Anarcho-capitalism

Soon the borders between the United States of Mexico and the United States of America will be expecting new visitors with no right to be there — federal troops stationed to help the local police protect the borders of the state. Immigration issues should be covered primarily by private property rights where the landowner alone has the right to admit and refuse anyone they please. Unfortunately, the U.S. under the execution of the Constitution by a myriad of previous dictators refuses to realize that the idea of illegal immigration is solely a state issue.

Another big issue is one that I hear about from a pro-warhawk religious right relative of mine — the forcing of everyone to speak a common tongue, namely American English. Instead of reading their constitution and realizing that Congress can make no law infringing on a person’s natural, God-given and inherent right to expression, they think they can force other people to talk how they talk and live like they live. So I’m going to agree with this relative — let’s return people to the language that comes with the land.

In 1528, Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca crashed his ship into the coast of a land we now call Texas. de Vaca was Spanish, spoke Spanish and was conquering foreign lands for the Spanish Empire. I doubt he spoke much English, as was the norm of royalty and the powerful of Spain at the time. He was enslaved by Native Americans, but was released after a number of years and returned to Spain with his stories of the land.

That land was soon taken over by Spain and named Virreinato de Nueva España, which means New Spain in English. This land was Spanish land from that point until 1821 — almost 300 years. New Spain started at the tip of now-Texas to the north all the way down to Costa Rica in the South. It was a huge new world to discover, ripe with resources, raw material and bountiful weather.

1821 was an ugly year for New Spain, though, as the people of some parts of New Spain wanted freedom from European rule. Just as the founding fathers of the United States of Mexico fought to free themselves from the king of England, the residents of this part of the world fought for their own freedom from distant tyranny. We call that war the War for Mexican Independence. In 1821, Mexico was created and withdraw from Spanish rule.

The Mexicans living in the Texas region were unhappy with the central government of the United States of Mexico, so much so that they refused to join the new Constitution in 1835. The new Constitution of Mexico removed certain rights from the residents of the nation, such as the freedom from slavery (which the United States of America didn’t acknowledge until decades later), the freedom of the press, the freedom to practice your own religion or none, and the freedom of expression and thought. The original Mexican Constitution protected these natural rights, but the new Constitution did not. The new Constitution broke down the right to bear arms and it also created a new policy to kick out “illegal” immigrants who had come to this part of Mexico from the United States of America. Sound familiar? The Texas-Mexicans requested to live under the old Constitution and were denied, so they seceded from the nation of Mexico as was their right to do so.

The new nation created was named Texas. The Texas-Mexicans declared independence in 1836, fought a battle that same year, and were given independence after General Sam Houston fought the final large battle at The Alamo. These were Mexicans fighting Mexicans in order to protect their right to assemble as they wish. The end result was the nation of Texas — an independent nation that promoted liberty and property rights in a stronger way than the U.S.A. or U.S.M. Constitutions did.

Unfortunately, that freedom was short lived as the nation of Texas adopted a Constitutional amendment allowing slavery to be legalized within the state. This immediately made Texas something the U.S.A. wanted to take over, as it would give a bigger vote to the pro-slavery side of the U.S.A. residents. The U.S.A. residents believed in manifest destiny — that their future would bring them the control of all land west of the Mississippi. In order to bring the pro-slavery movement more power and help continue the drive west, Texas was annexed just 9 years later as a annexed property. Texas was a large part of the War between States that was fought to preserve the individual state’s right to leave the Union and create new groups of people. In 1870, after nearly 350 years of being a non-USA state, Texas was welcomed as a full fledged state.

That was 136 years ago, less than 30% of the history of the Texas region as a European-conquered land. Texas’ original language was Spanish. The people were called Mexicans long before they were called Americans. They believed in the right to bear arms, the right to secede from a union of tyranny, and the right to private property and freely congregate with whomever you want to.

I’m in support of returning this great state to the language it was created under — Spanish. If the religious right and neoconservative party wants to return the country to the language and beliefs they were founded in, they can not refute the fact that Texas was Mexican and Spanish before that for more than twice as long as it has been part of the American Union of Force. The United States of Mexico would probably love the idea of going back to the original intent, I’d think.

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