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Mexico has a new president. Enrique Pena Nieto was elected in July of 2012 and took office on December 1st, 2012. The Mexican presidency is a six-year term with no reelection, so Pena Nieto will be with us until 2018.

Under the past three Mexican presidents—Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon—the Mexican government has actively meddled in U.S. immigration policy, campaigned for amnesty and non-compliance with immigration law, and has claimed jurisdiction over American citizens of Mexican ancestry.

I’ve been writing about this for years, as have other writers. See my 2002 Social Contract article Undue Influence – the Government of Mexico and U.S. Immigration Policies, and of course my VDARE.COM archive for plenty of articles on the topic.

What’s particularly disturbing is that, despite this open meddling, no U.S. politicians seem particularly interested in or concerned about the subject.

The brutal fact is that all Mexican political parties, regardless of their differences, agree in their support of illegal aliens in the United States. They all support amnesty for Mexican illegal aliens in our country. And given Mexico’s huge diplomatic network north of the border, they have a lot of pull.

So what is Enrique Pena Nieto’s position?

In the Mexican political system, the president is elected in July but isn’t inaugurated until December. That gives him plenty of time to transition to the presidency, assemble his team, get ready to go. And during that five months, Pena Nieto and his team did indeed speak to these issues.

On November 23, 2012, after the U.S. presidential election, then president-elect Pena Nieto had an opinion piece published in his name in the Washington Post. Here’s how it began:

“Both Mexico and the United States held presidential

We owe the concept of BRA, “Black Run America”, to the inestimable Paul Kersey of Stuff Black People Like. He argues that America is literally run by what he calls Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) but that “every institution is entirely devoted to protecting and promoting the interests of black people above all others.” The historic American nation is under the heel of Django Unchained. Needless to say, BRA is increasingly dysfunctional.

In counterpoint to BRA is BRB: a “Brown Run Border,” where an increasingly Hispanic Department of Homeland Security plus local law enforcement—police, deputy sheriffs and constables, especially in Texas where the border counties are heavily Hispanic—are correspondingly increasingly corrupt.

As pointed out by Brenda Walker recently, corruption has been increasing in DHS component agencies along the southern border. There has even been testimony in Congress about it:

In a troubling admission to Congress, a high-ranking official from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revealed that the agency charged with protecting the nation’s borders is plagued with internal corruption that could put the U.S. at risk.

What sort of corruption? The federal agents who are supposed to safeguard America against terrorists and instruments of terror are teaming up with Mexican drug cartels and alien smugglers, according to Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Thomas Winkowski. The shocking acknowledgement was made by Winkowski at a recent hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security.

In the last eight years, 138 agents from CBP have been charged with corruption and more than 2,000 have been charged in other criminal cases, according to Winkowski’s testimony before the panel. The purpose of the hearing was to address ethical standards within the DHS and its various agencies. Winkowski was there to inform the panel about CPB’s efforts to address issues concerning corruption and misconduct among its employees.

U.S. CBP Agents Team Up With Mexican Drug Cartels, Judicial Watch May 22, 2012

And the corruption is not limited to federal employees. Note the names in this recent story:

McALLEN - A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted four former members of Hidalgo County's now-disbanded Panama Unit.

The grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Jonathan Trevino, Alexis Rigoberto Espinoza, Fabian Rodriguez and Gerardo Mendoza-Duran.

The indictment includes one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, which charges all four men, as well as five substantive counts of attempting to aid and abet the possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.

Espinoza and Duran are charged with four of the substantive counts, while Trevino and Rodriguez were indicted on one of those charges.

Trevino, 28, Espinoza, 29, Rodriguez, 28, and Mendoza-Duran, 30, were charged in December and arrested following a multi-agency investigation conducted during 2012.

The indictment alleges Trevino and Espinoza, former officers with the Mission Police Department, along with Rodriguez and Duran, former deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, attempted to use their positions in law enforcement to assist drug traffickers with the distribution of cocaine.

On several occasions in October and November, the defendants allegedly provided protective escorts for suspected loads of cocaine as they traveled throughout Hidalgo County.

Trevino is the son of Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino and Espinoza is the son of Hidalgo Police Chief Rudy Espinoza.

Panama Unit Members Indicted, KRVG January 9, 2013

Here’s an earlier example of the emerging BRB pattern—note the names again:

MCALLEN — Starr County Sheriff Reymundo Guerra was indicted on drug charges and arrested by FBI agents Tuesday at his Rio Grande City office.

The 52-year-old sheriff, also known as "Tio," is a defendant in an indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury earlier this month.

The 19-count indictment alleges Guerra and 14 others were part of a conspiracy to move hundreds of pounds of marijuana and cocaine through the remote Mexican border county.

Guerra is charged with three counts, including conspiracy, acting as an accessory by suggesting a co-defendant use fake lease documents to avoid apprehension, and using a telephone in the conspiracy.

South Texas Sheriff Arrested On Federal Drug Charges

by Lynn Brezosky, Houston Chronicle. October 14, 2008

Here’s a short list of recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees arrested for various causes over the last eighteen months or so:

"Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality," ran the eight-column banner in which The Washington Post captured the essence of Obama's second inaugural. There he declared:

"What binds this nation together ... what makes us exceptional—what makes us American—is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago."

Obama then quoted our Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Our "union," Obama went on, was "founded on the principles of liberty and equality."

Nice prose—and transparent nonsense.

How could the American Union have been founded on the principle of equality, when "equality" is not mentioned in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Federalist papers? How could equality be a founding principle of a nation, six of whose 13 original states had legalized slavery, and five of whose first seven presidents owned slaves all their lives?

What Obama preached in his inaugural was not historical truth but progressive propaganda, an Orwellian rewrite of American history.

Undeniably, the post-Civil War 13th, 14th and 15th amendments established an equality of constitutional rights. And from the Brown decision of 1954 through the civil rights acts of the 1960s, there was established an equality of civil rights. Black Americans were assured equal access to schools, public accommodations, the voting booth and housing. And Congress and the people overwhelmingly supported those laws.

But if the nation did not establish equality of constitutional rights until the 1860s and equality of civil rights until the 1960s, how can Obama claim that "equality" has been the feature that "makes us American" and "binds this nation together."

How can he say that our commitment to equality is what makes us "exceptional"—when every Western country believes in equal rights for all of its citizens, and it was the French Revolution, not ours, that elevated "egalite" to a founding principle.

And when he says equality "is the star that guides us still," exactly what kind of equality is Obama talking about?

Answer: The equality of which Obama speaks is not an equality of rights but an equality of results, an idea that dates not to the Founding Fathers, who would have been appalled by the idea, but to the 1960s.

This equality is not a founding principle of the republic. It is ideological contraband. For such equality can only be achieved at the price of freedom, our true founding principle.

That idea that "all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still," said Obama in his inaugural, "just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall."

Astonishing. The president is here making the brazen claim that the roots of modern feminism and gay rights can be traced straight back to the Founding Fathers and founding principles of our republic.

But how? The

The rise and fall of nations and cultures is too abstract for most people. But fiction, especially that informed by journalism, can shows how the sweeping patterns of history play out the micro level. Individual stories can be just as informative as any grand history of the clash of civilizations.

H.L. Mencken, who died 57 years ago this week, was the greatest newspaperman of his age, or perhaps of any age. He shaped the thought of a generation with The American Mercury (now available online thanks to Ron Unz). He changed the way Americans viewed the way they speak with his book The American Language . Most critically, as the author of the first English-language book on Friedrich Nietzsche, a champion of free speech and of a kind of idiosyncratic aristocratic radicalism, Mencken has been an important influence on the libertarian American Old Right and the emerging North American New Right.

A new collection of Mencken’s early fiction, The Passing of a Profit and Other Forgotten Stories, provides a vital perspective on his vanished world.

Motifs run through these seventeen tales that were developed further in Mencken's public writings and private diaries. Among the most important: the confrontation between the civilized Western man and the savage. Like his contemporary H.P. Lovecraft, Mencken identified what he called the “civilized minority” with Northern Europeans. But it's not a perfect association—Mencken's contempt for the socially conservative and rural “Real Americans” of the Sarah Palin mold is well known.

And this collection can hardly be called racist. For example, “The Cook's Victory” is a hilarious recounting of a black cook winning a pardon from a poaching ship captain who wants to execute him for “mutiny.” His victory comes from the captain's need for his help as the police approach, slowly gaining more and more concessions, finally winning his freedom just as the captain makes good his escape. In “The Crime of McSwane,” a white soldier fighting in a colonial war loses his rifle and goes mad at the reduction in status, encouraging his comrades to die so he can reclaim his position. Other stories show Northern Europeans coming out on top of Southern Europeans or non-white “natives,” but often as a result of swindling or fraud—hardly an edifying picture of the “civilizing” power of Western Man.

Still, even in negative stories, there's a fierce consciousness of status entirely absent from contemporary Europeans. There's something bracing about tale after tale of laughing and confident British, Germans, and especially Americans casually striding through the Third World like swaggering colossi, changing entire societies on a whim.

In “The Heathen Rage,” a German swindler makes his way to Jamaica and exploits an old royal land grant to a Major Johann von Braun to convince black Jamaicans named “Brown” (which is to say, lots of Jamaicans) that they are entitled to estates. The result is chaos, as the swindler

 [This is adapted from an address by James Fulford to the First VDARE.com Webinar on January 19 2013. We hope to make recordings available shortly. For information when available, email office@vdare.com with “Webinar recording” in subject line]

12 years ago, shortly after 9/11, I wrote a piece called Reconquista, Terrorism, and Gun Control [October 17, 2001]

Peter Brimelow protested at the time that this wasn’t an immigration column, it was a gun control column. VDARE.com’s focus has always been on immigration.

However, immigration includes

• Terrorist immigration
• Criminal immigration
• Illegal immigration

And what gun control is about is preventing you from defending yourself when the government that can’t or won’t defend you.

“Can’t defend you” means obviously that the police can’t be there all the time—the saying is that “when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.”

“Won’t defend you” is something different. It refers to the fact that you may need help and the government will refuse to come. Some examples:

• In the LA Rodney King riots, the LAPD backed away. When the rioting started, police in police cars were told by radio to leave the area. They didn’t come back until much later. Korean store owners were forced to use rifles to defend themselves, because there were no police in sight.
• The Puerto Rican Day Wildings in New York in 2000, where 57 women were sexually assaulted as police refused to make arrests.
• The August 2011 London Riots, where, as the Daily Mail put it, shopkeepers were “mystified at tactics that left them defenceless.”
• Hurricane Katrina: the federal government held back, and the black New Orleans PD deserted and took part in the looting.
• Crown Heights Riot—blacks terrorized Jews in Crown Heights for days without police interference.

The Crown Heights Riot is a special case—it has also been described as a pogrom. The parallel with the Russian pogroms of the 19^th century is that black mayor of New York, David Dinkins, was permitting the riots by failing to order the police to stop them. The suspicion is that Dinkins may have sympathized with the anti-Semitic black rioters.

But in most cases, the authorities are simply being cowardly,

[For more on MLK Day, see When Records Are Sealed—A Meditation On Martin Luther King Day]

Not that long ago in internet history, the truth about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nasty little plagiarism habit was confined to “white supremacist” websites.

For whatever reason, the indisputable fact that MLK ripped off other writers has evolved over the past few years from “evil racist lie” to shrugged-off common knowledge. When I see hip, semi-respectable sites writing matter-of-factly about MLK’s sticky fingers, it gives me hope that other “forbidden” topics will one day make the same journey to acceptability. (HBD, anyone?)

Anyway: what better way to mark Martin Luther King Day than by telling the story of another plagiarizing black “doctor” and lefty role model.

This one’s name is Chris Spence, and in a neat twist, he’s Canadian. That means he won’t get Monday off work—not that it matters now. He was forced to resign from his job as Director of Education at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) anyhow, after his cut-and-paste career came to light this month.

Born in Britain, of Jamaican heritage, Spence moved to Canada at age three. After an injury ended his stint as a running back for the Canadian Football League’s BC Lions, he went back to school. Eventually, Spence snagged a Doctor of Education degree from one of Toronto’s more notorious hotbeds of leftwing lunacy, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE.)

He joined the TDSB in 2009, and proceeded to steer the School Board in an even more “progressive” direction—something few would have considered possible.

On Spence’s watch, the Toronto District School Board:

• Allowed a lunchtime “mosque” to operate in a public school, despite objections from parents and pundits. (During these “voluntary” prayer services, male Muslim students sit at the front, Muslim girls sit behind them—and menstruating Muslim girls are relegated to the very back rows.)
• Promoted Che Guevara as a laudable role model.
• Declared that only white people can be racist—and that white children need to be singled out for reeducation. (One Board guide “instructs teachers to solicit confessions from students about ‘the times that they have been oppressive or have used their [white] privilege over someone else.’”) [ A new racism in our kids’ schools, By Brian Henry, Jewish Tribune, May 4, 2012]
• Promoted polygamy and transsexualism to students, and demanded that “transgendered” individuals be allowed to use the school restrooms of their choice.
• Scolded parents for treating “their children differently, based on gender, almost from the moment of birth,” and insisted that teachers be proactive in “raising children’s awareness of these stereotypes” and “eliminating gender barriers wherever they may be found.” [ Anti-Sexism and Gender Equity, TDSB Website]
• Acknowledged that its staff intentionally discriminates against Christianity
• Recommended that children have sex with vegetables as a way to “develop healthy relationships”

While all this was going on, Chris Spence was busily burnishing his public image as a caring, concerned educator. A backstory that blended athleticism and academics made him the perfect male role model to the city’s “urban” youth, a To Sir With Love for Toronto’s immigration-created Jane-Finch ghetto.

That is, until the first week of this year. After being tipped off by an alert reader, the city’s doctrinaire liberal Toronto Star newspaper was forced to apologize

Most VDARE.com readers are probably not in the 18-35 year old liberal female target demographic of the HBO darkish comedy series Girls, which premiered its second season and won the Golden Globe for best comedy series on Sunday, January 13.   Still, the first season’s show was—unintentionally— the most Politically Incorrect and subversive show in years.  

Girls stars four 20-something girls.  They come from upper-middle class families, attended schools like NYU andOberlin, and begin a life of unpaid internships and unfulfilling sex, living in gentrified areas of Brooklyn.

The show self-consciously models itself on Sex and the City, in that it stars four single females living in New York.  But the actual substance of the shows could not be further apart. The portrayal of promiscuity in Sex and the City was completely at odds with how women actually act.  This fact eventually became so apparent that even The Simpsons mocked a parody Sex and the City show called Nookie in New York—"It's about four straight women who act like gay men." 

Samantha, the most promiscuous character in Sex and the City is an extremely successful business woman who simply understands her own sexual power.  In contrast, the promiscuous Jessa on Girls uses sex for petty reasons, sleeping with her ex-boyfriend solely because she found he was engaged, and manipulating her “boss” (the father of the children she is nannying) and nearly destroying his marriage. 

Steve Sailer once wrote that he suspected that the writers of Girls may be channeling Roissy, the anonymous writer of the anti-feminist “game” blog Chateau Heartiste. There is certainly some substance behind this.  The most attractive girl on the show, Marnie, gets turned off and bored by her extremely nice guy boyfriend, but becomes interested again when he dumps her and she sees him with an attractive new girlfriend.  The main character, Hannah, continues to go back to a creepy and verbally abusive guy she sleeps with every two weeks when he texts her, but when he finally shows actual interest in her, she rejects him. 

In most modern Hollywood shows, no one ever has an abortion.  Hit films like Knocked-Up (directed by Girlsproducer Judd Apatow) and Juno are premised on upper-middle class whites with unplanned pregnancies deciding to keep their babies. Sure enough, when the single attorney Miranda gets pregnant in Sex and the City, she keeps the baby after long deep discussions with her girlfriends. 

But when Jessa got pregnant in Girls, there as almost no agonized introspection among her or her friends.  While she has a convenient miscarriage, it occurred after she was drinking and having more casual sex with a stranger.  Hardly showing an empowered, or caring,