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Don't be ridiculous. We have at least one real-world example of a nation where there's no real government, and it's a great place to live: Somalia! Much of Mexico is pretty similar, and you can read about all the happiness and prosperity there on this blog.

You know, this is how any business can turn out for anybody in Mexico (there is a link there in the first paragraph, don't click it unless you have a stomach for seeing what the real consequences of war look like).

I don't believe any politician or policeman or journalist (whoever is still alive) can just ignore what the drug cartels actually want from them, and cartels MAY actually have a position on copyright, believe it or not, I am not sure what that position is exactly (and it's likely that they even make money on pirated software), but I am sure politicians there cannot easily dismiss those possible positions.

I sensed a whiff of bitter Arizonan in there... I, too, live there. Sometimes I'm not sure what is worse, our geopolitical problems with Mexico, or our own Government. I stopped actually reading local news since I invariably get pissed off and fling the paper and then spend six hours ranting loudly at my poor girlfriend.

Yep, it's a little backwards from that in my house: my wife (who is half-Mexican, BTW), gets pissed off by local/state news and rants at me for hours about the situation (she's against illegal immigration). She's far more upset about it than I am.

This is my main problem with our current circumstances. I have nothing against our southern immigrants personally, I don't think Mexicans are inferior, or innately bad.

I don't think there's anything genetically inferior about them or anyone else, and many of them are great people, but as a society I think they are inferior, as can be seen by how they run their society. Of course, as a white person, I also admit that parts of "white" society aren't that great either: just look at how all the people in trailer parks act (speaking as someone who grew up poor), but I've never seen the levels of violence and immorality among America's poor people (of any race) as I have among the Mexicans, where dozens of people die every day in cartel-related violence as can be seen here: http://www.blogdelnarco.com/ and the fact that women who migrate through Mexico (usually from countries farther south) on their way to the USA have a greater than 50% chance of being raped, either by cartel members or by the Federales. Mexico as a country is rich in natural resources, and is just about as old as the USA, yet has always been filled with corruption, lawlessness, and extreme poverty. That tells me that there is something innately wrong about the Spanish-inherited culture they have. Again, it's nothing genetic IMO: people are products of their upbringing and their culture, not their genetics, in my opinion. Of course, liberal apologists will cry that "white people" and "Europeans" are to blame for everything, but Mexicans ARE white: they're Europeans from Spain, with a sizeable German component too, and then mixed with the mesoamerican people. Somehow, this mix just didn't turn out very well unlike other cultural mixes in human history (the Canadians, for instance, are a mix of several cultures and they get along just fine, and are very prosperous as a nation). Furthermore, as I noted, Mexico is about as old as the USA, so they had the same time to build a nation that we have, except that they seem to have squandered their advantages.

I live in Arizona, I find it hard to imagine how one can have much against Mexicans as people. I grew up around them, around 90% of my friends are either Mexican or of mixed race with a Latin component. I grew up in a very poor and ethnic area of Phoenix.

Yep, my wife is half-Mexican whose family has been here in AZ for 5 generations, and I've been around lots of them. Some of them are really nice and hard-working people, and some of them are horrible, either violent, or people who refuse to work and are leaches on their families. The problem is the ratio, and how it's dealt with. In better societies, people who can't behave are shunned so that they either learn to behave, or at least the damage they do to society is limited. People don't keep sticking up for them and defending them. In Mexican society, their behavior is accepted and tolerated ("he's family!!!"), and it's like an infection that spreads like gangrene. So gangs are widespread, and communities tolerate and accept them. My wife spent a lot of time among her Mexican family when she came to AZ in the 90s (she was adopted and grew up on the east coast); many of them were really nice, loving people, but many others (mainly the women) were constantly fighting with each other. Physical fights among people are quite common, but police of course never get called, as this is just consider

Don't be ridiculous. Heads don't wind up in ditches in Mexico, they're put on public display in town squares. Sometimes, they even strip the skin off the skull, and display the two separately, just for kicks. As for the body, it doesn't go in a dumpster whole, all the limbs are cut off, because apparently Mexicans enjoy that kind of thing.

Read all about it here: http://www.blogdelnarco.com/

How so? It's your broken culture that produces the violence seen here. Sure, we have some problems with violence, but nothing remotely like what's seen there. Moreover, when we glamorize violence in our Hollywood movies, it's about "good guys" shooting up "bad guys". People cheer when the criminals get killed.

In Mexico, it's the criminals who are considered heroes: http://www.khou.com/news/Narco-culture-glamorizes-violent-lifestyle-in-Mexico-and-in-Texas-116571258.html
Mexican musicians write songs ("narco corridos") about how wonderful drug traffickers are. Narco cinema glamorizes drug smuggling. Hit men record gruesome killings and upload them to YouTube. Basically, your culture thinks crime is a good thing. No nation can ever be successful when its citizens think crime and violence against innocents is something to be respected and cherished.

There is something fundamentally broken about your culture and your people, and if I had my way, you would have no contact with anyone else in the world.

No links, but as an example of the effects, there's a lot of people who love to vacation in Mexico, even now with all the violence and lawlessness, and when asked about that, usually say something like "well I've never had a problem" or something similar, and will loudly claim it's perfectly safe down there when this blog tells otherwise.

Outside of the very visible Day Laborers lined up outside the Home Depots waiting for an installation job from a home owner or a Day job from a contractor, it's very very hard to exist or work without a valid SSN and having taxes withheld from your wages; it just not likely that the valid SSN is going to be yours as it is unlikely that you'll be able to reap the benefits, fro the withholdings or to receive a refund of any excess withholdings! Approximately 18 million people in the US are using a valid SSN that is used by multiple people, people that will never receive a dime of benefits for the labors. So it's not about financial drain on the federal part, they're probably making a profit off the illegal immigrants.
Open the boarders up, yeah right, there is a war going on down there in Mexico, there are website like El Blog del Narco that report on the fighting like American websites report traffic accidents.
Time to pull your head out of the sand there cupcake; Narco-Terrorism in Mexico is far more deadly than what's going on in Afghanistan. A little waterboarding offends your sensibilities, hese will show you how the real pros do it. Right now. Ciudad Juarez, the most violent city in Mexico, is just across the Rio Grande from El Passo TX, as many as 5,000 Women have been murdered in the last 10 years. Mexican Prisons have become Safehouses for criminals who come and go as they please and to top it all off, Mexican Drones are crashing in the United States. Opening our boarders isn't an option and securing them isn't xenophobic, it's due diligence. You know things are getting bad when war correspondents who have cover wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over the Orient are returning to the US after years overseas because the US SW is where the action is going to be real soon.

Outside of the very visible Day Laborers lined up outside the Home Depots waiting for an installation job from a home owner or a Day job from a contractor, it's very very hard to exist or work without a valid SSN and having taxes withheld from your wages; it just not likely that the valid SSN is going to be yours as it is unlikely that you'll be able to reap the benefits, fro the withholdings or to receive a refund of any excess withholdings! Approximately 18 million people in the US are using a valid SSN that is used by multiple people, people that will never receive a dime of benefits for the labors. So it's not about financial drain on the federal part, they're probably making a profit off the illegal immigrants.
Open the boarders up, yeah right, there is a war going on down there in Mexico, there are website like El Blog del Narco that report on the fighting like American websites report traffic accidents.
Time to pull your head out of the sand there cupcake; Narco-Terrorism in Mexico is far more deadly than what's going on in Afghanistan. A little waterboarding offends your sensibilities, hese will show you how the real pros do it. Right now. Ciudad Juarez, the most violent city in Mexico, is just across the Rio Grande from El Passo TX, as many as 5,000 Women have been murdered in the last 10 years. Mexican Prisons have become Safehouses for criminals who come and go as they please and to top it all off, Mexican Drones are crashing in the United States. Opening our boarders isn't an option and securing them isn't xenophobic, it's due diligence. You know things are getting bad when war correspondents who have cover wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over the Orient are returning to the US after years overseas because the US SW is where the action is going to be real soon.

As a Mexican I have to say that right now Mexico is the worst country where this could be implemented.

Just a quick glance at the horrors people are making in Mexico (just see the pictures of the BlogDelNarco site... you don't need to read Spanish to understand...). For a lot of Mexicans, grabbing the eyes of someone is a trivial task; and the worst problem is that in this manner *they have only something to win* and nothing to lose. Whereas, if the password was in the person's brain, they won't benefit in killing such a person.

In case anyone's interested and knows their Spanish, un enlace: El Blog del Narco.

Actually, just click the translation link on the top left of the page if you don't know your spanish.

In case anyone's interested and knows their Spanish, un enlace: El Blog del Narco.

http://www.blogdelnarco.com/