Dear Diary:
This post carries a parental warning. If you are easily offended, read no further. I have been browsing reader reactions to the harsh security measures imposed by the USA on Mexico in the Mexican on-line daily, El Universal. To say the Mexicans are unhappy is an understatement. Below are some reader comments [translated] which are indicative of how upset the Mexicans are. The language is colorful--and vulgar with cojones. Don't be offended. The anger is directed at Dubya. Here's a glimpse.
- Esteemed friends of America (I mean Central and South, of course):
Through no fault of our own, the US Imperium is breathing down our necks. The most damaging of conflicts is economic war and for this reason, I would like to recommend the following
- Do not travel to the USA
- Do not do business with the USA
- Adopt retaliatory measures like those put in place by Brazil, even though it may cost money
- I hope Osama knows the difference between the enemy and the rest of the Americas. I condemn all acts of terrorism, especially that carried out by Bin Laden. But the Cowboy doesn't hesitate to practice terrorism when it suits him.
- The real motive behind the war on terror is control by the USA of the world's natural resources, particularly oil and water.
- The world is looking more and more like one of those films where the globe is divided between empire on the surface and the rebels below ground.
- It's a shame that Vicente Fox is a cunning but worthless SOB (after all, what does fox mean in English). The Mexican people rise up and stop those boys from the north from coming down here and spying on us in our homes.
- Those lowlife Bush motherfuckers should leave Mexico in peace. The Mexican government ought to be fingerprinting every lowlife gringo who enters or leaves our country. How many of those bastards enter Mexico to fuck shit up and commit crimes? How many of their sex offenders and convicts come to Mexico? We have to stop them from coming across the border.
- Security checks for all airline passengers are well and good and give us peace of mind. But allowing gringo Homeland Security personnel to come to Mexico to inspect our security procedures is a scandal. It implies that Mexico is incapable of carrying its own security checks, that we are such inept fools that the FBI has to monitor us. The Mexican government should have some respect for our sovereignty, goddamit. If our citizens are treated like delinquents, then we should do the same to the gringos. You don't think that the USA has no delinquents, do you? I applaud Brazil for their retaliatory measures. The next thing you know the FBI will be monitoring the streets of our cities because they'll say we're incompetent in securing the airport. They'll invade us and annex us like Puerto Rico! We're proud to be Mexicans. Don't let the gringos try to give us lessons in airport security. Throw the FBI bastards out! Let's see them give lessons on security to the French or their friends the British and the Italians, huh?
- I've had it up to here with those trouserless gringo motherfuckers like Vicente Fox, Luis Ernesto Derbez and Stantiago Creel. The proffer their asses to that damned bastard traitor George Bush and the whole terrorist band that rules the USA. I feel nothing but shame for my country because of our corrupt assholes in government. And damn those terrorist gringo Bush supporters and their terrorist prostitute mothers who deserve to be fucked a thousand times over by a genocidal pack of hounds from hell. That proffered ass of a coward Vicente Fox is so useless he can't bust a piñata for shit.