Posted by Tina
The following story is appropriate for the eve of Thanksgiving as we all prepare to give thanks for our many blessings. It comes to us via IBD’s Investors.com and it features a man whose values and heart match those of the freedom fighters who won our independence as well as those who continue in the fight to this day.
Don Alejo Garza Tamen is a Mexican whose home was on the border in Mexico. I hope you’ll read about this gentleman’s last stand in the article, “Don Alejo’s Stand” – Investors.com:
Resistance hasn’t been common in Mexico, where gun ownership is banned and the state is charged with protecting people.
The public and media rapidly recognized Garza for a hero, and the story stirred the country. Garza drew attention because he died defending so much of what is under attack in Mexico.
God bless this brave land owner for standing up for his rights.
I read this story to a room full of people. Probably wasn’t the best thing they could have heard at this time of year. But, it stirred some emotions, made some mad, some of the ladies got a little teary eyed, but on the whole it moved people. The consensus is something must be done. A friend of mine from Nicaragua gets the Spanish language television and she gave me an earful about the bloodshed and we’re only hearing a fraction of what is going on. It’s a major tragedy and I can’t see how we are going to avoid going in and wiping out a whole nest of cartel gunmen and their leaders. It just seems inevitable.
Brilliant piece on a brave man. Just please realize that this is by far not the “first instance” of this kind of domestic resistance to the chaos-state which persist in Mexico today. Thousands of brave resistors, just like Don Garza, have been standing up to these monopolistic, short-sighted, and materialistically-minded trade-cartels for years now. Many have been killed and many still live on. Truthfully though,it’s just very, very difficult to maintain a stable resistance when these “Narcos” have a steady stream of American guns (over 90% come from the U.S.)and American dollars flowing in to support their side. Add to that, a crippling poverty, exaggerated by the production capacity-diminishing GATT-NAFTA policies of the past 25 or so years, and the horribly co-opted Mexican regime which continues to weaken its home population by not allowing them to own guns for the sake of defending themselves. Its a long climb. But thank you for finally publicizing what people here on the Mexican-U.S. border have known for years now. Oh, and please don’t mention Davy Crockett in an article like this. Respectfully and truthfully, Don Garza was defending himself and his family for many of the same reasons, and very much in the same way that his ancestors were against people like both Davy Crockett and Santa Ana. Please help against the international destabilization of Mexico. Good piece.