Wednesday 2 May 2018

Population Movements, Migrancy, and Invasion

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    With the images of people hanging off and riding atop the border fence at Tijuana / San Ysidro (A special note to Steve Dousy of Fox and Friends:  san - Y -seed - roh -  the "y" is pronounced like a long - e) and all the attendant noise concerning the "caravan of migrants", we thought it might be nice to inject just a bit of relevant reality to the issue.


Channel, 28, a Honduran and a member of a caravan of migrants from Central America, waits to enter the United States border and customs facility, where she is expected to apply for asylum, in Tijuana, Mexico May 1, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Two "trans-gendered" caravan immigrants arriving
to help drive down the income of people who
make their living being trans-gendered
"entertainers".  Democracy at work?

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(1)     To begin, the people who are flooding up to the American frontier are not "migrants".  They do not move from here to there on a seasonal basis or any other basis except for the purpose of gaining a better position and quality of life.
     The people arriving at the frontier are not "immigrants'' or "emigrants" or any such thing.  In the case of the Central Americans they are coming up, brutalising their post-infant children by using them as badges of oppression...America's fault, of course...and generally proceeding in a completely self-centre'd manner that assumes their own misery is greater than some other person's misery.

(2)    Not only are they not immigrants or emigrants, they are also frequently not huddled puddles of blubber with two, three, four, or more little mouths that the Gringos are required to feed because the Gringos are guilty of having supposed wealth and are obligated to give it in taxes to these people...or else. At times, the people coming across are males of the aforementioned gangs.

      There is considerable evidence that the "oppressed class" in the Central American countries glob on to some woman "going north"with two or three "tsquintles" (squirts - very young children) from a family that has a surplus of "tsquintles".    Sometimes a "tsquintle" has a great-aunt's brother-in-law who has a 2nd cousin in Milwaukee who said he would take in Maria and her four "off-spring" for a month or two, and she could use his address as a reliable place for Maria to wait for the time for her summons to Administrative Court to determine her citizenship and residence status to come down the pike.
     Another small  problem here is that this particular woman is carrying "one in the oven", who just happens to be a baby of her brother. The brother says that she must bear the baby to term because Santo Muerte (Saint Death) ordered it to be.  The brother also says, "After Milwaukee, you will go to Houston, in the Barrio Honduren~o, and have the baby. This is the address...123  Bungo Street, Houston, Texas.  It is a birthing centre.   The Gringos have to give you Aid to Families with Dependent Children welfare and free medical for everything.  Do not back down from this.  Call Catholic Charities if they give you any problem.  Here is the number.  They have lawyers and advocates.   Then, you will give me your Lone Star Card and the AFDC check and I will keep half.  If you do not do as I say, I will tell my buddies to have their way with you and then we will feed what is left of you to the wild dogs." 

 This is standard operating procedure for the Mara Salvatrucha 13.  

    This is the "American Dreamers" of to-day that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are pushing with both hands and every ounce of energy they have.  Their broad sweep of the hand declaring that "...these people, like all of us, are simply hard-working immigrants who contribute much more to America than they take."
    If a person fails to understand this, then this screed is over.  It is the truth...profoundly so for 10 to 20 per cent of these "migrant" females. For those who cannot understand that this is not the immigration of the Irish in the middle of the 1800s, which was bad enough, then please be at rest in your chosen ignorance.  The aforementioned migrant families, almost all were primarily black, and the office seemed to be  politically white.
     More simply put, we are suffering a purposeful invasion of the Nation designed to rot from the inside out of what is left of the soul of America.   It is being done by Progressives and Soros-type agents from the inside and by co-operating marxists and psuedo-Roman Catholic and other "religious" activists off-shore elements.

(3)    One will notice that there actually is a decidedly anti-American, marxist, and purposeful intent to flood the United States with people who are also decidedly incapable of adapting to standards one might expect a true emigre' to have.  We note, for instance, that in the case of single, post-adolescent males, that many if not most are members of extremely violent "pandillas" (gangs) such as the aforementioned MaraSalvatrucha XIII and Calle 18 who pray to Santo Muerte and who practice murder and torture as though it were a board game.  They also revel in the raping and other abuse of girls and other females without any regard to any vestige of human decency.  Cold blooded murder is a mark of honour, not depravity, for these sub-human organisms.  


FINALLY:    One kinder and gentler message to Tucker, Steve, Laura Ingraham, Hannity, and a few others whom I genuinely admire and follow on FOXNews.  Even Rush blows hot air in the dark about much of this matter.  Oddly enough, Brian Kilmeade, of Fox and Friends Morning does pretty well with this "problem".  He understands the variables and the width and breadth of this issue of "migrant invasion".
(4)    In the previous massive invasion of these "migrants" a couple of Summers past, they made themselves very popular by complaining about every consideration they received.  They almost never smiled or said "Gracias" for any service or favour provided.  They were given the "free passes" to a "relative's or sponsor's home" in Massachusetts or Minnesota or Cut and Shoot, Texas.
    They boarded busses, the likes of which they had never entered until bumming their way through Mexico and then the United States.  Others had plane rides, paid for partly by Uncle Sam and partly by largesse and noblesse oblige of pro-marxist Catholic Charities and other dupes and supporters of marxist social degradation, 'depende el caso'.



(5)    The entire effort is designed to flood the United States with people who will of necessity require essentially spoon feeding and free medical for a never-ending batch of birthings of "special needs" children.   These children (and their moms) will latch their tentacles onto every known and unknown school and medical and social "free" programme known and unknown in the Universe. 

     We are not fooled.  We know that one of the main efforts by communist and other anti-civilisation elements has always been to find the "point of imbalance".  It is always a place where there is violence, usually a failed socialist / marxist government, and then where there is a pod, place, or patria where there is order and some level of prosperity far beyond what the "oppressed" group  has ever seen, the control agents point and say...you need to go to America...Brazil.  Even Mexico looks like the promised land, compared to from whence these people these people spring. 
     At these very minutes, as Brazil is re-constituting something of a common-law nation after the ruination caused by the corrupt, organic law,  brought on by  the marxist demagogue Lula and his bright pink and red cabinets' / advisors'.   The invasion rule is being practiced by Maduro and the Ghost of Chavez of Venezuela.  Disorder, hunger, and abject dispair are emotions impulsing the  sending literally hundreds upon thousands (when it is over it will have been millions) of impoverished Venezuelans into the sparsely populated parts of northern Brazil.
  The crime wave there has been staggering...just as is the coming flood of Nicaraguan peasants - marginalised urban - dispossessed people fleeing President Ortega's and Vice-President Mrs. Ortega's Brave New Paradise will be for Mexico, and subsequently the Republic of Texas and then United States of America.   They will only serve to intensify the problems being brought on by the Honduren~os.
     Pity this new wave of onslaught brought on by ardent followers of the Bolshevik Solution.  They enter a country soon after departing their own.  That new country is so rich...with a middle class so huge, the "refugees" see  it as something  incomprehensible.   This new country has shelves and refrigeration units and freezers...and stores...full of products of medium to very high quality.
  The prices will astound them about how inexpensive good products are.   And they will be entering into a country that is having elections for President and lower offices wherein there is no known certain winner anointed by the electorate,   until after the have voted.  The "migrants" will not believe that such perfect places ever existed.  It is like a fairy tale.
     The place they entered?  Mexico.   But the Mexican authority has better sense than to keep these people at hand.  They will attempt to return as many back from whence they came, while the remainder they will try to persuade to quickly go the Rio Grande and  just leave. The flood of "refugees" we had two and three years ago is described below.   In spite of all of this, there are presently living in Mexico City and within 140 miles radius of Mexico City, some 2, 000, 000 "dreamers"from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala (94% are from other than Guatemala).  (Please, FOXNews, do not rely on whoever is providing you your feeds.  The are at best 52% accurate, and the rest is bilge from the Catholic Charities and Jesuit talking points.   We repeat, both of the aforementioned are liberation theology, pro-marxist organisations now). 

(6)    "Suddenly, One Summer" is the title of the 1950s book and movie, but in this case it pertains to the time that the Mexican Army and Naval Infantry had rendered massive...very massive...injury to the Zeta's and Cartel del Golfo's existence.   Those two groups have never truly reconstituted from the 2012 - 2014 shredding of their organisations.  The military operational programme was put in place and began to be executed during the 18 month search and destroy operation.  It was difficult for the cartel to kill each other and then deal with military units.  The military's combat competence level was, let us say, considerable.

     This allowed for an openning, especially along the eastern corridor of Mexico (Vera Cruz to Tamaulipas) to people from Central America especially, without "coyotes", without "helpers" from the Cartels, or anything beyond, "When is the next bus leaving for Reynosa?" (large city across the Rio Grande from McAllen).   The "refugees" knew to come to McAllen because the Roman Catholic Church had turned its santuary, offices, and facilities over to Catholic Charities, and from there all nature of goodies flowed.  Medical care, food, clothes, teddy bears, disposable diapers which would soon proliferate throughout downtown McAllen...but almost never in a trash receptacle.  

     While this was going on, the Obama administration was busy passing out information at the various counsels and embassies in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala about how to enter the United States "somewhat illegally and somewhat legally" with one's own children or any children that might be reasonably presented as the children of the frumpy, grumpy Maria who is literally dripping wet who keeps repeating, "I, and my children,  want to surrender to the Border Patrol."
     These people, arriving principally from Central America, had had radio and television articles that explained in detail how to force the American immigration authority to allow anyone to enter the United States and remain...even if the entrance was illegal and entrants were illegal aliens.
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Classical Cheshire Cat
(before fading out and
disappearing)
     Amazingly, and this Texas Tall-Tale is the absolute truth.   The Obama administration caused there to be a programme administered en situs in the counsels and embassies of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador...as well as with various "religious and community based" organisations (almost always marxist and / or very progressive, anti-American entities) that provided instruction concerning, literally, how to surrender to the Border Patrol.
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      American embassy personnel and their designated community spokesmen essentially told radio and television to "Do this and you, as an oppressed person, will begin the process of "Catch and Release".  The audience would be advised "...and you will be told that you will be required to  return for your administrative immigration court hearing 19 months and 3 days from now for your hearing.  You will be advised to be sure to re-notify a tape recorder 2,000 miles away in Colorado that you are still at the same address in Boston that you placed on your Catch and Release form."

Related image     We are told and ranted at and admonished to believe that..."THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ILLEGAL PERSON!!!" They chant, and the angry rent-a-mobs screech such senseless bilge, certain in the knowledge that the Obsolete Press and the 'caring people' will understand the bilge and repeat it as credo maximus.  But, in truth, an alien person residing in the United States of America without an entry visa permitting a touristic, business, study, or investment purpose is an illegal alien.  One can stretch the rubber band and the Cheshire Cat's smile and the sweep of Tinkerbell's wand all one might wish, but it does not change the facts that a person is illegally in another country if he/she has not complied with the host country's rules of entry and self-maintenance.___________________      We would like for you all to understand what it means to be a foreigner, working and living and repeatedly visiting in a "home-country"that is not Texas.     We worked for many, many, many years in tourism (hands-on).   We were not selling "time-shares"or hanging around in beach-front hotels selling maps to Montezuma's mother's gold and silver trove.   We owned and  operated a deluxe excursion company with destinations throughout the truly fascinating and enchanting Mexican Republic.   It is necessary to confess that I did at least 10% of all the work as one of the escorts and authorities and as owner, while my wife, in Texas as owner,  did the other insignificant 90% (small things like accounting and IRS compliance, state and local tax work, lugging two babies around in a 5-speed Toyota Celica sports coupe at 04:30 hours in the dark, keeping a 4 / 2 house on a large lot, and raising her parents, and running the laundromat in my absence...a large laundromat.  Oh! And working was another of her little pursuits, with a full time, professional level accounting job...nothing serious...nothing to see here...keep moving).    When I decided to build a house in 2001,  near the ancient Hacienda de Santa Engracia, out north of the City of Victoria, Tamaulipas, on the banks of the Rio  Corona, we had to sign an agreement, simply and well stated without endless bureaucratic Buffalo Snot legalese, that I had to be a person in good standing with his own society and Mexican norms.  I had to comply with the law that prohibits the participation of any foreign national with Mexican religious (save for normal attendance) or political processes, business that is not in compliance with local, State, and / or national laws of registry, or publication of political or religious propaganda on the vehicle or properties of the foreign land purchaser.     Also prohibited, obviously, land within a military fort or preserve, an Indian Reservation (there are only two in Mexico...one Kickapoo, the other a 'cultural zone' of the Rurari Nation aka. Tarahumara).   But, during the otherwise useless term of the first PAN conservative party Presidency, one very, very major reform was passed through the Congress.  All Ejido (semi-communal farming lands expropriated from the large land holdholders from 1920 through 2000) Lands would now be put forward as private properties, and those holding the temporary, warrant titles were now known to be OWNERS IN FACT of the terrain beneath their feet....20 acres...100 acres...200...acres...depending on the ejido's "productive soil potential".   There would be no further "return to the common pot" of tract warrant title when the holder reached retirement age.     People with crummy, non-agricultural ground, full of rocks...too small for a tractor, too rocky for oxen or mules to plow...could reasonably sell their property that was, agriculturally worthless, but touristically valuable.   The"crazy-gringo, bed and brunch, birdwatching centre, rot and relax and read Agatha Christi mysteries on the scenery rich corridor" place envisioned by this really, really deranged Gringo fit ideally into a piece being offered by a woman whose father held title to some river-front land, very close to the idyllic Hacienda de Santa Engracia.                       True enough, when we began the transfer of title, we searched for a reliable Mexican Notario Publico (always use a Notario Publico.  They are the ones who can legally transact transfers of title.  DO NOT EVER SETTLE FOR A CONTRACT OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN FRIENDS. That last barroom agreement readily evaporates when the old new-owner dies, and the nephews, 2nd cousins, illegitimate children, and great-grandmother of the wife (who also owned half, and now all of everything since the death of the old goat,  according to Mexican law) is not valid in terms of transfer of title.  In the absurd case we post, the wife, though divorced, has primary claim to the "contract of sale" property.   Notary Publics in Mexico and  Latin America in general, are especially empowered attorneys...not like notary publics in Texas who simply assure that someone is affirming under oath, with threat of prosecution for perjury.     We had to pay the Secretary of Government and the Secretary of Exterior Relations for a permit that, among other things, required that we would not introduce American Armed Forces to defend, reclaim, or ensure our ownership of the property.  And, once again, we had to declare that we would not, in any way, attempt to influence any current in the stream of any Mexican election, locally, regionally, by any State definition, and by any Congressional or National definition.   Marching in a PAN "desfile" (parade or march) in Cd. Victoria could result (but probably not) in the revocation of our "derechos proprietarios"(property rights).  Doing it repeatedly would quite possibly result in legal reprisals.      Now,  on the other hand, there is this "understanding" that if a geezer-foreigner establishes an informal business that otherwise complies with the high standards (high standards for touristic facilities is not a blithe joke in Mexico...it is deadly serious), and which has less than one million pesos of gross receipts pertaining to the activity of the location, it is thought to be a benefit of retirement and positive interaction with the Mexican experience.   My total ad valorem taxes during the twenty years we have owned and operated and used our little mud hut still do not total 400 dollars american.,,such taxes are very low.   But remember, almost every retail transaction in Mexico is fraught with a 16% to 17% sales tax.     It remains that we are restrained from doing certain things, but in reality there is a certain informality that permits great latitude in terms of personal liberty.
WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS!!!  THESE NEW REFUGEES ARE IMMIGRANTS JUST LIKE THE REST OF US!!   (Profoundly false.) 
Limbaugh Cemetery
Limbaugh section of a Winchester, Franklin
County, Tennessee Cemetery.  Mostly Neals
are buried here and nearby. (read on to
see, 'The rest of the story' concerning
this cemetery.  Peter Limbaugh and
many of my mother's people are
 "asleep in the arms of the Lord"
here.)
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Monclova, Coahuila Cathedral
Built in the latter 1500s and early 1600s by my wife's people,
to some significant degree.   They were ranchers, mine operators
 (lead and silver), and farmers.  This building in the centre-point of a

 city older than Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (1599).
The city is dull, boring, clean and predictable.  It is the
perfect place to live.  There are many attractions
within 100 miles in any direction, in order to
dispel real boredom.  Also, great food, Euro,
American, Mexican, Mexican haute cuisine,
street-stand food, etc.
The male line (mine) comes from a family that has had a presence in the Continent of America Brittanica for 370 years...father's side coming in at Massachusetts (1642 - because the Mayflower had been overbooked - family joke)...hence the city of Newton, Massachusetts, and mother's side coming in both at Virginia (1660) and North Carolina (1677)...and then into Tennessee in the 1690s.     Neither of us is descended in the slightest manner from immigrants to the United States of America or the United States of Mexico.  Our people...both Spanish and English...were colonials, long settled and established before either land-mass took up arms against their Crowns, and then establishing some form or another of republican governance.   And, neither of us have anything but the greatest of admiration for those who comply with the labyrinthine and, at times, uselessly exhausting procedures to become American citizens as true immigrants.   The same applies to those who served as foreigners and then elected to use their Honourable Discharge or first-term of successful enlistment (or conscription) as the key to open the door of American citizenship.

    We come from a unified family of a woman whose family lines have 450 years in what would become Coahuila and Texas, then Mexico with Coahuila and Texas, and the 300 years as La Provencia Real de Nuevo Santander...which is now most of Tamaulipas and the southern 40% of South Texas.   Most of my wife's people held property and/or grazed sheep by the scores of thousands in what is now Texas, long before the first volleys at Lexington.     My line had many fallen during the War Between the States.  There were five (5) who died on the Confederate (mother's) side, and two (2) brothers on the Union side.  My wife's people in all probability served under Santos Benavides to some degree or another in the Confederate light cavalry.  General Benavides was the only Mexican/Spanish descended general officer in the War Between the States...he became a Brigadier late in 1864.  He had a long a distinguished pre-War and post-War record in public service and private business...a highly honoured personality.
     We, my wife and I,  grew up among Mexicans of all sorts of types and kinds, colours, races, mixtures of races,  classes, and personalities.   We had legal alien Mexicans, Mexicans called "Wetbacks" when that term was honourable and applied to people who had walked or hitched 200 or 2000 miles to find work on the farms of the Magic Lower Rio Grande Valley and its perpetual growing season and  intricate irrigation system.   We dealt with Braceros who entered with temporary papers, with a certain time limit allowing the Bracero semi-permanently (six months - two years), live on site and work for self-profit with a specific employer.     In those times, although the norm was not such, it was still not uncommon to encounter cross -cultural marriages, Anglo male / Latin female or Latin male / Anglo female.  Very strict religious canons and rules interrupted some of this, mainly due to the requirement that Romans had to marry within the Faith, or at the very least agree to raise whatever the Stork brought as Roman Catholic.   My last piano teacher was one of those "hybrids" with an Anglo mother and a Latin father.   In the upper reaches of both Latin and Anglo society, it was not thought askance to encounter these marriages because it was "money marrying money" and also the "pure white" matter was settled because of the nature of both side's genealogy.  (Frequently, these same people would brag, after a few passes by the servants with the wine tray, about how "Mi Abuelita fue una princesa Indita de pura sangre de los Huastecos, etc...." and "My mother's grandmother was a runaway Indian princess...Chickasaw or Cherokee...and she went off and married my great-grandfather...They had a baby every year....So we populated half of northern Alabama and eastern Tennessee, ho, ho, ho, hah, hah", sounds of backslapping in the background).     The deal is, that we are not entirely an "immigrant nation".  We had and still have a "colonial core" that, if lost, means the nature of the nation is lost.   We have gone through this before with the debate concerning whether to have English only as the understood language of the new Republic, or English and German.   After all, the largest single battalion of militia at Valley Forge was a bunch of "krauts" (or  probably in those days 'boches' - or alcaboches, the French word at the time for cabbage heads) from Pennsylvania.   They were anxious to confront their "cousins" the Hessian allies of King George III, and thereby prove in blood that our "boches" were patriots and their "boches" were 'mercenaries'.  Their meritorious service was integral to Washington's Christmas Victory.      Rush Limbaugh's (and my) gggGrandfather, George Frederich Limbaugh, was the XO of that   batallion with the rank of Major.  He was just beginning to feel comfortable speaking Washingtonian English.  His bloodline came from Bavaria, Prussia, and Saxony.  He was of middle-aristocratic, 2nd pretender-level to two or three titles, but chose to search his fortune in America.   And to fold Rush further into the Americana flag, my great-great Grandfather Asa Grant (a second cousin of US Grant), married Amelia (Meli) Limbaugh, the daughter of Peter Limbaugh the grandson of George.  This makes Rush and me first cousins, three times removed.     Asa Grant and David Limbaugh, (George's grandson) both lost their lives in service to the Confederate Cause, serving in the Tennessee 2nd Cavalry.   The first named was elected captain of his cavalry regiment.  The second was, very young, a 1st lieutenant.  Neither owned slaves or were fond of the institution.
    These "tale-tales" had more than a bit of truth...usually they were soundly based. (And that is why those of us, especially Southerners, "know" that we carry the genes, but do not use the certainty of family lore...that always turns out to be right, oddly enough...to gain privilege with professorial appointments, when that bloodline is a sacred trust and not something to parlay into pointless gain.    And, in deference to a woman who is obviously a malicious, rabies-mad, tooth-pulling, eye gouging monster when it comes to people who are normal and self-supporting, and also in spite of her willingness to lie about having an Cherokee ancestor, we shall not stoop to naming Elizabeth Warren as the disgusting lying marxist demagogue that she is.     We arrive at the point.   The people who are arriving are being driven by the same type of people who terrorised the villages in South Viet Nam, knowing that these people would flee to the sanctuary of Hue, American en force positions, Saigon or any place where they could escape the capricious slaughter of village officials and elders...especially Buddhists and Christians...causing Saigon...a pleasant little place of one million to turn into a hell-hole of three million;  shanty town, cover for terrorist bombers, Viet Cong inserts, etc.     It is a tactic of the world leftist movement...be they socialist, communist, anarchist, progressives, or zibuggleflsihers...they are all the same.  They demand that we do this...and say such and such in this manner...and remember the admonishments of their atheist Religion, "From Each According to His Ability and to Each According to His Need".    We regret that Lenin, Marx, Engles, Fidel, Hugo, Mao, and Ho did not hang around long enough to relish the orgy of quivering glee the Obsolete Press is expressing over the "caravan"(which is not a caravan) of "migrants" (who are not migrants).  
Cecilia Abbott
First Lady of the Republic of 
Texas
 Mrs.Greg Abbott
(the former Miss Cecilia
 Segura-Phalen)
     Catch a ride with someone who knows and understands Mexico and Central America from the ground up.  I can even understand the point of view of the left...we can understand a lot from having lived, studied, learned at the knee of parents, and older brother who were heavily studied and experienced (including doctorate degrees...I am only a BA in sociology with emphasis on demographic analysis and Latin American studies, with special emphasis in Mexico).   My great-grandfather and grandmother lived in Vera Cruz State, out in the mountains to the west of Tuxpan, Vera Cruz back in the 1880s through to the earliest 1900s.  The great-grandfather was a principal in Washburn and Christian Mills which later became General Mills, in Minneapolis, a place in far northern Texas.
    We have had more experience in Mexico than 99.9% of all the commentators, especially the leftists who have philosophical, anti-American axes to grind.   It hurts worse, obviously, when my fellows and fox-hole mates are so befuddled and mistaken.   One last image for the reader.  When the "migrants" were scaling the fence at San Ysidro, and sitting atop the top rail...please understand:   They were wearing designer jeans...they were principally racially white...they were all college indoctrinated, ardent anti-Americans, anti-Trump, and will be for the next 12 - 15 years.  Then they become Partido de Accion Nacional (Republicans), and hope that everyone has forgotten about the days of wild oats and roses. 

     The last picture is the embodiment of what Texas is.  The is the woman who stood behind her husband after a tree fell on him.  She has Latin, Saxon, and perhaps Teutonic bloodlines.  Her Latin grouping were people of high academic accomplishment, and the academicians of their time.  She is a woman with several significant university degrees.  She is also a mother, and she has to put up with a cantankerous President of the Republic of Texas, which she has done well in terms  of keeping him on the path of being a Southern and Texian gentleman.   A 21 cannon salute to her!

El Gringo Viejo...
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Saturday 28 April 2018

We really know what you all want to hear about...Mexican Presidential Election Analysis to be found below...

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    There is a bit of pre-ambulatory stuff, after all it is Mexico.   After the news is through with you-all it would be reasonable that you, as a OROG, would believe that Mexico is something between Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden and all is not lost...or perhaps it just that all is not there.
   Please be aware, the Mexican thing is still alive and well, with lots of problems, but with many more solutions.

    We enter into this campaign period, however, with the ever present menace of a doddering ball of bilge who combines television ad company ideas with Bernie Sanders, the Ortega Brothers of Nicaragua, Che T-Shirts, upside - down American and Mexican flags with chicken poop smeared on them, and chanting Zombies demanding this or that "NOW!!!!".   We refer, of course, to our ever present, and sexennially registered candidate for the Presidency of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.  Known affectionately as "that crazy old commie fool",  "worthless demagogue", and other such terms of endearment, he is also the favourite of the university intellectuals, the students whose recent brain scans produced reams of empty blank frames save for a few images still of Pamela Anderson and her grandchildren playing on a beach in Cuba and pictures of a Can o' Bis festival in Sacramento where a transgendered hippopotamus who had just divorce his/her refrigerator had decided to marry himself and a unicorn in a Reformed Islamic Atheist Cosmic Reality Church service.
     We must also remember the one key element in any AMLO campaign for President.   This is the third, and like the other two, this is the one that will finally free the poor and force the rich to render their stolen wealth and feed the oppressed and force the openning of all borders (except Mexico's) to the deprived, starving masses.   These are the "starving masses" who still seem to have enough energy to become "great with child" and aim for the "free medical" services in Mexico, and failing that, the American emergency room, where a child can be born a DACA and not a human-being girl or boy baby.

     AMLO is quick to point out that the United States is a kind and gentle place, but that it needs to
understand that it must "share the wealth".  It is simply not fair that so few have so much and so many have so little.  The ones who stole the "much" must now learn how to share just a little with those from whom so much was stolen.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, leader
 and nominee of the Movement for
 National Renovation (MORENA)  
     AMLO knows that he must "moderate" in order to keep a large number of common liberals in line.   His marxist handlers and PR people dance on this tightrope daily (and nightly), while at the same time painting the possibility of free-everything and death to the rich to certain sectors of their intellectually low-wattage electorate.  It is a cross between the  Revolution Francaise / National Socialism and Cinderella.   AMLO, as did Fidel and Raul, has people around him who are dedicated radical leftists, completely dedicated to establishing a socialised economy, the re-nationalisation of Mexican heavy industry, and the re-expropriation of private properties in many cases.  The policies of AMLO and Co. are kept well out of view of the general public, although one can judge by the advisors and groupies that nothing short of the pro-Bolshevik offensives of the early 1920s following the horrid "Revolucion de 1910 - 1917" await Mexico should AMLO win and gain a working control of the Upper and Lower Chambers of the Mexican Congress.

     Then we have Pedro Anaya Cortez (referred to as "The Kid" because he looks for all the world like a 10th grader wondering to which university he should apply).   In my opinion, he and his posse foolishly made a pact with the leftist Partidio Revolucionario Democratico (PRD) which in almost all respects is counter to the Anaya's right/centre Partido de Accion Nacional  (PAN) which genuinely eschews government intervention," partnershipping" and such.
Ricardo Anaya Cortez (PAN), who would be at home, were
 he an American or Texian, in the country-club or right
wing crazy section of the GOP, either one.  Very
intelligent, and uncommonly forceful.
      It is actually  a true conservative party.  The PRD is a true socialist democratic party, and they are on the ballot on the same column, as the alliance.  It would be, rather much, like the Republican Party in America uniting with the Green Party and the Socialist Labour Party in order to avoid Hillary and Michelle running for a Peace and Freedom agenda party.
     The one good thing, perhaps, is that the PAN and the PRD have very, very, very few corruption scandals in the districts, States, municipios, and affairs under their control...very few.
  And now those areas under "minority control", chiefly by the PAN, are wondering what to do with all the left-over budgetted monies (a wry, but true political joke).   When there are normal or somewhat normal accounting procedures used, lots and lots of public improvements can be finished in 18 months instead of 18 years.  The PRD has...similar...but not exactly up to the same level, results as the PAN in terms of using public money honestly.

    Next up is the essentially "Lebanese candidate", a truly nice guy, but in this case representing
Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena, candidate for the the
Partido de la Revolucion Institucional (PRI) 
the old Partido Revolucionario Institucional  (PRI) which ruled Mexico from 1919 through 2000 with an iron hand, covered with a velvet glove during the latter stages.   His name is
 Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena. 

     Since the year 2000, the PAN has had significant control both nationally and locally, although they narrowly lost the presidential elections in 2012 to the PRI and Ernesto Pena-Nieto.
     Ernesto, and especially his wife of telenovela fame and wealth, started high and fell into the basement quickly after that squeaker of an election in 2012.   This has made the attempt to reinstate the pride and privilege of the PRI by stringing together of another 70 years of political hegemony and inter-group backscratching into what is quite probably an impossible  mountain to climb this time around.
    The presence of Meade, on the other hand, is a strange "odd man out, odd man in", because he has served in two different governments, on PRI and the other PAN, and received applause from local, national, and international groups.   There is none of the tittering gossip about private lives, or set-asides of great wealth that have plagued other PRI candidates, save for Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and Miquel de la Madrid Hurtado.
     The PRI's candidate has the surname Meade due to the fact that his grandfather came to Mexico, I would imagine, in the pursuit of something to do with brews and spirits and business investment.  He intermarried with a Lebanese girl who had come over during the disorders in the Holy Land during World War I, and by contracting  various presentations of her mother's surname and father's surname, they came up with Kuribrena.  However, if you were to wish to call out to him, you would say, "Sen~or Meade!!"  Meade is a Nordic - Gaelic name more closely associated with the northern English pre-middle ages.   Its meaning is associated with something like "beer made from honey" in most probable translations.
      My own family had a great deal of involvement in Ireland back in the 1700s, but they were decided Manx and Anglo, deeply committed to the spirits and brews business...especially grains, and formulas and improvements...etc.   Their surname and ethnicity was English.  They were of the Anglos who moved into Ireland who were associated with grains, and spirits and brews.  The Christian family from which this writer is descended has such people in his ancestry.  They came into colonial America (Massachusetts and New Amsterdam / York)

     As an aside, the upper levels of Mexican industry and to some degree, the political system, is involved and very intertwined with Lebanese and Jordanian and others of the Levant who came into Mexico during the period associated with World War I...(before, during, and after).   Many came, bringing with them the little money they might have, but also the skills of the "business of the bazaar...or 'trade at any cost'".

    They were usually members of Eastern Orthodox Churches, and adapted to the Roman Catholic nature of Mexico's religious complexion, as might an Episcopalian in Rome under similar conditions.   Carlos Slim Helu', and Alfredo Harp Helu' (Carlos's cousin), are two billionaire "Arabs"(in the Mexican vernacular and reckoning) who actually made their money by speculating in the Mexican Stock Market, frequently trading their small inheritances into Mexican industrial stocks until finally a peso turned into many billions of pesos.  As this ethnic group has prospered in Mexico, and elsewhere, they have also waxed numerous and probably compose 600, 000 desendents or so in  these times.
  
    It might surprise many OROGs, but I have no negative opinion of Mr. Meade.  Were he to win, it would be good...were the PAN candidate to win it would be a bit better for me...but the issue of AMLO is one which gives consternation to all foreigners, structural conservative thinkers, and upper-middle and higher income and position people in Mexico...citizen and investor. 
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     So now you know.   The number one guy in the polls is AMLO, the marxist who believes that everyone should made the minimum wage of 23 dollars per day...and turn the lights out at 19:00 hours every night and that all people with considerable wealth need to be taxed at 90% of their overall wealth, annually.  Imagine how long that wealth might last.


     AMLO likes to point out that he was a very popular Governor of Tabasco, but no one is willing to also point out that Tabasco, during his regimen, became a shambles...in three short years.  The neat thing is, everywhere in Mexico, the United States, and Canada,  there is a leftist press that will applaud and magnify the name of anyone who damages the middle and upper classes.  Those classes...skilled blue collar, professionals, white collar, born-to-wealth people,  investors, and small and large business operators, lost considerably during the administration of AMLO in Tabasco.


    The next problem with AMLO is that he is reluctant to use the military in the fight against trafficking of every indecent thing and horrid substance known to the human race.   He speaks in maleable terms like how it is necessary to have counselling and understanding while people are selling 5 year old girls from Honduras into porno and prostitution and/or importing 2 or 3 tonnes of Red Chinese methaphetamines into and out of Venezuela to keep Maduro afloat.

    AMLO, and his shadowy marxist "handlers" are drawn from almong the same people who foisted "Sub-comandante Marcos" onto the public awareness 25 years ago.  They are also associated with the remnants of the socialist warhorse (also a twice-failed Presidential candidate back in the 1990s and the 2000 election) Cuahtemoc Cardenas, the son of the totally corrupt, socialist demagogue Lazaro Cardenas...the Great Expropriator (1938) of Mexico's foreign oil producing (and foreign) companies from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, and the United States.   Cuahtemoc Cardenas and his father were sacred leftist cows of the old tri-partite Partido Revolucionario Institucional  (PRI).

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ENOUGH!! Cry the OROGs...where is the BEEF??

    Okay, okay...the deal is that we have heard on FOXNews and on MSNBC and on various news sources that, although the election is on 1 July 2018, we shall have to wait for the "run-offs" between the top two finishers in the Mexican Presidential contest in order to know who will command the Ship of State for the coming five year and 10 month term.
   Yes, Virginia, the next term will not be six years, as is normal.  A resetting  of election and inauguration dates for the future will require that the next President be shorted out of his crack at the "...six year drunk followed by the life-time hangover".  The new President will have to call the bar bill after five years and 10 months.

AND, LISTEN UP, FOLKS -  There is no run-off in the Mexican Presidential, gubanatorial, or any such race for an executive such as a mayor or presidente municipal (city/county executive).  Election leader with the plurality takes home all the tortillas in this game.

Now the prognostications:  We show the leader of the pack, the venerable, and returnable, and perpetual candidate for President of Mexico, and if you don't like it, we'll close down all the major thoroughfares in Mexico City for six months after the election and cram the main plaza in the centre of the city with several hundred thousand people and freeze motor and foot traffic there as well.  So there!!!   We've done it twice, and we'll do it again!!  
  1. 46.6%
    Andrés Manuel López Obrador
    MORENA
  2. 27.9%
    Ricardo Anaya
    PAN
  3. 18.6%
    José Antonio Meade
    PRI
  4. 3.8%
    Margarita Zavala
    Independent
  5. 2.8%
    Jaime Rodríguez
    Independent
The interpretation:

     The percentages shown above with the candidates (the only officially recognised candidates) were current as of 22 April 2018.   Remember that this is Bloomberg, and we rely on Mitofsky, and are only using Bloomberg as an example of how widely samples and processing formats differ.  


    There are 37 different polling companies and groups working the Mexican election.  We have chosen the Bloomberg, not because it is accurate, but because it is predictable.   It you want the best one, try the Mitofsky, which although birthed by a lefty, has attempted over the years to be loyal to its own procedure, which is good, and comes in very, very close to actuals at the end of the hunt.

    The Bloomberg is also good in the sense that one can count on the most left-wing candidate always having greater approval.  The overall methodology and, at least, the striving to do a good and true analysis is also a characteristic of the Bloomberg polls.

     What we point out here, is that the last two times AMLO ran for the Presidency, he began with a bit of a groundswell...and to be sure, it appeared as though he had won the right to the Throne even before the vote had been casted.   But as the "official" campaign period began, in both cases (2006 and 2012), AMLO's share of the vote began to diminish somewhat steadily.

     My perspective is that the percentage AMLO is showing now is his high-water mark.  My surmission that he will settle at or around 33 per cent of the total vote.   The two lowest candidates will probably wind up losing almost all their followers, and Meade will not be able to mobilise much more than what he is showing in this and other soundings.
     Anaya might well have a midnight meeting in McAllen or San Antonio with Margarita Zavala de Calderon (wife of the PAN President who served from 2006 - 2012), and even ex-governor of Nuevo Leon (Monterrey area) Rodriquez and offer whatever emolument, concession, or other legitimate enticement to join the battle, "...for the good of Mexico!!".   It will be interesting.


This graph shows the standings as of the
18th of April...An up-date is available to the
right of the graph
     What is certain is that a majority of the people are opposed to AMLO, but a plurality, especially at this moment, is not.   These percentages are as of 25 April 2018.   It might be of some encouragement to the Anaya group that the last two days of tracking in the Mitofsky poll showed AMLO losing 2% and Anaya gaining about 2.5%, leaving the standings at (According to Mitofsky) AMLO coming down from 31.9 to 30.2 and Anaya coming up from 20.8 to 24.0...even Meade picked up on AMLO by rising from 16.9 to 17.9 . 


     So, one can be certain that these next few weeks are going to be interesting. Battleground States, battleground cities...it will be a grand exercise of Mexican democracy only practiced for the last 20 years or so, after the PRI's throat-clutching choke-hold on the voting process and vote counting mechanisms from 1920 until nearly the turn of the last century.


     Presently, all the PAN-type people are storing up wines, beers, and spirits because of the LEY SECA!  It reads, translated for the OROGs thusly for our area at the Quinta and the entire State of Tamaulipas:

   States which enforce the dry law for the full 48 hours (from the first minute of the Saturday prior to the elections until the first moment of the Monday following the elections) include Campeche, Coahuila, Colima, Sonora, Guerrero, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Mexico City.


     The elections take place during a 12 hour period on Sunday.  Almost immediately there will be press reports about how AMLO is declaring that precincts are not up and running in the high probable AMLO strongholds and AMLO has proof that PAN and PRD goon squads and PRI thugs and terrorists are closing down precincts and access to voting, especially to women, minorities, the crippled, deaf, and blind and the poor...and the children.
  Last time, there were such announcements and reporters hurried over to one of the grief-stricken casillas (precinct polling places) inquiring about the goon squads and thugs...only to be advised by the workers, who were busy processing voters, that turnout was heavy and everything was in order.

     But, it would be best to have the liquor cabinet and all the beer chests well iced on the Friday before the Sunday of the election, that being the First day of July, 2018.

One last point.  El Universal...a respected, centrist newspaper of record in Mexico City surveyed people immediately after the first debate, earlier this week, and Meade and Anaya tied at 40% each while AMLO was "unimpressive".  It may be turning into a repeat of 2006 and 2012.  We hope.

El Gringo Viejo

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Friday 27 April 2018

The Establishment of Constitutional Law in Texas

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We Regret

ESTEEMED OROGs:

PLEASE FORGIVE THE NATURE OF THE FONT SIZE AND COLOURATION OF THE POST INCLUDED BELOW.  IT IS A POST FROM LONG AGO...ALMOST SEVEN YEARS.  IT RESISTED ALL REMEDIATION.   IT IS, HOWEVER, A NECESSARY PIECE OF INFORMATION SHOULD ONE WISH TO BE A WELL-INFORMED TEXIAN...AND NOT JUST ONE WHO PRETENDS TO THE SACRED OFFICE OF TEXIAN CITIZENSHIP.

WE HAVE DONE SOME CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, AND UP-DATING BEFORE RE-POSTING.  THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE.  
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     This entry comes partly from an earlier year's blog (April, 2010) because much of history does not change, unless successfully re-argued. We attempt at this moment to re-visit these same moments of the Texian Historical Calendar.   These are the profound times, and those were profound times.   Few, in the right, opposed the many and powerful who were in the wrong.   The only thing the few had in abundance was resolve.....and even that was measured by small numbers during the darkest hours.    All men stood to lose their lives and fortunes.   Women would be left with fatherless children, if they were lucky.  Fortunes, small and great, would become nothing overnight should the Presidente-Generalissimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna dispose of the "filibusteros y invasores viken~os" (filibusterers and Viking invaders).
     The one person who stood to lose the most was the man pictured below.  He was Lopez de Santa Anna's most vigorous detractors and opponents.   A native of the Yucatan, de Zavala was prominment on the political and social scene throughout Mexico.   This is important, because in those years, the Yucatan Peninsula was clearly a separate identity, socially and politically and culturally from the rest of Mexico.   This is not so odd, because Mexico in reality was essentially a loosely bound geographical area, not too precisely proscribed, consisting of as many as seven or eight different and functionally somewhat autonomous regions and States.
Manuel Justiano Lorenzo de Zavala y Saenz

      It is best to remember that the Defenders of the Alamo never knew that Texas had declared independence and withdrawn from the Mexican Union. The Alamo fell on the 6th of March, 1836, four days later. Their battle flag was the Mexican tri-colour with the number 1824 written on the center white field. Some think that that banner was designed as a statement of desire to seek reconciliation with Mexico. It was and it was not.
      It was first and foremost a statement of total rejection of the person and authority of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. At best, Texas would never have remained withing the Mexican Union. A commonwealth arrangement was possible. Some dispute the fact that the 1824 flag flew over the Alamo, but it is well documented, even in the diary of Lt. Col. Enriquez de la Pena, XO, First Zapper Batallion, which was the first group to breach the walls. It is said that two flags were taken by the Army, one was the white star/blue field of the New Orleans Blues, Volunteers, and the other the Mexican 1824 flag. Some say the Lopez de Santa Ana had the latter destroyed, some say it was taken at San Jacinto, after the defeat of the main body of Lopez de Santa Anna's army and his capture. Legends say that a collector probably has it to this day, hidden away. I doubt that.

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Sixty men signed the Declaration of Independence. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while one-quarter of them had been in the province for less than a year.


     The composition of the delegation has been condemned at times, but consider that only 2 of the general officers in the Centralist Government's Army of Invasion were Mexicans by birth....Lopez de Santa Anna and Urrea.  The commander of the considerable Mexican naval force in the western Gulf of Mexico was an American at a slightly later date.   The other five were European, or from elsewhere in the New World.
  Notice also the absence of the name of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas".....but his absence was due to ill health.   The lack of more Latins comes from two reasons (1)   the English speaking group was already in the vast majority of the Texas population even at the early time, and (2) the greater bulk of the Latin group, which actually did oppose Santa Anna by overwhelming percentage, was mired in the San Antonio - Goliad area, already well "behind enemy lines", making travel north to Washington on the Brazos extremely dangerous.   Especially for the Latin element of the population, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had brutal solutions for their "treachery".
     The three Latins present, interestingly, had a combined worth equivalent to the 57 others.   Stephen F. Austin was elected finally as President and de Zavala became essentially the Executive Officer, having been elected Vice-President of Texas and serving in the absence of President Austin.

More later.
El Gringo Viejo
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