The Mexican Revolution continues: General Francisco “Pancho” Villa, of the Northern Division of the Constitutional Army of Mexico, raids Columbus, new mexico, and summarily executes 19 United States subject-citizens.  Villa’s fourfold motivation was an attempt to humiliate and embarrass Venustiano Carranza, dictator of Mexico; retaliation for the continued meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs by the U.s. government—particularly the Second Battle of Agua Prieta; failure of delivery of military weapons paid for in full; and Democratic (socialist/proto-fascist) President Wilson’s support of the Carranza dictatorship.  Had Wilson not interfered in Mexico, this raid might not have occurred, if there had been no injury to Mexico.

       NOTE: “[W]hat U.S. officials denounce as unprovoked terrorist attacks on its innocent citizens are often meant as retaliation for previous American imperialist actions.” —— Chalmers Johnson

       [restored 6/11/2022]

       If a gang of Canadian bank robbers raided Buffalo, NY, should the U.S. invade Canada with a military force?  Of course not.  But wasn’t Pancho Villa a force unto himself?  I agree we don’t know if his invasion was directed by the Mexican Federal Government (MFG) but it is true that it had no direct control over its banditti; and Pershing’s orders were to hunt down Pancho and not to attack Mexico, per se, although he knowingly crossed the recognized border with Mexico, under orders, but not with a Declaration of War in his pocket.

Or do Mexican force majure regimes, i.e., its legally recognized governments also lie? Odd that I wrote that phrase yesterday in describing our current situation, which was bad enough, and now it is engaging in a pre-emptive war, under what was once our banner, and with our treasure and blood. I called it a force majure regime, probably not good French, so inform me. But, having looked up the words in Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary, I think the are the most accurate and dispassionate terms to use, as they have the acceptance of most literate Americans.  This force majure regime is flying by the seat of our pants, and since we are chained to the CONgress’ Free Checking Account central bank, like the silken threads that restrained Gulliver in the Land of the Lilliputians, except ours end at the IRS spider, to our fly.  This is every kind of ism, except libertarianism.  It has foul elements of Monarchy, Fascism, Communism, Oligarchism, Imperialism, ad nauseum. Its specialty is not found in the humdrum of the Rule of Law, but in the bold adventure—which must have never been tried before, else we would know its errors—of Empire abroad, and a police state to feed it at home.  Manning the walls of an empire is never cheap, and even the most expensive, the most elaborate, the best designed, are static.  They sit still for study, and are eventually overcome by technology, war, overexpansion, hubris, corruption and all other agents of change in rich and powerful nation/states.

       What can we expect?  Britain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, built great navies.  We built a wall of words, and without the Right of Secession, as States, and now as individuals, we shall be squeezed until we squawk and hiss.  Everybody please get a copy of the movie “1776,” on DVD.  It was made in 1972, and was softened by Jack Warner, to please the Imperial Censor Nixon.  “Cool, Cool Considerate Men,” has been restored.  Then, once entertained, consider our present situation through its characters, who are very true in character, and these were men of character, and not angels.  What do you think you would say if the characters stayed on, but like Steve Allen’s “Conversations,” might involve the audience in a question: “What is the State of the Union?”  And on being given the diplomatic French term for a government sprung from a intellectual coup d`etat, and sustained for going on 70 years by the totalitarian state’s Patronage System, the Redistributive State, the perfect definition of the “United States,” today.  Give me the cast for a month of rehearsal and “Audience Questions.”

       Yes, it has ‘been done,’ as they say, but what I have learned from history, is that not enough people read it.  We are little different from the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc., we have some of our own Caesars, tsars, kings, imperial commanders, just like Julius Caesar and Phillip of Macedonia, who also had the means to match their amoral egos.  I fear, I know that our wall of words has failed, it did not expect, nor defend against the betrayal of the People’s Constitution, by corruption form the top down and the bottom up. {The Real Lincoln,, The People’s Pottage, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the Founding Documents, etc.}

       Such people have caused others, on the payroll of yet others, to maim and murder yet others, for the gain of yet others, to destroy or take their property under the Laws of Necessity, the Law of Piracy, and under what, so proudly we hailed as the symbol of the Republic.  The late Roman Republic, so called for a while, even under their emperors.  You know when the victorious Legions of Julius were returning to Rome, the Senate forbid him to bring the army any closer than the north bank of the river Rubicon, else it would be considered as a threat to the Senate and People of Rome, S.P.Q.R. and all that.  So when he crossed the Rubicon with his army, paid out his own treasury, the civil war was on.  The S.P.Q.R. had no control.  Julius, the superior general and tax specialist won, and became the very first Caesar of the new Empire, in 27 B.C.E., though Rome had a dictator in 498 B.C.E.  This gave us July, and August, which renamed some days and renumbered some months when the modern Calendar was born as a religious document of ancient need, to keep the holy days and pay the tithes on time, so other debts could be paid by the exchange of labor for everything else, for man is cursed by this god to earn his living by the sweat of his brow, but that would also be true if there were no god at all?  In either case one gets more beans for money than any amount of prayers.

       The other night, on or about Augustus the 17th, 2003, C.E. I saw a news clip of a U.S. General Officer, raising cheers for Marines, Sailors, Coastguards, Army, Air Force, who had done their duty to support each other in combat and etc., then he raised a big Hurrah, for the President of the United States, “the guy who signs our paychecks.” (Roar of youthful approval.)  Has our rather aggressive leader crossed a Rubicon?  Perhaps in a way by setting up the situation that has been kicked into crying for help by our tax dollars at work.  Funny, Spanish Dolor is the word for work or labor, just a coincidence I suppose Julius was on his way back from Spain and Gaul.

       No, I think every river and creek in America has been Rubiconned many times over.  The feeble and flatfooted army of airport security persons may soon be reinforced by giving preference to returning combat veterans.  They will already have some years of federal seniority that can be applied to most federal and state patronage jobs, plus exam points, etc., and trained to obey to stay on the payroll, personally awarded by the Imperial President, Bush XLIII, the Commander in Chief and Paymaster, as he sets the Conditions of Employment, apparently sans limits.  I was struck by the similarity between Augustus Julius and George XLIII and their message to the loyal, well paid troops.  And they will obey, if required they will be given a target, Osama bin Laden, Hussein, Noriega, Branch Davidians, owners of shotguns with 17.99 inch barrels, or gun owners in general.  And who will do this?  Who did it in England and Australia?  Who did it in Nazi Germany?  In the USSR?  Aren’t the mechanisms always the same?  Why does the urgent need for “state security” seem to get more oppressive with each blunder offshore?  Are the Alarums and Excursions real or really created?

       Also reminded me of fired General McClelland running as a Democrat against A.L., so “honest abe” released Republican soldiers to vote in November 1864.  Lincoln “won” election as the ratified dictator and War President.  Six-hundred, thirty thousand dead, to collect the tariff and handcuff the Sovereign States into the Wagnerian mystical indissoluble Union, that was not ratified in 1787, nor ever voted on, except by an undeclared war.  A Republican President and the first Republican Undeclared War President, of many since.  It’s not a pretty picture through John Adams’ eyes.

       Our superior hope is that we can induce our current Alexander, to return to the Rule of Law by the powers of gentle persuasion, and the hard won lessons of history as an example, else our survivors will relive “1984” before the get to enjoy “1776,” again. ——  JL