "It would be nice to go to all those places and see what they are like."

    Over the years, we did manage to see many of them, even visit at times with the folks there. In the end, we essentially visited and / or did business in every State of the Mexican Union, save for Baja California Norte.

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SUMMARY:

     Now the reader must certainly know me better than before.  You can then trust that I am not a raving bigot.  I am a realist…with very slight optimistic overtones.   I have dealt with numerous Central Americans of all stripes and types.

     The OROG should be aware that the people in the "caravanas" which should be called, correctly "desfile" (parade march or long walking line) or better, "turbas".  One thing they are not is a spontaneous collection of like-minded people who decide to go to a Houston Texan football game in a couple of weeks.
     They are carefully scripted, recruited, and paid, as well as given stipend-like resources to buy some necessities at times.   There are racially pure-white people who are obviously in charge of a largely Mestizo group.  If one watches carefully, blond girls, and professor-looking men  can be seen barking orders and pointing with authority, etc.   There are people with solid colour shirts…some green, some red, and some yellow.  These are demarcations of authority and rank.

      As I analyse the appearance of the participants, it is noted that some 40 per cent is composed of younger males who are without wives, girlfriends, sisters, mothers, apparently.  Actually there was even one fellow who was wheeling a baby carriage with a baby, wrapped up to protect him/her from the tropical sun.  The only problem was, when some girls went over to the the "baby", the hoisted him/her up and, POW!  A Doll! No baby. An adult male defrauding his own audience. 
     Most of the other males are between and including the ages of 15 and 30 in their great majority.  They are, in my best estimate, composed of gang members…since a great majority have noticeable inkings and tattoos.  Analysts and commentators stating to the contrary are either stupid, confused, or lying.
    It would help, of course, to have them at hand, and to be able to take off their pull-over shirts, but their overall demeanour is a good enough marker to know intuitively that these are guys heading to a gang headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey or Atlanta, Georgia where there is already a Mara Salvatrucha 13 operation.  (We are using the names of those two cities for exemplary purpose only.)
    These fellows are joking and laughing and obviously not concerned about "violence" in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  On their way north, they commandeer pickups and tractor-trailer rigs so as to beat the other "migrants" to the next stop where there are food and drink alternatives.  These  same "migrants" are the ones who will be arranging tractor-trailer rigs on the American side to take 30 or more "migrants" north on US 281.  There are many, many, many variations to this fairly simple sounding alternatives.  Please understand, it is almost a daily fact-of-life here in the McAllen - Mission area…right on the border.

     Another factor  is that these guys themselves, the ones in the "caravana" will try to guide some hapless "caravana"members to a rent house that is vacant in the McAllen area.  The 20 or 30 who can be convinced to come to the "safe house" will suddenly be surprised with the reality that they are staying in a rent house with one bathroom for as many as 30 people.
    If the people fall for that line, they will be advised, once in the safe house, that, "you cannot leave, men with guns are outside and they will kill you if you try to escape."  Then the miscreant will take (steal) their telephones and begin the shakedown of the people back in San Pedro Sula or wherever.
     I can hear the fellow now, "No, señora, tenga la bondad de entenderme, tenemos a su hija y a su hija de ella.  Ud. tiene que mandarnos 2,000 dollars mañana, en efectivo. Roberto se va a pasar por su casa in unos minutos. Que le das los billetes!,  Si es que 'no', las dos van a ser muertas a esa misma hora mañana.  Adios!!"   Translation:
(No, madam. Have the goodness to understand me, We have your daughter and the daughter of your daughter.  You have to send us 2,000 dollars, tomorrow, in cash.  Roberto will pass by your place in a few minutes.  Give him the money.  If it is "no", both of them will be dead at this same hour, tomorrow.  Good-bye!")

     We remember the "refugees" who were leaving the Middle-East and the problems associated  with that place.  We were told that they were "refugees, refugees, refugees", but when looking at them pressed against one boundary restraint or another,  it was apparent that the guys were draft dodgers, deserters, men who had run away from home and the responsibilities of being a head of household, etc.  It seemed as though 80% or even more were actually not "refugees" so much as guys trying to make it into the Fantasyland of Europe.  Their record of deportment once they arrived at a nice-enough place in Europe, their social interaction level and manners left, let us say, a great deal to be desired.
     The people pictured in the photos above are not hungry,  but they are.  They are very probably gang members who have police warrants as I study them.  The further fact that the mass of people is moved along, rather much like a cattle drive, indicates that there is a control and command agent.
     Another overwhelming fact is, since the organisation and command control is obvious, that there is money backing up each and every step, each manoeuvre, each press contact, each sandwich, gasoline for the accompanying vehicles, every box of pampers,  which are kept out of view.
     It is certain that the entire operation is funded by leftists organisations, which in my opinion, is by the Mitterrand organisation and  the Soros organisation and other leftist organisations.   It is of interest to note, for instance, that the marchers are flaunting Honduran flags, which is an indication of the ridiculousness and carnival nature of their actions.  If they were truly so burned out on Honduras and so committed to go to America as a great harbour of goodness, plenty, and security…then why would it be that they are burning American flags with Swazticas painted on them?  Why are they so adamant to mark their march with a flag of a place that they supposedly hate?

     It is with some lament that I must say that the entire mess reeks of a form of subversion and invasion.  It is certainly not anything to do with "migrants" or "immigrants" nor it is a "caravan".   It is the common tactic of totalitarian-minded regimes to flood the enemy with the riffraff of one's own people because it matters to them little, whether they live or die, whether they are comfortable or miserable, hungry or thirsty.
   The point behind pushing them to the border between Mexico and the United States is to make news and willing propaganda from the Obsolete Press, designed to defame America, Texas or Americans, and Texans…the same people who deliver the assistance when there is a hurricane or an earthquake…the same people who provide 60% of all the foreign assistance to any and all catastrophes on Planet Earth.

     We regret this conclusion. But it is self-evident.  Demagogues abound…the leftist press is the clarion for always seeking a reason to condemn America and Americans. 

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Thanks for your time and attention.   With our computer problems and one thing or another, this has been a bit of a trying time.  Please forgive any literary and/or intellectual clumsiness.

El Gringo Viejo

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