Posted by Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
We are being invaded.
The English colonists were trying to work with the Indians, made treaties with them, and tried to live in peace with them. It was the Spanish who slaughtered the Indians, took them as slaves, and raped the women and forcibly took them as wives. So, first of all, it is the ancestor of the Mexican, not the English Americans, who committed genocide against the Indians. You’ve heard of Cortes, right? As for the Southwest United States, the reason for the Mexican-American War was that Santa Anna was storming through the land and ripped up Mexico’s 1824 Constitution which was designed to be much like ours. The Tejanos in Texas, and Californianos in California, did not consider themselves Mexican. There were only three Mexican settlements in what is now the Southwest United States. Los Angeles, San Jose, and Santa Fe. The Mexican-American war was not a war of expansion by the United States, it was a war of liberation. The lands north of what is today’s Mexican-American border, and many of the lands that wound up still remaining Mexico, asked for help and the United States came to the rescue. Even after the war, the United States decided to still pay money for the lands, and they didn’t have to. Remember, the lands were taken from a dictator who was keeping the people in what is now the Southwest United States under an iron fist, and they wanted Liberation from it. If the United States had annexed most of Mexico like was being considered, or accepted pleas for Help by places like the Yucatan Peninsula, which applied for statehood and actually went before Congress in the hopes of becoming a state, Mexico would be a lot smaller today. By the way, if we would have taken more of Mexico, because much more of Mexico was indeed asking to be liberated from Santa Anna, those lands would also be prospering today and the areas that are doing horribly would be the smaller Mexico. Mexico is not a trash hole because of resources, or lack thereof, but because of the style of government it has always had. These people calling Americans bigots, racists and fascists are the descendants of Santa Anna’s Mexico, not the freedom-loving settlers from Mexico who cried for liberation from the dictator, and the United States came to the rescue for in the Mexican-American War. It is because of the English Saxon political system that America has been prosperous. Meanwhile, Mexico’s political system is based on the old Roman Imperial mindset which existed in Spain during the colonial period, and of which took hold in Mexico. The Spanish system is the reason they have not prospered. If Mexico had been able to keep their 1824 Constitution, if the United States had gone farther and completely decimated Santa Anna’s forces so that the 1824 Mexican Constitution had remained in place, Mexico would be as prosperous, and as free, as the United States.
We are being invaded.
