How dare they! (the usual right-wing idiots)
I could almost make a regular series out of the right-wing morons who go ballistic any time Mexico… or Mexicans … are in the news, and see some sort of plot afoot, or … ahem… react badly.
Two new stories. The “incursion” (by unknown persons, who returned to Mexico when they bumped into some National Guardsmen in the middle of the Arizona Desert) leads “Euphoric Reality” to start babbling about somebody named “Governor Lopez” (who apparently is Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona — I guess when these yo-yos get wound up, they can’t bother with little things like factual accuracy. Governor Lopez? )… and… like every other report I’ve seen, all references the same exact TV news cast.
Sheesh… can’t these guys find something new?
And… in the “Pay for your Italian Food in American Dollars… or else…” department:
Dallas-based pizza chain under fire for taking pesos
Associated Press
DALLAS — A pizza chain has been hit with death threats and hate mail after offering to accept Mexican pesos, becoming another flashpoint in the nation’s debate over immigrants.
“This is the United States of America, not the United States of Mexico,” one e-mail read. “Quit catering to the damn illegal Mexicans,” demanded another.
Dallas-based Pizza Patron said it was not trying to inject itself into a larger political debate about illegal immigration when it posted signs this week saying “Aceptamos pesos” — or “We accept pesos” — at its 59 stores across Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and California….
mexfiles.net 
it’s what happens when you close a country down so they don’t get any information from anywhere else. Not only do they think that they have the whole picture, they don’t even know how bad they have got it. Seriously, they think life in Europe is some kind of gray miserable socialism.
the moment i saw that news a few days ago i KNEW it would piss off SO many rigthwingers. i mean wutWUT? uSA taking mexican moniez?????
all i can say, ahem, is BWAJAJAJA!
you can’t stop this wave.
The armed gunmen were a mexican paramilitary force – Zetas, maybe – performing a military-style assault. What do you think of that now?
The same as before… your referenence is the SAME report… uh… this is like claiming you saw a UFO and the proof is that its in black and white that you said you saw the UFO.
No one doubts there were people on the border with guns and who fled into Mexico. They may or may not have been wearing some sort of uniform. Lots of folks do and uniforms aren’t hard to buy anywhere. None of which means anything in particular.
The yo-yos in Washington sent the NG to look for “illegal aliens”, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they ran into smugglers — after all, smuggling has been going on for the last 150 years along that border, and there’s nothing new about it. Just now, the U.S. side buys very expenive narcotics, and it’s getting harder and harder for the Mexican suppliers to meet the demand (police pressure in Mexico), so no surprise they’re armed.
Zetas, maybe– maybe not. Seeing you’re talking about maybe a dozen guys (usually operating in Tamaulipas, not Sonora), seems unlikely, but sounds impressive to uninformed folks like “Readhead.”
It’s Redhead. As opposed to blonde. 😉
Ok, so what is your point? That the BP and AZNG are lying about the paramilitary force? Or that they are telling the truth, but since it happens all the time, it’s no big deal.
And I see you’re buying the Mexican koolaid about the Zetas. Your information was long ago outdated. There’s quite a bit of research out there that contradicts the official Mexican storyline on the Zetas, check into it. I would think an amateur historian would be interested in the real deal, and not merely satisfied with the propaganda from an infamously corrupt Third World government.
And don’t bother trying to pull the patronizing ‘I-lived-there-so-I-know-more-than-you’ card. I did as well, in the Peten jungle of Southern Yucatan, near the Belize and Guatemala borders. I know all about Mexican corruption and propaganda. I won’t need revisionist lessons from you.
“Buying the Mexican koolaid”… I’m not sure what that means, exactly. I’ve seen references to “koolaid” on a number of right-wing sites. Some code they use with each other, apparently.
But, this isn’t just any koolaid… this is “MEXICAN KOOLAID” — which, according to this ying-yang — is some special brand put out by the Mexican government. Um… like I don’t talk to border sheriffs and the border patrol down here? I’ve checked the sites, and — frankly — most of it is sheer nonsense, mixing in al Quada and anti-immigration rants and whatall. How the propaganda of that “infamously corrupt Third Word goverment” differs from that of the “infamously racist right-wing blogosphere” is a matter for amateur historians of the future to sort out… when they write their “revisionist lessons” (and what history is not a revision of the previous ones… btw, what do you mean I’m writing a “revisionist history” anyway?).
Perdoname but the Arizona NG is NOT in Arizona on the border they’re in Iraq. Last time I was down Sasabe way i.e. la frontera, the Georgia NG was on the border in Arizona. They’re nice boys but wouldn’t know a mexicano from an italiano. La migra, well they’re like all government agencies only more deceitful and secretive. As for armed guys in uniforms, between all the vigilantes, the NG, la migra and private citizens playing army it could’ve been anybody. Hell down here you can’t go for a stroll without tripping over somebody in uniform. And anybody can walk over the border into Mexico -nobody guarding the other side. Los mexicanos must lack paranoia …