Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Lou Dobbs still doesn't get it -- on bigoted purpose

The latest rant of Lou Dobbs is about Mexico and the growing drug violence there.

Dobbs is outraged that America still wants to trade with the nation, which he often repeats is the largest supplier of bad drugs to America.

He makes you want to shout at the screen: who is worst, the buyer or the supplier? He has no criticism of Americans who buy the stuff.

The real victims of the drug violence are the children of Mexico. The New York Times reported last month about children finding beheaded victims of the drug cartels in the schoolyards and on their playgrounds as a warning to those who cooperate with the police. Shocking children is the quickest way to get to their parents.

Then the police and government are corrupt. So the innocent people down there are losing amid this violence. Some are fleeing to this nation simply for safety.

Before we condemn the Mexican authorities for being so corrupt, remember that the governor of Illinois was charged today with felonies for allegedly trying to sell his appointment power for President-elect Obama's Senate seat. That's about as bad it gets, next to the theft of the 2000 presidential election here.

The suffering in Mexico amid its children and families is simply ignored by Dobbs. His bigotry is without bounds, even if he has to blame the victims.

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