On March 26, 2011 at 1:30 a.m. I was surfing the internet and found what I thought was an incredible statement about immigration from Peace and Freedom Party candidate Maria E. Montano who is running for House of Representatives in the 36th District. On her website, http://montanoforcongress.com/2011/03/14/why-im-running-for-congress/ she wrote:
“We need to bring our troops home to help us fortify our borders….”
Now, it’s not like the Peace & Freedom Party’s official position on immigration vis a vis Mexico is very sophisticated. When I see statements by the leadership cabal that has run the party for the past decade, they tend to tail after the Democrats by calling for such simplistic slogans as “comprehensive immigration reform” or “open borders” without any real attempt at analysis of the legal, foreign policy, or international relations factors that underlie the relationship between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico. So, I attempted to leave a comment on Ms. Montano’s website that as of this posting was still awaiting moderation:
Responses to Why I’m Running for Congress
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Apparently, shortly after I made that posting, the webmaster removed the offending language that I’d quoted in my pending response from the website. However, whoever was engaging in the cover-up forgot that they needed to “moderate” my comment in order to make it non-accessible for the public. So when I started getting emails asking me to prove that what I’d quoted was in fact a public statement made by Ms. Montano, this time I saved the entire page, along with the content reprinted above from my pending comment, as a PDF whose meta-data will demonstrate that I didn’t invent this issue out of thin air.
Aside from the ethics and morality of removing the offending language, the webmaster who removed it must really be kicking themselves for not getting rid of my pending comment. This cover-up is even more inept than the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes caused by his Secretary, Rose Mary Woods. At least she actually managed to deep six the evidence in its entirety and not leave any recoverable trace.
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I have a real problem with the statement “We need to bring our troops home to help us fortify our borders….”
The United States of America (EEUU) and the State of California NEVER fully implemented the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The USA NEVER complied with Article IX of the Treaty in any way, shape, or form. There is no reason why anybody should consider the border to be legitimate and it should be up for reconsideration, along with all other issues including “immigration” by a bilateral commission pursuant to Article XXI of the Treaty. If a bilateral commission cannot resolve any or all of the issues that need resolution, then Article XXI neutral arbitration by a third party government should be sought.
The time for USA unilateralism should be over, once and for all.