A Gringo in Rural Mexico: The Border Invasion and the Fallout Therefrom

Friday, 12 July 2019

The Border Invasion and the Fallout Therefrom

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The issues and comments and over-abundance of words, thoughts, and opinions about the increasing level of anarchic behaviour along the frontiers of the United States and Texas has become an "issue" in many parts of the United States and Texas. Clumsy, juvenile commentary by the President has helped those in opposition to order and common law…Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat - Socialist coalition, along with the mega-billionaires who wish to assign the rest of us to our appropriate place in the ant-hill or bee-hive.

The Beginning:

This entire matter began as a "democratic socialist" movement that involved many dolts and dreamers back during the last quarter of the 1800s. Great Thinkers like Teddy Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Eleanor Roosevelt, and thousands of others of "our betters" stumbled forth to save us from ourselves.

George William Freiderick Engles

We are not clear why Engles sent us a photo of some
older lady supposed to be his third-grade teacher
instead of one of himself. (She is a mean looking
critter, in any regard.)

Brilliant People…all. Karl Marx and George William Friederich Engles perfected the correct plans for other peoples' lives. All things they did after forming up their forming up of the forming up of civilisation as it should be formed up the mess we have in the undevelopable world and the "democratic socialists" in the European Union and all the minions who follow them.

We are carefully taught by the controllers of the mass media to believe what they say is somehow found in the tablets that were left behind after Moses lost the other eight tablets. Moses submitted only the two that he could find after the previous night's party.
American children to-day cannot differentiate between which war was which…the Civil War or the War Between the States. But many can parrot-chirp terms such as "climate change" or "equality" or "World Peace" and speak with great authority about what any of such bilge means.   Thankfully there are many children, still, who are raised in fruitful orchards and who know what is meant by terms such as "natural law". So, please do not think that your humble servant is saying"all is lost".
We leave this in order to move to our more urgent points. The Red-coats invaded us when we decided to establish a separate nation…a Republic to be named The United States of America…from the Brits. They were nice folks, but…our situation was different, and King George III did not wish to allow us our "freedom of expression". The Yankees invaded the South when it was understood that their slavery of bonded indenture of adults and children to serve terms in factories and other services with wages of pennies per day, was a "higher form" of dealing with "the lower elements" than the horrid slavery in the South of the new nation.   That War resulted in what is estimated to have been over 2,000,000 soldiers and support people being killed and wounded…far and away great than any other War losses suffered by the Americans in all Wars.

Woodrow Wilson, who would not touch a Negro…even the hand of Booker Tallefero Washington (a True Hero of America and brilliant thinker) during Wilson's time as President at the White House…was one of these "Progressives" who wanted to either send the Negroes back to Africa or to "otherwise" eliminate them through medical measure of sterilisation. Margaret Sanger was very, very much in favour of this alternative.

It should be of interest that Helen Keller…the famous poster child for all those who are multi-incapicated…(blind, deaf, etc)…was one of the leaders of the "Progressive Movement" of the first and second quarters of the 20th Century. Miss Keller was deaf, blind, and several other things. She also hated America and declared that European institutions would do more to help the incapacitated. One needs to tread carefully when discussion this matter.
Were she to have learned what National Socialism meant what Germany had wished to do with people like Helen Keller, as opposed to what I might have done for her as a rural, Southern farm boy…she would have chosen differently from what she (Hellen Keller) might have chosen. My choice is, was, and forever will be….life.
  The entire Progressive Movement is a lie. That is why they have to say…."Gay"…instead of homosexual.   Truly, the word "gay" has little to do with homosexuality, especially during the last 20% to 30% of the life of a supposedly "gay" personality…(Liberace, Van Cliburne, Prince, Andy Warhol, Rock Hudson, and several million around the world, millions more). The entire movement at these very moments tie into the declared war against normalcy.
   We were told that everything was closing in on the end of the Planet Earth because America was using too much of the assets of the rest of the people on Planet Earth, and therefore we had so much hunger, poverty, and disease.
Ozone Holes…Glacial Melting…Birth avoidance…abortion rights…18 year-olds voting…low-calorie, "healthy" diets…no eggs due to the cholesterol…and the worst storms in history are destroying America, Japan, and Europe. Everybody knows it, and everybody knows it is America's fault. Little matter that Red China and Indian are far and away the two entities that contribute almost 80% of all pollution of the Planet Earth.
And it goes on and on. Everybody must covert to Protestantism…everyone must be loyal to Roman Catholicism…the Beatles are going to India to visit the Hindu magicians…there is no divinity, God is dead, according to Episcopal Bishop Pike in the 1960s…Buddhism is the only path…Psychology will solve all illnesses and bring people into proper balance…Palestinians are forced into misery and torture by Jews.

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NOW THE PRONUNCIATION:

The myriad of…people…crossing into the Republic of Mexico and the Republic of Texas during these times was boiled out of the cauldron of poison boiled up by the Three Witches (perhaps) of MacBeth's encounter.
Thus sayeth El Gringo Viejo:

The Republicans, the Americans, the Christians and Jews, Madison Avenue, the Flying Saucers, and all the mental inventions of the present-day media cannot subordinate the facts. Human errors are human errors.

THIS IS NOT THE GUY,
you want your daughter (or
son) to bring home for an
encounter or family supper.
Among his various names
is Pol Pot, Butcher of
Cambodia…3 Million of the
nation's 6 million died under
his orders...

Nations…large and small…commit small and large errors. Switzerland and the Great Britain, the Japanese Empire, all nature of the powerful and/or potent have committed these errors. But, there is one Nation where all the World would rather be…apparently…and that is the United States of America.
Transnational Socialist Agents have worked for years to destabilise the United States and any allied nation or agency. We have written before about the Mitterrand ogres and the Soros contamination of humanity…(as in the US, we only have examples such as Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, No Borders, America Will Learn or America Will Burn, Southern Poverty Law Centre…and yes, up to and including the American Civil Liberties Union, etc. etc. etc.).

One can judge their successes in Central America. They destroyed El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua as relevant players in the world scene. Before, they were reliable servants to their own cause…not servants to others, unless they offered reasonable profit. The Roman Church was reliable at least in the High Rituals…but by the late 1980's it had become a refuge for clerical fellows seeking…whatever. The Esteemed Bishop of Rome (The Pope, for those of the Protestant or another Orthodox Opinion) has indicated that he is something it would be better not to say. I shall say it…he is a Liberation Theologist.

Fidel and Raul of Cuba…and the Ortega Brothers of Nicaragua…and people such as Hugo Chavez…and all the drug and pre-teen and slightly older girls who have been "harvested"in those precincts? Necessity

All of the elites of the European and American Left thought that the previously mentioned were acolytes and junior prophets of the coming of a new and more perfect Union. Homosexuality would solve the problem of overpopulation and Nelson Mandela would solve the problems of Africa…

Overpopulation was the "Global Warming" of the earliest 1960's. And "Sub-commandante" Marcos, a person with a medical degree…coming from an extremely well-placed social position in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico)…decided to pitch in so as to save the "unwashed masses" who did not love Marxists and Ho and Chou and Mao, and all the skeletons of Pol Pot's effort to make a "perfect society". He (Marcos) frose reasonable development in the southernmost (non-Yucatan) portion the Mexican Republic (this begin the early to latter nineties) The various "Indian nations" (actually just remote villages of a few hundred or 1,000 usually, in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco) returned to their habit of severe violence towards others (almost all, other Indians) when there was a land dispute, sometime involving two or three acres.

American college / university and "students" throughout the world, and the preface leftist "community" banged drums, broke bank windows, beat up their parents, etc. Smoking dope and begging on the streets was much better than gaining a living during the late 1960s and onward towards the Present.

Reseaonably enough, that profession has gained…very gradually…more and more respect during the years of America's supposed decadence. We say "supposed decadence" when one could have witnessed the "dressing-down" of an American Vice-President when that person, with his wife, had gone to honour the stage presentation based around the life of an American icon. "HAMILTON" was the name of that stage presentation in New York…perhaps on Broadway.
Ironically, it was the cast who ridiculed and baited the Vice-President with taunts even as he was seated and respectfully awaiting the presentation of the play. The cast and crew were, of course, a three-dimensional depiction of how white-trash look and act.

More Later…a lot of interruption from the "Google and associated" freedom of the press people.

El Gringo Viejo

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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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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.