Guest Column

By Glenn Disney

Middle-East problems can't be discussed, nor are they, without including its religious history, ethnicity, and wars. Why then is the Mexican illegal immigration issue, when in media hands, void of historical mention? The facts are voluminous supporting the case that the U.S., marauding on the 1800's spirit of  'Manifest Destiny', essentially stole several of its states from a newly independent Mexico. That should be the basis for any discussion on illegal Mexican immigration.

Americans are angered by Hispanic intrusions upon their soccer-momish lifestyle of new cars, Starbucks, Cinema 30s, malls, and plenitude of restaurants. They can't afford to be guilt-ridden about the very people landscaping their mortgaged lawns, washing their bank-owned SUVs, or changing their credit-card-vacation motel sheets. Forget Mexican history!

American expansionism self-righteously marched in those days carrying the Christian flag in one hand and capitalistic secularism in the other. In 1848, after defeating Mexico in a war of American manipulation in the first place, we handed Mexico a token 15 million dollar check for a few states. It was the epitome of contract signing under duress. "We take nothing by conquest, thank God", the press proudly announced. (A People's History Of the United States,  Howard Zinn, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.) Even Ulysses S. Grant called it "the most unjust war ever undertaken by a stronger nation against a weaker one." ( Anglo-Saxon War Fever, HL Mencken 1880-1956 )

Open trade, not like 'name-only' NAFTA, but the really deregulated kind, is like a restaurant of sorts, conducive to peaceful mingling and common interests of an otherwise myriad of conflicting opinion and culture. Illegal immigration's solution, to the dismay of legal-labyrinth-producing politicians, is simple. Open the border both ways with minimal restrictions and see commerce explode providing more jobs than people to fill them. In other words, governments, get out of our way and let the natural course of business solve the problems with immigration and labor simultaneously.

But what about sovereignty and patriotism? Is it not patriotic to replace bureaucratically created problems with working solutions? And is not sovereignty better served when people exchange goods with one another independent from the government-sanctioned racketeering created by tax and regulation?

Beware of the flag-waving patriot! He may be closer to Benito Mussolini that to Patrick Henry.  

Get use to it. Mexico will be recompensed, one way or another. A nation is judged like a man. While thievery and oppression may reign for years, nothing is forgotten and all debts and trespasses will be paid - to the exact cent.

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Glenn Disney  - writeghost@earthlink.net

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