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That\u2019s what I think of the more I see stories like this<\/a>.\u00a0 A young Mexican boy was tragically shot and killed by US patrols along the Mexican border.\u00a0 Our agents say he was attacking them with rocks.\u00a0 The boy\u2019s family\u2019s attorney says he was doing nothing of the sort.\u00a0 He points to a grainy video that he says shows everything \u2013 except whether or not the boy was pelting the agents with rocks.\u00a0 The lawsuit is for 25 million dollars, just to get justice.\u00a0 The president of Mexico has condemned the shootings. <\/p>\n

And that last part is what caught my attention.\u00a0 Anyone from Mexico condemning anything in America?\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Almost 30,000 people have died in the last several years in Mexico from the drug wars alone.\u00a0 Mexico\u2019s laws toward immigrants are almost draconian compared to those in the US.\u00a0 And poverty and government corruption continues to be a hallmark of almost anything to do with Mexico.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I know, a lot of folks will point to America.\u00a0 It\u2019s our fault because we have the drug problem.\u00a0 It\u2019s our fault because we have the guns that are used.\u00a0 It\u2019s our fault because America fought this war, took that land, or worked with other Evil European types to suppress the indigenous peoples of the land.\u00a0 Each of those accusations could well be true.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t take away from the culpability of Mexico for the nightmare tragedy that is Mexico here, now.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Like Japan with the atomic bombs, I get the feeling much of the outrage and condemnation by Mexico is meant, at least in some part, to take attention away from the train wreck that is its own disastrous cultural meltdown.\u00a0 And in keeping with a sympathetic media, a progressive movement that can\u2019t get enough of seeing America die (so that it can rebuild a New America in its place), and of course cheered on by a host of other countries and cultures that are more than happy to kick a lazy giant when it\u2019s down, it isn\u2019t hard to see why story after story has headlines like this, or that another American has been kidnapped, or another condemnation for any one of a thousand things from countries who at their best days have yet to equal America at its worst.\u00a0 After all, they can tell a weak, helpless, and dying civilization when they see it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"