blackwater-I too have fought for the American Flag but I do not give forginers the same Constutional Rights as I do Americans.

I agree with you, but that article was very vague in saying whether or not the ingrate who did that was illegal or an American citizen. My question is that if the business owner was found to be an illegal immigrant, why hasn't he been deported yet if he is still in this country? If it's an American citizen, then let his customers and the locals punish him by not giving him their business. Then he'll take that flag down and fly the American one or go out of business.

I don't think they deport unless they catch them on the Border or they are arrested for a crime comitted.

No need to watch how his community reacts to his choice of flags. He already reacted by doing what he did.

The horns of our illegal alien dilemma are simple to state. Those who oppose the illegals among us insist that the bulk of them, being Mexican, be deported forthwith from the soil of the United States. Those who support the de facto presence of these 17 million human beings assert that it is not only immoral but simply impossible to deport such a number. Both these propositions seem a bit extreme to me as well as unimaginative. Applying a bit of imagination to this clefstick yields an acceptable compromise.


While it is clear that allowing 17 million residents to break the law is unacceptable if you wish to continue a society based upon the law, it is also clear that sending anybody back into the global chancre that is Mexico against their will is immoral. Sending anybody to Mexico forcibly should be reserved as a punishment in our penal system, and not seen as a part of our immigration policy.

Indeed, most of the illegal and legal people of Mexican descent among us are here because their were both astute enough to see Mexico as it is, and resourceful enough to get the hell out of there. When all is said and done, the primary "cause" of illegal immigration is not that the United States is so great, but that Mexico sucks about as deeply as a country can and still not blow up. For the most part we benefit by receiving the cream of the Mexican gene pool any way we can get them. I present the wide availability of a decent mole sauce as exhibits A, B, and C. But still, the law is the law.

Hence the problem becomes how to send 17 million Mexicans back to Mexico in a moral and humane fashion. (While keeping our strategic reserve of mole sauce high at the same time.)

Please do not tell me "It can't be done." It can of course be done. True, it will not be done overnight by clicking the heels of the ruby shoes of the Deportation Fairy and saying, "For 17 million of you there's no place like home." Nope. They got here in dribs and dabs, and back they shall go the same way. The underutilized Greyhound buses that are still networked throughout the lower 48 states will serve well for this purpose as well as giving a much needed boost to Greyhound's stock.

Getting the illegals back to Mexico will be a simple matter of rounding them up and getting them to the bus on time. The shuttling of the Mexicans to the border and beyond will take some time, but with half the energy the government devotes to scanning your ass at the airport, it can be accomplished in about 18 months tops once the system gets rolling. Do the math. It breaks down to about 31,000 one-way border deliveries a day. Well within the core competency of Greyhound.

Of course, the real problem of this is that, as alluded to above, sending anyone to Mexico against their will is immoral. Unless, of course, they are armed. Then it is not only moral but beneficial to humanity in general. For this I will suggest handing out, to our deportees as they depart, not only a little spending money but some critical "democracy tools" from "The Unwelcome Wagon of the USA" along with a breakfast burrito and a Pepsi.

The problem with Mexico is not that it is an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy (which it is). but that that the democratic/peoples component of the Mexican political equation is essentially unarmed. The Mexican oligarchy has, as oligarchies will, most of the guns and the lion's share of the ammunition in the form of the Mexican armed forces.

So it seems to me that if what we are up to is deporting illegal Mexican aliens back to Mexico, the least we can do is send them off with one of the true gifts of American democracy -- an assault rifle and a case or two of ammunition. Arriba!

This will solve one of the major problems implicit in the forced deportation of Mexicans back to Mexico, i.e. the forced destabilization of Mexico.

It is obvious that the opportunities and money available to illegal aliens in the United States is one of the few safety valves available to the ruling Mexican oligarchy. After all, if we didn't exist the ruling families of Mexico would have to either cut the wretched of Mexico in on the petroleum pie or face civil war. Remember that Mexico is a country in which one of the richest men has more money than 17 million of his fellow citizens put together. As long as we're covering the oligarchy's ass with our porous northern border, the steady state of Mexico's de facto dictatorship can survive. And who needs a dictatorship on our southern border?

We need to stop propping up Mexican fascists by importing their excess angst. We need to initiate a policy for illegal alien deportation that involves the importation of first rate American assault weapons. Once that happens the future for the ruling families of Mexico starts to look a little more sketchy than it has been up to now.

This compromise has two other benefits to America.

First, it gives our home grown armaments industries a much needed shot in the arm. After all, outsourcing the manufacture of your weapons to a foreign country (as has recently been suggested) is not always a cost-effective way of planning for your future as an independent nation.

Second, it gives a lot of repatriated Mexicans a shot (so to speak) at making their country a true democracy at last.

Of course, you may say that a wise and far sighted Mexican oligarchy would simply shoot these repatriated citizens as they crossed the border with assault rifle and bandoliers. Well, perhaps, but I think we could counter that by using the US Army, Navy, and Air Force to provide safe passage, protected corridors, and air cover for all the armed Mexicans until they got back to the city or village of their choice. After that, they'd be on their own. Back in Mexico with a few bucks, a weapon, and more than a few rounds to go around.

An economic bonus to this is that it would enable the US to stop paying for security on the southern border. After the first 50,000 or so pistoleros repatritatos were walked back deep into Mexico courtesy of the 101st Airborne, Mexico would look to seal up the border all by itself. If they got too carried away with the 101st there could be an opening for a whole new political party in Mexico overnight.

Sounds revolutionary to me.

Now the gunny didn't write the above mind you, just stumbled across it recently on a website called American Digest. I like it when folks think outside the box.