Why DC is hot on Amnesty? Thomas Jefferson said its "a natural tendeny of the Ruling Class to Usurp Power...

Senators Trent Lott and Lindsay Graham, along with Boxer and Clinton(see Senator Inhofe in an interview with John Ziegler on KFI) will most likely be supporters of the "Fairness Doctrine", an "legislative fix" to kill Talk Radio. Especially when these 2 GOP Senators lament over Talk Radio and frown on its effect which Lott describes as "is Running America and we need to deal with it" and Graham calls those of us that listen to it "The Loud People!" Why do all these National leaders yearn for AMNESTY? Lou Dobbs describes the 2 Political Parties of the United States as "opposite wings of the same bird" and Glen Beck describes Democrat and Republican Parties as headed towards the same destination only with the Democrats flying us to it in a "Jet and Republicans driving us there in a Bus!"

#1. It is New Voters as most Democrats know they will vote for them and Republicans think that Hispanics have the potential to vote for them as they tend to have more conservative values(anti-abortion and Christian).

#2.The Baby boomers had over 40 million abortions and now are approaching Retirement and Social Security Entitlements with out the necessary workers to support their Social Security benefits:

Social Security.gov

• "In 1950, there were 16 workers per one putting money into the system—which means that when somebody retired, there's 16 workers contributing to that person's retirement. Today there's 3.3 workers contributing for each beneficiary. And when youngsters retire, it's going to be 2.1—two workers per beneficiary. In other words, the burden of paying for retirees is increasing on workers."
  —President Bush, February 10, 2005

• The overall cost of Social Security is going to increase faster than the program's income because of the aging of the baby-boom generation, expected continuing low fertility, and increasing life expectancy. By 2031, there will be almost twice as many older Americans as there are now, with the number rising from 37 million now to 71 million. There are currently 3.3 workers for each Social Security beneficiary. By 2031, there will be 2.1 workers for each beneficiary. Beneficiaries are living longer, which means more years in which they will collect benefits. When the Social Security program was created in 1935, the life expectancy of a 65-year-old was 12½ years. Today, it is 17½ years.

#3. North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA an idea and policy authored by 41st President George H.W. Bush(10 year anniversary) implemented by President Clinton and secured by 43rd President George W. Bush(Who Promised to look "South" for the future of America in his Western Hemisphere speech in 2000!).

#4. Why go South? Europe will is fast becoming Islamicized and dying as you need 2.1 children per female to maintain population stability aka "replacement fertility rate." Read Mark Steyn's It's the Demography, Stupid

Physicians for life

• Europe should be starting to realize they face a serious depopulation problem--and it could have implications for the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West:
  Europe is Losing 2 Million People per Year
• In Germany and Austria, the average number of children is 1.4 per woman. In western Europe, the figures for Spain, Portugal, and Greece are even lower. In eastern central Europe, the figures are lowest in the Baltic States, in Hungary, and in Slovenia. The average is higher in France, Ireland, and Scandinavia, on the one hand, and, on the other, in countries and regions with a large Muslim population. This is particularly true of Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Turkey, but not Bosnia.
  
  In nineteenth-century Europe, each woman still had 4.5 children. That was nevertheless only half what would have been biologically possible given life expectancy at the time. This is an indication of historical forms of birth control long before the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the late 1960s and the legalization of abortion in the mid-1970s.
  
• "At the same time, Muslims already living on the continent are having three times as many children as their white, European neighbors," the Pew report said
  
• "Given current birthrates, it is not impossible that in 25 years France will have a Muslim majority. The consequences are dynamic: Is it possible that secular France might become an Islamic state?" Ms. Amiel wrote.
  
  

#5. OIL! Israel and Iran will blow each other up and in the process render the Middle East a Chernobyl type mess. This will happen after Iran gets the "Muke"(Mullah's Nuke). After Canada(18) our next biggest supplier of "black gold" aka "Texas Tea" is Mexico, who provides us with 15% of our "Imported Oil"! We already get to refine a good percentage of their Oil needed for domestic consumption as their 6 refineries do not supply them with the quantity they need.

I continue to dig as a response to my cognitive dissonance over why our National Leaders including Republicans like President Bush and Senator John Kyl want Amnesty. In my quest to find an answer as to WHY most Washington DC Elites and Politicians are in favor of Amnesty in addition to 5 reasons listed above I have zeroed in on yet a 6th reason to consider when contemplating this "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"!(Winston Churchill with regards to Russia).

#6. "USURPATION" "Immigration and Usurpation Elites,Power and the People's Will" is an interesting article linked to on Free Republic last year which delves into a potential issue stemming from Political Theory found in the writings of our Founding Fathers who grabbled with a potential problem they coined "Usurpation" and discussed in the Federalist Papers.

• "Usurpation"
  • Embedded with in our Constitution are mechanisms that will thwart the' "natural" tendency of the political class to usurp power—to become a permanent elite lording over pauperized subjects, as was the norm in Europe at the time. However, the Founding Fathers seem to have based the logic of their entire model on the independent character of the American folk. After reviewing the different mechanisms and how they would work in theory, they wrote in the Federalist Papers that in the end, "If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America …" With all his emphasis on reason and civic virtue as the basis of a functioning and decentralized democratic polity, Jefferson speculated whether Latin American societies could be governed thus.'

This article offers a fascinating exegesis on this determined drive for Amnesty from the Mexican and American perspectives. The author Fredo Arias King was an to Mexican President-Elect Candidate Vicente Fox from 1999-2000 who discussed immigration issues with 80 members representing both parties in the U.S. Congress and other U.S. public figures in overt 14 trips to attend political party conventions and other meetings between our two nations. Here are excerpts

• While Democratic legislators we spoke with welcomed the Latino vote, they seemed more interested in those immigrants and their offspring as a tool to increase the role of the government in society and the economy. Several of them tended to see Latin American immigrants and even Latino constituents as both more dependent on and accepting of active government programs and the political class guaranteeing those programs, a point they emphasized more than the voting per se. Moreover, they saw Latinos as more loyal and "dependable" in supporting a patron-client system and in building reliable patronage networks to circumvent the exigencies of political life as devised by the Founding Fathers and expected daily by the average American.
• Republican lawmakers we spoke with knew that naturalized Latin American immigrants and their offspring vote mostly for the Democratic Party, but still most of them (all except five) were unambiguously in favor of amnesty and of continued mass immigration (at least from Mexico). This seemed paradoxical, and explaining their motivations was more challenging. However, while acknowledging that they may not now receive their votes, they believed that these immigrants are more malleable than the existing American: That with enough care, convincing, and "teaching," they could be converted, be grateful, and become dependent on them. Republicans seemed to idealize the patron-client relation with Hispanics as much as their Democratic competitors did. Curiously, three out of the five lawmakers that declared their opposition to amnesty and increased immigration (all Republicans), were from border states.
• Also curiously, the Republican enthusiasm for increased immigration also was not so much about voting in the end, even with "converted" Latinos. Instead, these legislators seemingly believed that they could weaken the restraining and frustrating straightjacket devised by the Founding Fathers and abetted by American norms. In that idealized "new" United States, political uncertainty, demanding constituents, difficult elections, and accountability in general would "go away" after tinkering with the People, who have given lawmakers their privileges but who, like a Sword of Damocles, can also "unfairly" take them away. Hispanics would acquiesce and assist in the "natural progress" of these legislators to remain in power and increase the scope of that power. In this sense, Republicans and Democrats were similar.
• While I can recall many accolades for the Mexican immigrants and for Mexican-Americans (one white congressman even gave me a "high five" when recalling that Californian Hispanics were headed for majority status), I remember few instances when a legislator spoke well of his or her white constituents. One even called them "rednecks," and apologized to us on their behalf for their incorrect attitude on immigration. Most of them seemed to advocate changing the ethnic composition of the United States as an end in itself. Jefferson and Madison would have perhaps understood why this is so—enthusiasm for mass immigration seems to be correlated with examples of undermining the "just and constitutional laws" they devised.
  

What could we call this "Social Engineering" or Electoral Architectonics or Planning Ahead. Maybe the leaders should clue us "Loud People" in to their thinking! What if their plan backfires? Seems strange but Demographic Trends are a force of Nature and looks like our leaders what to Capitalize on them in a way that will make them Feudal Lords or Duchys of our Time and Times to come. Talk Radio represents what our Founding Fathers described

"Vigilant and Manly which Actuates the people of America" is being assailed by the " 'Natural' tendency" described by Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson et. al. by of the political class to "USURP Power" and lord over the Electorate. As our Founding Fathers state our form of government is based on the "genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws" but its foundation is the American Independent Spirit. We are not Europeans who like Kings and Queens nor Feudal Lords! However our national leaders are gaming the system. They have taken allied themselves with the Mainstream Media and almost hijacked the entire "Fourth Estate" and now want Talk Radio and next will be the Blogophere! Read this Article America and get inside the machinations and guile of our scheming National Leaders. They want a Patron-Client scenario like exists in South America know Clientelismo or Clientelism....

defined by Brian Kermath of the University of Wisconsin

• Clientelism (also seen as clientalism or clientilism) refers to a form of social organization common in many developing regions characterized by "patron-client" relationships. In such places, relatively powerful and rich "patrons" promise to provide relatively powerless and poor "clients" with jobs, protection, infrastructure, and other benefits in exchange for votes and other forms of loyalty including labor. While this definition suggests a kind of "socioeconomic mutualism," these relationships are typically exploitative, often resulting in the perpetual indebtedness of the clients in what is described as a "debt-peonage" relationship. In some instances, patrons employ coercion, intimidation, sabotage, and even violence to maintain control, and some fail to deliver on their promises. Moreover, patrons are oftentimes unaccountable for their actions. Thus, clientelistic relationships are often corrupt and unfair, thereby obstructing the processes of implementing true sustainability.

Usurpation and Immigration Elites, Power and the People's Will learn about it at the Center for Immigration Studies as it is chalk full of insight into what has happened with the GOP. Along with Democrats they want to be like the old Dons of Alta and Baja California in Washington D.C. The Fairness Doctrine, Amnesty are catalysts that could bring this nightmare to fruition. Remember what our Founding Fathers wrote in the Federalists' Papers

• Constitution are mechanisms that will thwart the' "natural" tendency of the political class to usurp power to become a permanent elite lording over pauperized subjects, as was the norm in Europe at the time. However, the Founding Fathers seem to have based the logic of their entire model on the independent character of the American folk. After reviewing the different mechanisms and how they would work in theory, they wrote in the Federalist Papers that in the end, "If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America "

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Amnesty using Twisted Logic kinda makes sense? What a Gamble!

Please, help me here where has my imagination gone wrong?  The more you use "Twisted Logic" when thinking about this Amnesty Bill the better it looks!  Population growth is like a force of Nature.  Mark Steyn you TEACHES US THAT 2.1 children per woman IS NECESSARY to keep a population stable.  That is why Eurasia(Europe) will become Eurabia!

1.  If  it were not for Hispanics(mostly Mexicans) Americans has a population stability birth rate.

2.  We've aborted 40-50 million babies so Baby boomer Americans on Security will need new the 12-20 Millions illegal to support them.

Additionally Business wants to Cheap Labor too!

3.  Mexico is our second largest supplier of oil surpassing Venezuela(no friend of the US) and Saudi Arabia. 

• Oil exporters to the USA in 2005: Canada supplied 17%, Mexico 15%, Saudia Arabia & Nigeria 12% Venzuela 10%
• http://www.gravmag.com/oil.html#imports

4. America refines Mexico's oil into gas( they 6 refineries who do meet their demand.

5 .  Mexico is a War with its powerful Drug Cartels made of (>100,000) Mexican Military deserters, Crooked Politicians who work in Government and Zetas(special Forces type guys) trained by us who have gone rogue.

6.  These Cartels threaten the Mexican Government which will turn to the USA and our Military to keep them in Power if they start to collapse. 

7. Mexico largest Trading Partner to the tune of ~220 billion dollars is the USA while only 2-3% of their trade with South America.  Thanks to Nafta.

8.  Canada is our leading supplier of foreign oil! 

 

 

Now consider that the Iranian Mullahs are on the brink of going Nuclear and will destroy Israel who before their lights are permanently extinguished will in turn Mushroom Cloud Iran.  That means that the Oil we get from our to largest foreign will become more IMPORTANT to our Independence.  Eurabia has little Oil reserves expect for the Northern Atlantic.  They will dominate European Politics.  Eventually they will go to war with the USA.  The children of these Illegals will be who the US Government will draft into the Army when all out War with Islam breaks out.  Ronald Reagan told Lionel Sosa( http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1093622,00.html ) his Hispanic Political Consultant said "Hispanics because of their values are natural Republicans they just do not know it yet..."  George Bush has used Lionel Sosa too. 

 

Of course this is twisted logic but one needs this when we consider the President Bush is the primary engine behind this bill.  The Bush Family knows Oil(for the foreseeable future nothing will replace it), Mexican Americans will become a Majority because of Population Birth Rate.  There will be a Close relationship with Mexico because of this relationship and their dependence on US to keep them in power.  We can not let Mexico take the Socialist route of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia not the Narco-Democracy route of Columbia.  Now wall on the border means we can go in when we want to weed out the Cartels.  The Bush family has a talented half Mexican grandson(George P.) who will be able to draw on the important Hispanic Vote in 30 years when he is ready.  Nafta is a child of Carrol Quigley's thinking who approved of the goals of the Anglo-American elite for One World Governmnet as outlined in his book "Tragedy and Hope"  from Wikepedia:

1. The international drive to bring about a one-world government.

2. In his 1966 book, Tragedy and Hope, he based his analysis on his extensive research in the closely-held papers of an Anglo-American elite organization, to which he was given access.

3. According to Quigley, the U.S. and UK governments were secretly controlled through a series of Round Table Groups, the group in the US being the Council on Foreign Relations.

4. He contended that both the Republican and Democratic parties were controlled by an "international Anglophile network" that shaped elections.

5.  The Anglo-American Establishment was not published until 1982, five years after Quigley's death, because of its controversial material: several publishers would not publish it when it was written in 1949, but the manuscript was found after his death on the Island of Rhodes.

 

 

 This thinking which has influneced US Presidents both Deomcrati and Republican (Nixon switched from the Gold Standard to perpetuated Globalism) is one of the engines, among others, behind NAFTA(Brain Child of  Bush 41) and Bush 42's SPPA(Security Prosperity Partnership Act ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-4.html).   

 

Since it turns out the most valuable natural response is Progeny Mexico will provide this for our Future!  It is a bit of a Gamble but one the Futurist Think tanks have convinced Bush is worth taking.  Democrats have even less replacement progeny than Conservatives so they want the Illegals to be their voting base in the future!

Here are references that have lead me to this

1.Here is the Bush' Speech http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/26/195405

2.Here is what Bush 41 thinks of his work in Nafta http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ar/trade/02120903.htm

What do you think?  A twisted Amnesty Bill which puzzles us Conservatives requires Twisted Insight in order to understand it!  Am I going CRAZY or is that what the Think Tanks have come up with for a solution to problems 50 years down the road?

 

Thanks

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Amesty equals NAFTA the child of Bush 41 & 42 why? It gives us access to Mex-Oil but problem Drugs is even a bigger Market & Mexico in midst of Narco Civil War!

Bush's father, George H. W. was the engine behind NAFTA w/ Ex. Presidedent Salinas, whose father knew 41 from the Zapata Oil Days before 41 got into Politics!

"Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and former Mexican
President Carlos Salinas joined Bush at the Ronald Reagan
International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., on December 9 to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of their signing of NAFTA.
Bush said he regarded the signing of NAFTA as one of the proudest
moments of his presidency. Rather than precipitating "a giant sucking
sound" of lost U.S. jobs, as some critics predicted, the agreement was
a "palpable step forward to greater prosperity and stability across
the region," the former president declared."
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ar/trade/02120903.htm

Here is what Dubya Bush said in 2000 while on campaign for GOP Nomination!

"Should I become president, I will look South, not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental commitment of my presidency. Just as we ended the great divide between East and West, so today we can overcome the North-South divide.

And the North American Free Trade Agreement promised to be a blueprint for free trade throughout the hemisphere.

But the promise of that moment has been squandered. The Clinton/Gore administration has had no strategy. We have seen summits without substance, and reaction instead of action. We were promised fast-track trade authority -- as every American president has had for 25 years. And yet this administration failed to get it. We were promised a Free Trade Area of the Americas."
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/26/195405

Why so much Interest in Mexico? The Bush Presidents have both promised Mexico this and are most proud of their work in this area. Mexico has surpassed Japan has our 2nd largest trading partner. Second thing is that Mexico has oil and has to ship a good percentage of it to the States to refine it. That gives Us some control of it. We get most of our Imported Oil from Canada and Mexico(which has surpased Chavez' Venezuela as an importer to the US). Since Congress will not let us drill offshore(Like China is in the process of doing with Cuba 50 miles from Florida) nor in Alaska we must look to Mexico and Canada. So this is not a bad idea especially if Mexico goes consider that it could go Socialists like Bolivia, Venezuela & others in S.A.!
Problem is Mexico is a Narco-Democracy at War with itself. Thus NAFTA and Immigration illegal or legal is a "DOUBLE EDGED SWORD!" The drug Trafficers produce more money than Oil and as you know they have their own Armies!
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New Strategy for the GOP that'll kill the Amnesty Bill unless we get a Wall...Its the Mexican Drug War!

What do you think of this for a strategy to change the argument giving the GOP and the American people a new reason to fight for the Wall. The building a Wall vis-a-vis Immigration Issue is falling on deaf hears with our national leaders because Liberals liken the wall to the Iron Curtain and Bigotry. That having been said and the apparent party line why not rying changing the argument. The United States-Mexican border is a War Zone thanks to the Drug Cartels. Perhaps the argument can shift to focus on this issue as justification for the immediate and accelerated construction of a wall to protect American Citizens! Even Mexico has had no recourse but to mobilize over 30,000 troops. The problem is that many of them have deserted and are working as hit for the Drug Cartels! Thus the following serves as a primer for our Senat-amnesty GOP Senators:

1. from the Christian Science Monitor May 22, 2007 "Escalating drug war grips Mexico"

• Mexico City - Faced with assassinations of top police officials, death tolls at historic highs, and be-headings in the most innocuous public spaces, Mexico's President Felipe Calderón sent an unprecedented 30,000 troops and police across the country to tackle drug-related violence after taking office in December.
  
  
• But nearly six months later the terror has only gotten worse, as drug cartels battle for smuggling routes into the US. Officials are now even comparing the violence to the drug wars that plagued Colombia for more than a decade.
  
  
• More than 1,000 people have been killed this year alone in drug-related violence, according to the Mexican newspaper El Universal. Reporters have "disappeared," innocent bystanders have died, the US has issued travel warnings, and locals whisper about the worst violence they've ever seen.
  
  
• Some politicians have even called for troops to be deployed to Mexico City in the same fashion that some 30,000 have spread out around Michoacán, Acapulco, and along the US-Mexican border.
  
  
• "The government says that the violence and executions are the result of government pressure," he says. "[The drug gangs] act completely autonomous of the government; the government does not affect their operations nor their plans for business."
  
  
  
• Reporters have "disappeared," innocent bystanders have died, the US has issued travel warnings, and locals whisper about the worst violence they've ever seen.
  
  
  
• It is often unclear whether they are killed because of their involvement in combating organized crime or because they are part of it. Mexico has now become the second deadliest country for journalists after Iraq, according to Reporters Without Borders.
  Last year, 2,000 people were killed in drug-related violence. This year the 1,000 mark came May 15 – two months earlier than the year before and four months earlier than in 2005.
  
  

2. Houston Chronicle June 18, 2007, 11:54AM "New fear in Mexico: Army soldiers fleeing for cartels" Failure to track the thousands of deserters may lead to a pool of hit men... (HT Laura Ingraham)

• MEXICO CITY — The most ruthless gang of drug-cartel hit men in Mexico are deserters from the army's elite. But the Zetas, as the ex-soldiers are known, may not be the only troops who abandoned their posts to work for the cartels.
  In the eight years since the Zetas were organized, more than 120,000 Mexican soldiers have deserted the army, according to the government's records. Yet the country's defense officials have made little effort to track their whereabouts, security experts said, creating a potential pool of military-trained killers for the drug-trafficking gangs wreaking havoc in the country.
  "Even if just 5 percent of those join the cartels, that's an army of hit men," said Georgina Sanchez, an independent security analyst in Mexico City.
  High desertion rates within Mexico's armed forces, usually blamed on poor salaries and harsh living conditions, are nothing new. Until receiving a raise this year, rank-and-file soldiers made $330 a month, less than many police officers.
  
  
  
• The danger has escalated under the seven-month administration of President Felipe Calderon, who has sent more than 25,000 troops and federal police to areas under siege by the traffickers. In the process, experts say, he has also made the soldiers vulnerable to the cartels' corrupting influence.
• Gomez said she believes that rival gangs were already using former soldiers to combat the Zetas. She pointed to a video aired on YouTube in March showing men with assault rifles and combat fatigues interrogating two captives, who identified themselves as Zetas. Soon after, another video appeared of unidentified captors torturing and decapitating a man with a "Z" painted on his stomach.
  "You can tell by how they act," she said of the captors. "These aren't police. And they certainly aren't local ranch hands."
• Desertion rate of 8% a year
• Since 2000, an average of 16,000 soldiers a year, out of a total force of about 195,000, deserted the army, according to Defense Secretariat figures obtained through freedom of information laws. That's a desertion rate of about 8 percent a year.
• In contrast, 3,301 soldiers deserted the U.S. Army in 2006, or 0.65 percent of the total force of about 500,000 troops, according to the Army's press office. The same year, 428 soldiers were court-martialed and convicted of desertion.
• Mexican army officials recognize the problem. But they say the sheer numbers of deserters make it impossible to keep track of them, much less bring them to trial. Desertion is punishable by a prison sentence of 2 months to 12 years.

3. from WFAA.com Dallas/fort Worth channel 8 June 10, 2007 Authorities in U.S. border cities say May shootout shows danger of drug wars crossing over...

• Ranchers and merchants in the border towns say they've seen the fallout from the violence and worry about more to come, either in Mexico or in Arizona. Some 50 drug hit men convoyed into Cananea in northern Sonora state on May 16 and killed seven people, including five police officers who officials believe were targeted for betraying an agreement with a drug cartel.
  Army troops and police then pursued the gunmen, identified as former Mexican army elite soldiers known as "Zetas," through rugged mountains and, according to Mexican authorities, killed 16.
  The confrontation followed shootings in southern Arizona in which gunmen trying to hijack drug loads killed illegal immigrants in the vehicles they attempted to stop.
• Some 35 miles west of Douglas, near the border city of Naco, a hundred or more illegal immigrants daily cut across the San Jose Ranch owned by Jack Ladd and his son, John.
• The men said the violence around Cananea put a quick stop to the immigrant foot traffic on the ranch, which stretches along more than 10 miles of the Mexican border.
• Jack Ladd said migrants apparently holed up in staging areas in and around Naco for about a week, and John Ladd said he's convinced that drug cartel criminal activity has been ongoing in the area since July and now has engulfed migrants.
• "They're running the people [illegal immigrants] now, too," he said. "Instead of the mom-and-pop taxi service out of Naco, Sonora, it's the cartel that's doing it," he said.
  

3B. Sierra Vista Herald, Arizona Wednesday, June 20, 2007

• "Fort HUACHUCA (in Arizona) soldiers' travel to Mexico restricted"
  Published on Saturday, May 19, 2007
• FORT HUACHUCA — The commander of the Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca is restricting soldiers' assigned to the fort from traveling into Mexico and requiring them to exercise care when traveling in United States border communities.
• Additionally, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast is advising Army civilian personnel and family members of military and civilians to be careful.
• Specifically, in a message, she stated: "In view of the recent increase in drug-related violence just across the Mexican border near the towns of Cananea and Naco, until further notice, I am directing that all military personnel and strongly advising all Department of the Army civilian personnel and their families to restrict their travel by avoiding the border towns of Mexico. If you or your families are traveling near the border on the U.S. side, please use caution."

4. Kcol News Channel 13 Tucson "Port Of Entry Violence Causes Alert"

May 21, 2007 12:01 PM PDT

• Violence in Mexico has authorities on high alert at the Naco port of entry. This following a deadly outburst earlier this week south of the border.
  Mexican authorities are not letting cars drive through the Naco checkpoint into Mexico. You can still walk across. U.S. authorities are letting both drivers and walkers through into the U.S., but Customs and Border Protection says they are on heightened alert.
• Fort Huachuca began restricting its soldiers from traveling into Mexico until further
  notice. This all stems from two deadly shootings in two weeks. The first happened last week when two officers in Nogales, Sonora drove into an ambush. Suspected drug runners opened fire with AK-47s, hitting a patrol truck at least 50 times. One of the officers was killed.
• Earlier this week in Cananea, Mexico, about 30 miles south of Naco, gunmen linked to drug cartels stormed in and executed four police officers before getting into a huge gunfight with police. In all, 22 people died including 15 of the gunmen.
  Mexican authorities were doing rumor control Friday. They say reports of gunmen moving in on Cananea are false.

5. Washington Times August 2005 cached as it is an older article forecasting the above!...."Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S."

• A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50000 bounties for the for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to protect loads of cocaine and marijuana being brought into America by Mexican smugglers, authorities said. It is the most active port-of-entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.
  The deserters, known as the "Zetas," trained in the United States as an elite force of anti-drug commandos, but have since signed on as mercenaries for Mexican narcotics traffickers and have recruited an army of followers, many of whom are believed to be operating in Texas, Arizona, California and Florida.

Now the last my not least important bullet point for the GOP and the American citizens comes from this Heritage Foundation article June 19, 2007: (HT Laura Ingraham)

• 6. "The Senate Immigration Bill: A National Security Nightmare"
  by Kris W. Kobach, D.Phil., J.D.
  The four JFK terrorists include two nationals of Guyana, one of Trinidad, and one former Guyanan who was granted U.S. citizenship. The Fort Dix Islamic terrorists who were arrested in May included five foreign nationals from Yugoslavia and Jordan. A sixth, from Turkey, eventually obtained U.S. citizenship. Of the five aliens, three were illegal aliens who snuck across the southern border years ago near Brownsville, Texas.
  It is a certainty that many more illegal alien terrorists are quietly at work in the United States. In fiscal year 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended 3,722 aliens from nations that are designated state sponsors of terrorism or places in which al-Qaeda has operated, and for every one alien whom the Border Patrol apprehended, there were likely three aliens who were not caught. If so, it is probable that more than 10,000 aliens from high-risk, terrorist-associated countries illegally entered the United States in fiscal year 2005 alone. Assuming conservatively that only one in 100 was an actual terrorist, that is still over 100 terrorists who snuck across the border in a single year.

Here is the YouTube Video decribing Los Zetas,Ex-Mexican Army Special Forces soliders who have gone Rouge and are working with Drug Cartel Mexican as Leaders and Hit Men.

If Mexican Presidente Calderon is taking action shouldn't we! Apparently his Ratings are up because of his attempts to control this slaughter from this Civil War in his country!

• Yet Mr. Calderón's popularity has also doubled, with two-thirds of Mexicans now approving of his presidency. It is not necessarily because they believe he is solving the problem of insecurity, however. For most Mexicans, analysts say, taking bold action – even if initially unsuccessful – is better than none at all. "The worst feeling someone can have, when you see a problem, is no one doing anything. At least Calderón is doing something," says Jorge Chabat, a drug expert in Mexico City.
  

What do you think? Maybe this will get the GOP off the hook with this phony Wall equals Bigotry & Strawman theme the AlGore-zerra Agenda Network and dead CO2 absorber published clones are pushing. It could give the firepower needed to build the Wall. Protect Americans from the Mexican Civil War with the Drug Cartels and protect Mexicans seeking economic asylum from the Merciless "Coyotes"! Please send this inof on to the GOP Senators. It may not help but it is a Powerful argument and all mericans need to know this as it is getting little if any press.

Amnesty and Presidente Bush ...Que Pasa? No se?

Just Shy of 60 Million Conservative Americans voted for Presidente Boosche and ~56 voted for John D's at Yale Kerry in the last election. El Presidente does not care about ticking off the base because he is not running. This Am-Nasty Bill is weaker than the one proposed last year which only came about after Conservatives complained. It was a farce and El Presidente of Las Americas was trying to schmooze us Conservatives so that interim elections did not go South. Little happened on the Wall in the last year and now this switch and bait. Think about you folks are smart. It doesn't make sense if they claim that there are only 12 million illegals. Why tick off ~60 million Security Moms and Dads for 12 million(more like 18-20)? Presidente Boosche wants the the Hispanification of the USA in spite of the windfall votes for the Democrats. Presidente Boosche has sold Conservative America out. Has he got some secret deal with the Mexican Government to develop the antiquated Oil Industry in Mexico with America getting the first rights to purchase oil. This would be interesting but Mexicans never ever true to a deal. Americans can only lease ocean front land in Mexico. Years ago American Ex-patriots had their US dollars automatically converted into worthless pesos. I do not not what is the deal. I do not buy this nonsense that Boosche is a such a good Christian and he thinks this is the right thing to do. Something is rotten in the state of Texas and in D.C.? Why this Hispanification of the USA? Truly Que Pasa? I have my theory but I wander what you. George Boosche is turning the GOP in to a permanent Paralytic!...Insane and it does not add up except to ending the GOP and why? What if an attack comes from the Southern Border with Mexico and hits San Onofre Nuclear Plant or somthing horrible like that? He'll go down as the worst President in our History! I burning up neurons trying to figure out what Winston Churchill would call " "....It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian (Bush)national interest." Did you see these article about the border announced on the Ingraham show? Gotta to Know what other people think. BAD NEWS IN MEXICO: From The Houston Chronicle: "The most ruthless gang of drug-cartel hit men in Mexico are deserters from the army's elite. But the Zetas, as the ex-soldiers are known, may not be the only troops who abandoned their posts to work for the cartels." Read on. The National Security Nightmare: from the Heritage Foundation!

Amnesty, the Bushes, GOP and Votes

Again I must state that I saw this Am-Nasty when there seemed to be a cognitive dissonance between this Presidente's insistance to fight and the Middle East but leave the Border unchecked. It seemed like scuba diving in a wetsuit and trying to use an umbrella to keep from getting wet? Thus I grabbed a Cypber Snorkle and went NexusLexus Diving for informational treasure.
1. Papa Bush 41 made his Millions with his Zapata Oil offshore company with Mexicano fat cats. His partner was an X-CIA spook who may have had contacts for the Bay Pig Cubans who failed to overthrow Castro. The Bush family is friends with many of Mexico's former Presidentes.
See Jonathan Kwitny, "The Mexican Connection of George Bush," Barron's, September 19, 1988.
2. Jeb Bush made his millions with a Cuban refugee Armando Codina in Real Estate before going into Politics.
http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html
3. Bush 43, a political lightweight, in a very surprising and unexpected win defeated incumbant Governor, Ann Richards largely on the Hispanic vote.
4. When Gov. Bush wanted to run for Presidente he copied President Ronald Reagan "who believed that Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet." Thus he hired Reagan's ad-agency guy, Lionel Sosa who helped W get 40% of the Hispanic vote. Who is Sosa? A Texan who grew "up in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, Lionel Sosa was expected to learn a trade, defer to gringos and vote Democratic. But he was so impressed at age 13 by Dwight Eisenhower's version of the American Dream during a televised speech at the 1952 Republican Convention that he decided he wanted to be a rich businessman—and a Republican.
Two decades later, as a struggling ad-agency owner, Sosa helped U.S. Senator John Tower win his 1978 re-election bid with 37% of the Hispanic vote; no Republican in Texas had ever won more than 8%. Soon clients like Bacardi rum, Dr Pepper and Coors beer came seeking his advice on how to woo the Latino market, eventually turning Sosa & Associates into the largest Hispanic advertising agency in the U.S. At one point it was billing more than $100 million annually." See http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1093622,00.html
What did Sosa say last month about Am-Nasty?
"Blood runs thicker than politics," said Sosa, of San Antonio, who is helping organize a fundraiser for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat who is Latino. "I'm not saying I would vote for a Democrat. But I'm saying I would not vote for a Republican who opposed immigration reform." See: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immig27may27,1,1485860,full.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true
5. GOP Candidate Jorge Bush's Speech in August 2000 in Miami on Latin American and Western Hemisphere.
"America has one national creed, but many accents. We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.
Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.
For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.
I come from a state where Hispanic culture is strong. There are over 1 million Hispanic-owned businesses in America -- and over a hundred thousand in our state of Texas. There are over 6,000 Hispanic officials elected or appointed in this country -- and more than two thousand in my state, including some appointments I have made: our Secretary of State at one time, our Insurance Commissioner, and a justice of the Supreme Court. The strong families and deep faith and durable dreams of Latinos make America more, not less, American.
Yet for all these bonds of language and family, of travel and trade, Latin America often remains an afterthought of American foreign policy.
Those who ignore Latin America do not fully understand America itself. And those who ignore our hemisphere do not fully understand American interests.
This country was right to be concerned about a country like Kosovo -- but there are more refugees of conflict in Colombia.
America is right to be concerned about Kuwait -- but more of our oil comes from Venezuela.
America is right to welcome trade with China -- but we export as much to Brazil.
Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.
Some still look at Latin America through old stereotypes.
But I see a hemisphere of 500 million people, striving with the dream of a better life. A dream of free markets and free people, in a hemisphere free from war and tyranny. That dream has sometimes been frustrated -- but it must never be abandoned.
This hemisphere, united by geography, has often been divided by history. In the 19th century, many strong nations wanted weak neighbors they could dominate. But those days have passed. In the 21st century, strong nations will benefit from healthy, confident, democratic neighbors."
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/26/195405
6. The Hispanic population in 2025 100 million
7. Next Presidente Bush as in George P who claimed his Mama, Columba Garnica Gallo, taught him that he must "Fight For His Race" from Reuters, Aug. 2, 2000(could not find) but excerted from American Renaissance

George P. Bush is the son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Mexican-born wife Columba which makes him the nephew of the Republican candidate for President. At a recent Republican rally he spoke in fluent Spanish about how his mother had instilled in him the values of Cesar Chavez, the Chicano who organized farmworkers. "She told me we have to fight for our race, we have to find the leaders who represent us," he said. About his uncle the candidate, he said, "This is a President who represents the diversity of our society, who we can count on to change the Republican Party to represent our views." (Reuters, Aug. 2, 2000.)
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8. George P.'s grandfather per USA Today was a "Migrant Worker" Legal or Illegal? It did not say,,,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-20-bush-nephew_x.htm
9. What is in to for the GOP per Hugh's blog
"John [McCain] is telling the Republican Party 'If you want to win 2008, you can't win with 22% of the Hispanic vote.' How are we going to be a viable party if we leave this issue behind, unresolved? How are we going to be a viable party if we tell President Bush 'Go take a hike because we don't want to deal with the 12 million?' It is hard. Our culture is under assault. People feel like that if let the 12 million in and forgive them that would be bad, and they're right. We're not forgiving anybody. We're saying you stay here on our terms. You learn English. "
That is the Story. The Bush Family loves America and the love the Americas. If the Hispanic vote goes Democratic as it usually does, no problem George P. Bush can just switch parties in the opposite direction that Ronald Reagan did. Indeed there is barely a difference at this point with McConell and Kyle going along with this Rope-a-Dope they are involved in with the Am-Nasty they are scheming to get thru.

We are being sold out for Votes. The ~60 million consevatives who voted for Bush in 2004 do not count. Add the majority of 12-20 million Illegals to the 56 million who voted for Kerry and a Republican will never be President again. I predict George P, Bush will switich to the Demcratic Party when he is ready to run after he makes his millions in Real Estate(like his Papa). Illegal Jihadists are coming across the border and when they blow up a City in alta California, the nuclear fallout will flow down wind to Mexico too. Legals , Illegals and Americans will all die hurting America and Mexico(putting a dent on the US dollars going back to Mexico). Jorge P. Bush will not become Presidente if this happens so word to the wise BUILT a Wall Presidente Booshe!
Adios Amigos, going to the Cama(bed)

Al Qaeda Franchises flourish because Jihadist want to bring back the Caliphate!

 Walid Phares, a Christian born and educated in Lebanon knows the subject of Jihad well.  It was Professor Phares who taught me that introduced me to Salafism, Wahabism, Khomeinism and Jihadism and explained that inherent to them is this concept of the Caliphate.  The MSM and Liberals claim that we are less safe today because we Americans under Presidente Bush invaded Iraq and not the so called Al Qaeda independent franchise system has been spawned because of it.  Professor Phares explains that one of the most important objectives of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Salafi Jihadi networks around the world has been the re-establishment of a Caliphate  and incorporating in it all Arab and Muslim states. he indicates that the absence of understanding of the term Caliphate was the problem in education at US Universities in the 1990s. Professors in America unfortunately succeeded at "dis-educating" their students about the nature of the enemy by simply leaving out the term "Caliphate" of the curricula for Middle East Studies classes.  Journalists, authors and Liberal Professors treat the term Califate as if it denoted a mere historical period and not an aggressive political project of the Jihadists of the 21st century.  Phares states that:

 

"The "Caliphate" epitomizes all that the Jihadists are preparing for, working towards, and killing for. This word IS at the center of the War with Terrorism – it is not an obscure academic word as Miller and Philips would have us believe. The bringing back of the "Caliphate" is the chief reason why Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, Zarqawi, and Adam Gadahn have declared and waged a war against the people of the United States. Given its centrality to the Jihadist activities, the term must be treated seriously.

 Usama Bin laden the many troubling statements about "his" caliphate:

"Baghdad, the seat of the caliphate, will not fall to you, God willing," he said, "and we will fight you as long as we carry our guns." Bin Laden's rhetoric evoked, as it often does, an earlier, golden era of Islam, one that exists more in his imagination than in the lawless, crumbling city of Baghdad today."

Precisely, as I(Walid Phares) explain in my book Future Jihad, the Salafi Jihadists live in the past, borrow from the past but their bloody projects are in the present and loom over the future. When leaders, because of the mishaps of academics, respond to al Qaeda, they are sending a firm message: "This" Caliphate, which is against international law and the enemy of Muslim moderates as well, won't be allowed to crush the international community and democracies. But our media unfortunately are not interested in a smart and vigorous response to the terrorists, but only in what can be harvested domestically in partisan "debates." This article is telling us that Bush (or the 1990s' Clinton for that matter) or any future President shouldn't utter the word Caliphate, even if it has been absorbed by the modern days Jihadists and used in their mobilization campaign. As if in 1941, American Presidents would have been criticized for the use of "Third Reich" because "many centuries ago, the Reich was perceived as the German nation re-gathered." Puzzling, isn't it? " 

Read the entire article here.

In a word the restablishment of the a Caliphate is an Ideology! If Americans are ignorant of these concepts the Left will succeed in cutting of their noses or necks to spite our Conservative Faces!

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President Bush's desire that America be Hispanicized goes back to his Nomination in 2000!

I have Tracked down the Speech El Presidente gave in Miami August 25, 2000 while he was in route to his Nomination for the GOP.  It deals with his concept of Free Trade and Latin American.  It is a must read.  Just like Bill "Bubba" Clinton was the first 'Black President' America Elected the first Hispanic President when we voted in Jorge(George) W. Bush.  He ran for President of the Americas not the United States of America.  This was the New World Order Papa Bush 41 spoke in the 1980's.  Now the standard bearer will be brother Jeb or his nephew, George P. Bush

 

George W. Bush's Speech on Latin America

NewsMax.com
Sunday, Aug. 27, 2000

Miami, Florida
Friday, Aug. 25, 2000

Western Hemisphere

America has one national creed, but many accents. We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

I come from a state where Hispanic culture is strong. There are over 1 million Hispanic-owned businesses in America -- and over a hundred thousand in our state of Texas. There are over 6,000 Hispanic officials elected or appointed in this country -- and more than two thousand in my state, including some appointments I have made: our Secretary of State at one time, our Insurance Commissioner, and a justice of the Supreme Court. The strong families and deep faith and durable dreams of Latinos make America more, not less, American.

Yet for all these bonds of language and family, of travel and trade, Latin America often remains an afterthought of American foreign policy.

Those who ignore Latin America do not fully understand America itself. And those who ignore our hemisphere do not fully understand American interests.

This country was right to be concerned about a country like Kosovo -- but there are more refugees of conflict in Colombia.

America is right to be concerned about Kuwait -- but more of our oil comes from Venezuela.

America is right to welcome trade with China -- but we export as much to Brazil.

Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.

Some still look at Latin America through old stereotypes.

But I see a hemisphere of 500 million people, striving with the dream of a better life. A dream of free markets and free people, in a hemisphere free from war and tyranny. That dream has sometimes been frustrated -- but it must never be abandoned.

This hemisphere, united by geography, has often been divided by history. In the 19th century, many strong nations wanted weak neighbors they could dominate. But those days have passed. In the 21st century, strong nations will benefit from healthy, confident, democratic neighbors.

Weak neighbors export problems: environmental trouble, illegal immigration, even crime, drugs and violence. Strong neighbors export their goods, and buy ours -- creating jobs and good will.

We seek, not just good neighbors, but strong partners. We seek, not just progress, but shared prosperity. With persistence and courage, we shaped the last century into an American century. With leadership and commitment, this can be the century of the Americas.

In 1992 -- the 500th anniversary of Spanish contact with America - we seemed well on our way toward that vision. The United States and our friends in the region had overcome the debt crisis. We negotiated the end of cruel and bloody wars. Together, we confronted inflation and checked nuclear proliferation. Democracy was advancing. And the North American Free Trade Agreement promised to be a blueprint for free trade throughout the hemisphere.

But the promise of that moment has been squandered. The Clinton/Gore administration has had no strategy. We have seen summits without substance, and reaction instead of action. We were promised fast-track trade authority -- as every American president has had for 25 years. And yet this administration failed to get it. We were promised a Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Yet it never happened. Chile was promised partnership in NAFTA. And it was "delayed."

And in spite of real, even dramatic progress in some parts of Latin America, problems have grown into crises. Narcotic traffickers seek to gain control of a government. Many free nations still struggle to show economic results for all their citizens. And we can never forget the vast urban slums where young children scramble for survival.

Should I become president, I will look South, not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental commitment of my presidency. Just as we ended the great divide between East and West, so today we can overcome the North-South divide.

This begins with a renewed commitment to democracy and freedom in this hemisphere -- because human freedom, in the long run, is our best weapon against poverty, disease and tyranny.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

It is a tribute to a promising new president -- and a tribute to a visionary out-going president as well.

Later today, I will meet with the president-elect of Mexico, and begin what I hope is a strong and constant friendship. I have a vision for our two countries. The United States is destined to have a "special relationship" with Mexico, as clear and strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain. Historically, we have had no closer friends and allies. And with Canada, our partner in NATO and NAFTA, we share, not just a border, but a bond of good will. Our ties of history and heritage with Mexico are just as deep.

Differences are inevitable between us. But they will be differences among family, not between rivals.

To strengthen that bond, our two countries need a meeting at the highest level, shortly after the American election -- even before the new presidents of our nations are inaugurated.

Should I be elected, I will use that November summit to keep Mexican-American relations moving forward.

We must talk about the availability and cleanliness of water on both sides of the border ... about opening the promise of NAFTA to small businesses and entrepreneurs ... about economic development in areas of Mexico that send illegal immigrants to this country ... about improving health and criminal justice in both nations.

Mexico is an emerging success story. Yet elsewhere in this hemisphere, democracy is still on trial -- threatened by the false prophets of populism.

I look forward to working closely with the nations of this hemisphere but recognize that they cannot be bullied into progress. We will treat all Americans -- North, Central and South -- with dignity. I will improve our bilateral relations and work with the Organization of American States to confront the problems of our hemisphere.

My administration will strengthen the architecture of democracy in Latin America -- the institutions that make democracy real and successful. The basics of democracy should be refreshed with programs that train responsible police and judges. We will encourage professional and civilian-controlled militaries, through contact with our own. The principles of free speech should be advanced through American media exchanges. We will create a new "American Fellows" program, inviting young men and women throughout the Americas to work for a year in various agencies of our government. We will encourage party-building and help monitor elections. These are ways to treat the symptoms of corruption and discord before they turn into violence and abuse of human rights.

To all the nations of Latin America I say: As long as you are on the road toward liberty, you will not be alone. As long as you are moving toward freedom, you will have a steady friend in the United States of America.

The health of a democracy depends on real economic gains for average citizens. And this requires Latin American governments to act for themselves: to lift the barriers of bureaucracy and over-regulation that prevent the poor from creating legal small businesses. To give more priority and funding to universal education -- because no nation can afford to squander the talent of its people.

Our nation can be an ally in these efforts. The future of this hemisphere lies with the creation of millions of small businesses among the poor - the surest path out of poverty. But the poor in Latin America often have no access to small amounts of working capital -- to credit cards or bank loans -- that would help them buy something as simple as an oven to bake and sell bread. So I support what are called "microloans" -- small, no-collateral loans allowing the poor to build a business and employ their neighbors. As president, I will ask Congress for $100 million dollars to help microcredit organizations that are working in Latin America. And I will ask the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to add to this investment. We will apply the power of markets to the needs of the poor.

We can also use the power of debt reduction to relieve poverty and protect the resources that sustain life in the Americas. We will link debt reduction and the conservation of tropical forests. These forests affect the air we breathe, the food we eat, medicines that cure disease, and are home to more than half of Earth's animal and plant species. Expanding the aims of the Tropical Forest Conservation Act, I will ask Congress to provide $100 million to support the exchange of debt reduction for the protection of tropical forests.

In addition, we must recognize and promote the important role of American charities and churches and relief organizations in Latin America -- organizations which build housing, health clinics and schools. Groups like Amigos De Las Americas, which trains young people to be community health workers in the region. These are practical and effective ways for the wealth and compassion of America to help all the Americas -- and introduce many of our own people to their nation's neighborhood.

I recently proposed extending the charitable tax deduction to every American, which will encourage both giving and outreach. And we can be charitable beyond our borders, so I will encourage American churches and congregations to adopt Latin American churches -- meeting their people and helping in their work. I will challenge American businesses to do their part -- for example, by having their employees volunteer their help with development projects. And I will instruct our embassies to serve and help these non-profits, as they now help businesses, with a counselor appointed specifically for that purpose. Good relations among governments are strengthened by millions of friendships among our people.

Our country is sometimes impatient with the progress of democracy in Latin America. We forget that democracy is a long march. In our country, democracy grew to maturity over time, and only with great work and sacrifice. It is no different today throughout the Americas.

America must recognize that not only can our neighbors learn from us, but we can learn from them.

Let me give you one example. Back in 1980, Chile faced problems with its retirement system. They decided to convert the pay-as-you-go system into a system of personal retirement accounts -- in which contributions are invested in a safe portfolio of bonds and shares. The idea was to empower the common man -- with something to own and pass along to their children. And the reforms didn't just benefit individuals, but the Chilean economy as a whole.

The Chilean economists who originally designed these reforms studied here in the United States -- at Harvard and the University of Chicago. They learned here and now it is time for us to learn from them. No question, our solutions for Social Security will be different, but we can learn from their experience with reform.

Listening to our neighbors -- treating them with dignity -- is what I mean by respect. But respect is not unconditional. It must be earned. We will respect those who respect the rights of their citizens. In our hemisphere, there is one clear example where this does not happen. The leadership of Cuba has not even begun the journey to that goal. So I challenge the Castro regime to surprise the world and adopt the ways of democracy. Until it frees political prisoners, and holds free elections and allows free speech, I will keep the sanctions in place.

I will support the forces of democracy, and revive the voice of Radio and TV Marti.

Our inspiration is Jose Marti himself ... "Man loves liberty," he said, "even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist. La libertad no es negociable." Freedom is not negotiable.

Mr. Castro, let your people live in freedom.

The first goal in our hemisphere is democracy.

Our second goal is free trade in the all the Americas, which will be a step toward free trade in all the world.

We know the power of trade in Texas, because of rising commerce under NAFTA. Thanks to NAFTA, America now trades $200 billion worth of goods with Mexico, and half of it crosses the Texas border.

The economic case for NAFTA is strong, and the moral case is just as powerful. As barriers fall and markets open, people in Mexico are finding good jobs in their own country. Thousands are able to start businesses for the first time.

Standards for conducting business become more regular. Standards for education rise to meet the demands of the economy. That economy demands literacy, and skilled labor, and expertise in accounting and engineering and technology. It is a gradual change, and not always easy. But it can uplift a country and uplift a life.

In the United States, our Constitution calls these benefits "the blessings of liberty."

People throughout the Americas now seek the same for themselves and their posterity.

We can help, but in the end that opportunity is not ours to grant or deny. If the United States cannot offer new trade with the nations of Latin America, they will find it elsewhere -- as they are doing already in new agreements with the European Union. In the last few years, Mexico signed a trade agreement with the Europeans, while Canada has a new trade pact with Chile.

All of this while, in Washington, time has been lost. European businesses and consumers are benefiting -- ours are not.

I don't fault our European friends for making these deals. We dropped the ball, and they're running with it. But we must get back into the game, and here is how I propose to do it...

First, I will secure fast-track authority -- the ability to pass or reject trade agreements without amendment. Without it, as we have seen, America is slow to move, and other nations are unwilling to negotiate with us seriously. When the next president sits at the Americas Summit in Quebec next April, other nations must know that fast-track trade authority is on the way.

Our goal will be free trade agreements with all the nations of Latin America. We can do so in cooperation with our NAFTA partners. We should do so with Chile, and Brazil and Argentina, the anchor states of Mercosur. Brazil is the largest economy in Latin America, with such vast economic potential, and our relations must reflect this.

We will also work toward free trade with the smaller nations of Central America and the Caribbean. We must be flexible because one-size-fits-all negotiations are not always the answer.

But the ultimate goal will remain constant ... free trade from northernmost Canada to the tip of Cape Horn.

In the near term, we will renew trade preferences with the Andean nations -- enacted in 1991, and set to expire next year. It is essential to support these economies in a time of challenge.

My administration will foster democracy and level barriers to trade. But we have a third great goal. We must defend the security and stability of our hemisphere against the grave threats of organized crime, narcotics traffickers, and terrorist groups. Forces that work together to subvert economies, corrupt governments and destroy lives.

America cannot blame others for the narcotics trade. After all, we are the market that sustains it. And we have a responsibility to confront this problem, with a balanced policy of education, and treatment and law enforcement. I will support character education in our schools, effective drug prevention programs in our communities and faith-based drug treatment programs that transform lives.

On the supply side, we can help countries like Bolivia and Peru in promoting crop substitutes.

We can work with banks to prevent money laundering. With better intelligence and surveillance, we can track and catch drug smugglers before they reach our borders. And we will continue to work with Mexico to cooperate more closely on interdiction. With expanded patrols, we can make our borders something more than lines on a map. Right now the number of American border enforcement officers is less than the law requires. We'll hire more agents, and focus a reformed INS on the job of defending our border.

One country particularly ravaged by narco-trafficking is Colombia.

Until recently, Colombia was not given the priority and attention it needs. That nation now faces a large, armed insurgency, funding a vision of Marxist-Leninism with the profits of drugs.

These terrorists plague Colombia with killing and kidnapping. They have been found in Panama and are feared by Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.

Colombia's President, Andres Pastrana, has begun the fight against drugs, corruption and poverty. But the Colombian government must operate from a position of strength. That is why I support the $1.3 billion in aid the Congress has passed and the President has signed. This money should help build up the capabilities of Colombia's armed forces. Even though I do not advocate the use of American troops in battle, our forces can help train the Colombian military. Our aid will help the Colombian government protect its people, fight the drug trade, halt the momentum of the guerillas and bring about a sensible and peaceful resolution to this conflict.

The success of Colombia is not just the urgent concern of America, it is a test for our hemisphere.

This test, and many others, we will meet together.

By trading freely we will share with one another and learn from one another. By diplomacy and common enterprise, we will gain a deeper understanding and respect for one another. By defending each other against present dangers, we will secure for ourselves a peaceful future.

Nearly 40 years ago, a visitor returned from a trip to Latin America, convinced it was poised for change. It would be, said Robert Kennedy, "peaceful if we are wise enough ... compassionate if we care enough... successful if we are fortunate enough." That change, he believed, was coming if we willed it or not. We could "affect its character," but we could not "alter its inevitability."

That change has come, and it is a revolution of freedom, of trade, and democracy, and the rule of law. If we are wise and committed, a new generation of leaders can affect its character.

We can make it peaceful and compassionate and lasting. We can bring new hope to the new world --building an age of prosperity, in a hemisphere of liberty.

 

Also read this prophetic article by Lawrence Auster  in 2000 after this speech "My Bush epiphany" at World Net Daily(http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16425).

 

Additionally I found this succinct article by the same author on his blog View form the Right and entitled "What Bush really thinks" written in June 2007 @ http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007937.html 

 

Lawrence Auster is correct Bush has long held a desire that America be Hispanicized!  Now I understand what is going on with our Presidente.  Thank Mr. Auster.....

 

 

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