THEY HAVE TAKEN THE LAW IN THEIR OWN HANDS

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Originally published in the December 7, 2003 issue of the Alamance Independent

THEY HAVE TAKEN THE LAW IN THEIR OWN HANDS

By Mark Andrew Dwyer -- Posted 12/10/03

Not content with slow progress in negotiations to open the U.S. territory to free flow of excess population from Mexico (see [1] for a recent statement by Mexican foreign secretary), Mexican "migrants" decided to take the law in their own hands and exercised their God-given right to improve their lives by crossing the American border as they please and claiming their share in the benefits and privileges enjoyed by American residents. And so did their "Hispanic" vigilante organizations in the U.S. that by means of street protest, civil unrest, and treat of rebellion enforced the rights of Mexican "migrants" even before these rights were made a law by American Congress or legislatures of several states. They are particularly militant when it comes to enforcing of such fundamental rights like the right of all Mexicans "already here" to American driver's license and their safety from deportation, and encourage those who are deprived of such rights to do justice for themselves by driving without a license, disregarding American-Mexican border, and voting in elections.

Mexican government doesn't lag much behind, either. The recent visit of El Presidente Fox to America and his open calls to legally grant Mexican "migrants" all the rights they already gave to themselves, was just a proverbial iceberg tip of efforts of Mexican officials to take the law of their neighbor in their own hands. While Fox's claims were widely known, other more disturbing symptoms of Mexican vigilantism have largely escaped public attention. Take for example a border incident reported by World Net Daily (see [2]) and News Max (see [3]). A small band of armed (para)military Mexican personnel crossed the American border and kidnapped a family of American citizens who were shooting rabbits on their property and forcefully transported them to Mexico. Although the kidnapped persons were eventually released by Mexican authorities, the incident was a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the U.S. and an obviously criminal violation of the rights of American citizens in their own country. One can easily imagine what the border zone would look like if it were Mexico and not the U.S. that had the mightiest army of the world.

As one can expect, the American so-called "mainstream" media remain conspicuously mum on the issue of Mexican nationals and officials forcefully doing justice to themselves on American soil. If they occasionally attack immigration or border "vigilantes", these are ... the Americans and not Mexicans that are being criticized for wrongdoing. With media's characteristic talent to doctor the truth and to present it backward, they portray the American citizens who stood up against mass (over a million border crossings a year) foreign invasion, however "peaceful" it might be, as those who "have taken the law in their own hands", and call for their criminal prosecution. As if they believed in this absurd idea that spontaneous defending one's own country is "vigilantism", and that the federal government (why not the United Nations?) were the sole proprietor of the right to repeal invasion. Some of the "mainstream" journalist did not hesitate from de facto accusing even the local law enforcement agencies of wrongful enforcing of the federal law by turning suspected criminals who were in this country illegally to INS for deportation (see [4] for a recent example).

So, next time, when the "mainstream" doctors of truth tell you that residents of border states "have taken the law in their own hands" while resisting foreign violations of American border, remember that these are the Mexican "migrants" and officials, as well as their fifth-column "Hispanic" organizations, and not the American citizens, who are the real immigration vigilantes that need to be countered and, when appropriate, punished according to the last letter of the American law. As the currently prevailing meaning of ubiquitous epithet "racist" is "someone winning an argument with a Liberal", so does "vigilante" have its distorted sense; while used by the open border lobby it means "a patriot who stands against foreign vigilantism". George Orwell wouldn't have invented it better.

REFERENCES

[1] "Foreign secretary: Mexico wants to replace emotion with economics in migration debate"

[2] "Kidnapping in Candelaria"

[3] "Exclusive: Mexico Frees Captive American Family"

[4] "Immigration Incident Ignites Debate Police Call Border Patrol After Shoplifting Incident"

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