The "Mexicanization" of America - Does anyone know the term for the opposite of "Fisking?"

For several years, I've been studying and writing about our immigration mess, what it means to our culture, our sovereignty and to the future of all the vital concepts wrapped up in the broad subject of "Americanism." The more I look at it, the more it appears to be multi-layered. Sometimes I feel as though I've just started peeling the onion. My reading of the article below makes me feel shallow for not having fully explored many of the avenues of American intellect I have touched upon in the past. Thomas Baffy illuminates our crisis of national survival from fresh angles, revealing more clearly what we face.

I'm loathe to republish the complete text of any work unless I am sure that I can Fisk it into submission. But I feel I must share this entire work, and will provide commentary. If you wish to read this without having to deal with my meager offerings, I urge you to click on the link and read the whole thing.

The "Mexicanization" of America: The American Thinker

Thomas Baffy

The United States is being "Mexicanized" as we watch. I am not talking about race or demographics at all. I mean that our system of governance is being undermined, and that if we let matters continue, we will end up with a political economy like Mexico's - unable to provide good lives for most of its people, but very good indeed for the wealthy elite.

I have no objection to any number of immigrants from any nation, if they enter the United States by following the rules. My objections center on the idea that our laws can be ignored by government officials when they deem them inconvenient to their own agenda.

The concept of equal rights for all Americans also revolves around the idea that our laws are applied equally to all of us. When governments ignore certain laws, they are in effect repealing them. They have accomplished through fiat what no one could do in the legislatures or the courts. The Constitution is bypassed.

Once this idea becomes accepted, lodged into theory and practice, your rights as an American are subject to the whim of government officials.

Those folks marching in the streets are far more a symptom than "the problem." Most of us know this, inherently. But the audacity of the invaders and their sheer numbers distract us from what is being done to us by those who are supposed to represent our interests.

By allowing certain law-breaking activities to go unpunished we send a clear message to everyone that it is acceptable to ignore laws that you do not agree with. Once individual government officials establish the principle of deciding for themselves what laws will (or will not) be enforced, the "culture of corruption" will be established. It will not matter which political party is in power.

My friends, what we have here is a super-macro version of the Broken Windows Theory.

This creates the environment where government officials can be bought or coerced by "greasing the wheels" with a little influence money. We will have given up a great, if flawed, tradition of rule of law, replacing it with rule of the strong and rich. It will take bribes and favors to get anything accomplished just as it sometimes does in the governments of some of our southern neighbors.

A corrupt system that entrenches the wealthy and powerful leads to economic failure, as it has in Mexico and would in the United States. Our class structure would evolve toward Mexico's, with our middle class shrinking in the process.

The thing that scares me the most is the absolute correctness of what he writes here.

The only way to prevent such events from occurring is to insist that our government officials follow the rules and laws without exception. We are already on a slippery slope. Arbitrary or capricious disregard for the laws should be met with expulsion from office in all cases. If the law is not working for the country, then we should change it.

I have to add here that we must not allow Congress to change any existing law if there has never been a good-faith effort to enforce it and the funding to do so. If we do not stop Congress from writing another addendum to existing immigration law, we are adding grease to the slippery slope. The only thing that Congress should be allowed to do at this time is to fully-fund every agency involved in enforcement and give them explicit marching orders that all of our laws must be strictly enforced. It is a travesty beyond imagination that most and I-mean-MOST of Congress is derelict in its duty when it comes to enforcing laws, especially the ones that might inconvenience those who can give big bucks to campaigns. It's as if 535 Monica Lewinskys from various Globalist and Corporatist lobbies are on their knees under their desks when we call, so getting their attention is a very dicey proposition at best.

Our elected officials should be forced to go "on the record" if they want to change laws. Then we can register our verdict the next time they run for office.

It is plainly time for us to move the debate over illegal aliens to center on this point. Many other points in this issue are worth discussion, but this one is where we will either save our country or lose it.

All of the other points are in our faces, on TV, waving foreign flags and scurrying across the deserts they defile every day and night. But our wrath needs to be redirected at those who let this happen, those who facilitated it, and those who wish to enable it further through another round of legislative slight of hand.


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