On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:37:09 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
SNIP
Mexicans would stay home if their country was better. And if
the elected reps in the US would stop handing out my tax
dollars to illegals.
SNIP
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Major portion of the problem is that many areas in Mexico
and Central/South America were destabilized when NAFTA/WTO
was rammed through.
Significant segements/amounts of the population [huge in
absolute numbers] were dependent on subsistence and small
scale agriculture which were destroyed when Cargill and ADM
flooded the markets with cheap corn and other agriculture
products.
Additional problems were created when the land for
subsistance/small scale agriculture was seized to be used
for modernization/industrialization. The people displaced
had no place to go other than the enormous cities, with only
the most marginal or no work, with the result that they were
starving to death. What alternative do they have except to
head north or engage in the dug trade or its support
activities? As is generally the case, we have largely
brought these problems on ourselves as a result of the
actions of a few for their personal gain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatis...nal_Liberation
http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/tdjb.html
In many ways the troubles to the south are not primarily a
drug problem but a revolution financed by the drug trade,
waged by people with nothing left to lose, e.g. like
Columbia. As such it is likely to get far worse, for
example as the revolutionaries/drug gangs acquire heavier
and more modern weapons than the **** ant AKs/SKSs/M16s they
are currently acquiring in the US. Shoulder fired
antiaircraft munitions, RPGs, and wire guided anti armor
munitions should be a particular concern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K34_Strela-3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M133_Kornet
-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
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The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).