Continuation: Deception, Deceit, and Criminality in the White House II

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    Thomas Woodrow Wilson once said, almost in the following words,  that it is necessary to have the few who are able to go and graduate the University, while the many should be taught trades, so a to justify something of an existence and to be prepared to attend to those of the collegiate class.

 

     These are the believers in the "Four Freedoms".   When Norman Rockwell painted his "four freedoms" work, he probably did not think so much about what it meant.   The Four Freedoms notion is fundamental hard socialist.  It was the skeleton and nervous system of the CCCP Constitution that was chiselled up by the Bolsheviks.

     Franklin Delano Roosevelt placed the four freedoms as a goal in his in the first State of the Union speech to Congress after the catastrophe at Pearl Harbour.   In that speech of the 6th of January, 1942 FDR spake thusly:

 

      

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

      The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

     The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

    The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

     

    The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbour—anywhere in the world.

      That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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     The first two "Four Freedoms are fluff, and highly subject to interpretation.  To a Bolshevik, he is fine with allowing someone the right to speak.   Whomsoever might wish should be allowed to speak to his heart's content.  Of course, the Central Commisariat reserves the legal and just right and prerogative to defend the public and even the speaker himself from dangerous speech, or speech that the Central Commisariat deems to be injurious to the greater good.   And, to be sure, while there is an absolute right to free speech, there is no known cosmic right of being heard.

 

     The third great freedom, the Freedom from Want, is pernicious and seductive.  If the government is allowed to determine what a citizen is allowed to want, to determine what his expectations should be, to determine exactly what a "Want" is, then there is no freedom.   The Castro Brothers Heaven on Earth programme solved the problem about freedom from want by giving the people their two pair of underwear every year, one cup of cooking oil every month per person, six hen eggs per month for each adult.....and when shortages inevitably occurred, the Castro Brothers simply amended the ration downward.

     And who really wants an apartment complex that wastes space by putting bathrooms into every apartment?  No one really minds twenty apartments using one bathroom.   Six or seven people standing in line for the toilet shows discipline of the proletariat!

     There is no reason why boys and girls can't shower out together.  Remember, we are giving you six hours of water every week, whether you need it or not.   We want you to have freedom from want.



	Freedom of Speech Freedom of Worship Freedom from Want Freedom from Fear

 

      And, of course, we have the Fourth Freedom, that being freedom from fear.  That will be accomplished by a world-wide reduction in armaments with such rigorous enforcement and authority that no nation could threaten its neighbour. Of course we could have Mugabe and the Ayatollahs in charge of the weights, measures, and standards of the disarmament of the world, just to make everything fair.   And, of course, a majority vote by the United Nations General Assembly would ensure fairness and goodness. 

 

     If Norman Rockwell had any second thoughts about any of the messages of any of his works, it is the sincere hope of El Gringo Viejo that it was the Four Panes depicting the Four Freedoms.   It might have looked better just with four panes with Larry, Curly, Moe, and Schemp -  "No job too big! No job too small!"

 

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    Now, back to Pancho Villa and Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

    We start a little too far down the road, with the rise of Margaret Sanger as the hood ornament of the "We Can Perfect Humanity and the World" gang.   But, we need to understand the perfect arrogance of the Progressive Movement, once again as the XIXth became the XXth.   The perfect solution to Slavery had proven to be a disaster.   Wages in the Northeastern factories plummeted with the floods of Irish and with the groups of Negroes coming up from the South.   Gompers and company moaned with the lament about how the Negro Slave had had better treatment from the Plantation system than the White factory worker received from the modern capitalists.

     Begging the question, of course, "Then why did all you damned Yankees come down to save us from ourselves and ruin the manumission system that worked to the good of Negro and White, and put in place emancipation, a system that could never have worked because it foisted the unprepared into an economic environment for which he was rarely perfectly prepared."

     But, while we were moaning and groaning about the empty boxcars going north, the Progressive movement did not really give a flip about what damage had been done to the America Negro by emancipation, because they had other damage to do that would be...appropriately...equal.   The biggest laboratory for the development of methods to destroy normalcy and impose the will of the elites was (1) the effete English upper class and (2) the hootsey-tootsey upper drawer Universities in Great Britain and the United States, especially the Ivy League.

     George Bernard Shaw typified the aloof arrogance and sense of self - justifying-self common to the Progressive movement's formative personalities.   He was very intelligent, completely functionally insane, uncontrolled by any notion that morality or ethics could or should apply to him, and he felt entitled to impose his will upon those poor fools known as "the masses".

     The OROG will appreciate the lunacy of a person who could be so inspired as to write in a letter,

      "I, as a Socialist, have had to preach, as much as anyone, the enormous power of the environment. We can change it; we must change it; there is absolutely no other sense in life than the task of changing it. What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods."

 

     These are the words to calm the heart and soul of AlGore.  We have to admire the affection many of these supposed bleeding heart people had for the lame, halt, retarded, coloured, Jew, the trees, and the animals.  Or not.
        To hear them first-hand, let us hear them first-hand.   (mandatory viewing for OROGs...You will be tested on this material at the end of the semester)

 

 

http://youtu.be/hQvsf2MUKRQ

 

 

    Still using George Bernard as an example, and certainly something much greater than the canary in the mine shaft, he was there as a charter member in the founding of the Devil's curses known as The Fabian Society and the fabled, though intellectually feeble, London School of Economics and Political Science.  This was the part of the building one sees when it under construction.   The Fabians were strike force committed to the notion that the exploited classes would be better off being paid to do nothing, if employed.  If not employed, they should be paid anyway.  They were dedicated to the notion that Dukes and Earls and country gentlemen needed to pay for the sloth of others.

   Margaret Sanger was also a contemporary of these flakes, along with various of her more intimate male friends.   They were fascinated with reproductive systems and how to destroy them or interrupt their function.  On the one hand they wept over the plight of Les Miserables and on the other hand they schemed to develop ways to destroy "unqualified life or life not worth living".

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
assisting her husband in 1920
by steadying the paper while
Wilson signs.  By this point he
could barely talk or walk
without considerable
assistance

     Thomas Woodrow Wilson was one of those folks and he was one with those folks.   Ironically, he began to suffer something akin to mad cow disease after his return from the failed effort to establish the League of Nations.  He had been working towards an UberStaat that could control better the frailties of the overly sovereign provincial and selfish geographic districts that existed both before and after World War I.

    During the last three-fourths of his ill-deserved second term his health went into a steady decline, all associated with an obvious dementia.   His wife (a trophy wife who replaced a recently deceased first Mrs. Wilson in fairly short order) essentially became the first woman President of the United States.  She hovered over the failing, increasingly incommunicative President, frequently shooing people out of his presence.   She would appear from their private quarters and inform those interested that "The President has decided thusly on the matter of such and such.   He has told me that concerning the issue of the National Parks, follow the procedures that were included in the official memorandum of 12 March 1917.   Mr. Wilson wants the German Ambassador to be made comfortable but there will be no discussion concerning German reparation obligations until the matter of the League is settled."

    There was considerable speculation that Mrs. Edith was, for all practical purposes functioning as the President of the Republic.

 

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     El Gringo Viejo always recommends to the attention of friends and especially OROGs things that might be of interest.   The book, Emissaries to a Revolution,  Woodrow Wilson's Executive Agents in Mexico,  by Larry D. Hill, contains much material with which El Gringo Viejo agrees as solid general knowledge, some small errors, some overly willing tendency in some places to grant too much benefit of the doubt, and much detail...some of it miniscule and meticulous....well presented in a digestible, late night read for a week. Your humble Gringo has read it four times.
    Read words describing the past that is now revisiting us, written by Hill in the preface, "His use of excutive agents allows the president to conduct foreign relations without consulting the Senate in any way.  Their salaries and expenses are usually drawn from the president's secret contingent fund, for the expenditure of which he is not required to make an accounting."
   Add these observations, from the beginning of the first chapter, and it guarantees a jousting good read, "Mexico provided Woodrow Wilson with the first stern test of his skill as a diplomatist.   When he began his presidency he had no experience or training in the conduct of foreign relations.  During his notable academic career as a professor of political science and history and as president of Princeton University, Wilson devoted  himself mainly to the study of  domestic politics and legislative processes.  He scarcely mentioned foreign affairs in the presidential campaign of 1912, and his inaugural address dealt exclusively with domestic problems."  (sound familiar?)

 

    The other book might be a bit difficult to disinter from the Cosmos.   But, it is out there.  It is A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico , Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City. covering the dramatic period between October 8th 1913 and the breaking off  of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz, by Edith O'Shaughnessy, (Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy).   Much of this book is written in real time in the form of letters mailed or cabled to her mother and other relatives.   In quicker time than Eric Holder can now "untangle" the tangled webs of his iniquity concerning Fast and Furious, this woman published a complicated, all but perfectly assembled and written opus in the middle of a complicated war and have it all in the hands of the public before Hillary could stumble and fall while doing something really complicated, like  boarding an airplane (a stomach virus we are told, caught while corkscrewing into Chappaqua).   We would also commend the quality of this book as being substantially more substantial than (Sir Edmund)Hillary's "It takes a Village, Idiot".

 

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There shall be a return to this topic to-morrow, when we shall tie together a loose end or two, and then delve into other pertinent affairs.   Thanks to  all for the following and perseverance with sentences that never seem to end.   Always draw a deep breath and pretend that you are speaking without a teleprompter.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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Deception, Deceit, and Criminality in the White House: 1912 - 1916

 

     This entry into the register of A Gringo in Rural Mexico is placed here at this time to remind the folks of one considerable and weighty fact.  Crosscurrents of interests and the acceptance of falsities as facts lead, frequently, to an incorrect understanding of history.   The true facts are often more interesting and romantic than the facts presented by the newspapers of the day and/or the official explanations.

 

     In 1916, for instance, there was a short, but drawn out, incident involving the Commander of the Covencionalista forces of the  Division del Norte, known in the vernacular as "Pancho Villa".  He had been confused by peculiar signals that were coming out of the Woodrow Wilson White House, as they pertained to various political alignments.   These alignments were in flux, and they dealt with relations between the United States and Mexico, the White House and Venustiano Carranza, Emiliano Zapata,  Francisco Villa, and between Germany, the United States, and Mexico.  Count the possibilities.
    Perhaps the word "incident" is too trivial for this affair because, in truth, it was quite complicated and runs very much to the contrary to the understanding of Americans who might even remotely familiar with the geo-political affairs during those times.

   Villa was a rough hewn man who had been a juvenile delinquent, found guilty of the attempted murder of the son of the owner of the hacienda where Villa's widowed mother lived.   Villa was moved to slay the spoiled son in order to avenge that person's attempt to rape Villa's sister.  This is stated as fact because there seems to be no countering explanation.   After Doroteo Arango went on the lam, he changed his public name to Francisco (Pancho) Villa, inspired by a bandit who had died some years before Doroteo's birth in 1875.   For a while he actually did dedicate himself to a bit of banditry, holding up wagon trains that took supplies into the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain ranges in Durango and Chihuahua States in Mexico's far northcentral regions.   The supplies were frequently intended  for large Haciendas and/or mines of gold, silver, lead, copper, and semi-precious stones.   Later, when with the arrival of Mennonites and Latter Day Saints convocations, and with increasingly scientific processes being employed in industry and agriculture, Villa turned to commerce.
     He established himself as a purveyor of fine beef.  Some say his beef was, at times, borrowed from the owners of huge haciendas, some of which were well in excess of 1,000,000 acres.  The Terraza family's interests, it was frequently joked, was described to a Gringo who once asked "Is your ranch in the State of Chihuahua?" , the response was "No, sen~or, the Estado de Chihuahua is in the Hacienda de los Terrazas."

Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori,
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
1877 - 1911

    Pancho Villa was a profoundly charismatic person.  He was very gregarious, and he was idolised by the common people and even some intellectuals.   He was active in charitable works, and he had a lot of Gringo friends and business associates.  He hob-nobbed in El Paso, across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, and spoke a fair brand of English.  He neither smoked nor drank alcohol.  He was not a pretty picture...nothing handsome, or even terribly good looking, but it is said that no man could look into his jet black eyes for more than a couple of seconds, and that very few women could admit to not being moved by a profound attractiveness that emanated from the aura of his persona. He became peripherally involved in political matters in Chihuahua, and came the day, he found himself supporting Francisco I. Madero for President against the fossilised presence of Porfirio Diaz in the national elections of 1910.
    The incumbent beat Madero, although narrowly, in the electoral college (when Mexico still had such a thing).   Madero took particular offense to that outcome, feeling that it was statistically impossible that a person of Madero's stature, with the class, position, connections, and power of the Madero family could have lost when there had been so much anti-Diaz fervour.  But the Mexican Congress certified the count of the Electoral College and so stood the result.   So, the shrieky-voiced, smallish, intellectual F.I. Madero pronounced that he would fight for a free and fair election and called for a general uprising of the populace.
      Villa had been allowed to escape from prison in Mexico City after serving a few months essentially for being insulting to Porfirio Diaz's constabulary, the famous Rurales, and for various other charges, such as the borrowing of other people livestock.  The true reason for Villa's detention was that he had been keeping company with intellectuals who were known to favour a more liberal definition of democracy than did Don Porfirio Diaz.
    The generosity of the Diaz government did not buy a more amicable Pancho.  He went back to Chihuahua and, when Madero pronounced after the elections,  promptly organised a huge, volunteer, mostly light cavalry army with such rapidity that it stunned everyone, including one of his best Gringo friends, a brigadier named Blackjack John Pershing.
      Villa, another capable general of the common man  named Orozco, and Madero, who had been living in San Antonio and El Paso, Texas for the interim began a series of lightening fast strikes in various places along the Mexican side of the northern frontier.  Their supplies came from surreptitious private sources, primarily in Texas.  A major battle was brought upon Ciudad Juarez in March of 1911, involving about 3,400 revolucionarios under a tri-partite but unified command who would fight about 900 better trained and fortified troops in well-prepared defences, commanded by a competent brigadier named Navarro.   After three days of battle, with many dead and wounded, General Navarro finally was forced to yield his sword.


Sr. y Sra. Francisco Indalecio Madero
The gentleman pictured was Catholic
educated through primary but then
attended very fine schools in France,
England, and the United States. he
became a "Spiritualist" and turned
against Catholicism and Christianity
changing his middle name of Ignacio
back to his father's name, Indalecio. 

     Another victory by the Indian revolucionario Emiliano Zapata, in Cuautla, Morelia to the near-south of Mexico City convinced Porfirio Diaz that thirty-four years is long enough to be President of Mexico.  French diplomats arranged for his departure and exile and before Summer would arrive, Mexico would have Francisco Indalecio Madero as President (at least for a short while).

    We needn't delve into the Byzantine ins and outs of the Madero Presidency.  It was a dithering disaster;  short-lived and leaving much more ill than cured.

    But the first commander of the Division of the North, and now the Secretary of War and Navy, Gen. Victoriano Huerta accedes to the office of President in 1913 and promptly begins to try to  solidify his hold on Mexico.   In the meantime, Huerta marks Villa and Zapata as two forces...not just regular men...who must be eliminated from the geography of Mexico.   But here is where the interesting and confusing clash of personalities, philosophies, and political  persuasions go geometric.    Mix all of that with the international overtones and the situation in Europe, then it becomes even more dicey, dangerous, difficult, and diplomatically impossible.

     Suffice to say, all of the players before 1915 are gone at this point, save for General Alvaro Obregon, his boss the President of Mexico Venustiano Carranza,   Zapata, and Villa.   Carranza, like Madero, is a person of the north, and from the same State, Coahuila.   He will be the topic of other articles here in the future, as shall be the other personalities.   But Carranza, from Cuartro Cienigas (Four Swamps), is a dedicated Marxist.  He blends various influences into his notions about governance, but chief among them is the central government's ownership and /or control of labour and industry so that national objectives can be identified, achieved, and perfected.   If there were one or two personalities that one could use as similar to Carranza, immediately Fidel Castro Ruz and Hugo Chavez would have to come to mind.
    On the American side of this matter is the dull, stupid Progressive Elitist who despised Mexicans and Negroes as a chromosomal matter,  the estimable Professor Thomas Woodrow Wilson.  As issues swirled in Mexico, the American Press, by-in-large supported the interesting if prickly Pancho Villa on several levels.   Robin Hood, Democrat, Man of the People, Visionary, "growing in his humanism and maturing in his world view", etc.  He was the choice of many American informal agents, spies, and contributors  to the State Department, at that time headed by the doltish Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, one of America's greatest demagogues on behalf of the "common man".   Bryan also pretty much found Mexicans disgusting and slightly subhuman, no matter their social position, literacy, race, or anything in particular.   He, like Wilson, could not stomach the notion that a Roman Catholic Church could exist in a modern world.  Mix into this mess, the shadowy "Colonel" Edward House, the son of the Mayor of Houston, Texas at the outbreak of the War Between the States.   House was born three years before the outbreak of those hostilities, and used his family's connections to rise to prominence in Texas politics where, as the XIXth became the XXth  he became integral in the behind the scenes manoeuvres, such as selecting gubernatorial candidates and establishing legislative priorities for the candidates, once elected.   Once again, like Wilson and Bryan, House felt that all evil pretty much emanated from the Vatican.


      John Lind, a lesser player but Ambassador to Mexico for the United States when Madero and his Vice President were murdered while under arrest by the Secretary of War and Navy Huerta, managed to be linked to the machinations involved in what was obviously an assassination.   There were a lot of Lind's fingerprints on the matter, along with Colonel House and perhaps even Wilson himself.  Before all was over, and for a confusion of reasons, American Destroyers had blown down most of the interior one-half of Vera Cruz City and Harbour.  Naval officer cadets fought the destroyers with parade muskets and not too unremarkably, lost.   The destroyers were in harbour and firing very much at point blank range at anything left standing, finally within one mile of the port facility.   This was to prevent the off loading of Mauser rifles and ammunition, as well as numerous German machine guns and their belts.  These munitions were vital to the maintenance of Victoriano Huerta's armies in the field.  
 

1908 Maschinengewehr
German infantry piece, made to
be useable for defensive and
offensive deployment

Wilson was adamant that Victoriano Huerta had to go.  If one reads the incredible diary of Edith O'shaunnessy, the wife of the charge d' affaires who replaced Lind after the killings of Madero and Pino Suarez, then that person will be well instructed to the sights, sounds, dangers, and difficulties of anyone trying to keep any semblance of normalcy about the American Embassy in those times.
    Mrs. O'Shaunnessy was an open admirer of Huerta, hated Villa and Zapata whom she considered to be brigands and opportunists.   She lamented the passing of Madero and his Vice President.   But as one reads the book, without her saying anything directly about it....without anything more than being aware of what was going on in Washington D.C. and in the north of Mexico at the time, the conclusions must be drawn that Wilson and House and Lind, plus a cabal of intellectual leftists, one-worlders and the like had chosen sides in this Revolution.   Mrs. O'shaunnessy is a breathe of complicated fresh air, and her husband was a super-human in managing to put any kind of a happy face on the situation into which he was thrust by less competent superiors.

     It became apparent that sooner or later Huerta would wind up as a bartender at the Hotel Texas in downtown El Paso.   Wilson, Bryan, and House had determined that the American government was going to back Carranza as the winner of the Revolution.  After all he had written a constitution in Queretaro and had it ratified there, and he had Obregon's army and a substantial military force in every State of the Mexican union.
     And, to Wilson's and his peoples' pleasure the new Constitucion de 1917 essentially expropriated the Roman Catholic Church, and made it all but impossible for them to "export" money, operate schools, hospitals, or social services of any kind such as homes for elderly orphans who had outlived their families.   It also nationalised all subsurface resources in definitive terms and prohibited a wide range of prerogatives for private investors, domestic or foreign.  It would have done Obama proud.

A copy of a fairly common recruitment
poster of the period in Texas

     Various writings have covered the incident at Columbus, New Mexico down to every hot nail in the burning city that Villa ordered ransacked and destroyed.  Supposedly he was giving a deserved roughing up to the Gringos with whom he had had generally good to excellent relations.  He had been the darling of the newspapers and the fledgling Hollywood crowd.   But then, when Villa was trying to breathe new life into his resistance against a worse autocrat than Porfirio Diaz, the Big Gringos...the ones in Washington, D.C. and in the White House had decided to recognise the Carranza "Constitucionalista" government and to throw the "Convencionalistas" under the steam-powered locomotive.   This recognition and approval showed itself in spades when the U.S. Government permitted the Southern Pacific railway to transport several thousand Mexican Carranzista (now Federal) troops along with cavalry horses by the hundreds and tons of war materiel to a point near Agua Prieta, Sonora where they could enter Mexico again at Villa's rear and engage him by surprise.   Adding insult to insult, the United States Army  base, Fort Douglas deigned to turn on their very bright flood lights so as to shine on Villa's troops as the Federal troops attacked from out of the blackness.

     The attack on Columbus was for the purpose of extracting a pound of flesh.  Later analysis seems to indicate that the whole matter might have been what would pass for the "decree" in a divorce case.   One of the troubling forensic matters with the evidence left in the aftermath was the witnesses saying that the troops were all uniformed.   Most all of Villa's units wore large sombreros that showed rank and unit assignment, by division, regiment, battalion, and form of service.   But almost all soldiers below the rank of a very high Sergeant used the hat only as a uniform.  The rest of the uniform was essentially civilian, cowboy type clothes.   Most of the officers had a bit more formal attire, and usually a couple of business uniforms and perhaps something for formal presentation, such as a ball or a wedding, etc.  
    The next problem was that the firearms captured by the responding American cavalry units, the 13th Regiment, a Negro outfit who served well through the entire "Villa Pursuit" period, were Mausers, and the expended cartridges were Mauser.   Later it would be said that the Mauser had become ubiquitous on the Mexican battlefield, and all sides had numbers of them.
     The problem with that explanation was that it was simply not true.   Only the Federalists were completely equipped with German Mausers.  This and that Villista or Zapatista might have a Mauser as a trophy, but not an entire attack force of two companies of light cavalry....perhaps 500 men.   And further, the Mausers used by the Federal troops were really too long and cumbersome for cavalry application.  Villa's men preferred the Winchester lever action 30 - 30, or the Crag and Jorganson 30 - 40 carbine, and rarely used anything but.
      Couple this with the incessant shouting of "Viva Villa!" during the entire attack, in such a way that it gave some people the impression that the attacking force wanted to make sure that the people knew it was a Villa action.    This was thought strange by some observers as well because almost all the Mexican troops who were killed were very dark, like Indians from the south or Mestizos (people of mixed Indian and White ancestry).   Villa's troops were frequently referred to as "Los Dorados" or "The Golden Boys" because of the fact that his soldiers were derived almost entirely from the extreme north of Mexico and those people were much more likely to have either all white backgrounds or substantially white ethnic and racial composition.   Blonds and auburn and redheaded soldiers were nothing out of the norm, nor were the occurrence of green, blue, and/or grey eyes. The number one university that produced officers for Villa was Texas A and M, and about 3% of his volunteers were Texans and other forms of Americans.  

     Of all incidents of a cross-border nature during the years 1914 through 1918, the vast and overwhelming majority were conducted by either deserter/bandits or, more likely, Carranzista soldiers and operatives operating under orders from the "supreme commander" himself.   That was the conclusion of hearing that were held by the United States Congress that documented over 1,400 murders and killings of Americans in Mexico during the Revolution starting in 1910.   The Villista cohort of the combatant universe was involved in about 6 per cent of such events, while Carranzista personnel was involved in almost 65 per cent of the cases.
     Villa himself, after all the smoke had settled, declared that he admitted to both confessing to the attack and denying that he had anything to do with it just to be ornery.   But in the final recognition of the matter he declared that it was not him, and to the best of his knowledge it was none of his men.

    Villa also pointed out in his latter days, before Alvaro Obregon finally successfully had him assassinated in 1923, that he had worked with various of his friends to advise the Americans and the Texans especially of the intent of German agents to provoke an armed conflict pitting people of Mexican ancestry against the Gringos.   This was something that was promulgated by the German government and passed around to the very well-functioning German fifth column in Central Texas and throughout Mexico.   Part of the deal included in what is known as "The Zimmerman Note" was the German government's assurance that it would help restore the American Southwest to Mexican control in exchange for harassing the Americans or for declaring war on the Americans and the British.   It is known that Villa informed an American general at Fort Bliss, probably Blackjack John Pershing.   However, although Villa considered Pershing a friend and vica versa, he was closer to General Hugh Scott, who is quoted in the excerpt by a student of Villa's activities:



       Obregon was a self-made, highly skilled general who had studied trench warfare tactics used on the Western Front in France. With this expertise, he defeated Villa and drove him from central Mexico back to the northern sierra of Chihuahua. On October 19, 1914, the United States extended de facto recognition to Carranza. Villa felt this was a terrible betrayal. He'd always befriended the gringos and this was his bitter reward.

       Being a direct, simple man, he didn't understand, nor accept the politics mandating that you recognize whoever seems to effectively control the chaos of a nation. Villa was further angered on November 2, 1915, when carrancista troops were allowed to cross U.S. soil to attack him in the rear at Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas, Arizona. To add insult to injury, U.S. searchlights were deliberately focused on the villistas to make them easier targets for their enemies.

       General Hugh L. Scott, who had many dealings with Villa, sympathized that "the recognition of Carranza had the effect of solidifying the power of the man who had rewarded us with kicks and making an outlaw of the man who helped us." Villa sent Scott a telegram saying that he was the one honest man north of the border.   (truth be known, Villa, during those days of resentment, sent about 20 such telegrams to various Gringos who had befriended the "Centaur of the North.")

 

 

     It must suffice to point out vigorously that Carranza was known to favour the alliance with Germany and that he played Wilson and Co. for the fools that they were.   Villa was pro-Gringo, and Carranza first and foremost was pro-Carranza, then anti-American to the hilt, and then pro-German in the affair of the trans-Atlantic War.   The White House tried to tie Villa and Zapata to the German side of the War, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

 

     With this submission, El Gringo Viejo has opened up a can of rattlesnakes that should serve as a fountain of interesting articles about the duplicitousness of one-worlders and leftist for a good long while.

El Gringo Viejo

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Standby for FlameThrowers and 105 Howitzers at Point Blank Range

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    As the weekend grows old and we await the return of our President to the Helm of the Ship of State, please be aware that the grist mills are milling and the ranks are preparing for their all-out offensive on behalf of the worst President in America's history.

 

     The softening up of the beach front was the word going out to the Democrat Negro strike force.   The orders?   Keep your mouths shut.   If you think that you have some intellectual and/or moral objection to the idea of initiating of hostilities with the Republic of Syria, you are under orders to maintain active support for Obama.   Minority solidarity is especially mandatory at this time due to the racist plot to depict the President's vacillation and mendacity as signs of incompetence and deception.  Any negative observations or comments concerning the President at this time, as they pertain to Syria or any other matter will result in your FBI raw data files being released to appropriate mainstream media outlets.

 

     Next was the calling back to the front-line service of the most willing fabricators and engineers of combat mendacity, led by David Axelrod.  We have Anita Dunn and Robert Gibbs, two highly trained whopper technicians, and David Plough from the 2008 campaign and others, including speech writers (teleprompter programmers).  Obama (Valerie Jarrett) pulled his actual campaign team together in order to advance a foreign policy matter.
    No better sign can be given that Obama is either a robot or a Manchurian Candidate or a complete puppet incapable of even playing a role, but rather requiring strings to pulled and people to pull them.   In any of the previous identifiers or any combination of them, the man is a danger to the Republic, greater than any that has been faced in its history.   Not the British Armies and Navies, not the militarily and GNP superior Mexico in 1846, not our own insanity in trying to maintain a Union against the will of major parts of its whole, not the wars of the 20th century and the steady advance of the welfare dependency state brought so much precarity to the existence of this nation.

     At these very moments, middle and upper members of the Obsolete Press are preparing their "messaging" to the "women" and to the "low information" members of the body politic.   They are programming their wordology so as to depict Obama as having "turned the corner" and as "beginning to put the finishing touches on a yes-vote in Congress."   Christ Matthews has already done touch-ups on his first draft of Obama's Tuesday speech referring to it as perhaps Obama's finest moment.  Chris will especially laud the part of Obama's speech where he draws a red line in the sand against the millionaires and billionaires who have never endorsed any of his vision for America, because " .....I do not look like them".    On Monday the Obsolete Press will point out that most of the people complaining to their congressmen about any authorisation of bellicosity in Syria are older, white men associated with extreme right wing groups like the Tea Party.   There will be the association of racism with opposition to Obama's war plans, and that drumbeat will go on so long as Harry Reid and the chorus of Democrats can keep it up.

 


Fast and Furious, IRS, Benghazi, and of course, the police behaved stupidly.

       We must defend the President's authority to effect a military response in order to show that the President has credibility, right?   This credibility has been destroyed by him telling us that the Benghazi event was provoked by a home-made amateur video that was uncomplimentary towards Mohammed.  This is a video that had 9,000 hits, until the administration ballyhooed  its existence.    Hillary, Susan Rice, and the entire White House chorus established the credibility of the president.  His credibility was established as nil.
     While American personnel was under attack in a new theatre of his choosing....and exposed in facilities that had not been up-graded to face probable attack and mortal danger....this president slept and then arose and then flew on Air Force I to attend a fund-raiser in Las Vegas, Nevada.   While there he continued his racist and demagogic rant about millionaires and billionaires and how people should get their "revenge" by voting against those who have more things than the average low information voter.

      We must defend the president who will not lift a finger against his satraps in the Internal Revenue Service who committed wholesale legal terrorism against common, work-a-day Americans who were trying to set up innocent and legal non-profit organisations that were semi-political and semi-educational.   Hundreds were earmarked for harassment, official bullying, and capricious, unwarranted investigation.   This president....this attorney general are very concerned...they are looking into the matter....they oppose any abuse....every effort is being made to ....blah, blah, blah.
      We knew that the words were lies the second they disappeared from the  screen of the teleprompter, and two months after the promises were made the head of the FBI had no idea if anything had been done and could not name the person in charge of the investigation or any personnel associated with such an investigation.   No In-charge person had been named, not one finger had been lifted to sort through this hideous case of KGB - Gestapo like excess.

       As in the case of the absurd attempt to shut down private gun shops and the sales/purchases of legal firearms by means of establishing a straw-man programme, call Fast and Furious;  that programme  allowed Mexican cartel members to obtain guns from Arizona firearms stores, then to be "traced" into Mexico.  Ostensibly this was done to "follow" the firearms to destinations in Mexico;  but the reality was that the plan was to wait and actually hope for the guns to finally return and be used in the killings of American police or notable civilians.  The plan then called for a ready-and-waiting set of legislative instruments would have been introduced essentially closing down the sale of guns by anyone other than the central government.
    Further it would have required the immediate registration of all firearms along with the immediate confiscation of all automatic weapons, and all "mean" looking "assault-style" weapons.  All persons wishing to have a firearm on their private premises would have been required to have a license, and a permit for ammunition with an arbitrary annual limit.   The ultimate objective of all of this, of course, was the disarmament of the American public.
     This is not a wild night-mare.    This scenario is drawn from actual working documents of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Department and has long been an objective of the control freak statists who gravitate to bully-boy jobs.   These are the folks who presently work in command positions at the ATF and E.
     We do not forget that over 500 Mexicans composed of soldiers, naval infantrymen, semi-honest cops, honest cops, civilian men, women, and children have been directly killed and/or grievously and permanently wounded by these "Fast and Furious" weapons.   We note that the numbers may well be much higher, but the new analysis does not come out for a few months yet.

      And on and on ...."You can keep your insurance if you want to....You will be able to see any doctor you want....Insurance premiums will fall...."

      So many lies.  Not mistaken statements believed to have been true, but out and out lies meant to deceive and give the president and his verminous facilitators cause for laughter after the re-reading of the teleprompters in the Oval Office at night over a few beers.   What a miserable cast so well destined for a dark corner of a rendering of Dante's Inferno oil on canvas.

Later and more.  All OROGs, please, Gird thine loins for the tsunami of mendacious septic backup that will come our way starting on Monday.
El Gringo Viejo

A Brief Note Concerning the Mexican Teachers' Union

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     The hideous thuggery represented by public employee unions was demonstrated in full force, once again, in Mexico City.   Various unions, student groups, trade union groups, veterans and their widows (of the Revolucion de 1910), and even environmentalists have freely imposed the rule of the Left upon the people of Mexico for generations.

 

     The first rule of the Left in public discourse, wherever such discourse takes place is, "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is negotiable."   This rule gives rise to the postulate, "....and when necessary or whenever we wish, we shall disturb your coming and going, take over your public spaces, take over your private spaces if it pleases our wants, and maintain our disturbance until we tire of it."

 

     The next postulate is,  "....and should it behove the exploited, who in the legal protest of their undeniable mistreatment at the hands of the (political entity)(elected official)(police and/or military)(corporation and/or business and/or executives) we shall disturb or destroy the effects, processes, and procedures of those precincts that pertain to the exploiters.   Such damages essentially are to property that belongs to the exploited, since we have paid for all such properties with our sweat, blood, tears, and broken bones."

 

 



 Imagine
This entire plaza can hold right at a million people, incredibly enough.  Try to see it
instead, with nothing but plastic sheets, and the teeming of 20,000 marxist beggars
 busily denying Mexico and the world access, egress, and process essentially because
 they want to be paid without reference to quality of work or even if they do not work.
It is the perfect arrogance of the marxist mindset, perfectly demonstrated. 

 

     The Heroico Senado de la Republica Mexicana was somewhat heroic in the past days.  In spite of the excesses of the marches and blockades and occupations of the commons throughout the inner third of this metropolitan area that exceeds 23,000,000 souls, the Heroic Senate voted 102 - 22 to pass the Educational Reforms Act that essentially stripped the largest teachers' union in the New World of much relevance in the pedagogic activities that fall into the realm of "public education".    Teachers will be evaluated and they will have standards to achieve.

     Their pension funds are to be taken directly to and under the supervision of the Secretaria de Hacienda.  This is because the previous head of the union Esther Gordillo essentially used the pension fund, a staggeringly huge reserve of ready cash, as her personal checking account, literally.  She had set up, along with a small cadre of accountants, an ingenious labyrinth of barriers and bunnyholes that allowed her to obfuscate and misdirect investigators in several countries for 12 years.  Those were the final twelve years of her twenty-five years as CEO of the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores en la Educacion de la Republica.   She also managed, early on in her term as head of the union,  to run and win election to the Lower House in the Heroico Congresso, where she forced her way onto the Educational Affairs Committee. She looked like a madwoman and her behaviour was erratic, haughty, and  frequently threatening.   But, she grabbed and relished power, and used it as a battering ram, a terror tool, and as a path to wealth.   Sounded and looked a lot like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer.

     Not long ago the teachers of Mexico were celebrating her arrest and her imprisonment for 30 years for several hundred findings of guilt relating to her machinations as union chief.   But, other demagogues came to the fore to carry on at least the victimology and Marxism message typical of the older labour unions in Mexico.   But, to reiterate, it was a good day to see that the Senate in Mexico, unifying the government party (PRI) and the rightwing opposition party (PAN) against the marxist Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) did vote 102 - 22 to crush the union and bring a new day to the Mexican educational system.   If they can take it back to 1955 it would be a victory for all, because back then we were always stunned at how much more they accomplished in nine years than we did in twelve.

 

Thank you all as ever for your kind attention and interest.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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A Bit of Good News

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    It is a happy thing that your humble commentator can report that Ted Cruz came to McAllen to address a minor fundraiser.  This was one of those X amount for a table operations, in this case 500 Yankee greenbacks for a table of eight.  It is a rather strange charging formula, but the tables all sold out.  There were many Border Patrol poohbahs, like District Commander and District Patrol Commander who either paid for their tickets or, Heaven forbid, bought a table.

 

     Various Hidalgo County  mayors and other elected poobahs were present, along with ranchers and farmers, and of course the exploiting class of slave owners and  prison labour contractors.   The great majority of the attendees were also Latinos.   Of all the attendees, the odds are that  about 40% were involved in cross-ethnic matrimonies.

 

    Ted Cruz, in English, went through his litany.   In a crowd of Anglos who are very comfortable in a Latino environment, and Latins who think some Anglos don't smell all that bad...the laughter, applause, and backslapping, and cheering was overwhelming.

 

     (1)   Enforce the immigration laws we have.   Secure the border.

 

    (2)   No path to citizenship for anyone who has been deported, who has lived illegally in the United States, who overstayed his/her visa, or who has any convictions for misdemeanours or felonies that involve violence or moral turpitude.   "What about the people who played by the rules?   What about the people who dodged or caught bullets wearing the uniform of the United States Military?" 

 

    (3)   Abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, first.  Then certain other of the well-known obstacles to the development of a self-reliant small business, tradesmen, and professional class should be eliminated.  Unleash the genius.

 

    (4)    Defund the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative.   Oppose and fight to the end any increase in the United States Debt Limit.

 

    (5)    Absolutely no involvement in Syria.   If Syria attacks Lebanon, Jordan, or Israel in a sustained and systematic way, we should consider a defence of those friendly countries, but only after a vote authorising belligerence by the Congress.

 

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       As a pretty fair minor league sociologist, social and demographic analyst,  and blowhard, it is my desire to remind the OROGs and some of the folks who sneak around the edges of this blog that the Republican Party has all the votes it can wring out of the Latin cohort of the electorate.

 

       It is why, sometimes,  I want rightwingers who speak in lumpgroupthink to just shut up.   When I hear them say things like, "If they are talking that gibberish, they should be rounded up and sent back to eat beans!!!"

      Or worse,  the lumpgroupthink Country Clubber "reasonable": Republicans who somehow fuse the kinder and gentler images of immigration, "your tired, and your hungry huddle masses", and some notion that the "Hispanic" has been horribly discriminated against for at least ....say 300 years in the United States....hence the term, 'historically under-utilised or under-employed Hispanic community."  You can't have it both ways, of course, on the one hand worrying about immigration issues for people who have been discriminated against by Republicans in the United States for the past 300 years when in fact if the immigrants are just now coming in they cannot be victims of historical discrimination in the United States.   Please Think....Country Club snooty snoots!!!!!

 

 

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     "The Hispanic vote must be convinced that we are inclusive and that we are sensitive to Hispanic issues".

 

      THOSE LATINS WHO CAN BE CONVINCED HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONVINCED, AS WERE THE NON-LATIN REPUBLICANS.   THEY HAVE BEEN CONVINCED BY THEIR OWN CHROMOSOMES AND INTELLECTUAL ACUMEN.

       THE REMAINDER WILL BE CONVINCED AS THEY ARE STANDING IN LINE AT THE GROCERY STORE.  AND ONE BY TWO, BY ONE BY THREE, THE LATIN VOTERS WHO BEGIN TO SINCERELY CONSIDER THEIR ALTERNATIVES, WILL COME TO THAT OPEN DOOR.  JUST LIKE THE NON-LATINS.

 

     That open door does not say "Welcome, people concerned with Hispanic issues."  The door is open, and as the person comes through the door he sees an easel with a writing board, and a greeting.   The greeting says "Welcome, everyone,    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

 

 

      The point is that, in Texas,  we have about 45% of the Latin vote, as best it can be defined with the considerable inter-marriage between nominally Anglo and nominally Latin peoples.   These people really are not concerned with "passing immigration reform".  We do not even know what that means to the people who speak in "bilge-blather".  They, themselves, do not know what they mean, except that they want to drag down the Republic with people that they themselves consider inferior to the task of being self-sufficient.   The "immigration reform" originators are almost entirely Marxists who are dedicated to the idea of turning the entire United States into a northern Honduras....or better, a giant favela like around Sao Paulo in Brazil.

     Ted Cruz and I, and the people at the meeting in McAllen - Mission the day before yesterday all see something better than that, and we are not anti-Latin or anti-legal immigration.   We are pro-Texian, howver, and we know how to do Texas, and we do it very well.

Thanks for your attention.

El Gringo Viejo 

Odds and Ends and Pieces that Fit, but We Don't Know Where

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     The first thing that needs to be submitted before it charges, invisibly, out of my skull is the matter of the birds down at our little Adobe Hut.   Normally, El Gringo Viejo will say that we have a lot of nice birds and some new or interesting species. But for the last couple of months, we have had birds, but not the overwhelming numbers of species to which we have become accustomed.

 

     Then, on the other hand (a politician might say) we have had more species of butterflies, by a long shot, than any other year at our 12 year old place.   There have been many species of butterflies that have never crossed our radar before.  Then, on the  other , other hand the normally numerous Monarch Butterflies are few and far between.   Normally from March through August there is a huge flight that comes up from Michoacán State about 600 miles to our southwest.

     There have been the normal amount of long dry periods along with rainy spells with copious amounts of tropical rains at intervals...always just in time to keep El Gringo Viejo from becoming depressed and despondent.   It has not been anything beyond normally hot.  If anything, due to the chilly mornings, it has been slightly to the cool side of the normal.   By chilly mornings, we have had temperatures falling into the mid-fifties Fahrenheit, three or four times per week.

     Otherwise, besides the overload of doves and whitewings, and the panoply of really great birds and butterflies, the late Summer's burst of flowers and greenery  has been the second best show we have had.  It will be very nice during the rest of the year, if in fact we can receive a regular dose of angel tears during the  Autumnal episode.

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     Concerning Alfredo Caro Quintero, and the uproar about his having been released early after serving 28 years of a 40 year sentence for murder with aggravating circumstances.   Forty years, in Mexico, is essentially a capital sentence.   The sudden release of the thuggish bum  caught many...,perhaps all....interested parties off guard.    It was disappointing on several levels.

     That a federal court would set aside a verdict on the basis that the trial "should have been held in Jalisco State Courts since there was no federal crime per se that had been violated" was a flimsy sham.  The stretch they used the first time (back in the 1980s) that any felony committed during the operation of a conspiracy or the involvement in crimes of trafficking hallucinogens, narcotics, or inebriates... or other substances that are injurious to the health of families or individuals, those crimes can be addressed by the authority of the federation and penalties assigned in keeping with the norms of the State wherein the crimes were alleged to have occurred.    So there really was no such error in trial or sentencing.

 

     The news that Caro-Quintero was suddenly whisked away and evaporated from the consciousness of Mexico is not true.  It was carried on the wire services, especially on Associated Press and McClatchy, but it is the best understanding that Mexican military investigators have shadowed Caro-Quintero's every move.   On top of that, there are four or five other legal entities who want their piece of the thug as well, including Interpol.

     The story is that Caro-Quintero is very debilitated from the strutting bully that he was 28 years ago.  Combined effects of various types of venereal disease are blamed for his dilapidated appearance (we remember the before and after pictures of Alphonse Capone, for instance).   Other stories include the probability that he has some kind of dark organ cancer as well, and was considered to be terminal.  Costa Rica also declared that that nation would not allow Caro-Quintero to return;  his properties there had been confiscated anyway.

     A bevy of Federal Prosecutors made a written and personally presented appeal directly to the Supreme Court, challenging the release, and the Supreme Court Justices quickly acceded to the petition.   They have also given a guarantee of rapid adjudication of the petition for re-detention and a setting aside of the ruling of the federal judge in Guadalajara.   It is my best understanding at this time that the written arguments have already been presented and read.   There may soon follow an opportunity for the judges to question the prosecutors if there is a need for extra information or explanation.  So sometime before this month is out we may be able to see Caro Quintero "re-encarcelado" and perhaps even prepared for delivery to the Gringos....who are holding an approved extradition request that is about 10 years old, but still valid.  The Mexican compliance with extradition during the past ten or twelve years has been phenomenal, quite frankly, and we must hope that Obama doesn't do any more to give the powers that be in Mexico to cease with that co-operation.

 

     Frankly, it would be just as well if he were to die in prison, awaiting extradition.

 

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     Now, concerning other activities beyond the silly-if-it-weren't-so-sad Syrian mess, we would like to re-direct the attention of the OROGs back to the original messes.  So long as we are deriving joy that Obama is proving to the world that he is a chronic, pathological liar,  and that once and for all even the low-information voter can tell without doubt that Obama is a slug, allow El Gringo Viejo to advise one and all...."It does not matter!   The dullards and committed marxists will do not care that Obama is a deranged incompetent who lies. and lies poorly at that.   They simply do not care.  Anything that Obama does that we would consider a moral transgression or a personality defect or a character flaw,  the Low Information Voter considers all that to be what Obama has to do to overcome racism, to protect himself and his family, to fight for the little guy who is being trampled by the millionaires and billionaires.   The Low Information Voter cannot think beyond the veneer.  They think the blood in All Star Wrestling is real, and they believe in Hope and Change.

 

     But!  We must continue to press our esteemed legislators to hold the line on the budget and on  the debt ceiling and the absolute necessity to not fund the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative.   Yes,  even now, or especially now that the eyes of the world are watching to see if the Obsolete Press will allow Obama to get away with another slushy, mushy quagmire manoeuvre that involves misstating the case, blaming the Republicans for wanting to starve minority children and grandma, along with wanting to shut the government down so that the people cannot have what they want.

 

     Which, of course is humorous, because all this Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative was originally pegged to "do something" about the 35,000,000 people who do not have "health care".  Of course, those 35,000,000 had better "health care" than all of us.   If a miracle baby has a temperature of 101.1...off to the emergency room.   The folks with "no health care" would wait around for a bit, and then they would get to go behind the  curtains, and then the child would be cured, and they would go home.   No charge.   They would complain about having to wait, but of course, they do not know how long we have to wait for any medical consultation or treatment, because of them.   Because, in reality they go first.

     And the really funny thing for Nancy Pelosi to explain to her grandchildren?   Well, it's the fact that with full implementation of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative there will still be about 40,000,000 people without "free health care" as the Democrat Congressmen and operatives call it.

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Just a few asides for our readers.  It is always a pleasure to have you over.  Come back when you can stay longer.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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