From: Octavio Rojas Diaz (orojas@data.net.mx)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 12:12:35 MST
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On 19/03/00, 02:55:29 p.m., "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
wrote regarding Re: American Imperialism?:
> The fact is that the Mexican government IS a very corrupt government,
> from top to bottom. Most governments have a for the most part honest
> organization of public servants, where only the elected officials are
> corrupt, and even then, typically those elected officials are only
> willing to be corrupted by those interests they already support. The
> Mexican government is corrupt through its entire structure. Nobody who
> lives in Mexico can deny this, because they likely have gotten the
> shakedown for money from police, from government officials whenever
> permits are needed, etc. The fact that the Mexican oil industry is the
> only oil producing nation that LOSES money on its oil operations ought
> to tell you something.
Yes it is true, and I've never denied it, and that's why I am pro oil
privatization, however the government has done a great job in making
us think, that if we make our oil industry private we'll loose
sovereignty
and our economy will nosedive into poverty and misery.
Concerning corrupt police, it is precisely one of the aspects that
annoys
me the most, the past week I was a victim of police and I had to give
up 2 valuable possessions for me to be released. That's why although
I've been silent in the gun debates, I think if guns were legalized
here
in Mexico, police wouldn't abuse us as much as they do.
About foreign aid, it is our corrupt government who accepts it because
we really shouldn't depend on foreign capital, we have the resources
infrastructure and population to be autosuficient, however the
nation's
riches are stolen by those in power and they have to ask for foreign
aid to compensate, sometimes the foreign aid comes directly from the
u.s.
To their pockets.
The moment we are able to get rid of all the scum that keeps deciding
what's best for us in a big brother approach, and brainwashing us
against
libertarianism, wiser economic policies or privatization, we'll be
able
to grow (hell we even do with all this)
> Imperialism involves using force to get done what you want done, and
> locking other industrial powers out of the resources in the nations
you
> have power over. Offering a country aid money in return for help in
> fulfilling our own foreign policy needs is not imperialism.
I agree, but if the U.S. Government knows the foreign aids they send
benefits
more corrupt politicians than us, and it just makes our dependence
greater
why do they continue sending it? It appears to me they indirectly
support
our corrupt government, why has never the U.S. Complained about the
tyranny
we face and how they should help us in our advance to democracy.
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