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Entry: Jonah Goldberg Takes on Ron Paul Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/jonah_goldberg_takes_on_ron_paul#11695 Post contents: To Pancho Villa, Actually, before there were Mexicans in the South West, there were Injuns, lots of em, transplanted earlier from Canada, much to the Aztec-trading Hopi's dismay. But, the Mexicans did impart a few things of value to the Neo-Native, introducing them to Sheep thereby making them a tad more docile and , above all else, providing great training in all aspects of the Horse, not the least of which was a proficiency in horse thievery that would be admirable anywhere. Brigham Young , confronted with a long dance with Navajo Raiding Parties was said to tell Union Occupiers who advised him to go to war against the Shoshone that it was "more prudent to feed and trade with them than shoot at them". Then , he destroyed all his original good work by converting them to Christianity....as if ....as the saying goes "they were not dangerous enough already". A favorite story about post Mexican Texas is about the German Immigrants of the Texas Hill Country around present day Austin. Apparently, the Teutons would read Goethe to the Commanches and developed a kind of grudging mutual respect with the locals over this Enlightenment Political Philosophy. So much so that when the Scotch-Irish Interlopers in Texas sent their Beloved Ranger's out to chase down the Mexican Trained Horse Theiving Commanche, they would enjoy a cheerful respite whence traversing the German district, only to be attacked at will when they emerged out the other side. Germans pacifying Commanches.....only in America. And as for Mr. Metzger and his admonishment that there was not an American Revolution but simply a natural progression of Merry Old English Libertarianism........this may be partially true, to an extent, but if it were entirely the case, the Hamiltonian Federalistas would have won then , instead of just recently, by default, ignorance and all in a days work in search of the Almighty Printed Dollar. Actually, one can ascribe the reasons behind the American Revolution to Bad Debt as much as concepts of Liberty. The Americans were damned tired of usurious English Merchants piling up debt over their Colonial trade-mates...only to see insult added to misery when the Merchants lobbied the King hard to increase taxes to help pay for "protecting" the people of the colonies....from the offshoots of religious and nationalistic wars in Europe that were bankrupting the State and spilling over into the training of the locals to rape and pillage betwen colonies. One can only hope that the Sub Prime Neo-Tulip Scandal will elicit similar efforts at "negotiating debt" now. Not that I'm advocating revolution mind you, thats French and my most recent forebears wuz from the Alsace where we hate both the French and the Germans....not to mention the English Apostates. Sent at: 2008 07 24