Posted on 01/25/2014 9:26:17 AM PST by exbrit
Mexicans CAN own certain guns, such as shotguns. My brother and his wife have retired in La Paz, Mexico. We have traveled there several times. For the most part, the people are good, but seriously poor. The police are paid terrible wages. Yet through the goodness of the people, La Paz is organizing to keep the cartels out. Police are being vetted and praised for providing protection, behaving ethically and morally, given recognition, etc., and those who are corrupt—fired and prosecuted. Corrupt politicians are driven away. Good things are happening all over Mexico at the grassroots level—a lot like the Tea Party here.
Follow-up, it would be worded better if I said, the Tea Party can learn something from the local militias in Mexico—we may need such actions sooner than later. I can see that we would organize and operate no so differently than what they are now doing in Mexico.
Mexico may have reached a point of no return. Mexico has never been a society based on the respect of and the rule of law. At the very least it was a racist, class-ridden kleptocracy. It’s now descending into anarchy because of the drug trade and the criminal gangs at the head of that business who have bought off major parts of the government, the army and the police. I can’t see this situation getting any better soon. It can only get worse and then God help us because when Mexico finally implodes there will be a human tragedy along our southern border and Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California will be swamped.
“A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For, as I have shown before, no man can transfer or lay down his right to save himself from death, wounds, and imprisonment, the avoiding whereof is the only end of laying down any right; and therefore the promise of not resisting force, in no covenant transferreth any right, nor is obliging.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679). Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan.
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