Mexican Anti American Demonstrations - thoughts from a patriotic Mexican ancestry American

Since 04-01-06

From: PGBlueCoat@aol.com [mailto:PGBlueCoat@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 5:21 PM
To: sailmon@plateautel.net
Subject: Re: Demonstrations

Dave,

               You bet my family came to California with the first vestiges on Western Culture. My 5th great grandfather on my fathers side was Manuel Butron, the Spanish Bluecoat who came to Monterey with Father Junipero Serra, in 1772.

His grand daughter, Francisca Butron married William Robert Garner of Monterey, and Englishman who came to California in 1825, and was put ashore form a whaler for being involved in a mutiny. Their grand daughter Maria Clotilda Garner married my grand father Santos Trejo.

The Trejos came to California from Senora, Mexico, in the 1840's. On the other hand,  my mother's people were all German, they came to California from Iowa in a wagon in the 1880's.

All that being said, all of these people all worked hard, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and were never on welfare.

The influx of Mexicans that have now flooded California has led to many, many, social and economic problems.

Their children born here, automatically become citizen. We have a tremendous economic problem, most especially are the great numbers of undocumented Mexicans that flood our local hospitals for health care.

They are accommodated, but the paying "Anglos" suffer, because the hospitals must charge them more to pick up the cost of the non-paying indignant workers and their families. We are not alone with this problem.

Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah are faced with it too. Since these states rely heavily on imported Mexican laborers to keep their agricultural industries alive, the Presidents "Guest Labor" offers the best solution that has come down the pike in a long time.

Another problem we have in California are Mexican gangs.

Salinas, California ( 20 miles distant) has become a real shooting gallery . At least three or four murders a month occur on the streets there. Although these are largely rival gang killings, all to often some innocent person walking down the street get in the way.

Since the citizens are bound by lawyers and courts, and years of appeals, rapid justice has become a travesty.

I remember from my California History when San Francisco in the 1880's formed the Vigilante Committees !!

They gave the "Guilty Bastards" a fair trial and hung them in the morning.

Now days, a man convicted of the most heinous crime takes 8 months of trial at taxpayer's expense, then spends 10 years on death row watching his television, waiting to be executed. 

Then while awaiting execution, he writes a book, saying how sorry he is, and how he has reformed. Hundreds of Candle-Light Do-Gooders then hold a candle light vigil outside the prison gates pleading for his life.

Maybe I'm and old fossil, but I reiterate, Bush's guest workers program would be a step in the right direction to begin solving some of our other problems

We took California from the Mexicans in 1846-1848. Perhaps in a few years they will have enough votes to take it back.

Maybe I'll run for governor !!

With a surname like Trejo, I should be a Shoe-In  !!!!

                                                Best,

                                                                     Paul (or should I say Pablo !!)  

                                                                     Captain, USNR (Ret)