We The People (From Here and There) Need To Stop Their War

In response: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/syria-evacuates-army-buildings_n_3829847.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/27/216172145/is-it-possible-the-syrian-rebels-not-assad-used-chemical-weapons?uidt=1377703886#commentBlock

When does this stop?  At this point we can not trust our own government to tell us the truth.   These war mongering profiteers are thrusting our children and grandchildren into a downward spiral that the world may not be able to pull out of.

We the People from here and there need to stop them.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/08/we-people-from-here-and-there-need-to.html
 

Senator John McCain - Immigration Reform Blowhard

Senator John McCain -  Immigration Reform Blowhard

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/john-mccain-immigration_n_3824807.html?&ir=Latino%20Voices&utm_hp_ref=latino-voices

The same profiteer who hooked up with ALEC and CCA to jail the undocumented by the thousands (Arizona's Operation Streamline).

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-10-21/news/operation-streamline-costs-taxpayers-millions-tramples-on-the-constitution-treats-immigrants-like-cattle-and-doesn-t-work-so-why-are-the-feds-so-committed-to-it/

But Wait!  Now he wants to capitalize off of billions more for Arizona border security and the promise of US citizenship for political sway.

Anyone who believes in this blowhard and his asinine immigration reform should have his or her head examined.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/08/senator-john-mccain-immigration-reform.html

Drug Violence: The Fault Lies With Everyone Else While No One Is Responsible

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/25/mexico-city-kidnapping_n_3814132.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voiceshttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323980604579029474078593280.html#articleTabs=article

It's the cartels' faults.  No it's the US drug users' faults.  It's the fault of US and global banks.  No it's the fault of  the US government 's failed drug war.  It's NAFTA's fault.  It's the Plan Merida's fault.  It's the US weapons, prison and border security industries' faults.  It's Calderon's fault.  No it's the Mexican Military's fault. It's Pena Nieto's fault.  It is those devil secarios' faults.  It's Nixon's fault.  It is the CIA's fault.  No its those gringo exceptionalists' faults, etc.

I say: 

Poverty, corruption, murderous violence and a global police state all have been created for the continuing profit and insatiable greed of  (in the case of the US and Mexico) the bi-national elite.    
Meanwhile we have been brainwashed it believing that we are powerless because this violence is simultaneously everyone else's fault and no one's  responsibility.

Many of us also incorrectly trust and believe that Washington will protect us from this nightmare.

We have met the enemy Pogo, and Yes Forrest - stupid is as stupid does.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/08/drug-violence-fault-lies-with-everyone.html          

This Unimaginable Level of Mexican Drug Violence

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/25/mexico-city-kidnapping_n_3814132.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

To a large extent this level of unimaginable drug violence started as a result of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's 2006, Washington backed, insane decision to the use the Mexican military to go to war with the drug cartels.
 
Despite all Mexican and US propaganda of this corrupt President Calderon "taking on organized crime" he in fact  used his biggest cartel of them all (The Mexican Army) to attempt to insidiously wipe out other drug cartel competition.

The collateral damage is now over 120,000 people (including many innocent bystanders and several US citizens and agents) - slaughtered.

Washington and its self-serving politicians will not touch this Mexican Drug War nightmare with a ten foot long pole.  Their 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade, Mexican oil, Mexican labor,  US Mexican investments, and current immigration "reform" are more important to them than addressing this bloodbath our own tax dollars go to support.

In the meantime - where is Washington's puppet Mexican drug war/NAFTA CEO Felipe Calderon today?  Enjoying a lucrative Harvard fellowship as their First Angelopoulos Global Leader which was supported by our own dear NAFTA Champion Bill Clinton.

Where is the American outrage?

Didn't Obama graduate from Harvard too?   Please google Harvard, Calderon, 100,000 dead, petition.

Bi-national addictions to drugs, guns, money, power, politics, and the governmental greed result in two nations run by "leaders" who refuse to address the needs of their own citizens.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/08/this-unimaginable-level-of-mexican-drug.html   

Immigration Reform Will Not Benefit US Taxpayers Because It Will Not Stop Illegal Immigration

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-noorani/detention-costs-immigration-reform_b_3792497.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

Ali are you insinuating that passing immigration reform will save taxpayers' monies by somehow empting our privatized immigration prisons?

You have to be kidding. This proposed immigration reform will not stop the decades-old cycle of illegal immigration for profit or slow down our current record levels of deportations from the US.  

The ground level producer of illegal immigration is home-country poverty that (in the example of Mexico) was crafted by Washington's NAFTA.  Approximately 62% of our undocumented come from Mexico, yet not one politician or immigrants' rights groups will call out this bi-national immigration corruption for what it is:  the profitization of human beings' undocumented labor by the bi-national Mexican /US elite with all corresponding costs and consequences being absorbed by US taxpayers.

Ali I know personally how the undocumented cause over-crowded hospital emergency rooms, school rooms, job losses for US citizens and unfair/unwanted demographic changes to many Americans' hometowns.

Reagan's Amnesty, Clinton's NAFTA, and Bush's creation of DHS all failed to stop illegal immigration.  From the article:  "In other words, big business is reaping benefits from immigrant detention."  That is the tip of the illegal immigration iceberg.  Big business is reaping benefits from illegal immigration itself, not just the detention segment.  What about big agriculture?  How about the hotel/motel industries?  How about the entire border security complex?   How about politicians who reap immigration reform votes?  How about the health care industry whose hospitals charge enormous amounts of money to cover the undocumenteds' emergency room costs?  
  
This current immigration reform legislation in Washington does nothing to resolve our illegal immigration root problem of home-country poverty.   In fact it creates labor peonage by sentencing 11.2 million undocumented people to 13 years of labor for a possible shot at US citizenship.  Meanwhile US citizens will pay billions more for Washington's crony "border security" buddies. 

Of course Mexican propagandists will spout how wonderful their economy is doing.  They do in fact share 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade with the US.  Yet the disparity in wealth between the "haves and the have-nots" in both countries is higher than it has ever been.
 
This Mexican atrocity could be resolved by the two governments if they were forced to govern for the people and not their own financial greed.

I honor your commitment to immigrants' rights and immigration reform.  I think you need to address poverty as the ground-level problem and attack Washington for its contribution and profitization of poverty in order to solve illegal immigration once an for all.

http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2013/08/immigration-reform-will-not-benefit-us.html

    

US/UK Warn of Serious Response in Syria

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/25/215397759/u-s-u-k-warn-of-serious-response-in-syria?uidt=1377440237#commentBlock

Pavlov's war dogs frothing at their mouths. 

If chemical weapons were used, any chance that they were made by and sold from the US?

Blaming Snowden The Messenger

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/edward-snowden-electronic-tracks_n_3809491.html

Myopically patriotic American exceptionalists will blame this messenger who is a symptom of an insidiously corrupt "democratic" government.