EGYPT, MEXICO, AND WISCONSIN!?

No sooner after the riots, marches, protests, and demonstrations successfully disposed of Egypt’s dictator, similar movements have spread all around the region. Actually, those demonstrations were already gaining steam before Hosni Mubarak resigned. Isn’t it interesting, no actually, isn’t outrageous that the news media and political leading class supported the regime change in Egypt calling it democracy in action, but haven’t been nearly as supportive and blushingly complimentary about those actions in Iran? Never mind the lack of broad based coverage of the demonstrations happening in other Middle Eastern nations. Are those countries not demonstrating democracy in action? Shouldn’t we be pressuring the Iranians and others for regime change? Shouldn’t we be calling on them to listen to the wishes of their people? They want CHANGE, too. Shouldn’t those young peoples’ voices be HEARD? No, I guess not … after all, the president says we cannot dictate the internal affairs of sovereign nations (as was his position in 2009). That is, unless that nation happens to be an ally of the United States.

The Iranians openly supported the movement in Egypt. I find it troubling that our media, the White House, and political pundits all did too. I also find it troubling that this nation openly opposed Israel (our best ally in the region) at the United Nations. Actions like that should trouble the rest of our allies, too. Appeasement is a sign of weakness in that part of the world. But if the violence worsens and lives are lost in the Middle East the media, the President, and pundits will have more trouble and blood on their hands than they could ever have imagined.

But enough about the Middle East. This week an American was killed in Mexico again. This time two US federal law enforcement agents were chased down and ambushed on a Mexican highway. One of them was killed. Does Mexico not have an armed highway patrol that could have (and should have) come to the aid of these men? Sure they do! But they didn’t. Mexico isn’t a friend to the United States. They haven’t been our friend for decades, and we as a people should realize that. Mexico has done nothing to foster fairness, hope and equality among its most needy classes. Why should they? … their citizens have been able to simply walk across our shared border to find those things here that they lack at home. When I say that Mexico is not our friend, I mean the political and social elite. Mexicans I’ve known have for the most part been nice, decent people … but they don’t come here to become an American. They come here because Mexico became a hopeless place for them. Americans are no longer safe in Mexico, along our shared border, or in Arizona. Why is that? … because the federal government will not do its job, and because the Mexican crime machine has gotten stronger and more violent.

Hear at home we have seen Government Employee Unions protest in anger over budget cuts and spending cuts that are being proposed by the Governor of Wisconsin. Those very union workers are brining up Egypt as there rallying cry. They are not willing to negotiate on benefits and compensation while tax payers have seen the very same things asked of them. Elected Democrats fled the state so as to make voting on the legislation impossible. In effect, they are not willing to help fix the mess that they have created ... I’d call that “dereliction of duty”. They “drove the car into the ditch” and are perfectly willing to leave it there. Who’d have ever thought that the events in Egypt would be used as a ploy in derailing badly needed government spending cut backs? I’ll tell you who would have thought of it Democrats … and union bosses. OH, my bad, that would just be Democrats. At the demonstration rallies I have seen and heard, the very same types of hate speech and hateful signs that just weeks ago people were accusing the TEA Parties of. You remember that would have been on the same day that a deranged gunman shot and killed people in Arizona and nearly assassinated Congresswomen Giffords. I haven’t heard the President, or news media make an issue of it. I guess when Democrats use them, they are simply exercising their constitutionally protected right to free political speech … but if TEA Partiers do, it’s hate speech.

Well that’s it for now. Here is a recap for 2011: We had the suicide bombing of the church in Egypt, the suicide bombing in Russia, the murdering rampage in Arizona, birds and sea life have turned up dead by the thousands, and the Egyptian dictator stepped down and now protests are taking place as result of it all over the Middle East and in (of all places) Wisconsin. Oh, I keep forgetting to mention the glorious unveiling of the first Chinese stealth jet fighter … you know, the one that looks almost exactly like the one we have …. how’d that happen? They just happened to give it their first test flight while our Secretary of Defense was paying them a visit .. what a coincidence.

As I’ve been saying, 2011 will be a year we would like to forget but most likely never will.

There you have it.
Pass it along if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie