You my friend, have struck a chord deep within me. I just ran across your blog and I am AMAZED at how much your thoughts are very much in my line of questioning. I am totally fucking through explaining who I am and what I represent. I say it loudly, "KISS MY ASS MUTHERFUCKERS"!! All haters of Mexicans can lick MY NUT SACK!!!!

-DJ

ORGULLO. i feel you, don juan. it hurts to have to deal with that for so long. it makes you angry. and we don't have to explain to them. here is a safe place i have carved out on the net, where mexicano pride is the law of the land. bienvenido, good to see you, amigo.

-- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Somethings never change....

I'm of two minds about Oaxaca right now. When tourists or foreigners who are looking at moving to the state ask, I have to tell them it is perfectly safe for them to go (and always was). And, a lot of the foreigners (excluding maybe "Mark-in-Mexico" and a few others) are sympathetic to the APPO. As foreigners, they cannot, of course, participate in political affairs, but they are valuable witnesses, and sometimes the only outside sources we have.

However, there are very serious reports of repression sur la mesa -- out of sight of the foreign visitors continuing. I don't know whether to tell foreign visitors to go in (and -- if nothing else -- keep URO and his goons in the spotlight), or ... as some have argued... boycott the State until it cleans up its act. At this point, I think keeping access to Oaxaca... and not buying the "official bullshit" is necessary. And, for a hell of a lot of people, there's no choice. The foreign community there is huge.

thanks for the info, richard. it helps. i wish i had better access to info on what is happening. i can only go by what i read.

oh and pinche richard, i guess being of two minds, you are fitting right in with the mestizo/mexican identity. ;)

See that is why the O'Reillys and Buchanans don't like folks like pinche richard hangin' with around us, their mind set will start fitting right in line with us.....bwahahahaha

Ay, pero que padre ser Mejicano.

Y, que viva La Raza!

have you vatos seen the movie Three Burials of Milquiades Estrada? Tommy Lee Jones. I saw it Saturday night. I got the dvd for Christmas and it is a great story and is not particularly sympathetic to the "Migra". Tommy Lees character befriends a mojado that is a vaquaro. Tommys friend is killed and the movie starts from there. Rent if you can.

yo soy Horsedooty!

veterano: que viva la raza, 'mano! gracias para visitando mi sitio.

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horsedooty, interesante. i will keep an eye out. thenks