Calderon Lectures the U.S.
[Guest post by DRJ]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon appeared before Congress today and lectured America on drugs, guns, amnesty and Arizona’s immigration laws. Meanwhile, some El Paso Border Patrol agents were unavailable to hear Calderon’s lecture. Those not on duty were attending the annual Remembering Our Heroes U.S. Border Patrol Memorial Observance at the National Border Patrol Museum in El Paso. Since 1924, 106 Border Patrol agents have been killed while serving, including 18 from El Paso.
— DRJ
Is there a contest to find the first lefty site that refers to Calderon as “speaking truth to power”?
JVW (08e86a) — 5/20/2010 @ 11:58 amHE LECTURES US??? The President of a shithole country where crime , kidnapping, extortion, dirty cops, dirty government officials and runs the pipeline of drugs through North America lectures us??
Fuck you motherfucker.
Dopey (a812c5) — 5/20/2010 @ 12:20 pmAs I said on an earlier thread, it is very apparant that two of the three countries in North America
AD - RtR/OS! (c4618b) — 5/20/2010 @ 12:40 pm(since the US media studiously ignores most of what happens in Canada –
as do most, including this observer, American’s – I may be underinformed of what Canada’s PM has said recently)
are led by ignorant liars.
To the less then honorable president of Mexico:
¡cállate pendejo!
no love,
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 5/20/2010 @ 12:58 pmredc1c4
Nothing to help you put your head on straight than somebody who reminds you to screw theory and pick the side your country’s on. (Although I still think Joe Arpaio is a disgusting old ginzo pervert.)
nk (db4a41) — 5/20/2010 @ 12:59 pmIt just occurred to me that the “comprehensive immigration reform” folk are playing chicken with the “secure the border yesterday” folk. We know this is what has essentially been going on, but I didn’t think of it in those terms before now.
So with the passing of the AZ law, the “secure the border” folk are “honking their horn” as they come flying down the street. The “comprehensive reform” folk are trying to match the PR and “Machismo” to gain the momentum back. The fact that some former “comprehensive reform folk” such as McCain have started rooting for the “secure the border” side adds to their momentum.
To mix analogies and switching to football, most of the high profile “skill” players are on the “comprehensive reform” side (media, celebs, pols who are darlings of the media), while most of the players “in the trench” are on the secure the border side. But big-name “skill players” such as the one and Calderon are just setting themselves up to be sacked by the blind-side linebacker, while the “secure the border” has a few big names in the game (Palin, McCain), as well as the ones who will decide the game (voters).
History has shown, albeit in a limited way, that if you try to resolve the issue of illegals living in the US without securing the border, you make the issue worse. For those who want the issue to become worse, this is a good thing, hence the game of chicken. One question will be, how many Dems will win seats while trying to sound as much like a conservative as possible (like the fellow replacing Murtha in PA), and how many voters will realize how cheap talk is and not fall for it.
One last question…what is the status of “the fence”?
MD in Philly (88a119) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:04 pmI demand that the Mexican government take responsibiliy for he tens of millions of Mexican citizens that flout our laws, and are encouraged to do so by their pesident.
Amphipolis (b120ce) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:17 pmCalderon is lecturing the U.S. over its policies about illegal immigration, meanwhile Mexico’s harsh treatment of people who cross its borders without appropriate documentation – THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!!
It sounds like he trained at the knees of today’s liberals – pay attention to what I say, not what I do. Heh!
daleyrocks (1d0d98) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:21 pmTo Dopey:
All this “crime , kidnapping, extortion, dirty cops, dirty government officials and runs the pipeline of drugs ” is made by american money.
slg (7535c9) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:21 pmYes, we can’t stop all this crime because all this money that came form american junkies is used to buy guns, politicians, police officers, soldiers, etc. at both sides. The war on drugs that Mexico is fighting would be less blodied if you americans help us to stop the gun’s flow, stop consuming drugs and instead of being critical start to act.
He can come’ me cola.
PatriotRider (103218) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:26 pmEl Jefe is only mimicking what his pal in the US has perfected into an art – never take the blame, always deflect, never admit a mistake.
Dmac (3d61d9) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:29 pmGee, interfering in another country’s internal politics?
Good thing he didn’t do that in Mexico. It’s illegal.
mojo (8096f2) — 5/20/2010 @ 1:35 pmArticle 9. The right to assemble or associate peaceably for any lawful purpose cannot be restricted; but only citizens of the Republic may do so to take part in the political affairs of the country.
Neo (7830e6) — 5/20/2010 @ 2:25 pmWhat’s good for the goose is good for the gander
To slg,
If you are correct that all Mexico’s problems are because of America’s junkies and their money, why is Mexico involved at all? Why doesn’t the bad influence of our bad people and their money simply translate to a local phenomenon? Why do so many drug lords and smugglers and gangsters have to refuge in Mexico if the only influencing factor is money?
Mexico is a narco-kleptocracy because your system is easier to exploit than ours. Your laws and your people are far more corrupt than ours. If that were not the case America would be the exporter, not the importer. If the drug businesses could have the protection and influence in America that it does in Mexico, Mexico would only be affected by its own local consumers.
bonhomme (8d709c) — 5/20/2010 @ 3:01 pmHi DRJ hardly nobody is blogging this fun rumor
happyfeet (71f55e) — 5/20/2010 @ 3:42 pmThis sounds just like a case of a Tenochicagotitlan politician being true to form – which also explains why he and Obama get on so well …
Alasdair (e7cb73) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:11 pm‘It’s placing our people in the face of discrimination.’ el Presidente Felipe Calderon
If they’re YOUR people, what the hell are they doing in OUR country?
ElGeneralMalo (e34edc) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:20 pmWe need a law which creates a fairly large constituency that makes money from good immigration enforcement. For example half the fine could be split up among the remaining legal workers at a facility.
This will offset the constituencies which make money from lax immigration enforcement.
Yours,
Tom DeGisi (4c2259) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:20 pmTom
And broaching another highly sensitive issue, Calderon urged Congress to restore a ban on assault weapons, saying easy access to high-powered weapons is contributing to drug-related violence along the border.”
And if he can keep his soldiers from selling their guns to the drug cartels. Hell, if he can keep them from working for the drug cartels.
I’m almost sorry for all my arguments against the Arizona law. (Except for some of the ethnic studies cutoffs. I don’t want refried beans to become a lost art in America.)
nk (db4a41) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:29 pmThe comments were screwed up the last time I was here so this is just a test. (yes, I flushed the cache or cached the flush and optimized the framastan filter but I still kept getting the wrong count on the comments and some wouldn’t show up. I am assuming everything is fixed now so I’ll test it with comment).
This one.
jakee308 (aec1b8) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:31 pmWhat frosts my cookies is the Democrats gave this Puto Grande a standing ovation for his sermonizing.
Hey ese, how’s about we just enact the laws concerning immigration that Mexico has and enforce them?
Let’s also enforce the laws concerning the rights(or lack thereof) of foreign nationals in Mexico whether legal or illegal.
Also while we’re about it, let’s tax those billions of remittances being sent to your country by your compadres so we can recover some of the enforcement, health and education costs that are caused by their presence.
Chingada tu madre, Calderone.
jakee308 (aec1b8) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:38 pmIt makes you wonder which side some of those Dems are on …
JD (d55760) — 5/20/2010 @ 4:53 pmYes, we can’t stop all this crime because all this money that came form american junkies is used to buy guns, politicians, police officers, soldiers, etc. at both sides. The war on drugs that Mexico is fighting would be less blodied if you americans help us to stop the gun’s flow, stop consuming drugs and instead of being critical start to act.
Ironically, this is precisely the attitude that a junkie would take, blaming someone else for his own problems. The true problem is Mexican society, which is corrupt to the core and wherein lawbreaking is the norm.
It makes you wonder which side some of those Dems are on …
Whatever side Americans are on, Dems are on the other. Fifth columnists, every one of them.
Mike LaRoche (53c496) — 5/20/2010 @ 5:31 pm“Mexican President Felipe Calderon took his opposition to a new Arizona immigration law to Congress Thursday, saying it “ignores a reality that cannot be erased by decree.”
Pot meet kettle.
Calderone willfully ignores what reality really is. I think hypocrite is the word.
Dana (1e5ad4) — 5/20/2010 @ 5:33 pmThe reality is that they (the Mexican Govt) have been preaching to their people for decades how the evil Gringo’s stole the South-West from them and that it was the patriotic duty of every campesino to go to El Norte and reclaim their ancestral lands; regardless of the fact that they lost a war, and were paid in Gold for their lost territory in both the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase; when they very easily could have just been absorbed into the USA as conquered territory, and Mexico would have ceased to exist.
AD - RtR/OS! (c4618b) — 5/20/2010 @ 5:41 pmWhatever side Americans are on, Dems are on the other. Fifth columnists, every one of them.
Not all of them, Bro Mike.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C. O.R. (a18ddc) — 5/20/2010 @ 5:50 pmFWIW, I saw a discussion on O’Reilly tonight that repeated the gist of what Andy McCarthy had said elsewhere, that the AZ law actually affords more protection for the illegal alien than federal law does. Federal law, as decided by the Supreme Court, does not require that there be any probable cause for law enforcement to ask “for your papers”.
Now, I’m happy to be corrected or instructed on nuance on this if I’m characterizing it wrong.
So if federal law is harsher than the AZ law, why the fuss? Is it that the feds don’t worry about enforcing the law, so they don’t care what it says, but they do care about the AZ law, because even though it is weaker, it may actually be enforced?
Then again, how much of this is simply playing politics with perception? Conservatives in AZ say, “Let’s stand up against illegal immigration” and the libs pound it down, thinking they can get ahead politically by it?
MD in Philly (88a119) — 5/20/2010 @ 6:13 pmMD – This is simply an excuse by the Leftists to get their OUTRAGE on, and call some conservatives racists.
JD (d55760) — 5/20/2010 @ 6:20 pmMas puto
Steve G (7d4c78) — 5/20/2010 @ 6:34 pmUtter BS, slg, Mexico has been a failed state perennially and long before any drug issues.
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/20/2010 @ 6:41 pmNot all of them, Bro Mike.
Interesting blog, Bradley. I’m glad to see that there are some rebel Democrats out there.
Mike LaRoche (53c496) — 5/20/2010 @ 6:51 pmJD- From what I heard today maybe the Leftists aren’t playing the smart hand. In one poll not only did 84% total support AZ, but even 75% of the Dems did.
MD in Philly (88a119) — 5/20/2010 @ 7:18 pmA standing “O” from the Dims… surprised?
No.
GeneralMalaise (e34edc) — 5/20/2010 @ 7:20 pmBut was it really Calderon lecturing us? After all, who is it that has the habit of lecturing Americans about what we ought to be thinking?
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/20/2010 @ 7:25 pmKrauthammer has the perfect take on the comments by Calderon:
I like that. Hey, Calderon, if they are your people, come and get ’em.
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/20/2010 @ 7:32 pmNuke Mexico.
Kevin Stafford (abdb87) — 5/20/2010 @ 10:16 pmNuking them might be a bit extreme, no?
JD (d55760) — 5/20/2010 @ 11:03 pmWe don’t have to nuke Mexico, we’ll just convince the Iranians that Mexico is a country of Hispanic Jews, and they’ll do it.
AD - RtR/OS! (c4618b) — 5/20/2010 @ 11:53 pmmaybe we could split the difference and resurrect the old “Nukes for Peace” idea and use them to dig a sea level canal along the border…..?
no more having to rely on Panama or deal with their limits, and the sides would glow in the dark, saving money on navigation aids.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 5/21/2010 @ 12:55 am22.It makes you wonder which side some of those Dems are on …
Comment by JD — 5/20/2010 @ 4:53 pm
— I’m pretty sure that, by now, most of us know.
[“If God had been a liberal, we wouldn’t have had the Ten Commandments; we’d have the Ten Suggestions.” — Malcolm Bradbury]
Icy Texan (892e7a) — 5/21/2010 @ 3:25 amPresident Calderon said that the Arizona immigration law:
Actually, it addresses a reality that is being ignored by President Calderon: his whole country suck so badly that his citizens are trying to get the Hell out.
The realistic Dana (3e4784) — 5/21/2010 @ 5:36 amthere would be a lot less drug smuggling if the Mexican-American border had a fence similar to the one used in the Korean DMZ.
Publicly opposing something supported by at least 60% of Americans does not seem to be a good way to get votes.
Michael Ejercito (249c90) — 5/21/2010 @ 11:33 am—Publicly opposing something supported by at least 60% of Americans does not seem to be a good way to get votes—-
Well hey, Michael, ignoring the public’s opinion on Obamacare worked out pretty well for them. Oh, wait….
elissa (7a2c3c) — 5/21/2010 @ 12:34 pmI thought Rep. Tom McClintock’s response to President Calderon was pretty Suhweeeeeeet.
daleyrocks (1d0d98) — 5/21/2010 @ 1:03 pmMeanwhile, on a lake on the border between Texas and Mexico, there are actually Mexican pirates boarding people’s boats and stealing from them at gun point.
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/21/2010 @ 1:04 pmComment by SPQR — 5/21/2010 @ 1:04 pm
Well, that might last until some enterprising “Defenders of the Alamo” start fishing from “Q-boats”.
AD - RtR/OS! (9200e9) — 5/21/2010 @ 1:07 pmDon’t hold your breath, AD. With the current administration, we know who’d the feds would attack first.
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/21/2010 @ 1:12 pmI’m sure TX Castle Doctrine protects fishermen in their boats too (Eh, DRJ?).
Plus, such a fight might be “A Bridge Too Far” for DHS, which demonstrates a level of competancy that is breathtaking (you laugh for five-minutes, and you’ll be out of breath too).
AD - RtR/OS! (9200e9) — 5/21/2010 @ 1:17 pmComment by daleyrocks
Thank you
McClintock for President (or something, anyway)
MD in Philly (88a119) — 5/21/2010 @ 1:38 pmMore evidence that Calderon did not write his speech, the White House did: He repeats lies we’ve seen the administration invent.
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/25/2010 @ 5:58 pm