THE SECOND CIVIL WAR

Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced he would schedule a vote in the Senate for a proposed Constitutional Amendment with the following wording:

The Congress and the States shall have Power to Prohibit the Physical Desecration of the Flag of the United States.

Such an amendment (it was passed by the House last June) would override Supreme Court decisions in 1989/90 proclaiming burning the American flag was a form of constitutionally protected free speech.

Yet just as yelling fire! in a theatre is not protected free speech, neither should burning an American flag, for it is a purposeful incitement to violence.  Thus such an "anti-flag burning amendment" would be welcome.

Yet in truth, only the tiniest fraction of Americans have any desire to burn their country’s flag.  There is, however, another country’s flag that millions of Americans feel like burning right now:  the flag of Mexico.

When high school principals in Houston, Texas fly the Mexican flag instead of the American flag on the school’s flag pole, when hordes of illegal alien demonstrators infest American cities waving the Mexican flag (and the American flag upside down), when hordes of illegal alien schoolchildren walk out of their American taxpayer-funded schools and wave the Mexican flag in protest, it’s little wonder that so many Americans want to put a torch to it.

It’s been almost three years since I wrote America’s Curse.  It’s been almost a year to the day that I wrote Mexico As Takfiristan.  I have long considered Mexico to be the single greatest threat to America’s national security, more than Iran, China, Al Qaeda, or anything else.

The invasion of our country by illegal aliens is mostly condemned in economic terms, regarding costs, taxpayer burdens, jobs, etc.  These mass demonstrations are finally getting folks to realize that Mexican illegal immigration is not a problem of economics but sovereignty. 

At last it is beginning to dawn on Americans that Mexico is waging a war on the United States of America.  It has not, however, dawned on the President of the United States.  For unfathomable reasons, he remains stubbornly oblivious to the threat and thus makes no effort to solve it.

Maybe he would understand if he went to Dodge City.  The famous Wild West town of Wild Bill Hickock and Wyatt Earp began as a junction of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821.  It was built on the north side of the Arkansas River, and if you go there today, just outside of town you can see the ruts in the ground of 19^th century pioneer wagons.  The Santa Fe Trail followed along the north side of the Arkansas River (really a small creek) because prior to 1848, the south side of the river was Mexico.

Wrap your mind around this:  Dodge City is in Kansas.  Southwest Kansas used to belong to Mexico – plus half of Colorado, a part of Wyoming, and all of Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Somehow, Mexico thought it had a colonial claim to it all – and it still does.  After 158 years, Mexico’s ruling elite still can’t get over their losing the Mexican-American War of 1848.

But by what right did Mexico seize all this land?  True, in 1521, Hernando Cortez of Spain liberated the peoples of central Mexico from the blood-soaked tyranny of the Aztecs.  Yet the Aztec Empire was small, about the size of the state of Nevada, around 110,000 square miles:

The Spanish after Cortez went on a colonial rampage in the 16^th century.  From that 110,000 square Aztec miles, they seized control of three million square miles of North America from its indigenous inhabitants.  When Mexico declared its independence from Spain, the newly minted Mexicans thought their claim to all this seized land was legitimate.

That it wasn’t was recognized by the folks who lived in "Northern Mexico" and by US Presidents like James Polk.  That’s how Northern Mexico became part of America.

This lack of recognition of Mexican legitimacy was memorialized by John Wayne in Red River (1948).  Wayne has found unsettled uninhabited land good for cattle raising south of the Red River (in Mexican Texas).  Two Mexican gunmen appear, telling him he is on "Don Diego’s land."  The center of Don Diego’s ranch is 400 miles away.

"How did he get so much land?" Wayne wants to know.  "By Spanish land grant," the gunmen answer.  "The Spanish?  How did they get the land?" Wayne responds.  "They took it, didn’t they, from Indians.  Well, you tell your Don Diego I’m taking this land from him."

"Oh, Señor, many people have tried," says one of the gunmen.  "And you’ve always been good enough to stop them?" Wayne asks.  "Ah, Señor, it is my job," the gunman answers.  "Pretty unhealthy way to make a living," Wayne ripostes.  The gunman draws, Wayne drills him, and tells his comrade:  "From now on, this land is my land, and anyone who says it isn’t will get what your friend got."

George Bush needs to see Red River. 

So do most US Senators.  Something needs to shake them up, get them to understand that the Second Civil War I predicted a year ago in Mexican Nazis has begun.

Mexico lost some one million square miles to the United States.  But it still got to keep two million.  Mexico needs to be happy with those two million square miles, which is still quite an increase from the Aztecs’ original 110,000.  Mexicans need to be happy with Mexico.  If they don’t like their country the way it is, they need to stay there and change it. 

Coming here illegally and waving the Mexican flag in America’s face is an act of war.  It is a war now being fought only demographically, but not for long.  This is going to escalate into violence, bloodshed, and terrorism – especially when an anti-American Marxist, Lopez Obrador, gets elected president of Mexico this July. 

Liberals will take the side of Mexico in the Second Civil War, which means most all teachers, college professors, columnists, the entire mainstream media, and Hollywood movies and television. 

All we will have on our side is the vast majority of Americans. And yes, that includes the majority of American citizens of Mexican heritage, who know that when you become a citizen, you cease being Mexican (or Irish or Armenian or wherever else you came from) and become an American.

And, hopefully, we’ll also have Providence on our side.  Pray for America.  We live in perilous times.