Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: palehorse74
Originally posted by: Craig234
An act of war - sort of like President Polk announcing the border had shifted far into Mexican lands and moving some troops to the new 'border' deep in Mexican territory, to provoke a war in which we 'defended' ourselves and took about half of Mexico? Act a little more self righteous. Ya, we need to 'defend the border', but a little perspective before pretending our nation has an unblemished record is nice.
So, the Mexican military escorting drug smugglers
across the modern borders into our country, and shooting at our countrymen, is somehow
justified, or should be looked at in a different light, all because of some historical grievances with the way the lines were drawn!?!?
allllllllrighty then.
what a fvcking kook...
Time for more cleanup of righty droppings, who simply cannot read simple English, and correct the misrepresentations of what I said.
My point was at those who are overly self-righteous about our border rights, who either don't know or have double standards about them as a way of pretending their history is unblemished on respecting borders (the same people in most cases who are happy for the US to invade other nations, such as Iraq, as well), to point out that the attitude is wrong.
Who does the kook Palehorse see as a kook - the person who mentions some history, or the guy who says 'let's shoot dozens of civilian mexicans in the head who are trying to find work in the US'? You got it, the one who mentions the history. The people coming to work are not the Mexican military who are doing those things, but see the posts against them.
I said we need to 'defend the border', but the kook Palehorse can't read too well, and so he misrepresents my post as saying the opposite.
The point is that the kooks, Palehorse and others, get into a frenzy over the idea of some issue of border rights giving them the justification for whatever self-righteous claims of being wronged, without any regard to the history, and they get carried away in this self-righteousness to not only 'defending the border' appropriately, but to excessive schemes. The day I see a balanced post from someone like Palehorse, mentioning anything about the larger context of history, of the moral responsibilities regarding the inequities of wealth, along with the issue of border responsibility, well let's just say I'll watch the news for planes crashing into pigs.
It's a disaster how the drug corruption in Mexico and other corruption has affected some of the authorities, where you see shootouts between police and military and such.
The solutions to those problems don't lie in kooks calling for blowing off the heads of the workers who cross the borders and other such yahoo positions.